CAUTION

TO PAPER-STAINERS, PAPER-HANGERS, CABINE F

MAKERS, &c.

[From the Morning Chronicle, Fcb. 29.]

HEREAS a young man, who goes

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by the name of GCg, and since the 21st of January last has been employed as journeyman in the newly-invented Papier Maché (or Paper-garbling Manufactory), established by His Majesty's Royal Licence and Letters Patent, under the firm of Heldon, Hawkingborough, and Co. and who has been engaged by His Majesty's Cabinet-makers in performing sundry jobs in the ancient building of St. Stephen's Chapel, but having of late been seen rolling about various parts of the said building, and otherwise neglecting his work, owing probably to his having received from his master, John Heldon, a very severe reprimand for his improper conduct in embezzling and making a private use of sundry pieces of paper and other materials entrusted confidentially to his charge; and as the said GCg will, it is imagined, be soon out of all work and employ, the trade are particularly cautioned against admitting so dangerous a workman into their manufactories. He was seen at a debating society in Westminster, on Friday evening last, where he offered to restore some of the papers purloined from his Master; but from his general loose and evasive character, little credit was given to his assertions, or the motives which induced him to make this tender.

He is about twenty-eight years of age, thin face, sallow complexion, large eyes, rolls about a good deal in his walk. He has served under several masters, from all of whom, at various times, he has run away. He is apt to boast of having worked in the houses of some of the principal nobility and gentry.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING

CHRONICLE.

[March 8.]

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SIR,

ACCIDENTALLY picked up the following letter opposite the British Coffee-house; it would be unfortunate if the person for whom it was intended should not have conveyed to him so interesting and impartial an account of the debate which took place in the House of Lords on Tuesday last, as well as the extraordinary circumstances so accurately detailed by the Noble Peer, who with becoming gratitude acknowledges his election amongst the Sixteen, to be owing to the protecting influence of the Noble Personage to whom it is addressed.

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I am yours, Sir,

A LOUNGER.

TO THE LORD VIST MEL-LE,
M-1-le Castle, Edinburgh.

MY GUDE AND MUCH HONOURED LAIRD,

DID na fail to take my seat in that Asseembly, where my elevation is owing to your protecting hand; and, according to instructions, I yesterday commenced my poleetical career by endeevouring with aw my power to cast out that abominable and wicked Bill, against which my gude Laird made so conspeecuous an opposition last year, in order to support our gracious Sovereign in his ancient and long-established preevilege of granting revarsions to ainy of his gude friends; but you will be astonished when I tell you what splitting and deevisions, what wrangling and squabbling, what jarrings and disunitings, we hadamongst aw the servants of the Laird's anointed; in traith for myself I did not forget to ken what you to uld

me

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me of the Irish Beeshop, who said, "They were all true men, and neever voted but by the eye;"after I had taken my seat, I went and made a low bou to the Laird of Hawk-y, which that great mon returned with an amicable reesibility of aspect; and I whispered him, that you wulled that the Bill should be thrown out in a Commectee, to which he courteously replied, "Vary weel! vary weel!" So in aw the botheration which I heard was aboot to begin, I knew where to cast my een. He proposed ganging. into a Commeetee, to which another Laird said nai. Then up got a thin sorry loon of His Majesty's Household, who said with humeelity, "Hauld! hauld! bide a wee, my Lairds! Ken ye nai see that ye entreench upon the preerogateve of the gude K-g my maister?" Now this Noble Laird, I wot, inheerited a great revarsion, which yields plenty of the public sillers and baubees into his pokits; nai mair, his kinsman, whaw is one of the suppliant appendages of Meenisters, and muckle-headed Preerogative Lawyer, but veery dull, and veery heavy in his gab, talked about conspeericies, and such-like, in another House of Pairlement, with great logical subtlety: then up got His Grace the D of Mont-e (the Laird o' Graham), and spoke like a deveenity; he said he ne'er seed a more luminous display of eeloquence, and so I cried, " Hair! Hair! Hair" and after him the Laird of the Privy Signet jumped up; he was full of gab-in gude traith, he gabbered and gabbered aw the time, wiping the back of his hand athwart his nose, but nai arguments came oot of his mouth; and then he ganged home to his collops and haggis, and nai voted at aw. came the queestion and the deevision; but would you ken me when I tell you that I found myself below the Bare, as they call it, with such a mixture of oddities, clean and unclean, hoodled and jumbled togeether, like the animal assembly in Noah's Ark; whilst all the P -S

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Ps, and the Laird' o' Graham, and the Laird o' D-g-s o' Lochleeven, and other high Lairds o' the Court, voted against the Laird of H-k-y, whilst aw the Lairds Speeritual sat wollopped and sweating togeether in a lump, for aw the world like our ain black Highland sheep in a hot summer's day; so, my gude Laird, we could na cast out the Bill. But the Laird of H-k-y assures me, that aw the Meenisters promise to give this wicked Bill its death-blow in the Commeetee. O my gude Laird, would you had ganged the gait with me to Pairlement; in traith, these Meenisters are not in gude fallowship, and they can na go on without a head, and they wull na o' the M-q-s of W-Il-y, whaw, they say, is as proud as a peacock, with as many Eastern fancies and whims as any Bayshaw. My Laird D says, aw will be weel! aw will be weel! when Harry once more gangs amongst us.

So fare ye weel, my honoured Laird and much reveered Patron. Believe me, with the

Most profound humeelity and submission,

Your very obedient and very humble servant,

British Coffee-house, March 2.

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THL K-G'S OWN ADMINISTRATION.

[From the same, March 12.]

N consequence of what passed on Thursday night in the House of Lords, and other previous circumstances relating to the Reversion Bill, added to the manifest disunion which prevails amongst the present Cabinet Ministers, and the confidential and secret advisers of the Crown, we understand it is His M—y's determination forthwith to exercise his royal prerogative in framing a New Administration, by a partial exchange of the Laity and Hierarchy, who have of late shown themselves so determined to resist every at

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tempt on the part of His Maj-y's faithful. Commons to alleviate the burdens of his people, so strongly recommended in His My's most gracious Speech. Though, according to the words of that great Luminary of the Law, Lord R-des-le, a contrary effect is likely to take place; as he declares it would incur the risk of bringing about a period equally shocking and eventful to that of the year 1691, accompanied with the horrors of a French Revolution. The following is said to form a general outline of this new arrangement, which is to be called "The K's own Administration:"

D. of C-m-d, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Privy Seal, and to hold twenty Proxies.

D- of Y-k, Commander in Chief, and in the Cabinet.

D- of C-m-ge, President of the Council.

D- of K-t, to have a seat in the Cabinet, but no vote, and not to be allowed to give up his Government of G-tar.

D- of Port-nd, President of the Board of Trade, with a view of giving a full explanation of the Orders in Council.

Lord R-d-le, Master General of the Ordnance. Lord A-d-n, First Lord of the Admiralty (Register of the Admiralty, with reversion to all his children in succession, male and female); Lord of the Bed Chamber, &c. &c. &c. &c.

Archbp. of Cy, Lord Keeper, with apartments at W- and the Q-—'s He.

D- of M-t-se, Secretary of State for the Foreign and Home Department.

George R-e, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Archbp. of D-b-n, Secretary of State for the War Department, with full power to establish Martial Law in Ireland,