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Among the numerous bawlers for Fox was a boy yefterday, in Leicester-fields, who archly vociferated, Fox for ever! Fox for ever!--in the cells of Newgate!

Popular fcorn at the Coalition Gang begins now to be changing very fenfibly into popular indignation. Very few of them, indeed, have any property that can be amenable; however, let them look to their perfons; the laws and legal vengeance of a country, irritated and injured beyond all bounds of poffible patience, may foon be able to reach them.

Fox's party, in regard to the murder of the conftable, have acted in the fame manner as Shakspeare paints Iago, after his murdering Roderigo; they being the first to fab, and the first to cry out murder!

Who is the wifeft man? Lord North. What are the proofs of his wifdom? His Coalition with Charles Fox, who pledged himself to bring his head to the block; therefore, although Lord North has a very large head, no body can fay he is a block-head.

The Members of the new Parliament are making preparations for war. The leaders are beginning to rally their forces. The artillery of the Oppofition is to be directed by thofe able engineers, Fox and North; but Mr. Pitt and the friends of liberty will be triumphant, as in laft Parliarment they defeated the enemies of this country, and beat the Coalition out of their entrenchments.

In a few days a Fox will be hunted in St. Stephen's Common; where the Prince of Wales and other eminent fportfinen will attend, in order to enjoy the pleasures of the chace.

Mr. Burke is preparing a very long and inflammatory fpeech concerning his Majefty's Prerogative; but the friends of the King need not be apprehenfive of any dangerous confequences, as our modern Cicero will bring to the recollection of his auditors the ridicule of Horace--" PARTURIUNT MONTES."-Much work, and little wool.

We are happy to inform the public, that if ever Jack Lee fhould again attempt to deftroy a charter, which, according to his own language, is "only a roll of parch"ment with a piece of wax appending to it," Mr. Dundas is refolved to feal up his mouth with a bit of waaux.

The Coalition profefled a great anxiety for the public credit; but we wish they would regulate their own private credit, as honeft John Bull can never believe that his purse fhould be open to men who fquander away their own wealth, and are in fact the beggars , of the public.

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Mr. Burke, at the late Buckinghamshire meeting, faid, that " if we ever parted "with the prefent Houfe of Commons, we could not easily get fuch another." Never did Mr. Burke fpeak with more truth or propriety!

Orkney being a famous place for Geefe, and Kirkwall, for which the Man of the People is elected, being in Orkney, it is very furprizing that the Fox fhould be foli cited to protect the Geefe!

Mr. Fox's wifdom has been greatly praised, and fome have gone fo far as to call him The Second Solomon; but the best proof of his wifdom is in the felection of his friends, who must be allowed to be men of the highest abilities, and the moft fublime genius, as they fwarm in Spitalfields, St. Giles's, and the attic ftories of Westminster.

"My dear Boreas (fays Carlo Khan one day to his beloved fpoufe) our mutual affec"tions have gained us many enemies; but let us kifs and be friends--and a fig for the "world." Boreas then held out his chuckle head, while the dear bewitching black Carlo Khan mumbled his fpoufe's delicious blubber lips, and clafping the lovely creature by the middle--fo!- fo!--fo!--they funk down in exftatic blifs, and grunted aloud-"All for Love, or the World well loft !”

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The Coalition puppies wear black collars, as characteristic of the black and infidious actions of their favourites. Were the leaders of the Coalition to be exalted, as their infamous conduct deferves, pray what collars would beft fuit their necks?

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The Duke of D----e is certainly under more obligations to Mr. Fox, than many people imagine; for, in the first place, Mr. Fox's fupport of the American rebellion, and the encouragement given by Mr. Fox to the House of Bourbon` during the war, has funk the value of his Grace's lands full one third of what they were worth ten years ago; and now, to complete the obligation, he finks the character of a Lady, in order to bring both upon upon a level.---This is kind!---This is like Shylock's courtesy to

Antonio.

We are informed that Mr. Fox has ftrenuoufly exerted himself for the repeal of the marriage act. In this, as in every thing elfe, Mr. Fox has an eye to his own intereft. This bill originated from the clandeftine marriage of Mr. F.'s father with the fister of the prefent Duke of Richmond, by which alliance only Charles is entitled to the name of a gentleman.

FACT S.

Mr. Fox's Committee having, agreeable to all their extraordinary conduct, publifeed hand bills, offering a reward of 100 guineas, on conviction of the offender or offenders, concerned in the riots of Monday laft; and having been base enough to affert, that thofe ruffians flued forth from Hood and Wray's Committee Room; the following questions are put to Mr. Fox's immaculate Committee, which will at once confute their affertion, and clearly evince by whom the banditti were hired, and from whom they were fent*.

QUESTION S.

Is it not notorious, that, from the beginning of the Election to this time, upwards of an hundred chairmen, porters, and butchers, have been entertained with victualsand drink at the Unicorn, Henrietta-ftreet, the Queen's Head, Tavistock-row, and the King's Head, James-ftreet, Covent Garden; from whence, upon a whiftle being given, they iffue forth, and knock down indifcriminately all that do not appear to be in Mr. Fox's intereft ?

Did not the Rev. Mr. Bate Dudley, Sir Godfrey Webster, Sir William Milner, Lord Robert Spencer, Mr. Sheridan, Colonel Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Porter, appear to bail all the ruffians that were apprehended in the fact of affaulting the peace officers, three of which offenders are now detained in Newgate, on the depofition of feveral witnelles who have identified them? And did not thofe Gentlemen declare, at the fame time, that. they did not know, and had never before feen the offenders?

Were not fix ruffians taken at the aforementioned houfes, after the riot of Saturday fe'nnight, fome of them in bed, with their bludgeons lying by them, difcoloured with the bloody effects of their violence; and did not Meffrs. O'Brien, Sheridan, and Bate Dudley offer to bail them? And, extraordinary as it may appear, did not Sir Sampfon Wright, the next morning, difcharge the very men, upon no other furety of their future peaceable behaviour than their own promife?

And yet none of thefe Gentlemen are acceffaries either before or after the fact!

Hood and Wray's Committee offered a reward of 50 guineas!!!!

+ The infult and outrage committed by a hired banditti, drelled in blue jackets, on the fide of Hood and Wray, and their rash project of deftroying the fedan chairs, compelled the owners to take up the fellala to defend their property. Hence arofe the firft riot: yet never did Irishmen behave better; for when they had effectually defeated their adverfaries, through their future orderly behaviour and attendance near the Huftings, which became a terror to the oppofite party, they actually preferved the peace, and fecured the freedom of Election!--50 much for the veracity of the Morning Liar. Yeftoday

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ppointed; the party of Mr. Fox begin the riot, in the affray a conftable is killed in the difcharge of his duty, by a ftroke of a bludgeon from Mr. Fox's party. What is now his attempt? To charge the innocent with the murder, to prove that the justice who wished to prevent was the cause of the riot, and author of the affaffination? Hear this, ye impartial, if the brains of the populace in Westminster are too much addled by his liquor or his fophiftry:

Let the people at large liften to thefe facts, and approve if they can of the great confounder of right and wrong, and wish to lend their affiftance to fuch a man to be the Lord or Protector of England.---Monftrum avitiis nulla virtute redemptum.

Charles Fox is returned as Member of Parliament for a district of burghs in the Orkneys, and Mr. Sinclair is turned out of Caithness, the Ultima Thule of the ancients, and finds fhelter in Leftwithiel, in Cornwall. This is a fine jumble, and fhews how much the interefts and connections of the gentlemen of England and Scotland are blended with one another. This is a ftriking proof of a national coalition.

Nicholas Caffon, who was killed laft Monday in Covent Garden, was for many years one of thofe perfons called crimps, whofe bufinefs it is to procure foldiers for the EastIndies, in which employment he had amaffed enough to retire upon.

Great preparations are making to ufher Mr. Fox to the Huftings on Monday next, with all the pomp of a victorious General, crowned with well earned laurels in his country's fervice. Among the many emblems of pageantry and fhew, an elegant filk flag, highly ornamented with the WEAVERS ARMS, richly worked in variegated colours, an infcription in large letters of gold and filver, ftating in what memorable year,. and under whofe aufpices the FREEDOM of ELECTION for Westminster was extended to Spitalfields, will precede the Man of the People, borne by Sir Jeffery Dunstan and Sam Houfe; Mr. Fox's household band (the marrow-bones and cleavers) playing that much-admired air," See the conquering Hero comes." The colours are to be confecrated at the head of the troops, and in front of the Huftings, by Lieutenant General B. ——, and the Colonels F and N-, in the abfence of the three illuftrious Field Marshals, who were unfortunately taken prifoners of war on Monday laft, and who have not yet been exchanged, no officers of equal rank having fallen into the handsof the enemy.

While her Grace was squeezing and fingering the butchers, Capt. Ms was amufing their female connections with his great parts, at every ale-houfe and gin-shop in Westminster; and it is actually faid, that his own coachman ftepping accidentally into a courtezan's ball, at the Cock in Petty France, found the whole company dreffed in Fox's cockades, and his mafter finging and drinking with forty half-naked whores and rogues. of the lowest description-quantum mutatur ab illo !

As those who have heard that famous Coalition fong, and knew the former fentiments and opinions of the apoftate partizan, to whom the afpiring Cataline is indebted for his Election fuccefs, the following fhort account of the Captain's converfion may not be unamufing to thofe who are aftonished at his change of conduct :-When that infamous junction of Fox and North took place, Capt. M s, to whofe wit and poetical talents we must with all the world give acknowledged praife, compofed a fong. called The Coalition, which we may venture to fay was the best ever written on any fubject to this fong, replete with the jufteft fatire and fineft point, which the Captain fung at all his clubs, and in various companies he frequented in this metropolis, was owing the univerfal odium and reprobation in which that curfed and abandoned union was held; the party faw the extenfive influence his wit and convivial humour had in fociety, and made many direct overtures to filence him; but the Captain being an independent man, and apparently warmed and animated in the belt of caufes, no progrefs

could.

Yesterday about one o'clock, the Honourable Charles James Fox addreffed Lord Hood, and made a propofal for clofing the poll at two o'clock, on a report being generally circulated, that the unfortunate widow of the peace officer, murdered on Monday laft, was determined (contrary to the opinion of her friends, and utterly against the opinion of every perfon in the houfe where he died) to bury her husband at the ufual time of clofing the poll, in the Church-yard of St. Paul, Covent Garden, which propofition was immediately affented to by the other candidates; and as many falfe reports have been circulated, that the friends of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray are at the expence. of the funeral, the public may reft affured, that every offer of fervice that has been made to the widow of the deceafed, that might in any manner alleviate her unhappy fate, has been rejected, fhe being in fuch good circumstances in life, as render every thing of the kind unneceffary.

It is understood that the principal reafon of the body being buried in the above church-yard (whereas the deceased lived in Wapping) is at the fole will of the widow, the having a nephew already buried in that ground.

The audacious and unwarrantable attempts that have been made by the fcandalous advertisements and hand bills, in order to induce the public to attribute to the friends of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray the cause of the feveral riots and acts of cruelty that have been committed during the Election for Westminster, and particularly the unprovoked riot and cruel murder on Monday laft, are too grofs, and the contrary of fuch affertions too well known to ftand in need of contradiction. The curious refolutions of Mr. Fox's Committee at the Shakespeare, and the hand-bills ftuck up, and fo liberally diftributed about the town on Tuesday, in order to bring back to recollection the affair of St. George's Fields, appear on the very face of them to be calculated for the purpose of inflaming the minds of the people, and of creating riot and. confufion. Their pretended offers of rewards, and advertifing for evidence are perfectly burlefque, unless they intend by it to buy off and fupprefs any evidence that may be offered against their hireling butchers..

The Scrutiny promised for Westminster, and which will undoubtedly take place, will lay open, it is generally believed, fuch fcenes of the most abandoned proceedings, as muft for ever difgrace the oppofite party. They were open enough in many tranfactions. fufficiently culpable; but others, ftill more heinous than thofe, remain yet behind the curtain. If, therefore, thofe dark things are brought to light, so that their authors may meet the juft rewards of their crimes, we may naturally hope, by one mode of punishment or other, to get happily rid of the farther intrigues of fome men, the ftudy and. bufinefs of whofe public conduct it has ever been to trample on the laws, violate the rights of individuals, and disturb the peace of fociety..

The conduct of Mr. Fox (fays a correfpondent) upon the riot of laft Monday, is an archetype of the powers, abilities, and the fyftem of conduct which has pervaded the whole of his public character:

To confound and puzzle, to perplex and confuse the understandings of men in their notions of right and wrong, is the peculiar faculty of the grand impoftor:

Let any man fee whether this is not the cafe, by an attentive perufal of any authentic fpecimen of his boafted eloquence: No information, no clearnefs, no elucidation, but an aptitude to twift and torture a fact, to worry the understandings of his opponents, and pervert and mifreprefent truth to answer his own purpose.

The principle of his conduct has been the fame as his boafted eloquence upon the riot on Monday:

What is the plain matter of fact? A riot is apprehended, the magiftrates are convened, the civil power is ftrengthened by an additional number of conftables, legally appointed;

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