diately and imminently in danger, it becomes the duty of every man to make a tender of his fervices, of however feeble a nature they may be, in the general caufe.

In fuch a fituation, it is with forrow I perceive that the inexorable hand of Time has utterly deprived these ftiffening limbs of mine of all power to fpring through the rapid motions of the fugle-man, or even to trail a pike in the fervice: "But what I can, I will." And whilft I look round me, and behold the patriotifm and energies of my country difplaying themselves with a luftre hitherto unequalled in its hiftory; as I caft my eye towards that monument of public fpirit, the fubfcription at Lloyd's, where the patriots at the commencement of the nineteenth century will have their names recorded in letters of gold-of paper, I mean: when I there find even contractors' footmen contributing their half-crowns for the fupport of the Conftitution; and the Cambro-British virgins employed in the neighbourhood of Brentford clubbing their fixpences, in order to protect their virtue from violation -I do confefs that I feel myfelf emboldened to hope that even my mite will meet its due acceptance; and it is in this hope that I now beg leave, through the medium of your paper, to make a tender of it against

our common enemy.

It is, I believe, generally understood, that, the better to enable the unfettered hands of Minifters to act up to their great conceptions, by putting at fuller liberty the difpofable force of the country, the volunteer corps of the metropolis at least will be employed on garrifon duty at the Tower, and in mounting guard at Saint James's, &c. &c. Now, Sir, "I do humbly propofe to supply the aforefaid gentlemen within the bills of mortality (I hope there is nothing ominous in the word) with the parole and counterfign, which in the discharge of such duty will be neceffarily called for."

It has been afferted of an able General, who, during our late conflict, commanded the enemy's forces in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk, that one great mean by which he contrived to infpirit his troops, was by preferving a ftudied point, as applicable to the occafion, in the reciprocal relation of thefe terms, as delivered from head-quarters. I have endeavoured therefore, as much as lies within my power, to keep the fame object in view; and I have the moft confident hope, that if thefe gentlemen fhould have their beft energies called upon for a more decifive fervice, the fame means may be equally fuccefsful on this fide of the water, in repelling the defperate disturber of our prefent happinefs.

I tranfmit the following lift as a fpecimen, which will be an ample provifion for one month's fervice at leaft. With a fimilar fupply, when thefe are fairly expended, I fhall do my best to be prepared. And, in the mean time, I remain yours, &c. &c. Chapter Coffee-house.

X. X.

COUNTERSIGN.

The Doctor.

The Statue.

The Brazen Head.

"Bow! wow! wow!"
"Fal de ral, tit."

He's your Man."
Income Bill.

Property Tax.

Darkness vifible.

Erin go Bragh!

Entrench at Blackheath.

Inundations.

Attention!

The old Rock of St. Vin-} {

cent

This here
Her Ladyship

The Mud-larks of the Dockyards.

That there!

"My Meg o' Vappin."

Penny

THE JACOBIN GENIUS OF FRANCE

TO HER SELECT CORPS OF PRINTERS IN ENGLAND.

AN IMPROMPTU.

[From the Morning Herald.]

COME, Libellers in Gallic pay,

Print in black letter! and proclaim!
Work double tides, by night and day,
To d-n St. Vincent's naval fame!

Kick Decency into the mire!

Drive Truth and Common Senfe before ye!
Keep up with lies a running fire,

And thus fuftain my blood-earn'd glory!

Let each report make Falsehood fmile,
And legions of your Devils dance;
Then bruit it through the British isle,
Until it's echo'd back from France!
Infernal fous! by arts like these

Succefs fhall follow our command,
If thus the Trident of the Seas

We wreft but from St. Vincent's hand!

Yet ftill his vengeful banner flies!
Imps! quick aflail him, one and all;

For not a facobin can rife,

Unless you work St. Vincent's fall!

NAUTILUS.

DRES

SIR,

DRESS.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

York, Jan. 23. YOUR OUR account of the birth-day dreffes is arrived in thefe parts, and has been studied with the usual attention that we bestow on matters of fuch importance. Barring heavy roads, we now get the London fashions eight-and-forty hours fooner than before the mailcoaches were established, which is a great comfort to the ladies here, who have a good deal of leifure on their hands. But pray, Sir, did you not omit fome part of the birth-day intelligence, or is it only our North-country ignorance that makes us think fo? You dwell principally upon the heads and the petticoats, omitting, in general, thofe intermediate parts which are of great confequence with us. Are we to underftand by this, that there is no medium in a fashionable drefs, or that the opinion of the milliner and mantuamaker is never taken but upon the last extremities? We have a proverb here, that" if you light the fire at both ends, the middle will fhift for itself." I should not have applied this to our prefent dilemma, if I could have thought of any other way of accounting for it.

I am, for felf and fifters,

Your humble fervant,
SARAH NUMPS.

EULOGIUM UPON THE ART OF A COEFFEUR.

I

[From the Oracle.]

WOULD propose to all the Academies of Europe a prize for the best panegyric upon that art, which is of all others the most useful to fociety, as well as the moft arduous, the most noble, and the moft fublime, in relation to the virtues which it requires: I mean the

art

art of a Lady's Hairdreffer. To modify into pleafing forms thofe long and flender filaments which nature feems to have intended for the fport of every gale; to give to them a confiftency of which no one would fuppofe fuch materials were fufceptible; to give to abundance regular order in the place of confufion, and to fupply a want with fictitious riches, which would deceive the fharpeft eye; to foften the coarfenefs of features; to increase the brilliancy of the eye, by contraft of colours, and even fometimes by reflected union: to effect all these miracles, without any other means than a comb, and fome powder of different tints, these are the characteristics of the art, and yet conftitute but a fmall part of a Lady's Hairdreffer's daily occupation.

If his industry entitles him to the rank of artist, its fubject ought furely to give him a diftinguished place on the lift.

The pencil of the painter is exercifed only upon the canvafs; the chifel of the ftatuary, upon the marble block. Cold copyifts of the charms of which they only prefent the image, their labours neceffarily bear the mark of dependence. They must have models to direct their imagination and their hand. Their greatest merit is faithful-imitation; and the inanimate Thadow which they fell fo dear to luxury, is but an imperfect sketch of the original, of which it teaches us to lament the lofs.

What a difference between them and the Lady's Hairdreffer! It is living beauty that he embellifhes; it is a fex to which all the world pays homage, that implores his aid. Has nature lavifhed upon it all her treafures? He improves their eclat. The forms and features of the fculptor and painter are all borrowed: the model is before their eyes. Not fo with the Coeffeur: he must have a peculiar genius for invention, a fuperior talte for combination.

He must be able, at the first fight of a phyfiogno

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my,