the imputation of a taste for flicing our neighbours. In the first place, then, thofe full-fed minions of party pay a poor compliment to English hofpitality, when they lay fuch firefs upon a good dinner. Formerly, indeed, when writers ftarved in garrets, and immortal bards traversed the streets in the moft perishable materials, this courfe would have been excufable; but they are in a very different plight, cafe, and condition now; and if we may judge from their chops and changes, no fet of men are more ready to fubfcribe to the proverb of "Eaten bread is foon forgotten," or think lefs of a good dinner. When, then, they attach fo much im-` portance to the dinner given by Mr. Fox to Mr. Liyingfton, we muft prefume it is not of the prefent of fo many pounds of beef and mutton to Mr. Livingston that they complain. Some perfons affect to fee, in a fumptuous dinner, nothing but furfeits, dropfies, and a whole train of diforders. The writers to whom we allude may therefore probably fee, in the dinner of Mr. Fox to Mr. Livingston, a feries of ignominious peaces, French, infults, and Corfican devices. Suppole Mr. Livingston feated at Mr. Fox's table, and afking for a bit of Duck. 66 Ay," fays one of these fhrewd feers, this is an attack upon Mr. Drake; the fellow would tear our Minifter at Munich to pieces." To give a man legal poffeffion of an eftate as large as Great Britain, a twig or a fod of any part of it is fufficient. Upon the fame principle, thefe writers apprehend, that a lice of beef or mutton gives Mr. Livingfton a legal claim to all the flocks and herds of England. A wing of Turkey upon Mr. Livingston's plate, is a hint for the partition of the Ottoman empire; and as to a challenge to hob-nob, it is a propofal for a treaty of alliance with the Corfican defpot. Need we add, that the circling glafs is the emblem of revolution, and that a hearty fet-to at the bottle is a proof pofitive of a Gallomania, of a partiality for French productions, and a

defire to fraternize with Champagne and Burgundy, if not with the whole French Republic? But this is not all. What will the Paris editors fay, when they fhall hear of this famous dinner? According to the new French philofophy, their roaft beef, their fine cauliflower-topped porter, and their coal fires, make the English morofe, fullen, and ferocious. The Paris editors will therefore fee Mr. Livingston seated at Mr. Fox's table devouring ferocity, like a ftudent at the Temple devouring law. With every drink of porter he imbibes an equal proportion of the four juices of the English blood; every flice of beef adds to the brutal firength; and the coal fire at his back throws him into a frenzy. Thus, while one party is roafting Mr. Fox for giving Mr. Livingston a dinner, another party is bafting the latter for eating it.. Mr. Fox has been charged with fwallowing French doctrines at Talleyrand's table upon his late vifit to Paris; and Mr. Livingston will, no doubt, on his return to Paris, be charged with devouring the principles of the British Conftitution at the dinner of Mr. Fox.

May 30.

MR.

THE GIANTS JUST COME OVER.

[From the Morning Herald.

R. Pidcock has juft received from the coaft of Patagonia nine Giants, of the fpecies mentioned by the early voyagers to the South Seas, whofe accounts have hitherto been fuppofed by fome modern writers to be fabulous. He has placed them all in one Cabinet, and they will immediately be exhibited to public curiofity, now that he has got a proper place to put the head giant in, who is much larger in height and head than any of the reft.

Mr. Pidcock thinks it neceffary to submit a short account or notice concerning them:

The

:

The firft, or head giant, he calls the giant refreshed, from his having flept for the laft two years, and from his having lately awaked, much refreshed. He is remarkable for having a large head, nofe retrouffe, and very thin figure he affumes a great authority over the reft, which they submit to with much willingness. He makes them do what he pleases, come in, go out, change places, rake in the afhes, fay Yes or No, and play a thousand antics-but he is very kind to them, and fuffers them to partake of whatever fare he has himself. There is one remarkable peculiarity-one averfion in his nature he could never be perfuaded to vifit the neighbouring country of Amazonia, inhabited by females.

The fecond giant, though equal in height to the first giant, is much his inferior in the length of his head. His voice is harsh and diffonant, fomewhat refembling the grating of a file and the setting of a faw. The difference between his tones and thofe of the head giant is as great as between oil and vinegar.

Naturalifts are astonished at a difference in this fecond giant's nature from that of all other animals. Though used to cold climates, in which he was born, he has thriven beft fince his migration to a warmer atmosphere; and, while all other productions degenerate, whether animal or vegetable, upon being removed from their native foil, this animal has acquired greater fleekness and alacrity, with a keener touch, and taste,

and fmell.

The other giants may, with great propriety, be called minor giants, not being celebrated for any very peculiar qualities.

One is very quick and placable, but has a very thick pia-mater, which renders his perceptions dull and flow; he is particularly fond of mufic.-Another of thefe minor giants is remarkable for nothing but his height, and fome refemblance of feature to the head

giant. A third is a great egotift; he is always either talking about himfelf, or prating upon legal points. A fourth has a pretty lady-like voice, with a lifp in it, and much affectation of manner.-A fifth, a fixth, and a feventh, are remarkable for nothing but being the companions of the head giant.

Exeter Change, May 30.

G. PIDCOCK.

AN EPIGRAMMATIC QUERY:

ADDRESSED TO JOHN BULL.

[From the Morning Herald.]

WHY, honeft John, doft fidget thus, and grumble,
At one great Statefman's rife, or t'other's tumble
Though laft week's Politics might forely tease thee,
Haft thou not had a Courtly fight to please thee?
Cease then, friend John, for Fox's fate to pout-
When Pitt comes in-g ****** himself

-great

EGO ET REX MEUS.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

goes out! NIM.

THOUGH renounc'd by my friends (and I feel my difgrace),

Once more at the helm uninvited I ftand,

By my El-n's intrigues I'm reftor'd to my place,
Through S the Monarch himself I command.
By the Country abandon'd, not lov'd by the Court,
In fpite of the Commons, I'll never refign;
But I'll reign, ftill fecure in my S's fupport;
Be G-e's the title, the power fhall be mine.
June 29.

ADDRESS TO MR. ADDINGTON.
[From the Morning Poft.]

THOU, to whom it was decreed by fate
To guide the buoyant veffel of the State,
And, at the King's command, its course to steer,
n Europe's dangers fhook the brave with fear;

5

When,

When, pale and trembling at the power of France,
Surrounding nations fhrunk at her advance
To proud Autocracy, and, prompt t' obey
The Chief whofe aim was univerfal fway,
Hid their diminish'd heads beneath the duft,
And what they knew was wrong their fears call'd juft;
To thee the Mufe her tribute gladly pays,
The fubject Virtue, and the fequel Praise.
With manly firmness haft thou dar'd to meet
The fhafts by faction hurl'd, and greatly treat,
With dignified contempt, each fervile tool
Of Party's fquabbles, when it fought to rule.
The Friend of Nature and the Friend of Man,
As they, froin first to laft, thy actions fcan,
Mark how, when thou didst at the helm prefide,
Thou mad ft throughout humanity thy guide;
Yet 'mid the wreck of empires didst maintain
Britannia's greatness, and declare how vain
Appear'd the projects of th' infuriate hoft,
Who dar'd to menace England's facred coaft;
For, when fallacions prov'd each hope of peace,
And wild ambition bade its bleffings ceafe;
When Gallia's defpot, from Bellona's car,
O'er Europe's plains "let flip the dogs of war,"
And luft of power once more its terrors hurl'd
To wound again the lately bleeding world;
This ifle prefented one firm patriot band,
Arm'd, and refolv'd to guard their native land,
Their laws, their liberties, their King to fave,
And plunge invaders in a watery grave.
They, who affect thy projects to defpife,
Shall ftrive in vain objections to devife,
When this in truth's broad characters fhall fhine,
The praise of good intention e'er was thine,
And minifterial power ne'er did lefs
Shackle the freedom of the British press,
That proud palladium of our charter'd rights,
On which to dwell the patriot mind delights;
That fun of liberty which fhines around,

And ne'er withdrew its beams from English ground,
Though erft its brightness faction's clouds o'erfpread,
When selfish minions fway'd the fountain-head.