Is this oppofition of fentiment always the effect of chance, or of the influence of the ftars, or is it the effect of influence of any other kind?

Is there any law against conspiring, by judicial chicanery, to take away a fellow-citizen's life?

As it is admitted on all hands, that a nation has the right of changing its government, how happens it that it is treafon in a part of the people to propofe the reform of fuch abuses as may exift in their's?

If the individuals that have ufurped the rights of the people, refuse to restore them, after being requested fo to do in a polite way, is it treafon for the nation to endeavour to recover them by means less confiftent with urbanity?

Have the good people of England any right to their rights?

If they have, has any body a right to with-hold them?

Does the right of the people in this country to be freely reprefented depend upon the pleasure of thofe who represent them against their will?

If it does not, is there any punishment for those who invade the privileges of the people? And is it likely that Mr. Attorney-general will profecute the delinquents?

If he does not, who will?

And, laftly, would there be any remedy for a man who should be firft kept up for fix months, like a bagged fox, by Minifters, and afterwards hunted down by the Court Lawyers, for no other reason than because corrupt majorities of the Legislature might call it treason to refift corruption?

I trust, Mr. Editor, you will forgive me for being rather minute and particular in my questions, for I was always mortally afraid of law-fuits, and fhould be very forry to commit high treason, without dreaming of fuch a thing. Befides, whenever the Sunday paper is received, and I read it to my ploughmen and neighbours, they are fure to afk me a fcore of fuch questions as I

have been asking you, and dang me, if I fometimes know how to answer them, thof I'm reckoned about as cute a hand as any in the county.

NOW

A MAN OF KENT.

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN.

OW fee my goddefs, earthly born,
With fmiling looks, and fparkling eyes,
And with a bloom that fhames the morn,
New rifen in the eaftern fkies.

Furnifh'd from Nature's boundless store,
And one of Pleafure's laughing train;
Stranger to all the wife explore,

She proves all far-fought knowledge vain.
Untaught as Venus, when fhe found
Herfelf first floating on the fea,
And, laughing, begg'd the Tritons round,
For fhame, to look fome other way!
And unaccomplish'd all as Eve,

In the first morning of her life,

When Adam blufh'd, and afk'd her leave,
To take her hand, and call her wife.
Yet there is fomething in her face,
Though she's unread in Plato's lore,
Might bring your Plato to difgrace,
For leaving precepts taught before.
And there is magic in her eye

(Tho' fhe's unfkill'd to conjure down
The pale moon from th' affrighted sky)
Might draw Endymion from the moon.
And there are words which the can speak,
More cafy to be understood;
More fweet than all the Heathen Greek,

By Helen talk'd, when Paris woo'd.
And he has raptures in her power,
- More worth than all the flattering claim
Of learning's unfubftantial dower,
In prefent praise or future fame.

Let

Let me but kifs her foft warm hand,
And let me whisper in her ear,
What knowledge would not understand,
And wisdom would difdain to hear!
And let her listen to my tale,

And let one smiling blush arise,
(Bleft omen that my vows prevail)
I'll fcorn the fcorn of all the wife.
Morning Poft.

W

SUBSTITUTES FOR BREAD*.

HILE our nobility are generously eating brown bread for the good of the country, it gives me much pleasure to find that the newspapers are no lefs generously seconding their efforts, by recommending various fubftitutes for bread, and that the Lady Bountifuls of the metropolis have given up the entire copy-right of Sunday puddings and cakes, which may be used inftead of bread.

I fhould be forry if my pen were idle on fuch an occafion. Permit me, therefore, to recommend, what I have from experience found to be excellent substitutes

*The above whimsical letter appeared at the time of the great fcarcity, when the Privy Council recommended the eating of meat and vegetables as fubftitutes for bread. This was very wife! meat and vegetables being still dearer than the article instead of which they were to be ufed. Other perfons, with Sir John Sinclair, and œconomists of the fame ftamp, at their head, made bread of flour and potatoes mixed. This was also very wife; as a very indifferent compound was produced by the combination of two things, perfectly good when eaten alone, without a fingle grain of fuftenance being gained. Others firft made potatoes into flour, and then into bread. This was wifer ftill! for by these means, much of the nutritious fubftance of the potatoe was loft, the fæcula, by far the smaller part, being alone preferved. In fhort, not one of the wife heads, who are good enough to regulate all our concerns, was able to difcover that the only remedy for a scarcity, is to di minish the confumption, or increase the ftock of provifions; till at laft fear did what reflection could not, and a bounty was given for the importation of corn.

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for bread; and what, you will perceive, are not only as well fuited to the ability of the common people as any which have been recommended, but also must be eafily procured by a nation abounding in wealth and commerce, the natural confequences of a fuccessful, just, and neceffary war.

My firft fubftitute, Sir, is butcher's meat of every kind, particularly veal and beef, neither of which are yet at a filling a pound. Houfe-lamb, when in feason, is also an excellent fubftitute: a quarter of houfe-lamb feldom exceeds twelve or fourteen fhillings, and would make one very good meal for a man, his wife, and four children.

Poultry has lately been fo moderate, that it is wonderful it has not been more ufed. At all times, a couple of nice chickens may be had for feven or eight fhillings; and I am certain the poor would find them exceedingly relishing, if they would but make a trial.

But my great and grand fubftitutes yet remainvenifon and turtle. Venifon is very cheap this year, owing to the discontinuance of public dinners; and you will please to obferve, that it has a fuperior advantage. to every other kind of meat, inasmuch as the monopolizing and foreftalling butchers cannot take in the public, becaufe none of them deal in the article. I lately dined on a very fine haunch, which coft only two pounds, fourteen fhillings; and as we are to have no more public dinners, I have no doubt that the price will foon fall, perhaps, to a couple of guineas. A haunch of this price would, I imagine, ferve for dinner for fix men of good appetite-befides what might be ferved up next day in the form of a hash. I am greatly mistaken, if the poor would not take very kindly to this diet, were it once set before them.

As to turtle, which will be foon plenty, from the arrival of the Weft-India fleet, and cheap from the fame caufe as the venifon, I need fcarcely fay how very nourishing it is; in that refpect, indeed, excelling all other food. The fuccefs of our armies in Flanders

is juftly imputed to the Commiffioners' ordering great quantities of plump turtles to be fent over. There can be little doubt that the price will not exceed eight hillings a quart; and, at that price, I am fure, the poor would find it a moft delicious and palatable food, provided they have no natural antipathy to it, as people fometimes have for what they are not used to. By way of inducing them to give up fuch whims, they might be advised to take a rummer-glafs of punch between every three or four mouthfuls, which I have always found very relifhing. Indeed, this is a fact which has often been fworn to before the Aldermen of London.

To thefe valuable fubftitutes for bread-and, by the bye, before I proceed one step farther, let me remark, that it is the opinion of many learned phyficians, that bread is not quite fo wholefome as fome people ignorantly think. They fay that it creates wind. Now, if the existence of wind be known by its effects, I think it is very obvious that the poor are afflicted with it, from this very caufe-for among the the poor, you are always fure to hear more grumbling than among the rich; it is but fair to attribute this to their not being able to raife the wind. Such would not be the cafe, if they could be induced to use the diet I here recommend.

Leaving this digreffion, let me obferve, that to the above fubftitutes for bread, may be added fish of all kinds, particularly turbot, with lobster-fauce, which is highly nourishing, and far more fattening than the produce of a wheat-field can poffibly be. Now, Sir, a very nice turbot may be bought for feven or eight fhillings, and ferve three moderate eaters very well. Indeed, I have made all my calculations for the fcale of moderate eaters, because my object is to serve the poor, who are confeffedly of that clafs.

With refpect to vegetables, they ought unqueftionably to accompany the above courfe of diet; but they ought to be eaten only at the beginning of the feason,

when