learning. The obfervetions produced the following receipt:

A RECEIPT FOR MOCK-WISDOM.

Take a few grains of fenfe, ftrain them through as many dictionaries as you can collect together, taking care to felect none but the lightest particles of matter contained in your books; a very few fcraps of the learned fciences, are however indifpenfible, as they must give an apparent folidity to the whole; be careful to collect all your ingredients in very fmall quantities-a little hiftory, a little painting, a little mufick, a few fragments of poetry; take as many Latin fentences and as many hard words as you can find; jumble these all well together, and throw them loosely into your head. If they are properly mixed, the whole will froth up and float on the furface of the brain.

[St. James's Chron.]

MR. EDITOR,

WITH

THE GREEN-ASS.

ITH your permiffion, I will tell you a fhort ftory: a widow, fomewhat advanced in years, had, in order to foothe her forrows for the lofs of her firft hufband, refolved to take a fecond. A fmart young fellow in the neighbourhood fo occupied her thoughts, that he made a female friend the confidant of her determination, provided that any means could be found to filence the tittle tattle of the town on fo difproportionate a connection. Nothing fo eafy, replied the friend, 'tis true you will be ridiculed; you will be the fubject of ballads and epigrams for a fortnight, but in a month you and your marriage will be as little attended to as laft year's almanack. I will engage even that yonder jackafs on the common fhall be the means of quieting the tongues of fcandal in a few hours. A jack-afs filence fcandal? You jeft, fure. No, I am perfectly in earneft, therefore marry as foon as you please, and leave the reft to me.

The widow required no very urgent remontrances to induce her to comply with her inclination. The ceremony was performed, and all the wags of the neighbourhood were affembled round about the door of the happy couple, to indulge their raillery and mirth. In the mid of the merriment, an afs comes fuddenly round the corner, of the colour of a parroquet. The nuptial door is deferted, and every eye and tongue is engaged on this prodigy. A green-afs! who the De-I could have thought of fuch a ftrange production-where, in the name of wonder, could it come from? From Greenland, to be fure, fays the barber of the village, who had been a traveller, or elfe from the Cape de Verd-I remember feeing a herd of them; they are as green as grafs while they are young, but turn as yellow as faffron when they are old. Depend upon it, fays an old woman, this green-afs portends fome mifchief; I remember myself a white black-bird appearing when I was a girl, and that fame year there was a rot among the fheep, and the weather-cock on the church fteeple was ftruck by lightning.

The widow's friend, in fhort, completely gained her point, and the green-afs fo effectually employed the attention of the neighbourhood, that the wedding was as much forgot as if it had never been performed.

But a ftory, Mr. Editor, is but a barren rhapfody, unless it admits of an application. The minifterial fcriblers then, act the part of the widow's friend, and Lady Jerfey is the green-afs. If ill-timed and ill-combined measures produce their neceflary effects-misfortune and difafter. If the public indignation is roufed at expeditions, madly concerted, and ruinously conducted; if all the minifterial prophecies turn out to be abfurd and childish chimeras, a moft effectual method is ingeniously adopted by two of the hireling prints, to divert the public mind from thefe calamitous objects, by a column of paragraphs on the conduct of Lady Jersey. This is fo palpable an artifice, that it is really aftonishing how long the nation has fuffered itself to be the dupe of

it; or that it has never occurred to them, that the whole of this repetition of abuse and ridicule on the character of an individual, while Europe is teeming with portentous and dire events, is nothing more than the fecond. edition of

[Morning Poft.]

THE GREEN-ASS

NEW TAX-GATHERERS.

E obfere in feveral of the papers, that another

WE loan is to be raised. Sir, we hope that it will

be a forced loan; for, if it is, we fhall beg leave to offer our fervices to the Minifters as Collectors. We are perfectly well qualified for the business, having been long in the habit of collecting forced loans; and indeed there feems to be fomething fimilar and congenial to the plans of the Minifter, and in the purfuits of his devoted fervants. He fays to the monied men, "Grant me a voluntary loan: if you do not, I fhall infift upon a forced loan." Now, Sir, what do we fay to those whom we meet with but, " Give us your money peaceably if you do not, we will take it from you by force." Oh! there can be no doubt that the Right Hon. Gentleman, as he reads this, will, with the greatest pleafure, avail himfelf of the fervices of the very ancient and renowned corps of

[Morning Poft.]

SONG

HIGHWAYMEN.

SUNG ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. FOX'S

BIRTH-DAY, BY CAPTAIN MORRICE.

THER

HE rifing Sun of Freedom, with radiant justice crown'd,

Now burfts in bright effulgence, and spreads its bleffings round;

Creation's fons rejoicing, receive the welcome light, While God unchains the fettered world, and Nature claims ber right.

Ee 3

CHORUS,

CHORUS.

Then, hail celeftial Liberty' fly round this mortal sphere, And, in thy bleft redeeming courfe, unchain thy children here.

Soon o'er this fuff'ring island, in Freedom once fo bleft, This vital beam returning, fhall cheer the Briton's breaft;

Vain is the impious arm of pow'r, or craft of tott'ring pride,

To ftop the heav'n directed ray, or turn its course aside: Tho' foul Corruption's bafenefs hath fold our ifle to wo Tho' deeds of dire deftruction awhile have laid us low; The hour comes on, when Britain's fon's their bleffings. fhall regain,

And hard Oppreffion's iron rod, be broken here again. Through each eventful æra, that founds in British fong, To Roman, Saxon, Norman, Dane, whoe'er the fway belong,

Still ftruggling Freedom reftlefs burn'd, unconquer'd by controul,

And while the body bent to fate, more firmly rofe the foul. It matters not what fafeguard the tools of pow'r devife, Swords, edicts, chains, or bribes, on which still tyrant fway relies;

They feel their coming fate, and know, tho' force up-. holds their guilt,

One British moment strikes to dust the works their fears have built.

E'en in this deadly moment, when force and fraud combin❜d,

Have stopp'd the breath of Freedom, and-broke the British mind;

The buried fpark, retouch'd by Heav'n, and piercing thro' the ftrife,

Shall from the grave of Freedom burst, and—light us back to life!

'Tis thus, the God of Britain, in danger ever faves, Still Fate renews our Freedom, when tyrants doom us

flaves

They

They crush her in our vices down, but when our virtues join,

John ferves her caufe on Runnymede, and James upon the Boyne.

Oh! give me life, ye powers, that happy hour to meet, When ftrangled Freedom breathes again, in this her ancient feat;

When, ftead of tame degen'rate floth, the patriot flame infpires,

And British bofoms glow again, with all their father's fires.

Oft times I view in fancy, the bursting blaze expand, And see the electric fpirit fly, like light'ning o'er the land; See all the jealous fervour rage; the virtuous tumult roar, And hear th' avenging Phalanx fay-Thus flood our fires before.

Then cheer'd by British story, let's meet the coming day, When Heav'n's correcting mercy fhall fcourge the fiends away;

A breath can blast their tyranny, a touch unloofe the chain,

And when they fall, as fall they muft, we live redeem'd again.

Oh Liberty! from traitors, avert our country's death! Watch o'er this natal moment, that gave thy champion breath,

Preferve through England's dangers, this great, this British mind,

And, midft the dismal wreck of state, leave Fox to fave mankind.

A JOURNAL OF EVENTS,

WHICH WE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED, IF THE JACOBIN PARTY HAD SUCCEEDED IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW THR GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY FOR A WEEK.

TH

1st July, 1794.

HIS day, citizen C *** reported to the British convention, that he had difcovered a distant relation of royalty, whom the committee of public fafety