virulence. He talks of his prejudices and predit.ctions, and calls him a weak fn. Is this the return which a Briton makes for an unclouded æra of above thirty years of the trueft liberty this nation ever enjoyed? Are the facred alhes of a king, who made the laws of his country the only rule of his government, and founded his own happiness in that of his people, thus to be trampled upon? Surely this is the height of balenefs and ingratitude; but it is the defpicable, though fashionable, cant of a party, who are daily making their court to an illiberal patron by the most indecent outrage offered to their late fovereign and benefactor: A liberty, not to fay licentioufnefs, very unfit to recommend those who are guilty of it to the favour of a prince, one of whofe amiable qualities is a filial regard to the memory of his predeceffor.

The MONITOR of July 19. contains fome strictures on the Briton, No. 3. in which the fubfidy to the King of Pruffia is called, an annual tribute, in the payment of which the honour and interest of the nation were fcandaloufly prostituted. This, he fays, arraigns King, Lords, and Com. mons, of proftituting their power and au thority, and combining in a measure to difhonour and ruin the nation. He then proceeds to examine the allegation in fub ftance as follows.

A tribute is a token of bondage. Did the British parliament, when they granted an annual supply of money to the King of Pruflia, give any reafon to fufpect, that therewith they furrendered to him their liberty, lives, and fortunes? or did they act, as if they made that obligation through fear of what might be dreaded from the progrefs of his arms; or through that magnanimous principle of fuccouring the diftrefled; of maintaining a balance of power, for which England has always been applauded; and of favouring our national intereft? Did not the King of Pruflia, in confideration of that annual payment, ftipulate to enter into no treaty of peace detrimental to the intereft, and without the confent of G. Britain? and to keep the fword drawn against our enemies, till his Britannic Majefty fhould give him leave to fheath it by an honourable peace?—In all which there does not appear any thing like flavery or tribute on the part of Britain.-A word applied by an infidious writer, to divert the refentment of the people from thofe who

tion.

How fuch a treaty with the King of Pruffia can be branded with the fcandalous prostitution of the honour and interest of the nation, is as unjust, as it is inconceivable. Was it beneath the King of G. Britain to enter into an alliance with a Proteftant king, of the first rank for his virtues, for his valour, and for his strength and intereft in Europe? Was it fcandalous to fecure fuch an ally by a pecuniary fettlement, when the union of the hou fes of Auftria and Bourbon, affifted by Ruffia, Sweden, and other powers, threatened immediate deftruction to our trade. and intereft on the continent of Europe? was it fcandalous to facilitate our operations by fea in America, and in other diftant regions, by a well-timed application of fuch a fubfidy; which kept. France in fuch a state of uncertainty, dependence, and expence, that difabled her from a vigorous pursuit of her natural and national intereft, and crowned our expeditions every where with fuccess?

Certainly, no Briton can deny, that fuch a treaty was in every part becoming a king of G. Britain; that it has been attended with glorious effects; and that a breach of it, on our part, will deprive us of our beft ally, and draw upon us fuch difagreeable confequences, as may lay the foundation of another war.

The next example of the abilities of the my is, their great fhare in the means to deliver the King of Pruffia from the most formidable of all his enemies.Which is fuch a piece of effrontery as exceeds the most romantic fictions. Death was the only means that could deliver the King of Pruffia from the formidable power of Ruffia.-Death took the implacable Czarina out of the way, for the exaltation of a fucceffor, already difpofed to give peace to his fubjects, and to re

very being of the ftate, and will then fürround his infulted fovereign with all the minions of his train, to inform him, that the whole business of the nation fhall stand still, unless he is allowed to be the grand corruptor, and the prime fource of offices and honours. If the nation is threatened with a foreign invafion, a flood of mercenaries will pufillanimoufly be let in upon us; and fhould the legiflature, to prevent the like national difgrace for the future, think proper to arm the fons of liberty in the very cause of liberty itfelf, an auctioneer and a fifrmonger fhall command an unembodied regiment. Should he be able to continue the Polonius of ftate, ftill bustling about, still bufy, and ftill unperforming for forty years together, that long tract of time will be a dreary wafte, in which neither public nor pri vate virtue fhall be known; all worth and genius fhall be defpifed; honour fhall lie proftrate; we fhall hear of favours granted to none but a jobber of money, or a jobber of a borough; falutary bills thrown out for the purpofes of faction; promifes made and broken; mankind deluded by an adept in the fhallow arts of temporizing and diffembling; and in the end, a confumptive treafury, ways and means exhaufted, ruinous alliances, pri vate luxury, and public want, fhall be the only memorials of his exiftence. Yet his infatiate adherents will murmur at the decay of that power which upheld them, and confidently boaft of the fortune he has spent in the fervice of his country.* But this mighty parade, when it comes before an Auditor, will stand as in the account annexed, with which I fhall difmifs this character.

The conftitution to ****** D—r. To railing mobs in the worst of times

To a roafted Pope when the church was in no danger

To a burnt ditto on the 1ft of April To ditto at fundry times

L. 70,000

Opposition to government, efpecially if attended with a boldness of elocution, with fpirited invective, and a strong fingularity of phrafe, will be ever grateful to the people. The candidate for the favour of the Mob will therefore lift under the antiminifterial banner; he will frequent the haunts of the difaffected, and attend the tea and scandal of an old woman, till he has received a legacy for the wages of his zeal. He will thunder out, that Hanoverian troops upon a British eftablishment fhould never be tolerated; and if the minifter comes up to his price, he will then collufively agree, that the Emprefs-Queen fhall take them into her pay, and that a proportionate addition fhall be made to her fubfidy. He will then revile his former friends as difaffected; and if he ever thould force himself into power, he will declare himself proud of the friendship of those very men, who a little before were traitors to their king and country. To ingratiate himself with a fugar-baker, an attorney, and a bookfelier, who call themselves the commoncouncil, and the people of England, he will prefer an alderman's gown to the robes of the firft duke in the land. After having most virulently declaimed against continental measures, he will fend annually half the money of his country into Germany; will pay a fum, that speaks its own enormity, to a foreign prince for defending himself; and if America be subdued, he will ftrew laurels on the tomb of the brave general, who perished in the midst of triumph, and with the fame breath blaft them all, by afferting that America was conquered in Germany.* will fquander an immoderate part of the revenue in fruitless defcents, and idle expeditions, to make a rejoicing-night for

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40,000

70,000

To bribery at elections

To my French wines

To the colls of executions in my house

50,000

3,700

L. 560,000 [In the London papers of May 25. appeared the following article. A certain Noble Duke

The BRITON, N° 5. contains a letter to the author in defence of N° 3. against the Monitor of July 19. Who (fays the letter-writer) is this mirror of decorum, Overflowing with the milk of human kindnefs, who takes offence at your hinting any imperfections in the character of the late K-g, and at your condemning a German war, which hath lavished away our best blood, and added at least thirty millions to the national debt? Pray, mark; it is the worthy Monitor; he who, but the other day, ventured to diffuse the bafeft infinuations against the character of his living f-n. He, good man, could not bear to be put in mind of a late monarch's prejudices and predilection, against which his patron had fo many years declaimed, which all Europe faw, all England felt, and every honeft Briton lamented; but he has dared, for the worst purposes of faction, to plant unfounded jealoufies around the th-e, to fcatter implied calumnies even upon the character of his p-ce; to depretiate him in -the eyes of his people, by implied favouritifm; by taxing him with puerile attachments, and weaknesses which had no existence, but in his own vicious invention. This egregious moralist, fo delisate with refpect to the memory of the late K-g, is, or pretends to be, the implicit admirer of the man, who, even in the face of the fenate, on fundry occafions, prefumed to ftigmatize the conduct and perfon of that pr-ce, then his fovereign, with fuch abufive epithets, that the hear ers were ftruck with astonishment, and the K-g himself was fo incenfed at the unmannerly freedoms he had taken, that all the fervility of his m-1 compliance, when he afterwards forced himself into the c-b-t, could not overcome the difguft he had occafioned by his former virulence.

The writer observes also, that although the death of the Czarina was a favourable incident, it was the British ministry who first made use of that favourable incident, to propofe, mediate, promote, and haften the accommodation: And that though an attempt has been made to rob the ministry of the honour of taking Mar. tinico, by aflerting, that it was a project of Mr P-; yet it should be remembered, that though he did indeed send an armament to make a cefcent upon Martinico, yet it was fo injudiciously contrived, as to be found inadequate to the purpose. The honour due to the prefent my arises,

not from their inventing the plan, which required no conjuration, but from proportioning the means to the defired fuccefs; from equipping the armament with vigour and expedition, and fending it out at a proper season, under the conduct of officers of approved ability.

The PATRIOT, N° 1. June 19. contains much invective against the writers in favour of the new miniftry, whom he calls wretches and Scoundrels; and much vociferation to prove the expediency of ftirring up animofities and jealoufies between one part of the nation and ano. ther, at a time when we can be fupported against our enemies only by unanimity.

N° 2. contains an apology for Mr P's penfion, and an encomium upon the city of London for the compliments they paid him. It contains alfo fome ftrictures on the Auditor, who, he fays, rushes through thick and thin to light up the name of his countryman at the mangled ashes of P-and N

What kind of things mangled afbes are, perhaps in fome future paper he may condefcend to tell us. The last paragraph of his paper is fo remarkable, and fo expreffive of his difpofition, that it would be injurious to suppress it.

I fhall now take my leave of the town till next Saturday, with the following fentiments of a very learned and fenfible man, who, speaking of a certain injured perfonage, has often faid, "That if he had marched with a British army to the gates of Paris, he fhould ftill have esteem. ed destroying Scotfmen, in cold blood, as the nobleft and most honourable exploit of his whole life.”

The Patriot, however, left we should be betrayed into a notion that he wants humanity, takes occafion to reprove the Auditor for hanging out misfortunes to public fcorn," by infinuating that the North Briton looks two ways at once.

On the 26th of June, another new paper made its appearance, under the title of the OCCASIONAL WRITER..

The author of this paper obferves, that he who undertakes to address the public, at fhort and regular periods, upon the ftate of national affairs, and the conduct of an adminiftration, must frequently find himself under the difagreeable neceffity of writing an effay without a theme: but that there are fituations in which the public may be addrefied to advantage.

That as the prefent criiis. offers fome