time, be very little access to the harbour. Accordingly the breaches were immediately fo far repaired (by the consent and connivance of the prefent adminiftration) as to prevent any further mischief; and, from that day to this, I do not find that our court has got one inch further in the demolition; but, on the contrary, every ftone in Dunkirk has been left in the fame fituation in which it was two years ago. Towards the actual demolition of the harbour, the deftruction of the fluices of Bergue and Feurnes are abfolutely neceffary; and this the French court have alfo refolutely refufed: Thefe fluices, or flood-gates, ferve to fcour the harbour, by keeping up the waters from the adjacent country till ebb-tide, and then fuddenly letting them flow again with a prodigious torrent through the channel of the barbour. Our miniftry ought to infift on the fhutting up of the flood-gates, without which they have done nothing. Perhaps they have already remonftrated with the French court about it, and the French minifter may have told them, that it could not be done, without making the waters ftagnate, overflowing the country, and deftroying the health of the inhabitants of Dunkirk, which (he may have added with a bow and a grin) he was fure the English were not fo cruel as to infift upon; the intent of the demolition not being the deftruction of the innocent and inoffenfive. But I, who am neither minister nor engineer, can answer him, but the waters from the country adjacent to Dunkirk, which are now drained by the canals of Bergue and Feurnes, can as eafily be let off by the canal of Mardykc, to the place of that name, through which they formerly found a paffage to the fea.

I am, Sir, your's, &c,

An ANTIGALLICAN.

Explanation of the Print of Dunkirk.

A. The canal of Mardyke.a. Its fluice.

B. The canal of Bergue.
C. The canal of Feurnes.

-b. Sluice of Bergue.
c. Sluice of Feurnes.

D. The cunette, now filled up, which formerly served to fcour the channel, leading to the harbour, by the force of the waters from a fluice, or flood-gate, opened at d. Little canal of Fuernes, which new partly answers the purpose of the cunette, by fcouring the channel of the harbour.

E.

F. Formerly

F. Formerly ftorehouse to the dock, now converted into bar

racks for foldiers.

G. The bafon, or dock for king's fhips, once capable of con taining 60 frigates, but now totally demolished.

g.

The fluice to the dock, alfo blown up and deftroyed.

H. The port or harbour.

h. Continuation of the harbour; at present not much used, being very much filled with mud.

The jettées, or piers, on each fide of the channel.

K K, being about one English mile long.

L. The fort of Rifbank, entirely demolished.

To the EDITOR of the POLITICAL REGISTER.

SIR,

Your inferting the following Queries, will oblige your conftant reader,

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WHO came into office with the m—of R

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in July 1765, upon the humble hope of being approv

ed of, and directed by Mr. P-?

When the D. of Grefigned in the fpring of the year 1766, upon finding no ferious intention in the administration to bring in Mr. Pitt; Who was it that retained his office, contrary to the public and profeffed principles, upon which that office was accepted?

In July 1766, when the m of R was difmiffed, and Mr. P--t was made p-y f-1, and a peer in confidera tion of his ill ftate of health; Who was it that ftill adhered tenaciously to his office, and who fubmitted to the earl of Ch-m in July, after having refufed to admit Mr. Pinto govt in March?

In November 1766, when the earl of C, accompanied by forty horfe, preceded by four k-s messengers, and followed by feven post-chaifes, drawn each by four horfes, made his public entry into L-n, in order to affert the difpenfing power, and to difmifs lord Edge; Who was it that ftill perfevered in his office, though the friends he had conftantly profeffed to regard, and to act with, had just been difgraced, and treated with the moft infolent contempt ?

In June 1767, Who was it that declared his intention of refigning, and then immediately negotiated for a new plan,

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the fine quâ non of which was the extirpation of thofe with whom he had acted for a twelvemonth past, and the establishment of himself in an office, which he has not yet perfuaded himlelf to quit, and to a power to which he has been already found moft unequal, during the last feffion ?

Who was it that was fo little mindful of the interest of his colleagues, as to mutter only fomething in behalf of the remains of lord C-m's friends, and fo very mindful of his own intereft, as to infift by his proxy (the D. of R.) upon a continuance in his lucrative poft ?

If one and the fame name can be fet down, as an answer to each of these queries, it were fuperfluous to go on, and ask, What such a man is, or what he deferves. He muft furely be more fortunate, than even a third office could make him, if, in this age, he efcape either the appellation, or the treatment, which fo unworthy a conduct merits.

To the EDITOR of the POLITICAL REGISTER.

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Charles-Town, SouthCarolina, to his Friend in Liverpool.

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Charles-Town, South-Carolina, June 1st, 1767.

DEAR SIR,

Aving thus concluded what is relative to private bufinefs, I fuppofe you will, as ufual, expect to know what we are doing in a public capacity, on this fide the water. "I must then tell you we are all running mad as fast as we “can, and feem to vie with each other in giving proofs of "our difaffection to the British government.-It has been a "custom here for veffels not to call at the custom-house for "the neceffary papers, either at coming in or going out of "port; and the officers, tho' apprifed of this breach of the

law, were either afraid, or unable to feize them.-Captain "Hawker, of the Sardoine fhip of war, feized, the other day, "a large fchooner under the above predicament, Having, as "is is faid, not a fingle paper on board. Every lawyer of note pofitively declared, they would not be concerned for the king, but would with great readiness plead against him "and they have ftrictly kept their word. This affair is made a common cause; and the owner of the schooner was forbid,, "by fome of the heads of our town, to make any application: "to Cap ain Hawker, cr the collector, for a releafe, but to

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