MR. S

If a body every body feeks to please and court,
Muft a body from nobody find the least support?
Not a man trufts S with half a halfpen-ny,
Yet all the day I'm blithe and gay, and d-

at night am I. Cætera defunt.

MY

DOUGLAS.

ACT II. SCENE I.

[From the fame.]

Stranger.

Y name's the Doctor: on the Berkshire hills
My father purg'd his patients-a wife man;
Whose conftant care was to increase his store,
And keep his eldeft fon-myself-at home.
But I had heard of politics, and long'd
To fit within the Commons' House, and get
A place and luck gave what my fire denied.
Some thirteen years ago, or ere my fingers
Had learn'd to mix a potion, or to bleed,

I flatter'd Pitt; I cring'd, and fneak'd, and fawn'd,
And thus became the Speaker. 1 alone,
With pompous gait, and peruke full of wisdom,
Th' unruly members could control, or call
The Houfe to order.

Tir'd of the Chair, I fought a bolder flight,
And, grafping at his power, I ftruck my friend,
Who held that place which now I've made my own.
Proud of my triumph, I difdain'd to court
The patron-hand which fed me-or to seem
Grateful to him who rais'd me into notice.
And when the King had call'd his Parliament
To meet him here conven'd in Westminster,
With all my fam'ly crowding at my heels,
My brothers, coufins, followers, and my fon,
I fhew'd myself Prime Doctor to the country.
My ends attain'd, my only aim has been

To keep my place, and gild my humble name.

DRAMATICUS.

EPIGRAM

EPIGRAM

ON THE DOCTOR'S FAILURE IN A LATE MOMENTOUS OPERATION.

IT

IF, whenever a Doctor imparts a wrong impulse,
The pain he inflicts were his own,

Jolin's Doctor, long doom'd to be cut-for the fimples,
Ought now to be cut-for the ftone!!

NEW MODE OF BLOCKADE.

[From the British Prefs.]

GALENICUS.

T is well known that an offenfive operation against fome part of the enemy's coaft has been for fome time in contemplation. The newspapers, with very few exceptions, have ftated, that the Minifter intends to block up all the enemy's ports, by finking large cargoes at their entrances. The plan, as we lately announced, was fuggefted by Mr. Phillips, a Bookfeller, No. 71, St. Paul's Churchyard. The following are the particulars :-Instead of employing, at an enormous expense in wear and tear, feventeen fhips of the line at Breft, ten at Toulon, and feven at Ferrol, Mr. Phillips propofes that a number of old unfervice-able veffels, hulks, lighters, &c. fhould be filled with old editions of old books, pamphlets, newspapers, &c. and being floated over with a fair wind, thould be funk at the mouths of the several harbours of France and Holland. For Breft, Toulon, and the other priucipal ports, he propofes that the blockading force fhould confift of the old quartos and folios, particularly fuch as are in the dead languages, all bound in calf, and any other work which the trade has obferved to poffefs a peculiar alacrity in finking. For Boulogne, Calais, and other ports where the entrance is narrow, fhallow, or difficult, he thinks fingle fheets or volumes will be fufficient. Wherever there is a fhelving fhore,

Iould be brought into action
Dunkirk and Fufhing, be-

sagging, a few pirated editions
Ma le linka Jught to be fent against
ted a fir and generous

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avith his own weapons. The enemy to avail themof a low tide to weigh the As are accompanied by a of Dr. L—r—-ce's

was mu univers in Chancery, A budget or two is alfo act me. Government, we merce men this plan with extraStemme carving it into

A loan urre loks fall of State De me Lord Mandip, and which er m 1s feat. at the rate of La le ecently traced into Lattes delemongers, &c. ecorered. They

de diparches from the difes zu ers in America, at de var. md zer documents via me socle of the corSun Jing then Mr.

with which they are pafted over. The ballads, fongs, and other trifles "light as air,' light as air," are to form a light manoeuvring flotilla, while the Quack advertisements, if they can be brought into action, cannot fail to produce great havoc among the enemy. After all the harbours, great and small, of France, Spain, and Holland, have been thus blocked up by the literary lumber of the warehouses, fhould any fuperfluous force remain, Mr. Phillips propofes that it fhall be applied as follows: The Crown and Royal to be fent upon an expedition to effect the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France; the Imperial to go as a fubfidy to the Emperor; the Demi to be formed into demi light brigades; and the Fool's-cap to be worn as a helmet by the inventor of the plan.

אן

HINTS TO THE MINISTER!

[From the Oracle.]

N the spirit of fairnefs which we hope has always diftinguished our labours, we lay before the Public a portion of an elaborate Poem which has been fent to us, containing fome moft excellent advice to Mr. Ad. -n. Our limits will not allow of our giving the whole of this ingenious compofition, nor to analyze it with critical feverity; but that our readers may judge for themfelves, we fhall extract the following fpecimen, both of the text and notes.

The title is

THE STONE EXPEDITION;

or,

The Doctor's Head Good for Something!!!

The poet, after a defcription of the caufes and nature of the plan, and of the veffels employed in the expedition, of which, to say the truth, he does not speak

all the old Shopkeepers fhould be brought into action with a fweeping courfe. Dunkirk and Flufhing, being notorious for fmuggling, a few pirated editions of celebrated works, he thinks, ought to be fent against them, it being always confidered a fair and generous procedure to fight an enemy with his own weapons. To prevent any attempt of the enemy to avail themfelves of the opportunity of a low tide to weigh the funken cargoes, each veffel is to be accompanied by a barge, containing a quantum fufficit of Dr. L-r-ce's fpeeches, ftate papers, bills and answers in Chancery, and various law pleadings. A budget or two is also recommended in a difficult cafe. Government, we are affured, have entered upon this plan with extraordinary energy. For the purpose of carrying it into execution, upwards of a dozen large facks full of State Papers, belonging to the late Lord Mendip, and which were fold by his butler fince his death, at the rate of three-pence a pound, have been recently traced into the hands of different ftationers, cheesemongers, &c. and nine of the twelve have been recovered. They confift principally of private difpatches from the different British commanders and agents in America, at the commencement of the war, and other documents upon different fubjects, with the whole of the correfpondence addreffed to Lord Mendip (then Mr. Ellis), as Secretary at War.

Our readers will recollect the recent robbery of all the old papers of Somerfet Houfe. This, we now find, was in confequence of the rife in price of the article, or, to fpeak more correctly, of the bounty for a fupplementary force of wafte paper. Government, according to report, lately purchafed a great number of dead walls, from whence it was fuppofed that the finking force was to confift of thefe materials. Thefe dead walls, however, are only bought for the fake of the literary productions

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