Honour. The children of Don Towlero and Don Howlero, two brave Canine Captains, who fell in attempting to quell the mutiny, I truft you will recommend to the Firft Conful to fill places in the Prytaneum, or one of the primary fchools. I have ordered the body of Don Towlero to be flayed, and the skin to be ftuffed and fent home for the Mufeum Napoleon. "Hereto is fubjoined a lift of killed, wounded, and miffing, of the Canine fubfidiaries, "Killed-1 Lieutenant, 2 Sergeant, 9 Rank and File. "Wounded-3 Lieutenants in the ears and toes -17 Rank and File flightly. "Miffing-9 ears, 18 tails. "I have the honour to falute you. [Here follow the Proclamation and General Orders of the Commander in Chief of the Canine Subfidiaries to his troops upon their landing in St. Domingo ; an armistice entered into between him and the black General Chriftophe upon the 8th Germinal, year 11 § and several official letters and dispatches.] TO THE PUBLIC. The above official articles were fent in a packet to our office, and they appeared evidently of French manufacture. A note accompanied them in a difguifed hand. We therefore do not know who fent it; but we have no doubt, as it was marked in tar upon the back," a fhip letter," that it came from a French port, and was brought over by fome neutral veffel, and thence communicated through the medium of the Poft-office. We pledge ourselves that the original is in the hands of the printer. RECIPE RECIPE HOW TO BADGER A MINISTER. IF he form alliances, or fend out expeditions, you may talk of our blood and treafure being loofely, wantonly, and prodigally wafted, while poor Old England is left naked and defencelefs. If, on the contrary, when the danger is at our doors, he calmly and firmly waits in a defenfive attitude, ufing every means to concentrate the national force, and to direct it as occafion requires to the neceffary point, then you must change your battery, and abufe him for not fending out expeditions to diftrefs the enemy by depriving him of pepper to his foup, and of coffee for his afternoon repaft.-Probatum eft. PARODY ON A WELL-KNOWN ENGLISH SONG. AD SODALEM. NOBILISSIMUM PRÆSAGEM, AB WEL ELCOME, welcome, brother Croaker! Where no fcoffer, wag, or joker, Now dares fhew his fneering fmile: Sons of Freedom's fond adoption, Like Like a wolf, let loofe on plenty, He her vitals drain'd fo faft, Now, good folks, nineteen in twenty Roufe! oh, roufe then, brother Croaker! And her bottom's, to my thinking, Fairly worth the world befide. Now an honeft pilot steers her, Free from tyrant pride and hate; As we drink, then, brother Croaker, At the field, as at the table, Jointly bent to finish all; We'll ftand to 't like men, while able, Fill! oh, fill then, brother Croaker— Here's Here's our King! the beft in ftory- ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1804. BY H. J. PYE, ESQ. P. L. WHEN, at the defpot's dread command, From fervile Afia's peopled ftrand Was crufh'd the Perfiau tyrant's boast, Though woes unseen, uncertain, wait, With undiminish'd force, if Freedom's rights remain †.” So when the awful thunder roars, Who threat deftruction to this envied coaft :- Led by your patriot King to guard your country's weal." And pours a people clad in arms, Firm as the band for Freedom's cause who stood, And grafp the fpear, and brave the field, Do languid Art and Industry Never did Agriculture's toil With richer harvests clothe the foil Ne'er were our barks more amply fraught, Ne'er were with happier fkill our ores, our fleeces wrought. While the proud foe, to fwell invasion's host, His bleeding country's countlefs millions drains, And Gallia mourns through her embattled coaft, Unpeopled cities and unlabour'd plains, To |