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Irishmen outfwear!" in refuting that notorious fiction-a fuckling of the Belfaft fchool, who enforced the "Majefty of the Sovereign People," in the very meridian of the French philofophy, and prefently handed his own affociates to the gibbet-the proper leader of the peerless centumvirate-genuine Spartans as ever meffed upon black broth.

Well and wifely did the Kettle, paired with fuch a compatriot, thrust in the subject of Irish torture. Aptly and appofitely did he ridicule coalition; for as the Duke of Pd ftill wears his head, in fpite of Marat, the Kettle, capacitated for conference by his new honours, can now, with all the refignation of the elect, difcufs the Colchefter election with the President of the Council. The incomparable Gemini can measure confiftency, and illuftrate each other to perfection. "Alter alteri folatium erit."

They are mistaken, who think that the Kettle is capable of nothing beyond counting-house combinations. No man is a better trimift than the Kettle; he would have convened the largest city in England, Westminster, in Palace Yard, to take their cool council upon public affairs, at the very moment that, on a pretence of punishing crimps, an infuriated multitude were destroying the habitations and property of innoxious citizens:-per contra, in a fhort time after, he voted for depriving the whole people of England of the Habeas Corpus Act, merely because a grand jury found a bill of indictment against Mr. Arthur O'Connor; whom, by the way, the Kettle courted and cultivated, till the fortunes of the former blighted the calculations of all fuch pious patriots as the Kettle. Kettle is indeed a man whom all conditions, colours, and concerns, become and fit, as naturally as Ariftippus himself. In the boundlefs region of political opinion there exifts not one principle which he has

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not adopted; nor a tribe nor a clafs of public men with whom his hofpitable heart has not fraternized.

From a Lacedemonian theory of incorruptibleness, to the prudent practice of Downing Street, and the thrift of 'Change Alley-from democracy in the extreme to the extreme of ariftocracy-from war to peace, and from peace to war-moderate only in his talents, the honeft zeal of his nature has never ftopped fhort of the ultimate limit of the most repugnant fyftems. A fucceffive votary of all poffible oppofites, his candour has been able to amalgamate the most abfolute contraries; and he has been fervid in devotion to, or bound in brotherhood with, all the rivals who have divided the public interefts during the whole courfe of his career-Pittite, Foxite, Addingtonian-Tory, Whig-Alarmift, Jacobin-Patriot, Courtier-High Church, Low Church-the Diffenters he lauded as models of good faith, and prefently accufed them of "deliberate treachery." Infelicitous even when leaft wrong, his deftiny feems to have entrapped him in every direction, and made it impoffible that he fhould either condemn any man whom he has not applauded, or fupport any fyftem which he has not reprobated. Courted by the fordid, more than endured by the ofcillating, his example makes fellowship a burlesque, and political alliance a hot-bed for infidelity. The decoy of power, and always on the wing, he tempts the great by the fuccefs of the little; and the fortune of the ftragglers furnishes nutriment to the wavering, and infufes afpiration into dulnefs itfelf. To qualify fingularity, and be identified with his betters, he propagates negotiations only to equalize character and infufe difgrace. Always at work, though his operations are commonly invifible; indefatigable and yet inconftant; good-humoured; well governed; wary; vigilant when most focial, when moft communicative referved; as effectual

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fectual in filence as in fpeech; prevailing more by muteness than by words; and deciding upon character without uttering a fyllable; fteady to arreft, and difcerning to appropriate, the fugitive ftigma: the hefitation to accede, followed close by the eagerness to enforce the ambiguous givings out, and the unambiguous promptings that are pent within; the fympathy by which no enjoyment is disturbed; the friendhip too impartial to reject animadverfion; the zeal for another's honour, which excludes no blemishthe dry, defigning, fixed eye; the nod; the ftillness; the paufe; the fhrug; the hemistich,

"The whisper, that, to greatness still too near,
Perhaps yet vibrates on the highest ear!"

With abilities caft, as it were, in the mould of his morals; neither infipid nor brilliant; knowing in locals, ignorant in generalities; profoundly verfed in Cocker, not quite fo much in Horace; at nearly equal diftance from fterility and richness of mind; a planet in a fyftem whofe altitude is hort of mediocrity (whence genius is put out, as fomething baleful), and formed, both by nature and art, to be the ancient of his Treafury leader.

Surely, furely, if Inconfiftency would appear in mortal fhape, fhe would embody herfelf in the perfon of the Kettle. There may, however, be fome who think that the Pot fhould, if the Kettle yield not the prize to him, at least divide the crown, et vitula dignus et hic; but into the question of their comparative pretenfions I certainly fhall not enter, because I am fatisfied, that to analyze the rights of the Pot to the glories of paradox, would be contributing to the gratifications of thofe whom I conceive to be the most deadly enemies to the tranquillity, the fecurity, and the liberty of the British empire, not denying to them, at the fame time, the merit of good intentions-merit

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which they only fhare with almoft every man in England; and because my conviction is abfolute, that the act cannot be good for the public which is good for the Kettle, for his patrons and his clients-the wirtuous aggregate of whom may be affured, that the cry of coalition fhall not ferve as a fhelter for their crimes and follies.

Mar. 17.

QUACK! QUACK!

[From the Oracle.]

A WHIG.

DOCTOR Brodum lays the following letter, which he has received, before the public: the great and exalted perfonage who has thus highly honoured him, affords to the world a ftrong and melancholy picture of the many wonderful effects produced by the human mind being ftretched beyond its proper pitch and compafs; and it marks, in the moft affecting and interefting manner, the implicit faith this able and penetrating Brother Financier, Practitioner, and Minifter, places in the effects of the Nervous Cordial. Doctor Brodum fcarcely thinks it neceffary to affure the public, that Mr. An is, in confequence of his carneft defire, going through a courfe of that invaluable medicine, of the effects of which Doctor Brodum will give the earlieft notice to the public. The melancholy caufe of the complaint which has unfortunately afflicted the C-k of the P-lls, and to which, with true paternal feeling, Mr. A—n alludes, has fortunately given way to the invaluable medicine of Dr. Ching; and the monster with an hundred mouths and ten heads, exhibited in his fhopwindow, to the curious, is the undoubted production of that hereditary statesman.

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Dg Street, March 23, 1804. "IMPRESSED with the ftrongeft refpect for your profeffion and character, and confiderably gratified by the recollection that I have the honour to rank as my brother and fellow-labourer in the fame vineyard, one whofe fkill, whofe talents, and whofe practice, place him at the head of our profeffion, I cannot refrain from recommending to your confideration the fymptoms which, for many months paft, have oppreffed me beyond all bearing, and which I cannot but conceive are the fitteft fubjects for your invaluable medicine, the Nervous Cordial, or Botanical Syrup. Quite from the moment, Sir, of my rifing in the morning, I feel a weight and heavinefs in my head, fuch as I can only defcribe, by defiring you to fancy a confiderable portion of lead, or other ponderous fubftance, impofed upon the furface of the cranium, with a dull, uniform, heavy preffure, which nothing relieves; and which, I am quite convinced, no one has felt to the degree that I have done. Your penetration, Sir, will eafily point out to you the dreadful inconvenience of this oppreffive companion, in my present fituation, as a Minifter, a husband, and a man; this ominous preponderofity and overbearing depreffion haunt me, cramp my faculties, my energies, and my fpirits, and render me unfit for company, for business, for enjoyment either of focial, domeftic, or official life. As the day advances, my misfortunes accumulate, and the symptoms of my melancholy cafe increafe; a tremor comes on, for which I cannot account, but which ufually augments about four o'clock, P. M. Often, Sir, when going down to the House of C, this tremor has come on in fo violent a manner, attended by fwimming in the head, lofs of recollection, and deprivation of faculties, that I have

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