DONKEY ODE-II. [From the fame.] BUT t' other night, Fit for the Gods, I gave a fight To Lords and Ladies British, Who now and then, Like a good thing, that's dev'lish skittish! I thought I'd do it like myself, That folks, in compliment to me, "That I'm an afs;" So through Lud's town My fame may pass, Where Balaam's cattle thrive; Since I can race, and prance, and bray, WANTED, A GOOD CAT, OR A RAT-CATCHER. [From the British Prefs.] NIM. IT was probably owing to the heavy rain of yesterday morning, that the Parks and Promenades did not difplay their ufual quantum of beauty-and that muflin tranfparencies and green parafols were not, as ufual, the order of the day. So far, however, as curiofity was a fufferer by the abfence of beauty and fashion, the lofs was amply compenfated by the appearance of an immenfe fwarm of Rats, which, iffuing from their holes in the neighbourhood of Westminster, spread terror and confufion through the P 2 whole whole place. Some concluded that a fhip was finking in the Thames; others, that an old houfe was falling; but it seemed to be the prevailing opinion, that the new Minister was upon the tumble.-A meffage was immediately fent to Downing Street, with this extraordinary news; but no fatisfactory explanation could be obtained, as the State Rat-trap appeared in excellent condition, and as well baited as ever with candle-ends and cheese-parings. Thefe new rats are the most extraordinary ever feen.-As they have thewn a fhyness of the ftate-trap, and Mr. Pitt, who was reprefented, by the late Sir Robert Clayton, as the beft cat of his day, has been found imbecile and inefficient, a good rat-catcher, who will undertake to wheedle and take these destructive animals, will meet with due encouragement. June 11. REWARD OFFERED. [From the fame.] OST, ftolen, ftrayed, or abfconded, about three o'clock on Saturday morning, from his ufual place of refidence, near Weftminster Hall, Mr. Pitt's old fervant, Thumping Majority*. Having done vaft fervice in the late war, and being a great favourite, his Mafter is inconfolable for his lofs. Thumping Majority is always talking politics, and ufed to diftinguith himfelf greatly in all debates upon the State of the Nation; upon all queftions relative to the late juft and neceffury war, and all matters of finance. About three years ago, Mr. Pitt turned Volunteer, and went down to Dover, leaving Mr. Addington to keep houfe for him in his abfence. Thumping Majority, with the reft of the household, The Minister's divifion at three o'clock in the morning of June 9, was only 221 to 181. Majority 40! 5 remained remained in ftatu quo; but whether it was that the locum tenens did not keep fo good a table as the Master, or from fome defect of conftitution, poor Thumping Majority fell into a galloping decline. He has fomething of a Ruffian and Welfh appetite, being very fond of candle-ends and cheefe-parings; and, what from finecures and places beftowed upon him by his Mafter, is faid to be very rich. Indeed, as he held the purfe of the nation many years, he must have been a great fool if he did not help himself. Some fay, however, that he was very extravagant, and that it was only during the time Mr. Addington had him on board wages, that he began to economize. It is allowed on all hands, that his Mafter cannot carry on bufinefs without him; and, therefore, any money will be given to the finder, who fhall reftore him, if loft, ftolen, or ftrayed; and if he has abfconded, he will be taken back with pleafure, and all faults will be forgiven. A man of the name of Fox, having lately threatened to fet up bufinefs in oppofition to Mr. Pitt, it is feared that the former, knowing his value, and that the concern cannot stand without his affiftance, may have tempted him to go out of the way, or to engage in his fervice. Any perfon giving information where he may be found, will be moft liberally rewarded. No money or pains will be fpared; no terms will be confidered extravagant, as in fact the Minifter cannot exist without him.-Application to be made to Mr. Paymafter, at the fign of the Rofe, Palace Yard. June 11. PARDON ASKED. WHEREAS 1," Citizen Courier," of the Strand, London, did praife and extol Mr. Addington when in office; afferted that he was a moft able, vigorous, and efficient Minifter, and that his Government was the wifeft, the moft profperous and glorious that England ever faw; and WHEREAS, when the faid Mr. Addington went out of office, I went over to his fucceffor, and have fince extolled Mr. Pitt as loudly as I extolled the Gentleman whom he fucceeded; and WHEREAS, during both thefe periods, I uniformly abufed the Honourable Charles James Fox in the moft indecent and fcurrilous terms; reprefenting him as a mere driveller, who fcarcely knew how to write his name, and if he did attempt to speak in the Houfe of Commons acquitted himself there like a quibbling Old Bailey Solicitor: and WHEREAS I fear that Mr. Pitt's Adminiftration will not ftand, and think it may promote my intereft to praise the faid Honourable Charles James Fox in future, as much as I have lately abufed him; and WHEREAS the faid Charles James Fox, in confideration of my ignorance and infignificance, has humanely and gracioufly pleafed to look with contempt upon me, and declined bringing any action against me, for thefe my manifold tranfgreffions: Now I, Citizen Courier, do, in this public manner, declare my fincere forrow and repentance for my paft conduct, and do beg pardon for it, in the moft humble and abject manner; and farther, do most folemnly promife, that I will, in future, extol to the fkies, as long as I fhall find it tend to my pecuniary intereft and emolument, the faid Charles James Fox, and maintain throughout the world that he is the most eloquent, the wifeft, and the moft enlightened Statefman that England ever produced, and that all who deny it are traitors and Jacobins, and tools of Bonaparté and M. Talleyrand; and I do at the fame time moft humbly beg pardon of all my cotemporaries for degrading the character of the British Prefs, by my poftacy and inconfiftency. g b CITIZEN COURIER LINES BY THE DUTCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, INSCRIBED ON THE PEDESTAL SUPPORTING A BUST 66 OF MR. FOX, IN THE DUKE OF BEDFORD'S TEMPLE OF FRIENDSHIP," AT WOBURN, WHICH CONTAINS THE BUSTS OF HIS MOST VALUED INTIMATES. HERE, 'midft the friends he lov'd, the man behold, In truth unfhaken, and in virtue bold; 'T was he-'t was Fox-the warning counfel gave! ON THE DEATH OF MR. HARE. BY HER GRACE THE DUTCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. HARK! 't was the knell of death-what fpirit fled, And burst the fhackles man is doom'd to bear? Can it be true, and 'midst the senseless dead Reft, |