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ganism.In the 23d bulletin, Buonaparté himself points out our errors to us : "France (he tells us) was stirred up and supported by the unanimous resolution to re-assert rights of which she had been deprived in times of obscurity:-In Spain, a few men stirred up the people, in order to preserve the exclusive possession of rights odious to the people. Those, who fought for the Inquisition, for the Franciscans, and for feudal rights, might be animated by an ardent zeal for their personal interests, but could never infuse into a whole nation, a firm resolve or permanent opinion."-Our political Quixotes, however, would have a brush with the windmills, and have been laid sprawling in the dirt: Five millions of money, and five thousand of the best troops in the world sacrificed!Oh!

""Tis the time's plague, when MADMEN lead the BLIND!" SHAKESPEAR'S KING LEAR.

Buonaparté has now leisure enough to preach up to the Spaniards that we have

abandoned them, after inflaming their passions, to all the horrors of an unsuccessful resistance. He tells us that our retreat had exasperated them against us, and that their difference of language, manners, and religion, contributed not a little to that disposition of their minds; yet we are going to offer up another sacrifice to such gross superstition !-He tells the Spaniards that they must refund all the money which we have sent to them, and yet we are about to remit more! He will permit them to receive our gold and silver; but will take care to make them shut their ports against our soldiers. In the latter instance, he will show a greater respect for our brave troops than we shall evince for them ourselves, in hazarding them once more against superstition and ignorance, in addition to superior forces, and all the other disadvantageous circumstances of warfare.

Baffled and bubbled in every one of our continental subsidies, we should now husband all our resources to enable us to outlive a struggle, of which Heaven alone can see the

end. It is a war of finances, which, on our part, can only be met by political economy and private industry. In the latter we abound; in the former we are so notoriously deficient, that it may be as well to consider how far we are from the brink of the gulph. We have only to look to ourselves. The Continent cannot long remain in its present lethargy, from the natural order of things in this revolutionary world. Tyranny begets liberty; liberty ease; ease refinement; refinement luxury; luxury effeminacy; and effeminacy slavery, and consequently tyranny again. For which reason, and from feeling the pulse of the present times, we prescribe the following recipe, in plain English, instead of the Warwick-lane Latin, which, by the bye, Celsus himself could not read, if resusci tated, and become president, elect, senior fellow, or candidate of the said college:

TAKE of political economy and honesty (not Burke's Jesuitical sort) of each two drams; of patriotism (take care of the

bastard species, denominated Broad-bottomed, which is rank poison) three drams; of energy and foresight (beware of that entitled Old Woman's, growing in Portland-Isle) of each two drams; of common sense (not the legalis or conventionalis sort) two drams.

The above medicines may not effect an immediate cure, but will be an infallible remedy if made into pills, with a quant, suff. of conserve of patience, (to be found all over the British Isles) and taken in doses suited to the constitution, fasting.

John Bull.-Fasting! I hate the very sound. Fasted only t'other day; pretty near come to't every day, I think; fasting never was suited to a British Constitution.

Why no, good Johnny; but then you know political, as well as p― doctors always recommend it, that their patient's pockets may have a guinea when they come to dip their hands into them.

John Bull.-Aye, why shou'd n't have

too many drains at once, to be sure; nor should they be of too long continuance, if the end be to keep the constitution sound.

It may happen, indeed, Mr. Bull, that the people may be made to fast too often, whilst a flock of wolves are feasting upon their stock. The experiment is dangerous, and the minister who should make it, deserves the fate of Behram's vizier, not only as an enemy to the public, but also to his master, from whom he estranges the affections of his subjects. A king is neither more nor less than a chief magistrate, selected by and from the people, for the public good; and he who does not make that his chief business, is no king;-he who entrusts his people to a minister, without overlooking him, is a mere bubble, or, as a certain Spaniard had it, a ceremony!-This man had been sent out by Philip II. king of Spain, on an embassy; and the king finding fault with him for failing in an affair of great importance, because he could not agree with the French ambassador on some etiquette, said

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