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This unique and extraordinary Volume will be published ea soon as possible, and particulars will be made known by advertisement previous to its appearance, A FRENCH CONFORMIST CLERGY -42, NAN, received during many months past into seve ral most honourable families, to teach his Native Language after a peculiar and approved system, and also the LATIN and ITALIAN, should wish to attend some respectable Schools in London and the Neighbourhood, and offers the best references. Apply to F. H. 38, Plough-court, Lom. bard-street ; or to the Rev. C. S. 8, Bishopsgate-street, within, if by letter, Post paid. TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN. S ABSOLUTE FACT, why Gentlemen choose to submit to the very high Charges of their Tailors, is, because it is well known there are but few who c.in make a Coat, fit for a Gentleman's wear, and those few thus monopolize the Patronage of most of the Nobility and Gentry. But this monopoly can be now but of short duration, iv; if. FLETCHLR, (from Moore's, late Bicknell and Aloore's) can produce Coats, &c. &c. which cannot possibly h: distinguished by the critical eye, even of a Brummell, either in make or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the neighbourhood of Clifford -street, or St. James's, and at very little more than half their charges, yet obtaining a fair Tradesman's Profit. H. F. favoired by the Patronage of many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have known him for years, whilst under an engagement to the above eminent House, and anxious that Gentlemen may calculate the very considerable reduction which they may make in their Annual Expenditure, has the honour to submit for their Inspection, the following List of sufficien.ly compensating Prices, for Prompt Payment I X. s. d. Dress Coats, Blue or Black .. Ditto. ditto, any other colour .... . .. 3 6 0 Frock Colitg, Blue or Black, skirts lined with silk Trousers, Blue or Black Ditto, any other colour .. Ditto, White Drill Waistcoats ....... 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When given in Colds, Catarrhs, &e. it is generally found to check their progress, or shorten their duration.— In Packtts, 2i. 9th. and 245. THE ANALEPTIC PILLS, from their iniltientte in exciting the natural secretions are an excellent Alterative Remedy in Chronic Diseases, Rheumatism, habitual Febrile and Gouty Affections, Indigestion, Bilious and other Corn. plaints of the Stomach and Bowels.—ln Bones, at 4s. 6d. and 246. Sold by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, corngr of I St. Paurti, London, and the principal Druggists and Doak 4cliers. Rf Cliiteii , e the . Sigtiatore or R. O. G. Ja - mka 011 thk Label. The Public are requseted to be . cautions in the Ptirchase of these Medicines, as Pwtio.is preparations are continually offered for sale. No. 13,823. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1831. Ihunent ? Next, the Republican called soldiers employed to suppress mobs, nothing but " men butchers." Such was the langUage of this publication, which the hon. member for Middlesex had declared to proceed, for sinister purposes, from the Tory side of the house. Mr. G. LAMB could not go into the various topics that had been so very strangely introduced into the discussion, but he felt it his duty to remind the house of the examine damage which such a discussion was likely to occasion. If members would bring such matter before the house so very indiscreetly, it was in vain that the Government abstained from prosecutions on the ground of not giving extensive pub licity to what would otherwise be read by so very few.— Even the debate of yesterday had caused a very wide circu lation of writings wh ieh otherwise would not have been ireowo. It was most singular that gesqlemen who deemed certain works to be of so dangerous stisrphorey that they ought to be suppressed, should yet give them the utfnost no. wriety by flibuclitg:them into their speeches in that house, and by quoting for thepublic the worst parts of them. Mr. O'CONNELL congratulated the hon. member for Dundalk (Gordon), on his new vocation of bellman-general to all low. blasphemous, and seditious publications. (Hear, and laughter). Yesterday he bad spared the Republican the trouble and expense of a month's advertising ; this day he had dons the same friendly office for The Prompter; and to-morrow, no doubt, would evince his biblical zeal in puf. Slug sane other worthless pamphlet. Mr. PAQET could not but complain of the—he would not hesitate to say—disgustiag discussion to which the hon. member for Dundalk had so indiscreetly given rise (hear, hear), as a most mischievous waste of the time of the house, and as such of the public. (Hear.) iVas it to listen to such not only profitless bet positively mischievous dis cussions, that country gentlemen like himself were obliged to forego their domestic avocation? (Hear.) It was a con. start complaint that the late hours to which the house generally rat were destructive of health and all mental and physical energy (loud ales of " Hear"); and yet but little bonaJhk public business was actually done, the time of the house being wasted, as this evening, with the most futile speechification. Nothing tended more to lower the character of the house in the eyes of the public than such discussions, and he trusted, therefore, there would be an end to them. (Cheers.) Mr. RICE agreed with the hon. member for Leicester shire, that those hours, which ought to be devoted to busi ness of Public moment, were too often wasted in profitless discussion like the present. The petition was then laid ea the table. lIIALY•YEAILLY RIXT CLADIE—RZTORM WILL. Mr. HUhIE wished to know from the hon. Secretary to the Treasury, there being no other member of the Govern ment present, whether it was the intention of Ministers to amend the clause imposing the necessity of rents being paid half. early , in order to vote under the reform bill (Hear.) As the clause stood, it had given rise to great public dis satisfactioo, requiring some explanation on the part of its framers. Mr. RICE, though not particularly conversant with the arrangements of the bill, could take it upon him to any that the clause alluded to by the hon. member for Mid dlesex would be amended (Hear, hear) and the inconve niences which had given rise to complaints out of doots re medied (Hear.) These inconveniences were consequent upon some technical defects in the wording of the bill, which would be commted in due time. (Bear.) Mr. AYSLIFORD SANFORD obtained leave to bring in a bill fat remedying defects in the dam to lands allotted of taken in exchange under enclosure sets. Mr. BENETT, in pursuance of his notice of moving certain resolutions on the state of the representation of the I borough of Liverpool, was proceeding to move the reading of the report presented on the 25th of March last by the committee appointed to decide on the return for the borough of Liverpool, when he was interrupted by Mr. JOHN WOOD, who moved that the house be counted. It being ascertained by the Sreattza that there were not forty members present, the house was adjourned till to-morrow. The SUFFERINGS of TABITHA JENKINSON. PRICE SEVENPENCE. I were Chancellor of the Exchequer I am confident that I could lay out the public money quite as well as the best man amongst them. But I'm devergin from my narrative. Ive told you how cute have been my sufferings,from the ajertating of theßeform Bill, but they are nothing when compared to those that have been afflicted upon me by the dread of Kollery Mobus. My dear M ra.D übbins,that higeous monster has swallowed up the Reform Bill, and Conomy, and lotrenchment, and Prince Leopard, and every thing else. I'm told that it was Kollery Mobus that made Sir Robert and his coadjutants so quiet on Friday night last, for the medicle men say that nothing is more likely to bring on the decease than violent infections of the mind, when there is any tendency towards it. If you recollect, it was hinted at the time when the King prerogued the last Parliament, that several noble Lords were very kollerick upon the occasion, but I heard an old gentleman say, that if they would but have taken Dr. Russell's opening mixture, it would not have happened to them. Oh, my dear Deborah, this Kollery Mobus! this Kollery Mobus ! Bless me ! there was a twinge of the stomach ! I hope I'm not going to be the first victum. Only think of your poor friend with a cord insanitary round her ; two squadrons of horse at her front door, and a regiment of infantry drawn up in her back yard—the Board of Health holding a sitting in the front parlour, and the College of Physicians in her bed-room. How dreadful to have a bull-o'-tin published every half hour to state that I've just I taken half a pound of kroasive supplement, or a couple of ounces of Ippecacku-any—or that I've just been anointed from head to foot with train oil, after having lost two quarts of the sanguinary flooid. Depend upon it that the first sufferers will have all manner of experiments tried upon them, for the comfort and satisfaction of people that have nothing the matter with them. Every Paper I take up puts me into a cold perspiration, for in every column the Kollery presents it se lf to my view. One editor tells us that it is likely to break out in St. Giles's—a very likely place indeed for a breaking out. Another comforts us a little by telling us that though people do catch it, and die by thousands, yet it is not infectious. One day we are informed that it has made its apperance in Dub lin, the next that the grim foreigner has taken lodgings in Glasgow ; and his arrival in this me- troppoius has been more than once denounced.— These reports have all been contradicted in the re gular way of business ; but they have had such an effect on me that I have not a moment's happiness. However, that I may not tempt Providence, I have had a little wicket made in the front door, and when any body knocks or rings, Betty opens it with a hop-pole about nine feet long, to prevent her being contaminated; and if the person has an unhealthy appearance, we incline all commu tation. I see that the decease is carried about in hides, so I've sent away all my bound books, which, as I am of a litterary turn, is a great punishment to me, and I have got in two pipes of the best white wine vinegar, for foo mification ; and as bakker is declared to be a per ventire I've learned to smoke, and I make the gals do the same, but I had a sad job to persuade Cook to take to it; and at last was obliged to bribe her with a couple of glasses of brandy a day, for she said no mortal soul upon earth could smoke without drinking. However at last they've all listened to reason, and every night after prayers I and the whole family smoke for a couple of hours. I told you that I sent away all my books, but there I was wrong, for no later than the day before yesterday, in a drawer between two flannel garments I found a book—yea a book bound in Russia leather ! Russia, my dear Dub, where the Kollery was born and bred. I screamed so voraciously that every soul in the house rushed into the department.— For some time nobody would touch the book, but at last Betty got the longest pair of tongs in the house, and with surprising resolution carried the book into the kitchen and burnt it to hashes, for which 1 blamed her, for the vapour which came from it was most defensive and alarming. The flannels were in like manner taken out, steeped in a half hogshead of vinegar, (which always stands behind the street door) and then buried six feet deep in the yard, but do you know, I fancy that a little rose tree near the spot begins to look very sickly. Oh Jiminy ! what a queer qualm's come over me ? and there's a shooting pain in my back ! I see by the glass that my eyes are quite yellow. I feel that I am swelling like a tub—my head swims—my hand trembles, and its all over with me. Adieu , my dear, dear Dubbins. Look in the next Essex Herald, and you will there see that Kollery Mobus, after conflicting unparalized suf ferings, has carried off your unhappy friend, TA BITHA JENKI NSO N. Deadman's Place, Bankable, London. _ P.S. —I open my letter to tell you that I am not no more. After I had wrote the above I fainted, and was found in that estate by Betty. She was afraid to touch me, but threw a couple of quarts of vinegar in my face. This survived me, and I am happy to say that my predisposition was only caused by my seegar being rather too strong, for I smoked all the time I was writing to you. But I fear my time will soon come. I've made my will, and have remembered you in a cod sole, as you will find when fishy ating at the funeral obstacles of your affectionate friend, Essex Herald. T. J. John Edwin Netterville, Esq. has presented a petition to his MAjesty, claiming the dormant pee4v: Netterville." With the approbation of the Law of the Crown, the same has been referred to be considered by a Commiuce of Privileges of the House of Lords. The following sums were collected on Sunday last, in the parish of Camberwell, Surrey, for the relief of the distressed Irish :—Old church, Rev. .1 G. Stork, Vicar, miming collection, 811; ditto, Rev. W. H. Lambert, Lecturer, afternoon collection, 471; HilLatreet chapel, Rev. Springett, morning collection, 441; Camden chapel, Rev. W. Melville, morning collection, 1511—total 3281. FARREN ON THE MORTALITIES AMONG THE BRITISH SOLDIERY.• We have been favoured by a perusal of extracts from this little work, which is dedicated by per mission to the King, and was presented to His Majesty, by the author, at the last levee. The book is not intended for general distribution, al though the subject is one of intense interest; and we are told by the introduction that the " object is to show the rates of mortality anion?' the sol diery of Great Britain, under the various influences to which they are exposed in the porforMance of their military duties." As the ravages of cholera are now exciting public attention, we will content ourselves with an extract from the chapter on India : "The rate of mortality among native troops in India is 1.43 ; among European troops at home, it is about 1 per cent. per annum ; exhibiting a superiority in favour of Indian life of about 5 to 4. " With the exception of cholera, the diseases of Indians and of Europeans at home appear not to differ materially in kind or in degree. Between the diseases of natives and of European soldiers in India, the only prominent distinction appears to rest on the three diseases, dysentery, cholera, and liver complaint. The fatal effect of dysentery is 26 times ; of liver complaint, 70 times ; and of cholera, twice as great among Europeans as among natives. Dysentery occasioned 35 per cent. , of the total deaths the. European troops; cholera 134 per cent. and liver complaint 11i per cent. " A comparison of the admissions or cases of sickness, with the deaths, gives a measure of the intensity of each disease. The intensity of diseases in general is nearly the same among European soldiers in India as it is among native troops. Out of 100 attacks, about 2i, or one out of every 37, are fatal. Among the native troops the virulence of cholera appears to have been invariable for three years ; but among the European troops its virulence has been diminishing. It would appear that the cholera which attacks Europeans is mi:der in its effects than the cholera which seizes the natives. For in the three years, out of every 11 cases of cholera three only terminated in death among Europeans, whilst five were fatal among the native troops. Of cases of dysentery, one out of 13 ter minates in death to European troops. " The numbers remaining in hospitals are given at the end of each four years, and afford the best I I means of determining the duration of sickness in India. From the four enumerations, the average number constantly in hospital was, of Europeans 1,093, and of native troops 2,500. Consequently the pr9portion of the living constantly sick was— of Europeans, 9i per cent. or one out of 11; and of natives, 31 per cent. or one out of 31." • Mr. Fovea is the Resident Director to the Alyluni Life Office. BATTLE OF V:ENNA. Sunday, the 12th of September, 1683, was the important day, " big with the fate " of Leopold, that was to decide whether the Turkish crescent was to wave on the turrets of Vienna. The can nonade on the city began at the break of day, for which 'purpose the vizier on his part had with drawn from his army the janizaries, ill his infantry, and nearly all his artillery. The light cavalry, the Spahis, the Tartars, and other irregular troops, were the forces destined to encounter the enemy ; so egregiously did Kara Mustapha miscalculate the strength of his opponents. They were cum mended by Ibrahim Pacha, who was regarded by the Turks as one of the greatest generals of the age; but unfortunately for them, he was one of those who disapproved of the war, and particular:) , the present plan of it. At eight in the morning there was some warm skirmishi•tg ; at eleven the Christian army was drawn up ia array in the plain ; and Kara Mustapha, beginning to apprehend that the allies were more formidable than he antici,eited, had changed his design, and came to command his troops in person. He was stationed in the centre, and Sobieski occupied the same situation in his army. It was nearly five in the evening, and the in gagement had only been partial, for Sobieski's in fantry had not come up, and the vizier was to be seen under a superb crimson to it, quie ly sipping coffee, while the king of Poland was before him. At length the infantry arrived, and Sobieski ordered them to seize an eminence, which commanded the vizier's position. The promptitude and gallantry with which this manoeuvre wai executed, decid.d the fate of the day. Kara Mustaph 1, taken by surprise at this unexpected attack, ordered all hi' infantry to his right wing, and the movement put all the line in confusion. The king cried out that they were lost men ; he ordered the Duke of Lor raine to attack the centre, which was now exposed and weakened, while he himself made his way through the confused Turks straight for the vizier's tent. • He was instantly recognized by the streamers which adorned the lances of Isis guard ;—" By Allah !" exclaimed the Chain of the Tartars, " the king is with them !" An eclipse of the moon added to the consternation of the superstitious Moslems. At this moment the Polish cavalry made a grand charge, and at the same time, the Duke of Lorraine with his troops added to the confusion; and the rout became gene ral. The Vizier in vain tried to rally tem. " And you ;" said he to the Cham of the Tartars, who passed him among the fugitives—" cannot you help me ?" " I know the king of Poland !" was the answer. " I told you that if we had to deal with him, all we could do would be to run away. Look at the sky, see if God is not against us.' The immense Turkish army was wholly broken up, and Vienna was saved. So sadden and general was the panic among the Turks, that by six o'clock Sobieski had taken pos session of their camp. One of the Vizier's stir nips, finely enamelled, was brought to him.— " Take this stirrup," said he, " to the queen, and tell her, that the person to whom it belonged is de feated." Having strictly forbidden his soldiers from plundering, they rested under the Turkish tents. Such were the events of the famous deliverance of Vienna, as they were seen by the looker-on ; and the outline of the narrative is filled up by one who was the best informed, and not the least im partial, no less than the grept hero himself. " The victory lies been so sudden and extraordinary," I e writes trk u tlie queen, " that the city, as well as the camp, was in continual alarm, expecting to Fee the enemy return every moment. . . . Night put an end to the pursuit, and besides, the Turks I'e_ fended themselves aHi fury (acharnement) in tin it flight.. . . All the troops have done their duty well; they attribute the victory to God and us. I i IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. -- HOUSE OF LORDS—JowI 99. The Committee of Privileges assembled soon after twelve o'clock, when the claims of Viscount Southwell and of Vis count Gonnanston to vote at elections of Peers for Ireland, were considered. The Lovat claim of peerage was also considers& Trower's divorce bill was read a second time. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The house met at four o'Clock. Several private bills were read a first and second time. Mr. Ald. WOOD brought in a bill to prevent the spread ing of canine madness. Read a first time, to be read a se cond time as ?Way nest, mid ieb.pdisted. STE'WART pentsated several petitions from Renfrewshire, In favour of the reform bilL Mr. SEVERN presented a petition from Fowey, in Corn wall, against the tax on marine insurance. Mr. WILBRAHAM presented a petition from inhabit ants of Macclesfield, respecting the working of children in manufactories. The honouroble member alluded to the bill which had been brought forward on this subject in the last Parliament by the hon. member foe Westminster, and (as we understood) expressed a hope that that bill would be re vived In the present Parliament. Mr. HARVEY moved for various returns of informa tions filed, and other proceedings taken, against trustees of public charities, and the result of the same.--Ordered. Mr. PROTHEROE moved fora return of the sums of money in the hands of the corporation of Bristol for chards ale purposes, stating how much of those sums had not been distributed, together with the reasons for such non-distribu. don. Mr. HU MS suggested that the return ought to be general, and not confined to the commotion of Bristol, Mr. PROTHBROIC had no objection to make it general, but he did not think it necessary. After a few words from Mr. S. RICE, Mr. Hums, Mr. HARYZY, and Other; Mr. PROT/1110Z withdrew his mo tion. Mr. HUME moved that there be laid before the boom an estimate of the expense to be incurred under the Waterloo new street bill, distinguishing that which would be incurred by the public and by private parties.—Ordered. Mr. O'CONNELL said, that as the present Government did not think fit to do that which it had bees the intention of the late Government to do—namely, to place the jury system in Ireland on the same footing that it was in this country,—he begged to give notice that upon the 10th of July he would move for leave to bring in a bill to consoli date the laws relating to juries and jurors in Ireland. He also begged to give notice, that on the 26th of July Its would move for leave to bring in a bill to enable defendants prose cuted for libel to put in evidence of the truth of it. Mr. O'CONNELL presented petitions from the govern ors of the St. Patrick's Free Schools, Kingstown, and from the Roman Catholics of the parish of St. Katherine, in the city of Dublin, complaining of the misappropriation of the education funds intrusted to the Kildare-place society. Mr. HUMS, referring to an estimate amounting to 39,0001. odd, which had been laid on the table, for Scotch law expenses for the ensuing year, moved that there be laid before the house copies of the secants rendered by the sheriffs and stewards of Scotland to the Court of Exchequer, of their receipts and disbursements, distinguishing them under their several heads, in the year 18110; copies of the expenses of the criminal prosecutions carried on in the name of the Lord Advocate during the same period, &c. Albs a Sao wants 6101111 Abe lioes Ahriecams, M. IL Rica, and Mr. Getman ax, the return was ordered. Mr. HUDIE presented a petition from the coal-whippers, praying for a remuneration of the losses they would sustain under the new arrangements for coal meting. After a few words from Mr. SADLER and Mr. F. Ulm, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. I , IIOIIECUTIONI FOR LIBELS. Mr. HUME said, that he rose to present a petition against the continuance of the Six Acts ; and in reference to what had been said on the preceding evening respecting blasphemous and seditious writings being issued from the enemy's camp, he should now inform the house that articles in the '• Republican" were from the pen of a Mr. Lorimer. who was no radical, but one of the enemy. (Hear, hear.) During the seven years that a right hon. baronet (Sir R. Peel) was Secretary of State, not less than eighteen indi viduals were confined in various gaols, from a period of six months to three years, under sentences of libel ; and now the house had heard the right hon. baronet confess that prosecu tions of this nature were prejudicial, and ought to be avoided, and that things should be allowed to find their own level. He was of opinion that the Six Acts ought to be erased from the statute book. Sir H. HARDINGE wished the honourable member for Middlesex to say whether he meant to declare that Mr. Lorimer, in the Republican, supported opinions diametri cally opposite to those which he really entertained. If this were the case, he should say that no punishment which the law could inflict for libel could be too heavy for such con duct. (Hear.) Mr. HUME would satisfy the gallant member at once. He would give him Mr. Lorimer's address, and he might call and ask him himself. (Continued laughter.) He hoped that the government would prosecute authors, and not poor printers. Sir H. HARDINGE thought the hon. member was backing out of his case. He had said that this Mr. Lorimer was the writer of the Republican, and one of the enemy's camp, and by which expression, if he meant any thing, he meant that Mr. Lorimer was connected with that party in the house which was adverse to what the hon. member for Middlesex was pleased to call liberal opinions. Mr. HU ME had only said that he had a strong suspicion. (Cries of No, no.") Mr. HUM r..-IVell, then, what he had said was, that Mr. Lorimer did come from the enemy' s camp (che ers);: and if the gallant member considered himself to be one of the enemy's camp, this Mr. Lorimer came from thence. Mr. ROSS thought the hon. member ought to be able to prove wbat he bad said. Captain GORDON thought that the Republican and si milar publications were not the writings of one man, so much as the organs of a general united body. lie woul d read let ters from the hon. member for Middlesex to the Political Union Society of Glasgow, in which he said that " reading. rooms should be established by the Union,—that newspa pers should be generally read (cheers), and that those who had suffiages would know how to exercise them, whilst those who were to acquire the franchise by the new bill, would learn what representatives to vote for." Now he would tell the house that this Union Society assumed as the basis of their principles the rights of man—rights which he would maintain were subversive of the British constitution. (Hear.) Mr. HUME said, that the hon. member had read only that part of his letter which suited Isis purpose. The right of suffrage had been refused to the people, on the ground that they were too ignorant to use it, and he had advised the people to have reading.rooms, and to select every newspaper and book that could give them proper notions of the duties of electors and representatives. He challenged the hon.' merhher to show that he had used any such words as the " rights of man." The hon. member had made use of the . term only to avail himself of old associations. Captain G Olt DON explained. Sir CHARLES ‘VE'PHEItELL hAil in his hand a number of the "Republican," which commenced in the following manner :—" The sovcrelinsty of the people : Saturday, June 18, 1831 ;" and again, "the sovereignty of the people, year of the people one." (Laughter.) l Nbi if he bad had such a publication imputed to him, he should feel very sensitive under the imputation. But the publication went on to say—" as a temporary relief of the podr aid Stile, 1 propose the cohtilteatlon of whin is called church property, and till a proportion of it can be given for the maintenance of the poor, you must submit to a tax of the nature of the English poor rates." Now what had the hon. member for Middlesex said in that hoase, but that church property was at any time resumeable by lar- ADDRESSED TO MRS. DEBORAH DUQBINS , AT CHELMSFORD. DEar. DEBBY DUB, Some time ago you entailed the dreadful state of alarm you was in about electioneering matters in your part of the country, and when you suppressed your fears that the Reformers and the Anti-Re formers being so angry with one another there would be serious disturbances at the beatings, I deeply anticipated in your feelings, as you unfolded your horful tail. But now I have a tail to unfold, which calls for your tenderest symphony. You know what a quandary I have been in for several months about the ferocious Bill, as it was called by Sir Charles, that noble champion of the Statues of the Ream. Every night when I went to bed, I expected, that before morning a resurrection would break out ; and when I fell into the arms of Orpheus, l dreamed of nothing but soldiers and populouses, and cannon balls, and brick brat.. Often have I, in hairy vishuns, beheld the pieceful sectary of my house invaded, and my mahogny chores and tables earled out of my antic windows by an aspirated mob upon cores of mili tary, indurated to madness. Really I heard so much about the Church being in danger, that I've almost been afraid to go to Chapel, and the suf ferings which 1 have undergone, have worn me down to a mere hatomy. I don't know what the Reform Bill will do the Constitution of the Um pire, but I know it has made such renovations upon mine, that Dr. Squill tells me my stammer er's much injured, and that I am in great danger of falling into a preliminary infection, which you know is a decease of the lungs, and is sure to end in an assumption. And after all, what is the Re form that all this fuss has been made about ? If they meant that there , should be a fair repre sentation of the people, why should not the fair sex send Members to Parliament ? All that the litigators do that I can see, is to make long speech es, and if we cant beat em at that, the Douce is in it. There's many things that women would do that would be quite as useful to the country as any thing that was carried in the last Session of Par liament; for all they did in it was to quarrel and call one another names. Now if I was Membress for Chelmsford, or any other place, I'd bring in a bill to prevent the increase of Old Bachelors, which would give the highest satisfaction to many a flour, who now is _ born to blush unseen ! And waste her sweetness on the desert hair. Next•l would move fora law, making it a Capital' offence without benefit of clergy, for. any man to break a promise of marriage. The duty on tea should be taken off; and it should go hard if we did not soon contain a Bill to establish the Rites of Women, which the men folk now pervade with per fect importunity. Vhu'e so fit to be Secretary of State for the Home Department as a woman ? and if,