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70 rsz BDITOtt OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

LETTER. 1.-ON POLITICAL LYIN6.

Sts—The art of political lying was brought to
Maturity in this minty, during the Popish plot. It
was praaised afterwards, with great success, in the
pions days of Queen Anne; and rules and directions
fer it were given by Dr. Swift, who, after great
praftice in the arteduring her reign, retired in disgust
to Iseland, at her death, and there published to the
world, the mysteries of his craft. After an obscure
existence under the two first Princes of the House of
Prenswick, political lying has been lately revived
wish peat applause, and it has been since praised
on many occasions with extraordinary cilia. Two
curious and perfea specimens of the art have been
lately put into my hands, from which, with your
p.ortsiss:,.ii, I shall now and then trouble you won
extralts, accompanied by short notes, to illustrate
end po:,t ‘ut the excellence to which my authors
have attained, in the prattice rf their art. One
of these spcomens is called, A Protestant's Let-
ters," and it is certainly a master-piece of its
kind; for the Author never copies from others, nor
stumbles by accident upon his lies, but always
invents them on purpose ; and having access to the
very best sources of information, he thews his de-
entien and real attachment to his art, by constant-
ly seleaing, for hislie. that which he knows to be most
direaly opposite to the truth. My other specimen,
called, 's Plain FAN; or. A Review of the Condutt
of the late Ministers," is the work of an inferior
hand, a mere copyist, without intention; a sort of
a Mrs. Carrefeer, whn never ventures beyond inn.
hooting a lie of her own, bat goes about retailing
the lies of her friend Sir Bee/mews Backbite. My
tepees shall be made iadiderently from one or
other of these performances, as l consider them to
be produaions Ist the sax ie lewd, and calculated
fur the same etre&

The Fracas/et tells us gravely, " that the
lest point submitted to His Majesty was the m re
extension of the hush Bdl of 1795, to this
kingdom ;'• and to give weight to his assertion,
he boasts 'in the same letter of having "had ac-
cess to the rui,-inal soureesof the truth." that is. to
t!'• psivate Minutes which passed between the King
and his late Ministers, on the subjea of the Catholic
ICH. How the Protestant got access to these Mi-
nutes, before His Majnty had given permission to
his late Ministers to employ them in their own virs-
ni:ation against the lie, and calumnies of this very
Protestant, remains to this day unexplained.
Whether the Pittie-tant was then 'Sr is now a
l'Avy Counsellor, or whether he got a sight of
thoor papirs from some Privy Counsellor, whose
placed him, in hie own conceit, above vulgar
ointslity, or whose conscience, though tender in
yoblic, has no objtlioit to secret sinning, I shall
• t hut thit use which he made of them
is cut i..u.„ and shews strongly his prediledion for,
:al progress in, his favourite tut. He found that the
• procrssition made to Majesty, by his late see-
n rats, on the suhje-t of the Catholics, was to obtain
actons pertn-bion to insert a chute in the
emitiihmt, him to miter amp imitit•ry ecPm-
..;iaio.. so airy ?f his lase pm*da ; but this pare-
Era.ih would ot it answer our Protestant's ends, he
iitrerously (lunged istisi adapted it to h• s purpine,
by roundly asserting, that the/est pbiwt crAmisttrei to
Mt Al 2.Pcfm leo a twee estemsao• of tie !rise dB
•f 1793, L, Alp Kimgclo.n. ; and finding his I; oil
credlied by Cl.94yinen and other rsuredable per-
sonages, he has gone on repeating the SAW he in
all his subsequent puhlications.
If this specimen in political lying does not satisfy
Yon of try torthcr's pie ficieney in Lis art. I shad
termites you with another specs.isca toioscrrow.

Lett', !.

VERAX.
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G*AND JILVCTION CdNAL.

Yetterday. the Annual Meeting of the P....pie -
tors of the Grind Junction Company took place at
the Crown and Anchor l'tvern in the Strand.

William Praest, Esq hAng called to the Chair,
Mr Harvey, the Superintendant of the Company's
affairs, read a general statement of the work+ and
concerns of the Cola, from which it appeared, that
the gro,s receipts for tonnage, during the last half
year, have been as follows, tra
t• roes the trent Now. to 31st Dee. 11% L MOSS 9
January, IS' 7 7.391 6
Folouary . 6,699 16
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March b,3J4 119
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APiii 7,410 3
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L. •6,683 7

After some disco ;sion respeding the appropriation
of further snms to the Sinking Fund of the Com-
pany. it was agreed to leave the same as it stood
since the last Meeting, and t dividend of one and an
half per cent. was declared (exclusive of the Pi c-
perty Tar) to take pl4ce in July next. On the
whole, the affairs of the Comp.my .eemed in that
prosperous state, as to give general satisfaction to
the Proprietors present.
The Minutes of the proceedings of the Com.
mines wire read, and apptnve I, and the Proprietors
present proceeded to the election of the General and
Distritt Committees for the year ensuing. In the
General Committee no alteration !!as taken Ogee,
except the elettion of Henry Bonham. Esq. in the
room of Sir K. J. Sullivan, dece.ned. Some few
additions were made to the lists of the Distritt Com-
mittees.

About four o'clock :leer 60 persons sat down to
an excellent dinner Vs'iiiiam PI aed, Esq. in the Chair.
After The King.Tb Queen and Royal bannily, the usual
routine of toa;is c::•.A round. a^.l great conviviality
prevailed. among the corn.. a.ey we noticed the
Eti 1 of Briagewater, Sir Hugh Inglis, and several
known charaCters.

B4rnn REH uses, the Swedish Arohlosador, will
nit le ive tnwn so soon as has been ..x7efled is
likelf tr) continuo for some time )11 vor in this
mintry

When the Di altede left M,..• VI it was not
intended to wrens's" '4lsen ,s ••• ,i 1 the army
was temtorced. Sir S .411C1. .I,:c a fury has taken
the hest measures, hoth I),s ..wn s,..enrity, and
to prevent the country f. Qivingeffici-ut succour
to Buenos Ayres, w.)enever that plaec should he
attacked. A iris the 9th Dragoons, part
of General Ca A u rue o's F.xpedition, had arrived at
Monte-Video ; she s lard again to j)in the expe-
dition.

Thursday last Q 7 sail of transports, having on
board the 13th an 1 26th (C.imeroni4n) regimenth,
under convoy of its MAJtST v's sloop Stnata, of
18 guns. Capt. it. CATticA RT. and the Wrahgle,
gun-brig, Lieut. J. B Pet ET, arrived in the Cove
from Pnetirnnuth, and disembarked.

The Rev Wu. Gvituair has been appointed to
the reflory of St. Clement's Danes, Strand, which
is in the gift of the Executors of the late Marquis of
EXETER ; who had desired, sell a vacancy
occurred, it should bs filled by this. m• ist rsspe&ab4
gentleman, who has 6 r six years preached at the
Free Chapel in West•street, without any emolu-
ment.

On Thursday last, the LORD LILIIITV4ANT and
the Duchess of RicliedoNo, returned hom the Vice-
regal 1.0 Igc, in the Phasnix-park, to dinner, at
Dublin Cestle, in consetmencst of the Drawing-
room who, 1• was held in the evening. On Friday
they attended a public breakfast at the Rotunda ;
and. on Saturday, were to honour the Theatre with
their presence, to see The limey Moe. and Of Art
To-morrow.

The Treasury Journalists ought not to express
any surprise, much less discontent, at the delay of
the long-predicted expeditions. It is in petted
*conformity with the uniform practice of their fa•
vourites, and not at all inconsistent with the een-
awes so lavishly bestowed en the inactivity of the
late Administration. "rhe present Ministers very
naturally wait for the fall of Dantzick, and the
commencement of winter. They are too magna-
niaums to take the advantage of seasons, and of
win.ls, and too generous to make their expeditions
against an enemy who is otherwise employed.—
Their pol z; is to be regulated by the glorious
example of the campaigns of Hanover, Holland,
and Naples, and their measures on this, as well
as on all other occasions, to be submitted to the
great wisdom and sagacity of Lord Mat.vita.s.
They bl tined the late Ministry for not sending troops
to the Vistula. when the French were marching
towards the Elbe ; and they will deserve to incur a
similar mosaic it, in case of a defeat in Poland, there
are no troops at Archangel and in Lamschatkas by
the beginning of next Uemmber.
We are told that the people of Ergland are jea-
lous of any infringement of their Soveastotes prero-
gative ; we wish it were so ; for in that cue they
would not tolerate, day after day, and week after
week, the d:igusting and mischievous libels on his
first and greatest pr:rogative, viz That he can
do no wrong." To ;way any public VI. by the
pe-smal opinion, sarflioo, or authotity, is
to imply, that none bat the Km) is responsible for
it. An inference, abhorrent to our Constitution,
and alike dangerous to the Crown and to the People.
lie who ir, defence of any measure alleges, that in
censuring it we shall censure His hIAJtSTY. fur-
nishes the enemies of monarchy with a pretext for
violating the sac' cd person of the Lino, and sup-
plies the enemies of freedom with a contrivance for
ilielteting public servants from responsiSility, and
public delinquents from inquiry and punisliment.
We beg leave to refer oar readers to the speech
of Lord HAWICILSUR T. at the opening of the late
Parliament. We think his indignation at the disso•
lotion of a Parliament more than four years old,
a.sd after the regular close of a Setsion, vet; neither
called for by the circumstances, nor justified by the
arguments he employed ; but his Lordship only
anticipated the present state of the country; and
wnen his observations are applied to a dissolution
its the midst of the first Session of a Parliament,
which bad lasted about as many months as the other
had years, his conclusions are irtetragable. and his
indignation will. we trust, be felt by a large ma-
i bt it v ul Cul. itlyikivttirr I r