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morsel of bread for his starving child, he was brought up for punish- 

 ment. A month at the tread-mill was instantly awarded to him, as a 

 matter of course, and his child was dismissed from the office. In vain 

 did the poor destitute girl inquire whither she was to go. She was told 

 to go home! and this unhappy young creature was actually taken from 

 her father he guilty of no crime but poverty and thrust, a friendless 

 outcast and a beggar, into the streets of London ! :-jj fi q j 



Gracious God ! do we live in a Christian land, or in a den of thieves? 

 Ought we to credit our senses, when we are told that men, who are 

 placed and paid to protect innocence, and prevent crime, should be the 

 oppressors of the one, and the chief supporters of the other ? Where 

 are the members of the various Christian communities, who yearly ex- 

 pend thousands for some imaginary good ? Where are the Pharisees, 

 that wander up and down our great city, smiting their breasts, and 

 calling on the Lord to witness their devotion to His cause ? Where are 

 they, we would ask, to suffer such scenes to pass under their very eyes, 

 without rebuke that can allow destitution to sit at their very threshold, 

 and not extend the hand of charity? We could point out a shorter way 

 to the object these philanthropists profess to have in view. Let them be 

 on the watch for such objects as we have pointed out. A word of com- 

 fort to the heart-broken a loaf of bread to the starving will open the 

 hearts to impressions which they might vainly endeavour to make, by 

 all the Pharisaical and affected displays of oratory, that ever congregated 

 idlers and pickpockets at Cold- Bath-Fields or Charing-Cross. 



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 THE WISE MEN OF THE EAST ! It appears that a certain squad of 

 worthies have congregated themselves together in the City, to devise 

 the best means, at this critical time, of embarrassing his Majesty's Mi- 

 nisters. The occupation is worthy of the men ; and a notable expedient 

 have they hit upon nothing less than petitioning the King to stay the 

 war ! It reminds us of a sick lady screaming out to a captain to stop 

 the ship! Really these lost, unhappy Tories, will shortly excite the 

 compassion, even of their opponents* .jfol-rt - 



Who begun the war ? Was it not the chiefs of a party, which has 

 now dwindled down into this poor specimen of a lost, broken-down, de- 

 spised, and beggarly faction ? What is the history of the war? Every 

 one knows in what manner we were pledged by our Tory masters, in 

 concert with the despots of Europe, to oblige the Dutch and the Bel- 

 gians to certain conditions ; and every one is likewise aware, that the 

 King of Holland pledged himself to abide by them. And what is the 

 result? Why, that the Dutch King had been playing with us the 

 whole time. He never intended to give up Antwerp, nor Be]gium nei- 

 ther ; and only awaits the death of the Prussian King, which is daily 

 expected to set us all at defiance ! What then remains for us to do, 

 but to finish, as well and as speedily as possible, what has been badly 

 begun ? Were the measures of the party to which these men belong, 

 in vogue in our day, every man of them would be hung in chains, or 

 transported. Were the bloody days of Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and 

 others, to be revived, this very night, instead of hatching plots by their 

 own fire-sides, would they be in Newgate ! and with much more justice 

 than were poor Holcroft, Hardy, andtheir companions, dragged from 

 their homes to prison, and made to undergo that terrible ordeal, which, 



