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palm of triumph in so rude a contest would rest, on the enumeration 

 of the trophies, by a large majority with ourselves. 



If the Comte Achille de Jouffroy is at all acquainted with the 

 periodical literature of England, he must know that we are not 

 tenaciously averse from the exposure of our faults. A thousand 

 points, in all our systems, are assailed in quarterly, in monthly, and 

 diurnal publications. We consider with good temper every specula- 

 tion offered to a public studious of improvement ; a public, labouring, 

 by honest and ingenious means, to lighten the incumbrances imposed 

 on it, by one great system of exalted magnanimity, morality, and 

 foresight. England is too grand, too opulent, too wise, too proud, 

 to heed the envy of the malignant, or the invective of a pctit-maitre. 



We cordially exchange " adieux" with Count Achille de Jouffroy, 

 and strongly recommend him, in his next production on a foreign 

 country, to reform his plan. Pope thought 



" A lie in verse or prose the same ;" 



and so do we. In conclusion, we seriously admonish Count Achilles, 

 that though the ribaldry and falsehood of assertions, purporting to be 

 authentic, may variously affect the gravity or laughter of a reader, 

 they are awkward weapons in the best of hands, and never failed to 

 gain their silly author a well-proportioned quantum of contempt. 



BLACK-GUARDS, 



(FROM MISS SHERIDAN'S ANNUAL.) 



