96 Zetter from Arcticus. . Nov. 21. 
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‘GENERAL CRITIQUE BY ARCTICUS, ON THE EDITOR, 
y AND WRITERS IN THE LAST SIX VOLUMES OF THE 
BEE. 
Such a generous glow of honest friendthip and undifsembled patriotism, 
runs through the following letter, which criticises with equal freedom 
and good humour, the supposed errors of the Editor, and some of 
his correspondents, that he cannot insert it without exprefsing the grate- 
ful sense he entertains of the obligations-he lies under to the writer of 
it. Whether the author be at all times’ just in his strictures, he does 
not pretend to say. Every reader is intitled to judge for himself in tha, 
respect; but as it gives a picture of the general mode of thinking of 
Britih subjects abroad, on Britith affairs, he fhould think himself te 
blame, if he either concealed, seftencd, or altered a single article in the 
whole, 
Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
As I took the liberty of informing you of the ge- 
neral remarks made on the Bee at its first appear- | 
ance in Rufsia, I will with the same franknefs tell 
you those of today. You may probably have re- 
marked the enthusiastic veneration of most Britons 
-for their happy constitution, who have lived long 
abroad in any country of the world, by comparing 
and contrasting it with those of other nations ; J] mean 
practical observations on the different effects of go- 
vernments, on the liberty, property, and happinefs 
of the human species, not the theoretic ravings of soz 
disant philosophers, of what ours or other consti- 
- tutions /hould be. Now to this trait of human nature 
I'impute the displeasure my friends exprefs, at se- 
veral bilious papers in the Bee, evidently wrote by 
discontented men, whe would not be displeased .at 
