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Fortius et melius Magnas plerumque ncctit res 

 Ridiculum acri. 



Ha : ha '. cried old Begby, and grinned so broad. 

 His tone and his phiz seem'd so new and so odd. 

 All his dons were astonidi'd — struck dumb with surprise, 

 They hung on his lips, and decypher'd his eyes. 

 Ha '. ha '. my good fellows, he roars out anew. 

 Our vicegerents on earth leave us little to do. 

 These flelb and blood demons have learned so well 

 The art of our calling, they laugh at our hell. 

 %Ve believe, and we tremble, but so do not they '. 

 How royally they keep the dominical day \ 

 Their own bniuan magnum I'll hang round their neck. 

 So I dub them my kights, {sic subscribitur) Nick. 

 Given in council, at our palace of Pandemonium, and in the year of 

 our infernal reign 5795- 



D. W. narrates a story that has been too often realised, of a girl 

 ■srhose name was Susan, whose parents from affluent circumstances 

 were sunk into poverty by inevitable lofses ; and whose father after 

 some innefectual efforts to reinstall his affairs, sunk under a load of 

 affliction and died. His destitute family were then reduced to the 

 necefsity to go into sj ice. Susan was received into the house of a 

 master, who behaved at fi.-st with tendernefs lo her, which by an 

 afsumed sympathy on , .s pari, engendered gratitude on hers ; and he, 

 taking advantage f these c. cumstances seduced and ruined her. 



The story has been coo cf. repeated to prove new to any of our 

 readers; and the moral observations though just, and dictated by a be- 

 iievolent mind, have bee so onv. made before, that it is unnecefsary 

 to repeat them. It is be regretted that the general destestation of 

 mankind fliould not be so strongly excited by such meannefs and bru- 

 tality of conduct, as to make men who have been guilty of it, uni- 

 versally detested and fliunned as public disturbers of the peace of 

 society. Till this fhall happen, moral reflections on this crime, will 

 produce little effect. It would afford .1 good object of disquisition for 

 some of our ingenious correspondents to discover the reason w.iy this 

 crime is so little the object of public detestation in civilised nations, 

 as it is found universally to be. 



A very respectable correspondent, who signs himself Humanitas, 

 has taken the trouble to transcribe a very long extract from Mr 

 Clfsrkson's book on slavery, giving some fliocking instances of cruelty 

 to negro slaves, which could not be inserted at the time it was recei- 

 ved Irom want of room, and other considerations ; and on which if 

 wjuld be unnecefsary at present to enlarge. ^It is much to be regret-. 



