Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature—Politics, ic. 
would be more becoming to conceal. It 
ought not to be forgotten, however, that 
the oppofers of the treaty of Amiens in 
both houfes of parliament were almoft all 
engaged in the management of the laft war: 
had the war been Conducted with more 
ability and fuccefs, the terms of the treaty 
would have been more favourable: thele 
perfons exclaim again{t the terms, there- 
fore, becaule thofe terms refleét difhonour 
tipon themfelves, and not becaule, the fitua- 
tion of both countries confidered, they were 
not fo favourable as we had a right to ob- 
tain. ‘The treaty of Amiens is not to be 
eftimated by comparing it with former 
treaties: when the war commenced, Eng- 
land cosle‘ced with almoft all the powers 
“of Europe againft France; in the courfe 
of the war, France became complete mif- 
trefs of the continent, and at the conciu- 
fion of it almoft all the powers of Europe 
had coalefced with: her againft Engiand ! 
Under fuch circumftances what other terms 
than thofe which we:e obtained had we any — 
reafon to expect? ‘I‘he terms, however, 
having ever been acceded to, fhould be in- 
violably adhered to: the high honour of 
the nation is implicated : whatever are the 
confequences which refult, let that remain 
for ever fpotlefs and unfullied ! 
Several pamphlets have appeared on the 
firft contefted eleftion at Nottingham : 
fubjes of local controverly have fo little 
general intereft that it is unneceffary to 
‘enumerate the Nottingham pamphlets in 
th's place. We fhould have paffed them 
over entirely, but that it is of importance 
that the poifon fhould not be diffufed more 
widely than the antidote. John Bowles, 
efq. in a pamphlet which he publifned 
fome time ago, in order to fhew the pro- 
grefs of Jacobinifm in this country had 
mifreprefented the proceffion which took 
place at the election: he had roundly af- 
ferted in his ** Thoughts on the late Ge- 
neral EleGicn,’ that ‘* the Jacobinical 
mob,” as he terms, with his accuftomed 
regard ro decency and decorum, the friends 
of Mr. Birch, publicly celebrated their 
triumph, by difplaying the tree of liberty, 
d the French tri-coloured flag ; by fing- 
ing the revolutionary fongs ‘* Millions be 
Fiee,”’ and the Marfeillois stymn; by vent- 
ing the moft terrible imprecations againtt 
their orn and by a at flion in the 
true ftyle of Gadic Jacebinilm, in which a 
female, oe ing the Goddels of Rea- 
fon, in a fkate of entire nudity, was-2-con- 
fpicucus figure.’’? As Mr. Bawles had the 
confidence to lend his name to this f{ean- 
dalous ffory, there were perfons who af- 
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fe&ted at leaft to believe it. Mr. Davi- 
fon, a gentleman of high relpectability and 
talent, zealous for the honour of his bro- 
ther electors, has publicly caftigated the 
calumniator, in 6 Tez Letters addrefed 
to Mr. Maddock, of Nottingham? in a 
“¢ Letter,” addreffed to Mr. Bowles for 
the purpofe of expofihg the faifhood of his 
afperfions. When Mr. Bowles was in- 
formed, firft in a private manner, that he 
had afperfed the eleQors of Nottingham, 
he replied that he was pofitively affured 
the Birch-tree was meant to reprefent the 
tree of liberty—that if there was not a wo- 
man eatirely naked in the proceflion, there 
was one drefled in Aefh-colour—that the 
twenty-four women, inftead of being the 
fifters and wives of vot.rs, were common 
proftitutes—that many of the men in the 
proceffion had the French cockade in their 
hats, and that the chair was decorated with 
the fame colours—that the corporation- 
bard played revolutionary fongs, which 
were fune by the moh, with variations in- 
dicating a total abhorrence of kings!!! 
Thele pitiful fubterfuges avail nothing : : 
for Mr. Davifon afferts, in the mo reer 
manner, that the ftory of a woman’s ap- 
pearance in flefh colour is as fall2 as the 
ftory of her appearance in a {tate of nudity; 
the twenty-four females were not the com- 
mon proftitutes which Mr. Bowles has de- 
{cribed them, but relatives of electors, 
who participated with them in the exul- 
tation naturally attendant on eleStioneering 
fuccefs. Mr. Davifon fays, in plain terms, 
at is falfe that any tree or bough, denomi- 
nated the tree of liberty, was carried in the 
proceftion: 2 is falje.that the French 
cockade was worn: 7f is falfe that Mr. 
Birch’s chair was decorated with the fame 
colours: 7/75 fale that any revolutionary 
airs were fung or played: and at is falfe 
that any expreffion was uled during the 
proceffion which indicated the finalleft dif- 
refpeét, much lefs a ‘ total abhorrence’ 
of kings. With the ignominy of thele 
falfehaods on his head we leave the inven- 
tors and propagators to their meditations. 
Mr. Ore has publifhed two pamphlets, 
one ‘6 Ox the Importance of Malta to 
Great Britain asa Naval and Military 
Station,’ and the other on the * Cefion 
of Louzjana to the Freach.” 
Great Britain rerains Malta, and Loui- 
fiana is ceded to America. 
“© Authentic Oficial Documents relative 
to the Negotiation with France, capied 
from the Original, as laid before both 
FHoufes of Parliament.” 
Of this curious colle&tion of Papers we 
AK have 
