1201.] 
“¢ Love, Honor and Truth.” 
A favorite Song, 
compofed by Samuel Webbe. 
Price Is. 
Hodjoll. 
This pleafing little ballad confifts of two 
verfes, to both which the mufic is repeated. 
An adaptation for the guitar is added, 
and the voice«part forms an eligible exer- 
cife for the forte-piano. j 
66 O Ged, Thou art My God!” A favourite 
Anthem, for Two, Three and Four Voices. 
Compofed by Wm. Baldwin, Efq. and adapted 
for the Organ or Piano-forte, Price 2s. 6d, 
Goulding, Phipps and D? Almaine. 
This anthem confifts of ten movements, 
mot of which are of a pleafing caft, and 
ealy and familiar to the voice. We can- 
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not pretend to difcover any marks of deep 
fcience, but an eafy flow of fancy pervades 
the melody, and renders it an agreeable 
Sunday companion. 
No. XVI. of Seleé. Songs, fet to Mufic by 
F. B. Adams; or, %* Let the Thrufh Awake 
my Lowe,” a Valentine.  Inferibed to Lis 
Rogers. Price 2s. Skillern. 
The ftyle of this fong is fimple and 
pleafing ; we cannot fay that it exhibits 
any extraordinary traits either of origina - 
lity or feience; the melody, however, 
flows with eafe and fmoothnefs, and the 
general effect is far from difereditable to 
the compofer. 
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7 HE new impof which Mr. Pitt has 
{ laid upon paper, added to the late 
extraordinary advance in its price, will 
amount very nearly to a prohibition of its 
ufe, and ftop almoft altogether the publi- 
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and the feculations which are encouraged 
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ten fhillings in the ream, within che lat 
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upon this article, and adding to the con- 
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moft oppreflive and ruinous tax willoccafion 
a lefs revenue tobederived from paper than 
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if the advance in the price of paper does 
not interrupt the execution of all confide- 
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have it in contemplation to republifh Dr. 
Johnfon’s edition of the Englifh Poets, 
and include all the early and the Jate poets. 
They are to publith a magnificent edie 
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