-1809.] 
racter, intended for the ordinary opera- 
tion of tittle-tattle dissection. : 
Our town is prettily situated in a fer- 
tile and beautiful country, and is much 
resorted to by travellers. Mr. Windeatt 
bas, therefore, not wasted his antiqua- 
rian knowledge and powers of descrip- 
tion upon an unworthy object. 
not been dressing up a doll. We have, 
thank God, nothing to complain of, but 
that our place happens to be the 
seat of a corporation, which is occa- 
sionally the cause of much bickering. 
Your anonymous Correspondent: has in- 
telligibly, but cautiously, charged the 
members of this public nuisance with the 
guilt of mi isapplying the funds of several 
eleemosy nary donations, and has endea- 
voured to throw a reflection upon the 
whole town in consequence ; whereas, in 
trath,, such charges can only apply, if 
they do apply at all, to those who par- 
take of the loaves and fishes of the char- 
ter; and they, from tolerably obvious 
reasons, are very few indeed, If many 
were allowed to be gnalified to sit down 
to the banguet, a thousand jealousies re- 
specting livings, and little snug places in 
public offices, might arise, and the feast 
would very likely end in a fray. Thus 
much for the political sins of the place, 
so insidiously enumerated in a long string 
of arch interrogatories, which can only be 
thought, even by your Correspondent, ta 
attach to about 14 or 15 persons out of 
2,503. However, ifsuch abuses really exist, 
measures are about to be speedily adopt- 
ed, as becomes such ‘an age of correc- 
banal inquiry as this, to bring them to 
light, and the depredators to punishment, 
"W e are much indebted to Mr. Winde- 
att for tracing the’ progress of our refine- 
ment, from cock-fighting to dancing and 
music, and from the barbarons pleasures 
ef bull-baiting to the intellectual re- 
sources of no less than three book socie- 
ties. We have, moreover, lately sent up 
to your great metropolis a very promising 
young painter, and, amongst the many 
venteel and opulent families which reside 
in this town, and its immediate vicinity, 
we have several able dilictanti artists 
. and musicians, two tolerable Antiquacians, 
and one poet. 
Our intelligent champion has been 
censured by your Correspondent, for 
omitting, to notice “ the beautiful screen 
_ of stone” 
sure has reached us, we have carefully 
examined it, even to an occasional omis- 
“sion of our responses in the Litany, and 
_ have observed in it nothing worthy of ce- 
lebration. 
MontTuty Mac, No, 183. 
Further Particulars relative to Totnes. 
He has: 
in our church: since that cen-. 
245 
We are far from thinking Mr. W. cen- 
surable for noticing, that the influence of 
her Grace of Bolton, in the eiection of 
one member for Totnes, is derived from 
her being, the lucky mistress “ of a fine 
stream which drives two sets of mills,” 
which are valuable, and belong to the 
corporation. ‘The circumstance is very 
curious, and wi:l no doubt make many of 
your readers sinile, ° Thus one of the 
members, lke the eider duck in “ the 
Peacock at Home,” may be said to come 
up to Parliament by water. Upon this 
subject a merry wag one day observed, 
that you might see a senator in her 
Grace’s water, like a rattlesnake in Spi- 
rits of wine, only that water is no preser= 
vative against corruption. However, the 
recent death of a great man amongst us 
herve is likely to induce her Grace, at the 
next general election, to turn:the course 
of her stream, and to change the face of 
matters, 
Your Correspondent, by i interrogator: Me 
has unyenerously cast a slur upon the 
political, and also, if IT understand him, 
upon the moral character of Mr. Adams, 
one of our members, who is so strong 
in the popular opinion, that he wants 
even no invigoration from her Grace’s 
stream. With respect to this gentleman 
we have the: pleasure of observing, t hat 
he enjoys the good wishes and esteem of 
the town, and that the great interest 
which he possesses has frequently been 
exercised in favour of those who are with= 
out the pale of thé corporation, and could 
give him no return but. their gratitude. 
He lives close to the town in great hos- 
pitality, whilst Mr. Hall, the other meme 
ber, with sdvacious- economy, never Vis 
Sits us pul to ioe his calling and e:ece 
tion sure,” 
Your Correspondent, inthe same cy- 
nical vein, has insinuated,: that a quota- 
tioh in Mr, Windeatt’s Sarnia 
is from the pen of * a modern knight, Sir 
Joho Carr.” We have eagerly read all the 
works of that elegant and lively writer, 
and we consider them not less creditable 
to that place than to the character of con- 
temporary hterature, and have never seen 
a Has which resen; bled: in style or matter 
any parc of.such extract. In truth, [ 
Stl ongly suspect it to be from the produc- 
tions of Dr. Cornish, a literary eentle- 
man, one of our townsinen, and the bro- 
ther i law of a distinguished literary cha- 
racter, Lord Teignmouth, We beg pardon 
for having: trespassed so long upon your 
readers, put we have been naturally desi« 
rous of 1 rescuing the fair fame of our neat 
and-much frequented town from the bilt- 
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