fpoon, till at last daring to think for themselves, they determined to eat it with the right end. This determination was no fooner formed than executed by the greater part of the nation, whilft they banifhed all thofe who adhered to the old way. The furrounding Kings, whofe fubjects were ftill obliged to eat it with the wrong end, became furious to madnefs at the idea of a fwinith multitude daring to think for themfelves, and determined to chaftife them for their extreme infolence. Accordingly, the Emperor of Whiskerandos and the King of Swindlers attacked them most furiously, and in the end obtained the moft glorious advantages, as the Galligafkins conquered a valuable part of the former's dominions, and then proceeded to attack the Argentine nation (a pretended Republic), clofe adjoining, threatening it with total annihilation. During all this, Billy Shallow, not choofing to put himself to the pain of declaring open war, had proceeded in a back-ftairs manner to infult them, in many inftances very groffly, until they were goaded on to declare war against Lilliput. Mafter Billy, now arrived at the point he was aiming at, expofed to the Senate the perfidy and villainy of the Galligafkins, in declaring war, without any provocation, and demanded the trifling fum of two or three millions of argents (an argent is about twenty fhillings fterling), to defend the nation against fo profligate an attack. His faithful majority accordingly granted all his demands, without a fyllable of inquiry, trufting in all refpects to his immaculate purity. The Minifter now fent over a large body of troops, openly avowing it as their bufinefs to chastife the Galligafkins, and oblige them to give up their conquefts; but fecretly intending they fhould join the confederated Kings in obliging that nation to eat their foup again with the wrong end of the fpoon.-More troops were afterwards fent over for the fame purpose ; and the combined Powers, after the moft glorious campaign, not only drove the Galligafkins out of their con

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quests, but actually conquered a few inches of the Galligafkin territory, with the lofs of fome officers and only about 100,000 private men; an exploit that will cover the Generals with immortal honour. During this fc.ne of glory and renown, many other remarkable events happened. Mr. Inquifitor Ninny denounced imprisonment and pillory against every man who should dare to affert that the people had a right to eat their foup with the right end of the fpoon; and fome were actually punished for making the affertion. Bobadil and Sir Bilberry Diadle took a fea-port belonging to the Galligatkins, with feveral of their fhips, and held them in truft for an imprifoned Galligafkin Prince, until the combined Powers thould be enabled to complete their defigns upon that nation, by extirpating all the men, and then obliging all the women and children to eat their foup with the wrong end of the fpoon. Fortune, however, jostled his Lordship and Sir Bilberry, and the town became untenable: when they most heroically, and with the most exalted justice and equity, burnt the fhips, and a part of the town, in trust for the fame Prince. The Duke of Gunpowder, who was the General of Fortification, fortified the tower of the metropolis in the most able manner, with fand-bags and empty cafks; intending, with the most engineer-like exactness, that the former fhould be thrown at its affailants, for the purpofe of blinding them; and when that was effected, the latter fhould be fired perpendicularly upon them; by which means each man being enclofed in a caík, that, by its natural propenfity to rolling, would tumble him into the adjoining river, the affailants would all be drowned. Such was the immenfe and able plan of this exalted General. Let us now return to that most glorious and juft war, where we left the combined Powers in poffeffion of fo mach glory and renown. Thefe Powers, animated by their recent moft glorious fucceffes, entered upon another campaign with fury, and had the most

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complete fatisfaction of running away to the tune of Galligafkin mufic, with which they were fo delighted, that they left their baggage and ammunition to the Galligafkins, as a reward for treating them with fuch delicious tunes. An action that will cover them with immeafurable renown! The trumpet of Fame will found it to pofterity as an exploit never equalled by all the heroes of antiquity. During this, the Lilliputians had conquered fome of the Galligafkin colonies. Several remarkable events likewife happened. An alarm was founded from one end of the kingdom to the other, that the Galligafkins had landed 100,000 men with red caps and no breeches, who were marching quick to the capital, through the by-roads and back-ways. Terror thook the kingdom to its centre. Lawyers, Parfons, and Phyficians, mounted their horfes, changed their gowns and wigs for fwords and truncheons, and took the field, trembling at every bray of an afs, fearing it to be the dreaded enemy. Books and papers were feized, that treafon might be diftilled out of them, whilft their owners were fent to prifon, till their offences were found out. The Miniftry faw every thing through red cap medium; and the whole kingdom waited in dreadful expectation till the enemy fhould think proper to appear When, lo! it turned out that all the terror was occafioned by an Alarmift fecing the fign of a red cap at a little diftance from the metropolis, which fo horribly frightened him, that he dreamt of a Galligafkin army being landed, and believed it a real fact when he awoke. Billy Shallow now carried tax after tax in the Houfe of Tools, and invaded the liberties of the people with impunity. The Galligafkins, in the mean time, continually viéterious, entered the metropolis of the Argentine nation in triumph, and annihilated their pretended republic. Billy Shallow was now forced to beg humbly for peace; which was granted, on condition of giving up all the Lilliputian conquefts; of acknowledging the right of the Galligafkins to their new conquefts;

conquefts; and likewife their right to eat their foup as they pleased. Thefe conditions the Minifter acceded to. Thus ended this moft glorious, juft, and neceffary war, after having coft Lilliput about 60 millions of argents, and about 100,000 men. The people, juftly exafperated at fo flagrant and profligate a waste of their blood and treafure, in fupporting the perfidious fchemes of their Minifters, recovered from the delufion in which they had been involved by the arts of the Miniftry, and loudly and univerfally demanded that they fhould be equally reprefented. The Ministry, unwilling to accede to a meafure which would effectually take away their places, their influence, and their patronage, temporized till the moment of conciliation was paffed away. -Cetera defunt.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

ABSENCE.

SWEET Girl! fince you left me and went out of town,
I fcarce utter a word, and I constantly frown;
As for business or pleasure, I think them but folly,
And while others are laughing-I'm quite melancholy.
When I wake in the morning, I turn me around,
But, alas! my lov'd Sufan is not to be found;

When your pillow unprefs'd makes your ablence quite certain,
I curfe blankets and fheets, and fwear at the curtain.
When I leap out of bed, ftill your image bewitches;
I'm at least twenty minutes in finding my breeches;
And after I'm drefs'd a full hour or more,
I find they are button'd the wrong

fide before.

Ah! Sufan, at breakfast, how happy we've been,
O'er the fragrant infufion of eight-fhilling green,
While rapture attended on every sip,

And I envied the cup the foft touch of your lip.
But now on the table I carelessly loll,

My appetite 's gone-I can scarce eat a roll;
And I cannot help thinking, while drinking my tea,
That the white fugar 's brown, and the hyfon-bohea.
At dinner-whenever your eye glanc'd a wish

Tow'rds the hot roafted fowl-how I feiz'd on the dish!

Then

Then fent you a wing, and a bit of the breast-
For fancy ftill whisper'd me what you lik'd best.
But now I'm so stupid I care not a button

Who carves out the beef, or who cuts up the mutton-
I fpill butter and gravy all over the cloth,

And when I drink porter-run my nofe in the froth.
The fofa! on which we 've fo often beguil'd
The lingering hours, while you liften'd and fmil'd;
Till rapture its tenderett language would speak,
And the tears of delight I have kifs'd from your cheek→→
Sweet fofa! farewell, for thy influence is o'er,
The lingering hours now but linger the more;
And with tears of delight my eye never o'erflows,
For I've got a bad cold, and they run from my nofe.
Then hafte back to town, my fweet Sufan, and prove
All the whimsical pleafures that wait upon love;
Our days fhall be pafs'd in frolicsome flirting,
And as for our nights!-I here drop the curtain.

FOZHUE.

PHILOSOPHIE DE L'UNIVERS.

OROMASIS.

A POEM IN DIALOGUE, BY M. DUPONT DE NEMOURS.

SCENE-At the Commencement of the World.

Perfons of the Drama.-Oromafis and Arimanes, the Spirits
Good and Evil.

“L'Existence eft la demonstration du bien.”
[From the Morning Chronicle.]

OROMASIS. At length I have overcome thee. In fpite of thy oppofition, I now affume poffeffion of matter, and proceed to create the world.

Arimanes.-Thou haft overcome, but thou haft not deftroyed me. My deftruction is even beyond thy power to accomplish. Like thyfelf, I am immortal. I fhall be thine eternal foe. Difpofe of matter at thy pleasure, from which however thou shalt never be able to banish me. Create thy world.

Oramafis