"I believe in the faving grace conferred by penfions and finecure places.

"I believe in the virtue of riches, and vice of poverty and I believe that all men who do not believe as I believe, will, or ought to be, damned in fecula feculorum. Amen.

"A. CAVALIER OF THE OLD COURT CUT."

Second, or Jacobine Creed.

"I do not believe in any thing that is ancient, fixed, ftable, or permanent.

"I believe only in the virtues of change and experiment.

"I believe that all crowned heads are tigers, prowling for prey.

I believe that all minifters are jackals, purveying for fuch tigers.

"I believe that the English conftitution is bad, will be worfe, and ought to be deftroyed.

"I believe that it is wifer to rush into any evils that may await change, than to attempt to amend what is amifs, because life is not long enough to wait the flow progrefs of reform.

"I believe that all good governments are made only for the exifting members, and that they have nothing to do with pofterity.

"I believe that the next world has nothing to do with us, and confequently that we have nothing to do with the next world.

"I believe that every rich man is a rogue, and ought to be poor.

I believe in the Rights of Man, as far as they serve to give me a right to live independent of all control, as a man ought to do.

"I believe that the only fit men to frame a government for free men, are those who have always lived independent of any government whatever, as they only can know what freedom is.

"I believe

"I believe in Tom Paine as the faviour of this world.

Amen.

"A REPUBLICAN OF THE NEWEST CUT."

Third, or my own Creed.

"I believe that every constitution is not adapted to every country.

I believe that a limited monarchy is beft adapted to produce peace, plenty, profperity, and protection in Great Britain.

"I believe that the conftitution of England, as originally framed, is the wifeft idea of a free government that ever entered into the imagination of man.

"I believe that no human inftitution ever was, or will be, perfect; but if it is fufceptible of amendment, may always be approaching nearer to perfection.

"I believe that, being of human inftitution, the English conftitution is fubject to abuses and to decay. "I believe that many abufes have crept into the Administration, that many decays have begun to appear in the English conftitution.

"I believe that no man is infallible, either as a King or as a minifter.

"I believe it to be the intereft of every minifter to encourage abufes in the Adminiftration, and to hide. decays in the conftitution."

"I believe that all the abuses in the Administration, and all the decays in the conftitution, are practical evils, and admit of eafy and practical cures."

LINES

Written to a Lady, who had a loose Tooth extracted, and faftened in again by drilling a Hole through it, and paffing two Ligatures, by, which it was tied to the Tooth on each Side.

DEA

[From the Morning Poft.]

EAR Madam, tell an anxious friend,
What terms you live on with

I hope your jars are at an end;

your tooth:

But ftill I wish to know the truth

'Tis well you were alarm'd in time,
And took the hint, and look'd about;
He and his neighbours could not chimie,
They threaten'd fhortly to fall out.
He then fhew'd figns of infurrection,
And foon acquaintance had with Pain;
But now he's drill'd-a just correction,
And to the ranks reduc'd again.
An action you commenc❜d for trover,
And LAW* bade all contention cease;
He took him up, and bound him over,

And tied him down to keep the peace.
Then, left himself fhould gain no fame,
And you no profit from his labours;
As further fureties for the fame,

Bound over both his next-door neighbours.
Now let him learn to prize his lot,

And try to keep within his tether;

Let each old grievance be forgot,

And may you both long bold together!

MUSTAPHA'S ADORATION OF THE SUBLIME SULTAN PITTANDER THE OMNIPOTENT. [From the Courier.]

WH

PART I.

HEN the morning wakes, I go forth to find thee; when the light of evening fades, I trace thy fteps, thou great and fublime Pittander! for I am thy flave, and I will worship thee for ever.

Thou giver of all good things, I adore thy mightiness! Thou fayeft to mankind, Go forth and die, and, lo ! thou art obeyed; at thy voice the world fhall become a defert.

Thy forehead fmiteth the skies, and the earth is the footftool of thy pride; thy breath is defolation, and

* The name of a dentist.

thy

thy frown despair; the treasures of the globe are at thy difpofal, and thou giveft them to thy creatures.

Though the low and the laborious execrate thy name, though the poor fpeak of thee in anguith and in tears, yet the princes of the world are glad of thee, the nobles of all lands fing Hallelujahs to thy greatness.

Oh who fhall abide thy wrathful indignation? All who contend against thee fhall drink of the cup of the fiercenefs of thy rage:

Thou fendeft out armies conquering and to conquer, and when they are difcomfited, thou becomeft exceeding wroth, and ordereft forth others to be again destroyed; for thy power and thy glory are without end.

Thy palace is built upon a rock, it is built upon a Treafury, it defieth the wind and the tempefts, and the mighty wind; for its walls are of adamant, and its chambers are of gold, and its grand halls are of porphyry and fine gold, and precious ftones. It is called the Palace of Downing at this day.

The merchants of thy great city, whofe riches overflow like the waters of the Nile, make offerings unto thee; they bring thee wealth from Tyre and from Sidon, from the Eaft and from the Weft, which thou deigneft to receive at their hands; then thou commandelt thy people to repay them with the sweat of their brow to all ages-fo excellent is thy loving-kindness towards them.

Yet the poor fhall come forward in vast multitudes, and with much complaint, and fhall fay unto thee,' "Fye upon thee! fye upon thee!" but thou shalt not be ashamed.

And thou shalt take the offerings of the rich merchants, and the wealth of Tyre and Sidon, and thou fhalt fcatter them over the face of the earth, and upon the great waters, and in the air; then all men shall be aftonifhed, and many hall blame thee; but I will laud thy doings, I will exalt thy name without ceafing. Day and night will I fing praifes unto thee; oh!

lead

lead me into thy fecret places-beftow a refting place upon thy flave.

Fain would I bow. me down and kifs thy hinder parts, in teftimony of my fubmiffion, but thy hinder parts are wanting; I would pour precious ointment on thy beard, but thou art without a chin. Glory be to thee, great No-chin, for everlafting; thou art not of the children of men.

Should the whisperings of thy flave offend thee, most mighty Sultan ! fet thy foot upon his neck, and crush him in the duft, that he may die in honour. Even in death would I glorify thee.

The pillars of thy power are in the remoteft corners of the earth, and thy ftrength is in many mighty men. At thy right hand is Dundafophat the great chieftain, and the high priests, and the elders.

The Burkites alfo, and the Jenkinfonites, and the Canningites, fight for thee...

The Rofeites and the Steelites, and Reeveites, and all the Majoritites, uphold thee.

And is not Loughboroboam, the wife lawgiver, on - thy fide?

The captain of fifties, and the captains of hundreds, and the affociations, and the corporations, fupport thee, moft magnificent Sultan!

And thofe likewife who have penfions, and those who have places, and thofe who have titles, and all who wish for them, or expect them, give countenance unto thee. Who then fhall dare to refift thy will? who fhall Speak of Reform, and not perish ?

The Vulpites fhall fly before thee like the morning dew from the gales of the fouth; their numbers are reduced, they are faint with their loffes, they shall foon be cut down, be dried up and wither.

Sheridanezor fhall be overthrown, Greyhoiachim shall fall befide him, and none fhall oppofe thy progrefs. But thou fhalt come forth with fackbuts and pfalteries, and all kinds of music, in the majesty of thy triumph.

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