INTELLIGENCE FOR THE COUNTRY.

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While men, whom nice feelings and honour compell'd
In the Commons to vote-say, he should be expell'd.
But while by this tale, and the poison diffus'd,
"The whole ear of Denmark" was sadly abus'd;
While a King, whom each Briton would perish to save,
Might have felt his white hairs go with grief to his grave;
From the clouds which the morning horizon o'ercast,
The sun in his splendour is rising at last,

And proudly looks down on the blackening storm,
Which dar'd, for a while, his bright orb to deform.
In short, the vile fictions of slander have fail'd,
And truth, as it should do, at length has prevail'd-
While the wish is a Prince, whom the army ador'd,
Again they may hail their Commander and Lord.

INTELLIGENCE FOR THE COUNTRY:

IN A LETTER FROM MR. GABRIEL GUBBINS, IN LONDON, TO THE MAYOR OF ****, IN THE COUNTRY.

[From the same, July 18.]

NO. II.

GOOD Heavens! dear Coz, what a tale has been spread,

That some likeness of Wardle-his tail or his headWhich the print-shops and pot-shops have turn'd out of town, As gifts patriotic, to you are gone down.

Were they Wedgwoods-pray treat all such vases as this,
As the Irish once did the unfortunate Twiss.

And no fear need you have of misfortune hereafter,
For the Colonel's not fated to perish by water.

Such vessels, believe me, 't is fun to annoy them

Or treat them as French, and "sink, burn, and destroy" them.
But no words can convey what a general disclosure
Has sprung from the Colonel's disastrous exposure.
How the parsons of parishes grieve the excesses

Of their quickness and zeal when they penn'd the addresses:
How attornies now mourn over parchments all lost,
Which more to their profit they might have engross'd:
While corporate towns, to their thanks to give weight,
Had voted the Colonel small pieces of plate,
Now curse the speech-makers who stole their belief,
And think the "receiver as bad as the thief."

While others have issued a quick countermand,

To the cups and the snuff-boxes "not out of hand;"
And hint that their zeal is so truly diminish'd,

That they think "their said orders will never be finish'd."
But of al public bodies by laughter most run down,
Is the livery of liveries-the Livery of London:

Who bore thro' the streets all the mob they could scrape there,
Unluckily led by a wild Linen-draper :

Who leaving his proper concerns, (more the pity!)
Deserted his counter to brawl on the city;

To talk of her "vealth, and her witals, and bowels".
Deliv'ring bad English instead of good towels.
But the Colonel, by trading on spurious pretences,

Has brought all these tradesmen at once to their senses;
And for freedoms and thanks they have mov'd, in their stead,
"That the whole, with their Colonel, be knock'd on the head."
But if you, in your town, should be doing so too,
Remember in error atonement is due.

His Highness of York, while foul slander prevail'd,
Had his character question'd, his honour assail'd—
While, to quiet the clamour stirr'd up through the land,
He silently bow'd—and resign'd his command.
But, unhurt by the shafts which Detraction has hurl'd,
His innocence now stands avow'd by the world!
What then do strict justice and honour require?
What then does each Englishman's feelings inspire?
They imperiously call to petition the Crown,
That rank to restore, which nice feeling laid down.
And forget not, dear Coz, from the cot to the Throne,
We can always judge right, make the case but our own.

MR. WARDLE TO HIS POPULARITY.

IN IMITATION OF THE EMPEROR ADRIAN'S VERSES TO HIS SOUL.

DE

[From the same, July 17.]

EAR, pleasing, empty, fluttering thing,
Must we no longer live together?

And dost thou spread thy trembling wing,
To take thy flight the Lord knows whither?

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Faster

WESTBOURNE FESTIVITIES.

Faster and faster every day

Thy honours vanish from my sight,
And, anxious now to get away,

Thou bid'st me carelessly good night.

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THE WARDLE PRESENTS.

[From the same.]

'MONGST the presents of boxes to Wardle, we hear,

One from Clarke was receiv'd-'t was a box on the ear.
PEPPER BOX.

Box Hill, Kent.

WESTBOURNE FESTIVITIES.

[From the British Press, July 17.]

MRS. Clarke's elegant house has been lately the seat of much festivity. Several dramatic pieces. have been performed; amongst the first were, A First Floor, or, Lodgings to Let; the Blind Bargain, and the farce of Raising the Wind: but the entertainment which deserves most notice, took place last week: it was the farce of A House to be Sold, The Lover Outwitted, and the Masque of Comus; the Lady by Miss Taylor, and Euphrosyne by Mrs. Clarke, with the favourite air Tis only daylight that makes sin.” Mrs. Clarke also danced a Pas Seul, to the tune of "Money in both Pockets." After these entertainments, a most elegant Pic Nic collation was served; the wines from the cellar of Mr. W-dle, who very› obligingly sang, with great pathos, addressed to Mrs. Clarke, the favourite air from the opera of The Travellers, "Mother, dearest Mother, the gratitude I owe." Sir John C. was very fine in the song of "The Traveller benighted."

TO

TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF MARY ANNE CLARKE, AND D. WRIGHT,

SHEWETH,

THAT your petitioners have heard unto their grief and consternation, that your Honourable Court have come to a resolution as follows:

"That the thanks of this Court, and the freedom of the city, in a gold box, of the value of one hundred guineas, be presented to Gwyllim Lloyd Wardle, Esq. in grateful testimony of the high sense they entertain of the zeal, intrepidity, and patriotism, which is so eminently evinced in his arduous and laudable undertaking."

And your petitioners, with all deference and respect to your Honourable Court, submit as follows:

That the said Gwyllim Lloyd Wardle has been cast in an action, brought against him in the Court of King's Bench, by the brother of your petitioner, D. Wright, for the recovery of 1400l. for furniture supplied to your other petitioner, Mary Anne Clarke, upon account of, and upon the undertaking of the said G. L. Wardle.

That the said G. L. Wardle has appealed to the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in a public address, in which he accuses your petitioners, who were subpoenaed as witnesses in this cause, and solemnly pledged himself to convict them of perjury as soon as the form of law will permit him. That the intrepid and laudable undertaking of the said G. L. Wardle, for which your Honourable Court have voted him your thanks in a box of gold, was not, and could not have been accomplished or begun, but by the assistance and confederacy of your petitioner, M. A. Clarke.

That

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That the said G. L. Wardle, in order to induce your petitioner M. A. Clarke to enter into the said confederacy, did promise and undertake to pay her upholder, for furniture, to be delivered at her house in Westbourne Place, the sum of 1900l.; and that her upholder, to whom she was already indebted in the sum of 5 or 600l. was maliciously advised by the said G. L. Wardle to commence an action for that sum against His Royal Highness the Duke of York.

That the said G. L. Wardle, not having been able to prevail upon the said upholder to bring the malicious action aforesaid, which had no foundation in truth, or law, or equity, did actually pay, by a bill, 500l. part of the said contract with your petitioner, Mary Anne Clarke.

That the said Mary Anne Clarke having given all her evidence in the House of Commons, in the form and manner agreed and contracted for with the said G. L. Wardle, and the said G. L. Wardle having received all the advantage and benefit it was intended for him to derive from the said evidence, according to the said contract-did most unjustly refuse to pay the upholder for the residue of the said furniture.

That a jury, impannelled upon their oath, in the Court of King's Bench, to try this issue, have: found all these facts to be true, and delivered their verdiet accordingly-And

That the said G. L. Wardie has threatened to try your petitioners for perjury, as above stated, committed in their evidence at this trial.

Now, your petitioners humbly conceive, and reverentially submit to your Honourable and enlightened Court, that any vote of thanks or honours upon your part to the said G. L. Wardle has a manifest and un- › just tendency to prejudice the minds of the public, and to render it difficult for them to obtain an impartial pannel