Walpole. This is no other than a striking portrait of the facetious Mrs. Clive. Horace, finding it too large to be introduced in his next edition of Virtû, has returned it on the town.

"13. The Dragoon dragooned, by Marplot. This is an excellent piece, and has but one deficiency-it wants meaning.—It represents Lord Barrington firing a musket with his eyes shut; and a great personage shooting at him with a bow and arrow; under the latter are these words, ' A fool's bolt is soon shot.'

"14. Taste, by Phillipina Burton. A complication of elegant figures: the design seems a little perplexed; colouring, very masterly and strong.

"15. The Masquerade, by Truth. Represents the court on a levee day: the company are masked in their own faces only.

"16. The Jubilee, by Garrick. The painter in the character of the bottle-conjurer. In his hand is a book, inscribed, 'The way to grow rich, a ballad farce.'

"17. Fortitude, by Hugh Kelly. This has no relation to the fortitude of this unfortunate author, in bidding defiance to the censure of the town: the piece will turn to more account; it represents the ministry.

"18. A Word to the Wise, by the same. The painter in propria persona, holding a purse in one hand, and a catcall in the other.

"19. All in the Wrong, by a Director. The court

of directors, fighting on account of a certain general, who in the mean time is making off with the bullion.

"20. The Earl of Bute. The English and Scotch disagree concerning this figure. The connoisseurs of the latter assert, that it is not perfect, because it wants a head; whilst the opposite party as strenuously maintain that it could not be perfect unless it wanted a head.

"21. His MSome sacrilegious villains having stolen the former head, which was lacquered with gold, the exhibitor hath supplied the deficiency with a wooden one.

"22. Mr. Wilkes in a Roman habit. A bold, majestic figure; in his right hand the bill of rights, and in the other, the sword of justice.

"23. The Harlot's Progress, by the Duchess of K-, in Silk. It were to be wished that ladies of quality would employ their time as well as her Grace has done. It is really surprising to see how well she has played her own cards, and kept one of the higher powers from losing the game.

"24. The Keeper, by Miss R

Represents

the notorious Jemmy Twitcher, licking the dust from the feet of his Dulcinea; whilst her fille de chambre conveys away her gallant. Jemmy, for the greater propriety, is black and all black.

"25. The last Peace. Modelled in gingerbread, and ready to fall in pieces with the slightest touch.

LETTER VII.

"To the Freeholders of the City of Bristol.

"Gentlemen,

"As a fellow citizen, I presume to address you on a subject, which I hoped would have animated an abler pen. At this critical situation, when the fate of the constitution depends upon the exertion of an English spirit, I confess my astonishment at finding you silent. The second city in England should not be ashamed to copy the first, in any laudable measure. Let not a false pride mislead you to neglect the care of your liberties. Though you were not the first, in the spirited application to the throne, you will lose no glory in the imitation. Your silence cannot be attributed to your disapprobation of the proceedings of the livery of London.

"When an infamous set of wretches take shelter under the dignity of the crown, and from that sacred covert, wound the dearest rights of the subject; it is pusillanimity, it is a treason to our country, to view it with indifference.

"The reception your petition met with, should animate you to demand a satisfactory answer to the griev

ances you complained of; and if you cannot have redress, know on what pretence you are denied that justice. The apostacy of one of your former leaders can be no detriment to your measures; he is too inconsiderable to disconcert an affair of so much importance, as your liberty, and the constitution of your country. Reflect on the importance of the measure you are under an obligation to take. It is not a transient emolument you seek it is the inheritance of your posterity; an inheritance, without which all other possessions will be unserviceable.

"Whilst thus you sit idly looking on, you do society the greatest injury it is in your power to do it. As subjects, Englishmen, and members of society, you are under a necessity to endeavour to preserve inviolate the freedom of an Englishman.

"If, after every glorious attempt to rescue our invaluable rights from the wretches of power, the pernicious counsels of persons, who are a disgrace to their dignities, should still mislead an unhappy k-, and effectually prevent the purpose of your remonstrance; you have done your duty, and discharged your conscience. But till you have done your duty by remonstrating, you are accessory to every future proceeding of the tools of administration; and equally concerned in every scene of murder and oppression, which the ruffians of state have chalked out in their plan of operations.

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'I do not address myself to the corporation: I know too well their selfish regard to interest. In the cause of liberty, they will gain nothing but the consciousness of having done a good action; a pleasure so long a stranger to the breast of any one of them, that none can know how to deserve it. They are too contemptible to injure the cause of liberty by their authority; and too mercenary, to seduce any of its leaders by their generosity. How meanly infamous have they made themselves, in selling their consciences to the man, whose conscience they once bought. Lord Chowever titled and outwardly advanced in the world, is still internally the little wretch he ever was. It must be confessed he has cunning; but that is the common qualification of a pick-pocket: had he been born in a lower station in life, he must have been one. He is a slave to slaves; and has even his vices, though in large quantities, from second hand. Nothing can reflect with greater acrimony on the intellects of the corporation, than the whole tenor of their behaviour to Lord as it is generally known, so it is too ridiculous for recapitulation. No person could with greater propriety than Lord C―, represent the corporation of Bristol; he is their very counterpart, little, mean, and contemptible.-But I lose time upon them.

"To you, then, ye citizens of Bristol, who look above such mercenary examples-to you, who have honour and disinterestedness, I address myself. Be it