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lion or opinion that may be unpleasant or inconvenient to their rulers; and he who disputes the truth of this position, must be tortured into conviction within the walls of Newgate.

It would be easy to deduce from the arguments of Lord Elienborough the paradoxical conclusion, that to record in the page of history the vices or the folliei of the ancestors of a noble family, would subject its author to the punishment of libel, and to prove from a cursory review of English literature, that to animadvert on* the private and public conduct of our princes and our ministers has been the invariable practice and privilege of the British Press ; but we have already exceeded the limits of periodical discussion; and must postpone the remainder of our strictures till a future opportunity. They shall certainly appear before our nobles have been chastised into repentance, or the intemperance of Ellen borough has been subdued by the force of truth.

NEW AND SPLENDID EDITION OF TOM THUMB,

Or the Political, Literary, Agricultural, and Commercial NOTTINGHAM GAZETTE.

Mr. Editor, Sitting half asleep the other day in my room, after dinner, who should bolt in upon me with his usual freedom, but my old friend, Tom Sugar stick. Tom is as innocent, hearty, agreeable a fellow as any in England; when laboring under an election mania, or on the worse day of his political ague, then, to be sure, he opens rather too widely the door of his upper rooms, considering the scantiness of their furniture. What have we here? cries he, snatching up a paper which lay on the table — that cursed Review, how often have I reprobated your conduct

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