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The Scourge;
OR,
LITERARY, THEATRICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS
MAGAZINE.
Embellishment.
The Property Tax—Civic Champions—and the Darling
in Danger.
CONTENTS.
To CORRESPONDENTS, see back
The PROPERTY or INCOME TAX 3
Economy of the sovereign 4
Character of ministers 5
Carlton-house expenditure 6
Our late extravagance 7
State of the national debt. 8
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the LIFE of Vice-Admiral Sir SAMUEL HOOD, K.B. F.M. K.S. &c 9
Dangers of a seafaring life 10
Birth-place of Sir Samuel Hood 11
Old Plunder Pack 12
My Zammy 13
Hardships endured by midshipmen 14
Loss of the Centaur 15
Sir Samuel rescues four lives from a wreck 16
Munificence at Weymouth 17
THE WEST OF ENGLAND GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL 18
Musical mistakes and embarrassments 19
Handel in a rage 20
On the FRENCH CHARACTER, MANNERS, and MORALS 21
Debauchery of the court of Louis 22
Account of the notorious Vestal-club at Paris 23
Account of Mademoiselle Guimard 24
A young lady disposed of by public lottery 25
Radical defects in the French character 26
Indelicacy of French gallantry 27
A substitute for the Income or Property tax 28
A broad hint to Alderman Curtis 29
Account of the Anti-Anglican club, at Marseilles 30
Improprieties in the French language 31
Progress made by the French in the science of geography 32
VOX CŒLORUM s 33
Annus Mirabilis, or the wonders of 1815 34
ECCE HOMO 35
Vindication of free-enquiry 36
Horrors of fanaticism and superstition 37
Religion made a cloak for self-aggrandisement 38
Defence of natural religion 39
Appeal to truth, and experience 40
Free philosophical enquiry 41
Priest-craft the cause of greater evils than infidelity 42
HINTS relative to the police of public ladies 43
Necessity of public ladies in large cities 44
Usurpation of female employments hymen 45
Difficult situation of the female sex 46
Plan for rescuing deluded females from infamy 47
Wise police adopted at Berlin relative to public ladies 48
Restriction of prostitutes to certain districts of the town 49
THE REVIEWER
The Modern Dunciad 50
Humphrey Hedge-hog and Diogenes 51
Sir John Carr, the sedentary tourist 52
Defence of Mr. Hewson Clarke 53
Literary trickery of Dr. Busby 54
Wanton attack on Catalani and Deshayes 55
ANECDOTES of BLUCHER. 56
Gallant exploit of Blucher 57
Gallantry of Count Hohenzollern 58
Singular trait of humanty 59
Affecting scene between Blucher and a wounded French soldier 60
Anecdote of Frederic the Great 61
Sanguinary speech of Vandamme 62
SIR ELDRED: a Gothic fragment 63
Midnight assassination 64
Blood cries for blood 65
EPITAPH on a PRINTER 66
The LIFE and ADVENTURES of COLIN M'LOON 67
Eiegant harangue of Mrs. Gorbelly Trundlehips 68
The argument a posteriori 69
Retreat of Collin M'Loon 72
Mac chuckling at his escape 73
THEATRICAL REVIEW 74