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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