Have we not heard both great and small With ecstacy where he was lately heard on, The other Knight is of no less renown, A champion he of far more wondrous fame These patriotic English Knights Had a Dulcinea too, whom they both courted, E'er foremost in the muddy crowd, (Although no other in reality Than the hack jade-Miss" Popularity !'') But oft, alas! the best endeavours fail. The Brentford Knight, at length extremely tir'd, Hit on a stratagem both deep and daring; Alas! Alas! our task is now to sing Of dreadful deeds and discord dire, (Which oft from disappointments spring, And rage like an unruly fire,) Our heroes soon were fraught with mutual ire, Have we not seen great nations go to war? Seen millions slain with unrelenting rage, When dreadful Havock mounts her iron car? Nor dying groans, Nor widow'd moans, Or orphan's tears, Their ruthless fury can assuage; And each endeavours to excel The other in politeness and good breeding< "Since you have prov'd such men of might, In friendship's social bands be reunited!" A CASE SIR, A CASE IN POINT. [From the Morning Herald.] I HAVE read somewhere the following tale or apologue-call it which you please :-Two countrymen, holding a joint property in a cow, quarrelled about their rights; but agreed to drive the animal to market, in order to adjust their difference. While they rested on the road, something which fell from the cow engaged their attention. One proposed to the other, that if he would eat it he should have the sole property of the cow. The other, assenting, went to work, and demolished half the tansy. His stomach being rather palled, and seeing that his opponent was affrighted at his voracity, the former proposed to relinquish his advantage, on the condition of his adversary eating the remainder. The condition was accepted, and the sweetmeat consumed. "Now (said the one) we are just as we stood before."--"Yes! (replied the other,) and so we might have been without this confounded dinner." If you think that this is apposite to a recent case, you will publish it; if not, I am still yours, QUINBUS FLESTRIN. EPIGRAM. [From the Morning Chronicle.] OF Foreign Affairs, our Minister Canning A HANDBILL. [From the Morning Chronicle.] To all free and independent Electors. Peculators to be protected, Subsidies Subsidies to be lavished, The Slave Trade to be revived, War to be perpetuated, Are earnestly entreated to vote for the friends of the present Administration. * Worthy and useful Gentlemen, well known in London, whose business is in the dark to remove the filth of the house, without offend ing the nostrils of the family, or alarming the neighbourhood with the stink, ANOTHER. [From the same.] TO CONTRACTORS. WANTED IMMEDIATELY, AN ASSORTMENT OF THREE HUNDRED STAKES OF DIFFERENT SIZES, OF PRIME SEASONED OAK. ALSO, FIFTY CART-LOADS OF FAGOTS FOR GOVERNMENT USE, IN THIS CITY. Persons willing to supply the same, or to contract for the Fagot Service in the undermentioned TownS: NORTHAMPTON, MANCHESTER, OXFORD, ST. ALBANS AND CHESTER; VOL. XI. Are Are desired to send in their Proposals in writing, post paid, on or before the fifth of May, under cover to Mr. P, CLERK of the MELTINGS at this Office. N. B. Most Money given for OLD TORCHES. HAND-BILLS against Popery, gratis—with LISTS . of SUSPECTED HOUSES. S A TRIED HOUSE-BURNER will meet with good encouragement. LORD STINKSBURY ON ARSON, IS IN THE PRESS. Fire and Fagot Office, Smithfield, May 1, 1807. ALL THE TALENTS. "And their TALENTS were heaped together." [From the Morning Herald.] Book of Numbers. THE And a Talent for blinking the claims of a friend : A Talent to dance, and a Talent to lurch, And |