The dogs, who had never been used to fuch a fashionable ftyle of travelling, foon began to fhew fymptoms of uneafinefs, and even of an inclination to defert. They were detained, however, in part by careffes, and partly by force, till they had very nearly reached the fcene of action; when, by a violent and unaniinous effort, they all jumped ont, and ran home, except one, who was perfuaded to follow by the fervants behind. But even he might as well have gone with the reft; for hardly had they hunted three fields over, when the obftinate brute ftopped ail of a sudden, to the great furprife and chagrin of the city fportfmen. They hallooed him on; they whiftled to him; but nothing could make him move. It was very provoking, they faid; they never faw a dog fo reftive in their lives. So, taking a whip from a domeftic, they began to belabour the refractory Carlo, who darted into the convey, and away went the birds.

Before the Banker could recover from the alarm occafioned by the flapping of their wings, take up his. gun and cock it, the partridges were out of fight. Thefe were all he faw that day; nor could he fufficiently regret the bad behaviour of the dog." If he had not ftopped," faid the Banker, " I should have fired into the thick of the brood, and killed one half of them." His companion made no doubt but he fhould have killed the rest.

On his return to his carriage, the Man of Money determined to try his fkill at fome fparrows on a dunghill. He fhut his eyes; and before he could open them again to count the dead fparrows, a pig, which was lying under the ftraw, and which he had fhot in the head, came running out, and laid, itfelf at his feet, fqueaking moft horribly in the agonies of death. And out came the farmer's men with flails and pitchforks; and out came the farmer's dog, and feized

him.

him by the coat; and out came the farmer himself, and took him by the collar.

Perceiving himself thus befet, the Banker offered an honourable compofition; but when he found that no lefs a fum than three guineas was demanded, he demurred, and faid, that a pig of equal fize might be purchased for lefs money in London. His companion, however, obferving that pigs were more plentiful in. Leadenhall market than in the country, the money was produced; and the farmer, and the farmer's men, and the farmer's dog, retired to their respective kennels..

It is the quality of a great mind not to be easily discouraged. The Banker, therefore, reloaded his piece ; and ere he had proceeded far, hearing a rustling in the hedge, he let fly at a venture. The report of the gun was immediately followed by cries of Good lack!

I'm fhot! As Got fhall fhave me, I'm fhot!" It was a Jew, who had been making a facrifice, which was not that of the Pafchal lamb, and who, at the clofe of it, while employed in plucking up grafs, "and fhrubs of broader leaf, and more commodious,' received a large portion of the charge in that part where, according to Butler,

(6 A kick hurts honour more,

Than deepest wounds receiv'd before."

As the Banker had never feen a magpie in the city that did not speak, he fuppofed that the whole fpecies was naturally loquacious, and made no doubt but he had killed one of thofe talkative birds. "I have fhot a magpie," faid he to his companion, and off he ran to pick up his game; when, in the paffage of the hedge, he was met face to face by the furious Ifraelite.. Seeing him in the nakednefs of a Sans-culotte, and bleeding from flank to flank, the Banker ftarted back in fpeechlefs horror. The "circumcifed dog" purfued

and

and took him by the throat, fwearing, by the God of Mofes, that he would have blood for blood. This dreadful threat he enforced by the most fanguinary arguments à pofteriori, and would probably have realized it, if the Banker's friend had not offered him " egregious ranfom." At the first mention of money, the bleeding member of the half-tribe of Manajeh relaxed his gripe, examined the paper that was tendered to him by the Banker, and retired well fatisfied, when he found that it was a check upon Meffrs. Fofter, Lubbock, and Bofanquet.

[By a fingular coincidence, it happened that one of the partners in the firm mentioned incidentally at the end of the above article, had been on an excursion to South End, in Effex; and, as it should feem, had met with fimilar Sport. Which partner it was we cannot inform our readers. Perhaps the well-known Latin precept," In medio tutiffimus ibis," may ferve them, as a guide. However this may be, he came to the printing-office in a rage little lefs dreadful than the Jew's; but fortunately he did not bring his fowling-piece with him, or it is poffible that, in attempting to fhoot the Editor, he might have killed the Printer's Devil, or the printing-prefs. For fear of fome fuch horrible accident, the following very fatisfactory Apology appeared in the Gazetteer a day or two after :]

APOLOGY.

WE E fome days fince gave our readers an account

The

of a day's fhooting on the fea-coast. principal fportfman is one of our friends; and being, as the French term it, a man, qui entend raillerie, he gave us permiflion to relate the whimsical accidents he met with in the courfe of his amufement. It not being in every one's power to divert the public, he was glad to afford a laugh, even at his own expenfe, efpecially as no blame can attach to mere mifchances; and as, all things confidered, he had fome reafon to be proud, not having miffed a fingle hot, though he had never fhot before.

We little thought that the mifapplication of this

innocent

innocent ftory would expofe us to remonftrances. Such, however, we have received, and of fo wrathful a tenour, that there is reafon to fear, left

"The children yet unborn fhould rue

The SHOOTING of that day."

As we did not mention the name of the perfonage, and as the great number of Bankers who refide in the vicinity of the Manfion House, left a wild field for conjecture, it is rather ftrange, that any one fhould have wrongfully placed this fancied ridicule upon himself. The firm of a refpectable house was cafually introduced, it is true, but only to fay, that its paper was deemed a fatisfactory compenfation by the wounded Ifraelite, which is paying as high a compliment to the credit of a commercial establishment, as can well be imagined. We can therefore only fuppofe, that this misunderstanding has arifen from fome other city gentleman's having met with the fame accident as our friend; although it is almoft incredible, that two perfons fhould each have fhot a pig and a Jew. If, however, the gentleman who thinks himself aggrieved, will come forward, and fay, that he really met with fuch mifchances during his trip to the water-fide, we will readily name him; and affure the public, that, though he shot a pig and a Jew, it was not he who fhot the pig and the Jew that we fpoke of.

ON READING THE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF ST. AMAND.

[From the Gazetteer.]

GENIUS of Britain! was it thou

From whom th' admiring nations caught
That fenfe of right, that patriot glow,
That love of icience, force of thought,
Which o'er Oppreffion's face diffuse
Guilt's wild palenefs, Terror's dews?

A SAILOR'S LETTER.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

YOUR Honour must know that I am just returneđ from a long voyage; and that, on my coming afhore, I met my old neffmate, Jack Spritfail, under a jury-maft, he having had his ftarboard prop carried away in fome fight with the French, under my old Commodore Howe, in which, it feems, the Mounfeers were fwinged. Jack has given me a mefs of news; but 1 cannot believe half of it, unless I hear it confirmed by your Honour. When I fet fail, the English army had taken the Dutch in tow, with fome other outlandish fellows, who, I think, are called Auftrians and Pruffians; they had run down the French army, and upfet Landrecies, a place which ftood in their way, and were getting ahead at the rate of nine knots an hour, on their march to fome fresh-water port, which I think they call Paris. Now Jack tells me that I had no fooner cleared the land, than the French, under Mounfeer Pichegru, fteered feveral points from the wind at firft; but prefently luffed up, and broke the line at Menin and Courtray: that the Duke of York was obliged to back his fails; and that, when he came alongside the French, they made him broach to, and almoft fet him on his beam-ends; that the Duke fheered off; and that the French fteered directly after him all the way into Holland, giving him feveral broadfides by the way; and that they have recaptured Valenciennes, Condé, and all the Duke's other prizes.

Jack alfo tells me, that fome ftrange things have happened at home; as how that the Habeas Corpus Act, which is the main-maft of English liberty, has been sprung; and that Mr. Pitt, our head boatfwain, has thrown Horne Tooke, and feveral of his old meffmates, into limbo. These things are all fo ftrange, that I know not how to believe them till they are con