Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820
How we have succeeded must be left to the judgment of the Public. If we
might venture, indeed, to conjecture from the support which we have
experienced, the result would be flattering in an unusual degree. Three
complete Editions of our Paper (a circumstance, we believe, as yet
without a precedent) have been disposed of, and the demand for them
still increases.
But the motives of Profit, as will readily, we believe, be granted to
us, have little influence on our minds: we contemplate the extensive
circulation of our Paper with pleasure, solely from the consideration of
the VAST NUMBERS of our Countrymen whom we have fortified by our
animadversions against the profligate attacks of the Agents of Sedition,
whether furnished by the _Whig Club_, the _Corresponding Society_, or
the _Directory of France_.
Calculation was not originally our delight. Nor was it till after we saw
the wonderful effects which it produced in the pages of the Jacobinical
Arithmeticians that we were tempted to adopt it. Our first Essay,
however, was crowned with the most complete success. In our Seventh
Number, we gave (still following the laudable example of the Jacobins,
who, when a Ship is to be fitted out, or a Regiment raised, for the
purpose of defending our Country from an insolent and barbarous foe,
nicely calculate how many idle mouths might be fed by the sums
required)—We gave, we say, as accurate a statement as we could form, of
the number of People that might be supplied with wholesome food for one
day, by the SURCHARGE levied on the DUKE OF BEDFORD—a statement which,
we are happy to add, placed the matter in so clear a light that we have
since had no occasion to repeat it.
Our Readers will not _now_ be surprised if we again have recourse to
_Calculation_ to prove the advantages which (we love to flatter
ourselves) have been derived from our Paper. Our Sale (to say nothing of
the new Editions which have been disposed of) has regularly amounted to
_Two Thousand Five Hundred_ a week; on an average of several Papers, we
find the Lies which have been detected to amount to _six_, and the
Misrepresentations and Mistakes to _an equal number_. This furnishes a
total of _twelve_, which, multiplied by _thirty-five_, the number of the
last ANTI-JACOBIN, gives a total of _four hundred and twenty_.
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