“A Pennsylvania _Judge’s wife_ had, a little while ago, a child, by a man who kept a livery stable. The _lady_ says, the stableman is the best of the two and so has married him, though _his Honour_ is still living. I need not name the parties, for though the cowardly newspapers have never noticed the affair it is notorious enough. “There are more bastards born annually in the single state of Pennsylvania, than in all the British dominions: and as to cuckoldom, I will only say that every paper teems with _advertisements of wives eloped_ from the bed and board of their husbands. I do not hence insinuate that there are _no good people_ here. There are many. As many as in most countries; but then people will, and do allow, that the morals of the country are approaching fast to that state, which has never yet failed to prove the ruin of every thing held in esteem amongst men.” In proving the falsehood of the assertion so frequently repeated, as well on this as on the other side of the Atlantic, that “in _America_ the press is _free_ and truth is _not_ a libel,” our author adverts to a letter of DR. PRIESTLEY’S on that subject which he promises hereafter to expose more fully (a promise which we trust he will not forget); and then introduces the following curious anecdote, which we extract for the benefit of the Doctor’s political friends and admirers in Europe. “But since the Doctor wrote that letter it seems experience has changed his opinion. He has suffered the just punishment of his malignancy against his country; he has been cheated, neglected, and scorned. He is now in an obscurity hardly penetrable; he is reduced to poverty and bursting with vexation” (may a restless spirit of innovation, springing from, and nourished by, a bigotted vanity and a turbulent pride ever experience a similar fate)! All this has had an effect; and I will state as a fact, which I call upon him to deny if he can, that he has lately declared “that _Republican governments are the most arbitrary in the world_”! This MACHIAVEL had said before, and this all unprejudiced men of reading and observation had long since admitted; but, we confess we little expected to hear DOCTOR PRIESTLEY subscribe to the creed of the one, or to the acknowledgments of the other. Adversity, however, is an able advocate in the cause of TRUTH.