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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. — John Shaqi

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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

In allusion to the influence exercised by FOX over
    FRANCIS, fifth DUKE OF BEDFORD, who had become one
    of the most zealous of the popular party.




                               PROSPECTUS
                                   OF
                           THE ANTI-JACOBIN;
                                  OR,
                            WEEKLY EXAMINER,

  The FIRST NUMBER of which will be published on MONDAY, the 20th of
  NOVEMBER, 1797, to be continued every Monday during the sitting of
  Parliament. Price 6d.

              ——_Possit quid vivida virtus
              Experiare, licet: nec longe scilicet hostes
              Quærendi._


At a moment, when whatever may be the habits of inquiry and the anxiety
for information upon subjects of public concern diffused among all ranks
of people, the vehicles of intelligence are already multiplied in a
proportion nearly equal to this encreased demand, and to the encreased
importance and variety of matter, some apology may perhaps be necessary
for the obtrusion of a new Paper upon the World; and some account may
reasonably be expected of the views and principles on which it founds
its pretensions to notice, before it can hope to make its way through
the crowd of competitors which have gotten the start of it in the race
for public favour.

  [As this _Prospectus_ was written by MR. CANNING, and it has been
  prefixed only to the former edition of the _Poetry_ by the present
  Editor, it is again considered an interesting addition to the
  present one.]

The grounds upon which such pretensions have usually been rested by
those who have engaged in undertakings of this kind, are accuracy,
variety, and priority of Intelligence, connections at home,
correspondence abroad, and, above all, a profession of impartial and
unprejudiced attention to all opinions, and to all parties and
descriptions of men.

On none of these Topicks is it Our intention to enlarge.

Of Our means of information, and of the use which We make of them, our
readers will, after a very short trial, be enabled to form their own
opinion. And to that trial We confidently commit ourselves: professing,
however, at the same time, that if the only advantage which We were
desirous of holding out to our Readers, were that of having it in our
power to apprize them an hour or a day sooner than those Journals, which
are already in their hands, of any event however important—We should
bring to the undertaking much less anxiety for success, and should state
our claims on public attention with much less boldness, than We are
disposed to do in the consciousness of higher purposes, and more
beneficial views.

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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.

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