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
With regard to the PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, We shall not fail to mark
to Our Readers the progress of the public business; though it does not
enter into our Plan to give a regular detail of the Debates: nor would
the limits of our Paper allow of it.
We have a further reason for not occupying this province, which will
equally account for our determination, not to receive Advertisements—our
earnest desire not to lessen the circulation of any existing Public
Print.
It is obvious upon every ground of fairness and of policy, that We must
entertain this desire very strongly with regard to the respectable
Papers which are directed by principles and attachments like our own: an
attachment (We have no wish to disguise it) to the cause of a
GOVERNMENT, with whose support, whose popularity and consequent means of
exertion, the circumstances of the present times have essentially
connected the existence of THIS COUNTRY as an independent Nation.
As little should we wish to circumscribe the sale of those JOURNALS,
upon whose errors or perverseness, upon whose false statements and
pernicious doctrines We reckon for the main support, as they have been
the principal cause of our undertaking. These We would entreat to
proceed with fresh vigour and increased activity. It is our wish to be
seen together, and to be compared with them. Every week of
misrepresentation will be followed by its weekly comment; and with this
corrective faithfully administered, the longest course of MORNING
CHRONICLES or MORNING POSTS, of STARS or COURIERS, may become not only
innocent but beneficial.
With these views then We commence our undertaking. Whatever may be the
success or the merit of its execution in our hands, the want of
something like it has so long been felt and deplored by all thinking and
honest men, that We cannot doubt of the approbation and encouragement
with which the attempt will be received.
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