the lowest sugars will be raised only 3d. pér lb.* that we may retain a remembrance of their misfortunes, and a fellow-feeling for their distresses.

XII. Genuine medicines of all kinds, for every disease; and, for the lovers of great bargains, double the quantity for half the price in the laboratories. A large strong vomit for three farthings; and a patient kept purging a week for a penny.-Jesuit's bark, as cheap as tanners'.-Extract of nettles, for pimples on the face; and the Ormskirk medicine, dog cheap.

XIII. Poison for vermin of every kind, male or female, and no questions asked. That valuable treatise, Every Man his own Vermin Killer, sold in dozens or single copies.

XIV. Traps for animals of the most cautious nature, which never fail-from the mouse to the man trap.

The advertiser entreats that the public will not consider him as using the paltry tricks of advertising quacks: He can assure the world that he is a man of character, and his manner of dealing will prove it. Sales below prime cost are continued from year to year; and the great

* On the news of the hurricane in the West Indies, sugars. instantly started 3d. per lb.

sums of money that are made by such dealers must convince the most credulous, that they can be undersold in every article; and the public may be assured, that even the manufacturer himself cannot afford the goods so cheap as the advertiser; and he entreats, that ladies and gentlemen will believe him, and trust the quality to his integrity.

Timely notice of the place of sale will be given in a future advertisement, and commissions will be called for at every house.

E. G.

[A very extraordinary licentiousness had been observed for some time among the youth of both sexes, and particularly the very young females, as would appear from the following note, which was published in the Edinburgh Evening Courant. This note had led to inquiry; and the Printer, who had refused other strictures, admitted those that follow.]

"WE have received Juvenal's favour, and must allow, if his facts are well founded, that his satire, though cutting and severe, is certainly

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just; and that no language can be too strong to lash so abjectly vicious and detestable a character. But, as it is so marked, and such circumstances pointed out, as might rouse indignation, we must beg leave to decline being the instru ment of the correction, however just and lau dable. We would recommend it to our corre spondent Juvenal to bestow a paper of serious advice to parents and guardians on attention to the education and conduct of their children, and particularly daughters, from the earliest period of life, if they wish them to escape the character of impure. Manners and morals are indeed dissolute; but surely a hoary head should induce attention to decorum, if it does not extinguish gross vice."

[A few days after this, an apology from the Printer, and a letter upon the subject appeared.]

The following letter, occasioned by our note to a correspondent, Juvenal, in a late paper, is too interesting to be suppressed, though we receive in it our own share of censure.

SIR,

I observe you have received, from a correspondent, Juvenal, strictures on some character, occasioned, as it would seem, by such a species

of turpitude, that I cannot help reprehending your prudential reasons for suppressing them.Pray consider, Sir, that the greatest advantage we can derive from the freedom of the press is the correction of vice, and the protection of virtue; and these purposes ought not to be defeated by too scrupulous a delicacy. That noble and generous sentiment of the Roman poet should ever be present to the mind.

Nihil humani a me alienum puto.

Dare, Sir, to be avowedly a friend to mankind, and take a concern in what respects the rights of humanity. What heart will not make the cause of virtue and innocence peculiarly intes resting, except such detestable characters as are pointed out by your correspondent Juvenal? Spare them not, Sir, but drag them into public view. It is the cause of humanity, and should be heard.

We condemn to an ingnominious death the poor illiterate wretch who pilfers our property; yet the worst of assassins in a high sphere of life, who murders the peace and happiness of families, who trains the young and unexperienced to vice, and renders them the scorn of the virtuous, and the outcasts of society, is allowed

to walk about with impunity, a deliberate villain!

Some recent instances will start to the view of every person acquainted with this metropolis; and to others, the marks of pity, contempt, and scorn, which are expressed as they pass along, will sufficiently point them out.

The female who once falls from innocence is justly held to be sunk into perpetual debasement, and the person who first vitiates the young female mind is, in fact, the cause of anguish worse than death. Where is the father who would not rather see his child a breathless corpse, or the brother who would not with joy carry his sister's head to the grave, than see her in the road to infamy, wretchedness, disgrace, and despair?— What can equal the agonizing pangs that must arise to parents and friends on such reflection?— and why are the authors of such complicated calamity allowed to continue in society,—and yet they themselves, perhaps, are fathers!

Allow me to say, Sir, that you have shewn a false delicacy in concealing the strictures of Juvenal. The only motive I can assign for this is, that you think the exposing such a character to the public is too great a reproach to the country. The degrees of indignation and contempt indeed, are not infinite; and I would re