PINETTI attempted to strip off an Englishman’s shirt; if he had succeeded, he would have retained his popularity.—Mr. PITT attempted this trick, and has carried his point.
PINETTI has a bird which sings exactly any tune put before it.—Mr.
PITT has upwards of TWO HUNDRED birds of this description.—N.B.
PEARSON says they are a pack of CHATTERING MAGPIES.
[1] The Editor feels it necessary to declare, in justice to Mr. HASTINGS’s character, that the charges since preferred by the HOUSE OF COMMONS, and MAJOR SCOTT’s honour as a Gentleman, have amply disproved all parts of this comparison.
NEW ABSTRACT OF THE BUDGET, FOR 1784.
COMMUTATION TAX.—An Act for rendering houses more chearful, healthy, comfortable, and commodious.
PAPER DITTO.—An Act for the encouragement of authors, the promotion of learning, and extending the liberty of the press.
POSTAGE DITTO.—An Act for expediting business, increasing social intercourse, and facilitating the epistolary correspondence of friends.
DISTILLERY DITTO.—An Act for making the landlords responsible to government for the obedience of their own and their neighbours tenantry.
CANDLE DITTO.—An Act for the benevolent purpose of putting the blind on a level with their fellow-creatures.
EXCISE GOODS DITTO.—An Act for lessening the burthen of the subject by an increase of the collection.