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Rh, has not yet been clearly tated to the public, nor have the conequences of it been ufficiently undertood. Had I taken it up at an earlier period, I hould have been accued of an uncandid, malignant precipitation, as if I watched for an unfair advantage againt the minitry, and would not allow them a reaonable time to do their duty. They now tand without excue. Intead of employing the leiure they have had, in a trict examination of the offence, and punihing the offenders, they eem to have conidered that indulgence as a ecurity to them, that, with a little time and management, the whole affair might be buried in ilence, and utterly forgotten.

general of the army is arreted by the heriff's officers for a coniderable debt. He peruades them to conduct him to the Tilt-yard, in St. James's Park, under some pretence of busines, which it imported him to settle before he was confined. He applies to a erjeant, not immediately on duty, to ait with ome of his companions in favouring his ecape. He attempts it. A butle Rh