publish every thing that had been entrusted to him, either in his counting

house or the public prints!

I think the following letter will place his character beyond doubt or suspicion.-No one, after reading it, will say "why I do not know; but I hardly think Sir Richard is so badI believe he is a weak man, but surely he is not quite so dirty as Mrs. Clarke says!"

Here the reader will see that he calls the very man a traitor, whose principles he admired, and with whom he

was secretly acting, but forsook under the hopes of becoming at least a BA

RONET, he then abuses his friend, and tries to carry a point with me, to further his own private views!

DEAR MADAM,

"You are misled and infatuated!

Let the friend you speak of, do for you that which I proposed, and then he will have a title to your confidence, I DARE him to do it, and if he will, I will give him credit; he is otherwise a TRAITOR to your wELFARE and INTEREST. It is ROMANTIC and QUIXOTIC in the EXTREME to TALK of the PUBLIC! I will not accept or make use of your negative, till I have seen you in the morning, I can make no further communi

cation to the liberal and noble persons who have

honoured me with their confidence.

"Grace and repentance, till I see

you in the morning, and believe me till

then, sincerely your friend,

"Bridge-street,

"March 30, 1809."

"R. PHILLIPS."

Sir Richard says in this letter, that it is ROMANTIC and QUIXOTIC in the extreme to talk of the public!— Here we see a little into the private and real sentiments of a modern patriot, who affects to feel for the public misfortunes, but in his heart is a complete CORIOLANUS, without either his

dignity, courage, or talents:-What! despise that very public, by whom he has been raised from a little English school-master at Leicester, to the Shrievalty of the first city in the world!—What, treat with contempt that PUBLIC, to which he has been so often appealing for its admiration and good opinion, and for whom he wrote a book, to induce the people of England to believe, that he was a man of humanity, and felt keenly for those sufferings, he had stood forward to redress!

Am I not dreaming when I say all

this of the professed friend to the unfortunate debtor.-It surely cannot

be the same Sir Richard of whom I am speaking-and if DANGEROUS HYPOCRISY-were not the common passion that animates a patriot's bosom, I would not believe my own eyes— but, alas! his letter is my evidence, and such evidence, that all the sophistry of Bridge-street cannot destroy !

The other part of his letter, where he speaks of his communication to the liberal and noble persons who have honoured him with their confidence, has since made me laugh exceedingly,