THE

SPIRIT

OF THE

PUBLIC JOURNALS

FOR

1809.

BEING

AN IMPARTIAL SELECTION

OF THE MOST INGENIOUS

ESSAYS AND JEUX D'ESPRITS

THAT APPEAR IN THE

NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AAND NECDOTES ·

OF

MANY OF THE PERSONS ALLUDED TO.

PRINTED

VOL. XIII.

To be continued Annually.

LONDON:

FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, NO. 170, PICCADILLY,

OPPOSITE BOND STREET,

S. GOSNELL, Printer, Little Queen Street, London.

CONTENTS.

ANTICIPATION of an Ode for the New Year

An Eccentric Ode on the New Year

Ministerial Triumphs

New Year's Gifts

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General Agency

All the Talents

Epigrams, 10, 48, 54, 55, 56, 70, 81, 122, 191, 196,

Last Scene in the last Act of a Farce called the Cabinet

Boney's Proclamation

New Reading in Othello

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The Capability of Ministers

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Impromptus, 18, 51, 142, 146, 196, 238, 244, 252, 303,