1.

Squib against MR. BIRCH.

JOSEPH'S DREAM.

AND it came to pass that JOSEPH grew

rich, and his ambition increased exceedingly, and all his discourse was of sitting in Parliament.

2. And his thoughts both night and day, were how to accomplish this great matter.

3. And he could take no rest: at length he fell into a doze, on the very night preceding the day on which he received an invitation from the men of Nottingham, and had pleasant dreams.

4. And he arose early the next morning, which he was not wont to do, so JOSEPH's wife arose also, and found him in his garden.

5. And she said unto him, JOSEPH come into thine house, and take some refreshment; and JOSEPH did so.

6. And he said unto her, hear my dream; and she listened unto him; then he opened his mouth and said,

7. I fancied I received an invitation from the men of Nottingham promising to secure a seat in Parliament for me so I went unto them, and they placed me in a triumphal chair, and bore me on their shoulders, and sang Songs of Liberty before me.

8. The Goddess of Reason attended, and also twenty-four-damsels clothed in white, with flags and instruments of music, and cried aloud B—ñ for ever!

9. Then I took leave of my friends, and took my Seat in the Imperial Parliament, and was exceedingly gratified.

But JOSEPH LITTLE DREAMT of being told that he was unduly elected, and that he must return to Nottingham again!

10. And JOSEPH's wife said unto JOSEPH I also have dreamed a dream; and he said unto her relate it to me.

11. And she opened her mouth and said, she saw him, in her vision, wrestling with DANIEL, and DANIEL Overcame him, not only in the Meadow-plats, but also in the Marshes, and afterwards at New Radford he laid him on his back on the sands.

12. I heard you exclaim, while prostrate, "DANIEL the Day is thine, but know the vast renown thou hast acquired in conquering JOSEPH, doth afflict him more than the soul parting from the body."

13. JOSEPH, on hearing this, was exceedingly troubled, and he gave commandment that she should not dream any more—and she bowed.

14. And they heard a violent noise at the gate, and the man of letters brought the invitation from Nottingham, whereupon he ordered his chariot, horses, and horsemen to be ready, and he journeyed for Nottingham.

15. And both JOSEPH and his wife's dreams were verified; and he returned home, much chagrined, and pursued his slave trade.

And he made a vow never more to be ambitious; but hung down his head, and never more looked up to the heavens, for he could not bear the sight of any thing resembling

TRUE BLUE.

ADDRESS.

To the Inhabitants of Nottingham.

Never was there an attempt of such unparalelled impudence and falsehood as for the worthy Corporation of Nottingham to publicly advertise that the Petition againt the Police was signed by upwards of 4000 Persons.

'That there might be 4, or 40,000 Names to it, no man can doubt, but WHERE ARE THE OWNERS TO BE FOUND? they are, like Falstaff's Men in buckram-Nonentities. In a Town consisting of 30,000 Inhabitants there are not enough to be found even to report to Parliament_the last lamentable dying Speech and Confession of a Tyranny under which they have groaned for ages, but New Radford was to be drawn to Nottingham by the Town Cryer, and the Refuse of Mankind were to be drilled to sign FOUR TIMES OVER AS INHABITANTS OF NOTTINGHAM.

The Infamy of procuring and sending this Petition appears glaringly to three parts in four of you; and in order that it may appear to the Country, and to Parliament, I assert, and am ready to bring many respectable Witnesses forward to prove That great numbers of Boys not fourteen years of age were permitted, nay invited to sign; that they not only signed their own names, but for their fellow Schoolboys and Apprentices not present ; that one Man signed Four different Names to this precious Knell of the Borough Justices, in the presence of the Man who attended with it at the 'Change Hall.'

Names are easily manufactured, but if our worthy Corporation should be called upon to produce the Owners, they may perhaps know what is already known by

Two of their Tribe on a late Trial.

ADDRESS.

To the Burgesses, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of Nottingham.

Mr. COKE's Bill for depriving your Magistrates of their exclusive Jurisdiction, and placing an equal one in the hands of the County Justices has passed the House of Commons; by the Petition which in eight hours was signed by upwards of 4000 Persons you have already shewn your promptness to express your detestation of this invasion of your charter, but the rights, the privileges and the advantages which the Town has so long enjoyed, are a charge transmitted to you from your ancestors, which you are bound to defend to the last.

The Bill nominally aimed at the Magistrates is a real attack upon every Burgess, Freeholder, and Inhabitant of Nottingham, and the Rights of the poor Burgess are equally infringed on with those of his opulent neighbour. A Petition to

the House of Lords to prevent its mischievous effects will lie at the Guild-hall and Exchange hall to-day, and Saturday, to receive the signatures of those who are still anxious to preserve untouched the franchises of their native Town.

Nottingham, May, 1803.

A

"OUT AT LAST."

Mali Imperatores, Mali Cives.

T length the decisive blow is struck—at

length the cries of the oppressed-the blood of the innocent have reached the citadel of retributive Justice.The sacred Majesty of the Throne, so often insulted with impunity-the authority of the Laws, so long violated, and abused, have at length been roused to action-the avenging arm of Justice has been raised to crush the daring efforts of Rebellious Faction, and rapacious Violence-the bright and glorious day has dawned which cherishes with it's reviving warmth the drooping spirit of abused Liberty; and the last sun has shed his departing ray on the expiring body of usurping Tyranny

-the reins of legal power wrested from the hands of those who were unfit to hold them, and the mask torn from their unhallowed brows, they have been compelled to appear in their natural form. Beneath the assumed cloak of Freedom appear the detested features of Cruelty & Oppression-and beneath the specious guise of Civil and Religious Liberty, the fiend-like form of Democratic Tyranny, rears its horrid head.

These are the monsters which, assuming such alluring forms to lead deluded wretches to their ruin, have sullied the native purity of Liberty, and converted her celestial form into a monster more terrible than the head of Medusa, more destructive than the Theban Sphinx-who can behold this monster without emotion?-Cruelty, Fraud, and Rapine depicted on her brows-her