"nance all party-diftinctions; to extinguish na"tional prejudices, and to recommend that spirit "of concord, which alone can make us a fuccefs"ful and preferve us an happy people. In fhort "it is intended in the conduct of this plan, to try "whether it is poffible to talk Politicks with tem"per; to delineate characters with Decency; to "treat of factions with Good Humour ; and to love "our Country without hating Individuals." Here are mild words; and yet in the fecond number, he ferves up no less than fix or seven individuals, and fome of them no inconfiderable perfonages neither: and yet even this trifling inconfiftency may be accounted for, if we recollect that the AUDITOR himself begins his ninth number with this reflexion: "It is a curfe entailed upon the retainers to despair"ing faction, that they are not only Miferable "Men, and Wretched Writers, but they muft be "Lyars into the bargain; they must forge Crimes "to affright the people, they must scatter abroad "the words of prevarication, &c. &c." The above lifts not only fhew who have been the Butts of Satire to each writer, but may alfo with due attention to the turnings and windings in the Court Calendar, ferve as unerring guide-pofts to point out fuch as feem to be in the high road to abufe from either paper. Being made acquainted with the Colour of the heroes of both parties, we know know that if a great officer of the court fhould be turned out, or to use the more courtly phrafe refign, the AUDITOR will immediately tear out the white leaf wherein he so lately fang his praises, and, like another Peachum, fet his name down in his black book, and call on him to exercise the full powers of the Chriftian virtue of refignation. We know too, that if a noble Member of one Houfe fhould call for an able Commoner to lead the bufinefs of the other, the NORTH BRITON will immediately open his deep mouth on that leader, and maul a Manager with as great alacrity as Mr. Thady Fitzpatrick. But as rules and precepts are never clearly enforced, unless illuftrated by example, I will fubmit a small Peep into Futurity to your readers; and as I have in fome places above, rather made extraordinary diftinctions in favour of the AUDITOR, I fhall here pay my particular compliments to the NORTH BRITON. We have already feen whom that writer has abused (craving his pardon for the groffness of the expreffion ;) and the AUDITOR'S lift of Scandal (craving his pardon alfo) is a pretty exact catalogue of thofe, whom the NORTH BRITON has praised. I fhall now therefore, Mr. Baldwin, take upon me to predict, with as much fagacity as Partridge or even Bickerftaff, whom he will praife, whom he will abufe, and whom he may poffibly praife or abufe: and for the fulfilling thefe my predictions I refer to time, or even appeal to the Second Sight of the NORTH BRITON himself. Some that are turned out, I know he will take every opportunity to praife, and that clafs I fhall diftinguish by Chalk; fome that are put in, I know he cannot refift the temptation of dispraising, and that class I fhall distinguish by Charcoal. But there are another clafs of a dubious indeterminate twilight character, whose conduct will not fuffer us to speak precifely of the colour of their intentions; a kind of heterogeneous or amphibious animals, Hermaphrodites or Otters in Politicks, neither in nor out, Pro nor Con, Court nor Country, Whig nor Tory, Scotch nor English; who are, like Sir Anthony Branville, in a State of Fluctuation, and hang, like Mahomet's coffin, in fufpence; who seem ready to veer and turn, like approved weather-cocks, with every guft of politicks; who ftand between Ay and No, like the afs of the schoolmen between two bundles of hay; or like Prince Volfcius in love, hip-hop, hip-hop, one boot on, and the other boot off. Thefe Statesmen of the neuter gender, we can place in neither lift; and yet they seem to bid fair for |