THE

SPIRIT

OF THE

PUBLIC JOURNALS

FOR

1807.

BEING

AN IMPARTIAL SELECTION

OF THE MOST INGENIOUS

ESSAYS AND JEUX D'ESPRITS

THAT APPEAR IN THE

NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

WITE

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND ANECDOTES

OF

MANY OF THE PERSONS.AYUDED TO.'

VOL. XI.

To be continued Annually.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, NO. 170, PICCADILLY,

OPPOSITE BOND STREET.

1808.

SGOSNELL, Printer, Little Queen Street.

CONTENTS.

THE best Heart in the World, a Dramatic Sketch

A Reckoning with Time

Answer to the foregoing

The Horse and the Highwayman

The Humps

Newspaper Miseries

Epitaph on a Wife

Inscription proposed to be placed over the Temple

Gate

Answer to the above

Epigram on a Cook

Times present worse than Times, post, By Mr.

Homespun

More from the same Gentleman

Lord C's Address to the County of Down

Electors

Anecdote of Dean Swift and his Barber

Flashes of Merriment

58

59

60

62

64

The Miller with three Thumbs

Character of the late Mr. Pitt