Daily National Intelligencer

The English newspapers console themselves for the want of a perfect liberty of the press, by making the best use of that which they have. What they cannot say literally, of the Royal Family, for example, they say allegorically or metaphorically; and their hits are sometimes very ingenious and successful. To understand the following jeu d'esprit from a late London paper, the reader must bear in mind a projected cruise of the Prince Regent, in the British Channel, on board the Royal Yacht. The wit is directed against the quantity of the liquors laid in by way of sea stores, on that occasion.