The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

BALTIMORE, February 4.

All the London papers agree in their accounts of a general fermentation in England; they can publish nothing but under restrictions: their manufactories are stopped: no person pays, nor is paid; at the same time, the body of idle mechanics increases; pressing and enlisting is exercised with unheard of violence, and does not appease the hungry multitude. To calm the minds of the people, their government ought to boast of some success: but they have nothing but defeats and losses to tell. Gardner repulsed—The Duke of York beaten—Lord Hood covered with the odium of unnecessary cruelty—Pitt accused of all crimes; denounced by Justice and the National Convention to the whole universe—Grenville quite ashamed of having suffered the dismemberment of Poland: of having alienated the Americans, and lost forever the trade with France—Dundas, the English Lavriliere, is tired of signing Lettres de Cachet. With what countenance shall this group of foxes and tigers, when taken by snare, appear before the English people? and notwithstanding a demand of 28 millions sterling is about to be made for the continuance of this execrable war, if opposition is not descended to a phantom, it must arouse the whole nation to the assistance of its minority; and that minority must increase, the moment John Bull shews his teeth. It appears that these reflections have struck the ministers themselves; now many of them dreading the tempest that is rising, hope to gain a shelter—Richmond is retired—Grenville and Dundas are preparing themselves for an amnesty, by an apropos dismission; but Pitt, in acting the Jesuit, and King George in exclaiming What! What! What! &c. &c. &c. are approaching, with an irresistible current, to the last judgment of the people, and to the Revolutionary Guillotine.