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La Pompadouf.** P H I LA D E L P H I A Printed by William Young, -v"^'. iti^ji. ■'. For WILLIAM COBBETT, oppofite Chrift's Church. lICj jV7* : y ^y I / . Ml ■m PREFACE. READER, '* I Y you have a Shop to TtiinJ, or any other buftnefs to do^ I advife you to go and do it, and let this book alone ; for, I can ajfure you, it contains nothing of half fo much importance to you, as the f ale of a fkein of thread or a yard of tape. By fuch a tranfaBion you might pof fibly make a net profit of half a farthing, a thing, though feemingly of fmall value, much more worthy your attention than the treafures under the State Houfe at Amflerdam, or all the mines of Peru. Half a farthing might lay the foun- dation of a brilliant fortune, andfooner than you Jhould be deprived of it by this work, though it may be called my offspring, I would, like the worjlnppers of Moloch, commit it to the flames with my own hands. If you are "0/ that fe'x, vulgarly called the Fair, but which ought always to be called the Divine, let ?}ie befeech you, if you value your charm, to proceed no farther. Politics is a mixture of anger and deceit, and* thsfe are the -wrnmBBn^amm 7-^^^n 91 PREFACE. mortal enemies of Beauty, The injlant n lady turns poMcian^ farewell ihcfmiles, the dimples^ the rofes ; the graces abandon her^ and age fets his feal on her front. We never find Hebe, goddefs ever fair and ever young, chattering pO' litics at the table of the gods ; and though Ve- nus once interpofcd in behalf of her beloved Paris, the fpcar of Diomede taught her " to tremble at the name ofarjus" And have -we not a terrible a^ample of recent, very recent, date ? I mean that of the unfortunate Mary Wolfton- craft. // is a well known fafi^ that^ vuhen that poUtica lady began The Rights of Women, floe had a^ frne blak hair as you 'would vuifh to fee, and thai befo? e the fecond fheet of the ''vork went to the prefs, it was turned as uhiie, and a great deal whiter than her fhin. Tou mufi needs think, I have the ambition common to every au- thor ; that is to fay, to be read; but I declare, that, fooner i han bleach one auburn ringlet, or even afingle hair ; fooner than rob the world of one heavenly f mile, I would with pleafure fee my pam- phlet torn up to light the pipes of a Democratic club, or burnt, like the Political Progrefs, by the hands of a Scotch hang7nan, or even loaded with apflauf- * ■• * -. >'■• ■ ^ . ^ • ' \ * *", it ■ ■' "■ •'•'>'.:•■•'■ ■ ' • ■ ' • ', , \, _ 'V h' > .' . V ■■■ f 1^^ -^Mt'tamiimmrtjrm I' w ■ !■■ ■■■■■►■wai A BONE TO GNAW, TOR THE DEMOCRATS. THOUGH the good people of America can- not for their lives comprehend the views, from ^vhich they have been favoured with a publication of the Political Progrcfs of Britain, ' we may fuppofe, that the fondnels of the Author led him^ to fee a poflibility of its being read ; and, as it is in the nature of reading to 'rjve rife to obfcrvations, he will not be furprifed, that fome of thofe, arifing from the reading of his patriotic labours, have by a very ordinary pro> cefs, found their way into print/ It is thus that books, more grateful than the children of men, never fail to yield afliflance to thofe that have given them birth. Whenever negledl: jays its icy hand on an unfortunate production, another flies to its aid; and, though it cannot cancel the irrevocable doom; it faves it, for a n.o- me nt at lead, from the jaws of the unclean mo nfler, that is day and night gaping to receive it . , Such being, at Itafl in part, the charitable ,-.^ -■..^•. TT n ( 9^ ) views of thiiii f^> ii r I ( 100 ) as above mentioned, went to prove that bread v)(is abfolutcly dearer in Scotland than in England! —Well enough may you Hare reader. Was there ever fuch an impudent, fuch a barefaced />?/^as this, lince the noble art of puffing has been dilcovered ; And did the author of it ima- gine, that there was any two legged creature fo llupid as not to perceive it ? It is an infult to our national underftanding. Why not fay candidly ; *' gentlemen and ladies, here is a poor man in diltrefs, who, for want of better employment, has trumped up an old pamphlet, which he propofes to fell for a new. one ; in buying each of you one, you will render him a great iervice, and the bookfellers a flill greater. Unlefs you will be pleafed to beftow your chari- ty, the worms will (luff away upon the work, while the authors belly will be empty." This would have been plain downright honefl dealing, and would have brought the wiflied for relief at once. We give a fixpence to a good blunt beggar who tells his cafe in three words; but we have not time to liften to the canting fybil that offers to tell our fortunes for a halfpenny. The gazette above mentioned, in good will to Great Britain, does not yield to The Political Progrefs itfelf. It can do any thing, it can work miracles, when the " public will" requires it. For this year pad it has kept an army of a hun- dred thoufand Carmagnoles in conftant rea- dinefs to invade England, and has even landed them once, and fet them to fricafleing the poor Englifli, with as little mercy as they do the poor Frogs in their own country. Nor is it fecond to any, with refped to home affairs. It may be called the political barometer of the Union. AX I \ ( loi ) li a time when the atmofphere of popular opinion feemed to lower over the principal officers of the Federal Governm(i:nt, the Editor, in conformi- ty to the firft part of his motto, expunged the word Federal from the title of his gazette. As a reafon for this alteration, he obferves, with his ufual modefty : Previous to the adoption of '* the Federal Conllitution, this paper bore an *' honourable and decided part in hs favour ; but *' this Conflitution no longer needs the aid of a " Newfpaper." Notwithltanding this plaufible excufe, mod people thought, that the expun- ging of the word Federal had fomething ominous in it. I confefs myfelf to have been of that number ; I thought, I could perceive in it a preparatory (tep to fomething elfe : as fkilful mariners, when they fee a ftorm gathering, throw the heavy lumber overboard, that they may be able to tack with more celerity. And, if things had taken a different turn from what they did, who knows but we might have feen the protean Editor change his prefent refpedablc fign * for the head of Citizen Genet ? Happily for all parties, we have been fpared of this mor- tification, I flop here to throw myfelf on the mercy of ihe reader. " A digreflion," fays Shaftfbury, "is " ever inexcufable in proportion as the fubjed " of it is contemptible." Acknowledging, as I do, the juftnefs of this maxim, I am but too well affured, that nothing can apologize for the digreffion 1 have jufl been led into. The Political Frogrefs has, as the girls fay, more than one firing to its bow. The Editor * Wafhington's Head. 4:1 - ■'•\ /• ''T' f 102 ) above-mentioned is furpaiTed in charity by one of his brethren of the fame city ; the firft has on- ly recommended it to others, while the latter has taken it under his own roof. I Ihall trouble the reader with but one inftance, among a hun- dred, of this^f«/te(3«*s generofity. He is upon the fubje£): of the blood that has been fhed in France, fmce the commencement of the Revo- lution. He fays, " it would be an eafy matter io apologize for all the inajfacres that have taken *' place in that country ; but even taking them as they are, it will be found, upon reflexion, that, at this moment^ ihtfumoi human happi- nefs is greater in France than in the ^een of IJIes :** thefe are his very words. To prove this he prefents us v/ith " an anecdote, copied from a work of great merit (to be had at the office of the Aurora,) entitled. The Political Progrefs of Britain, This rare anecdote informs us, that, in the year one thrfand feven hundred and feventyfeven^ a woman was hanged at I'yburn for ftealing a piece of linen. Now, how the hanging of a woman at Tyburn, in 1777, could reduce the fum of human happinefs in the Queen of Ifles, in 1794; and how the redu6lion of the fum of human happinefs in the Queen of ifles could make an addition to the fum of human happinefs in France, is, I prefume, a problem to be folved by thole, and thbfe alone, who have been initiated in the arcanum of democratic algebra. Many have been the conjectures on the rea- fon of this Print's aiTaming the name of Aurora, The Editor, after having, like a fecond Phae- ton, driven the blazing car of democratic fury, till it was within an inch of burning us all up tOY^inderSj has aHumed the gentle gait and mo- te C)7 ) to meddle with their afTairs again. Such a per- verfe ftiil'-necked race ought to be left to their late. All we have to do, is, to take care that they do not get into our debt, and then let them break as foon as they will. Humanity requires that we Ihould pity our diftrefTed fellow creatures, but it docs not oblige us to expofe ourfelves to their contempt. In defence of the condudl of the gentlemen en- coitragers of The Political Progrefs of' Britain^ it has been roundlv aflerted, that there exifts a Mo- narchy Party in the United States, and that eve- ry thing tending to render it odious is neccifary and laudable ; and that, confequently, it was no more than fair play to borrow, or hire, the pen of a needy foreigner to lampoon the govern- ment and conftitution of his own country. But, whoever will give themfelvc-s the trouble to o- pen their eyes, or make ufe of a very little re- colleftion, will be convi/aced, I fancy, that there is no reafon for alariii on this account. Our democrats are continually crying fliame on the fatellites of Royalty, for carrying on a Crufade againft Liberty ; when the fad is, the fatellitCrf of Liberty * are carrying on a Cru- facie againft Royalty. If one could recollect all their valorous deeds, on this fide the water, fmce the beginning of 1793, they would make a hiftory far furpafling that of Tom Thumb or '\ * Take care, reader, how you confound terms here. Li' herty^ according to the Democratic Diftionary, does not mean freedom from, opprejfion ; it is a very comprchenfive term, fignifying among other things, Jlavery^ rohberyf murder^ and blafphemy. Citizen David painter to the Propagandc, has reprefented Liberty under the form of a Dragon ; it is, I fuppofe, for this reafon that our democrats cry out againft St., George as ♦* the moil dangerous of Li- ** berticidcs." ^ I " ( 108 ) Jack the Giant Killer, The Aurora^ and two or three other prints of that (lamp, have ferved them by way of Backers-on : they have been, and are yet, the Saint Ber^-ards and Peter the Hermits of the Crufade. When they found the government was not to be bulh'ed into a war, they were upon the point of declaring it themfelves againll the coalefced Monarchs, fo well known for their depredations on the purfes of all Chriilendom, and againfl , that old ruffian Harry the Eighth, who *. a fort ot fetter-on of the Vv hole pack. And though this refolvewa> not put into (xecurion, out of refpe£l for the inviolable and iacrcJ perion of his Majefty of Clubs, they immediaUfly " let flip the dogs *' of war" at every thing elfj that bore the name . or marks of Royalty. Their firft objcdl of attack was the Stage, E- very Royal or noble ch.arader wan to be driven ' into everlalh'ng exile, or at lead, none fuch •was ever to he introduced except by way of de- gradation. The words your Majcfty, My Lord, and the like, were held to be as ofifenfive to the clafle ears of Republicans, as filks, geld lace, painted cheeks, and powdered periwigs to iheir eyes. In (hort the hi'^heft and lowefl titles wer^^ to be citizen and citefs and the dreffes were all to be a la mode de Paris. That the Theatre might not fuffer for want of pieces adapted to the reformed tafte, the re- formers had the goodnefs to propose William 7ell^ and feveral others equally amufing - William was to be modernized : in place of fhooting the Governor with a bow and ar- row, he was to flab him in the guts with a dag- ger, cut off his head, and carry it round the Stage ( 109 ) wpon a pihc^ >vhile the mufic was to play the Murderer's Hymn and Ha, ca'ira. It is hard!y neceflary to fay, that the gentle- tnen and ladies of the biilkin (though they have taken for motto, Vivat Refpubtica * ) turned a deaf ear to all innovations of this kind. It was no eafy maiter to perfuade people who had been kings and queens from their infancy, to turn kennel-rakers and cut throats all at once. In vain did the Crufaders reprefent to them, that their condu6l was inconfiftent with their motto, and that their vanity was like that of the Afs loaded with Relick^. Expoflulation and me- naces were vain : after having ftrutted fo long in furbelowed brocades and White Chapel dia- monds, th y felt themfelves by no means difpof- ed to go (linking about the fcene in an a — clout. Some people may think, that this is all inven- tion ; but if they think it worth while to look over the Gazettes I have mentioned above, they will find that the merit of it does not fall to my lliare. To make the reader amends for WiUiam Tell^ I am agoing to treat him with a delicate mor- fel indeed ; and, which adds to its merit, it is not in every body's hands, the publication, from which I have extrafted it, being, thank God, but Very little known, * Thefc, I am told, arc cabalifllcal words of amazing virtue. It was my intention to give the reader a fatisfafto- fy explanation of them : but, though I have confultcd all the tnoft renowned Caballfts among the democrats, I have not been able to procure it. Some fay that repeating them about nine hundred times every other day, will charpe a high-flying Tory, into a Haunch Republican. Others fay, they have no virtue at all ; and that they mean neither more Uor lefs ihan— -Huzza for the Jlronge/i, ( no ) "PHILADELPHIA. f «( " A new Song called the Guillotine, Sunpj at the celebration oi the fourt/j o/yuly^ by a *' number of French and American citizens at *' Hamburgh. Writen by the celebrated Mr. •* Barlow, who was then at that place. «< God favc the Guillotine, " Till Em^I.tntPs Kiti'' and ^ff.\'n, " Her power Ihall prove ; ** 'Till each anointed knob •• AHorda .1 clip()inp job, ** L.ct no viL' lnilt'.r rob, »♦ I'hc Guillotine. •* Fanne let tliy tnmipot found, ♦* Tell all the world around, ... How Cnj)d fell ; (i •* And whtn gT:at George* s poll «' Shall in the bafl'iwi ( ««9 ) <' tain the quota of militia by regular drafts '* bad failed,'* If they had recollcOed, that, under fuch circumltances the end of an har- rangue was to " Itir men's bloods," and not to be very nice in the flatement of fads, they would not have been furprifed, that our Solomon ( I can have no intention to hint, that the wife Go- vernor has ever had three hundred concubines at a time ; human nature cannot ftand that, now a days) they would not, I fay, have been fur- prifed, that our Solomon fliould choofe Great Britain as a fpur. '' Reader, when you were a little boy, did you never carry on a fecret ^correfpondence with the pies and tarts ; and when by the rattling of the plates, or fome other accident you were like to be caught at it, did you never raife a hue and cry againd the poor dogs and cats ? Thofe who look upon the conduft of our Democrats as un- natural, forget their own little roguifh tricks. I will venture to fay that there are not five perfons in the United States, poffefling a degree cf underftanding fuperior to that of the brute creation, who believe that the Rebels have ever had from firfl: to laft, the leafl idea of feeking protedion from the BritiOi. From whence comes the probability ? All their partizans in this quarter were to be found among the revilers of Great Britain. Read their refolves, and fee if you can fmd any thing that leaves them a pof- fibility of fraternizing with the Britifli. Befides, can any body fuppofe, that the Britifh would have accepted of them ? Unlefs, indeed, they had had them in Europe, where they might have employed them as a " forlorn hope '/' as the Democrats have the poor Author of the Political ./ 1' •/ ':.^ ( 12C ) Progrefs. I fancy, if they, with all their parti- zans, and Tom the Tinker and his prevaricating Coadjutor at their head, had went and offered themlelves, bodies and fouls, to Old foxy Dor- cheller, he would have faid, as Louis XI. did to the Genoefe : " Vous vous donnez a mot, et " nwi, je vous donne au DiabteJ'*'* I afk any reafonable man, what they could poflihly expe£l to do among the Briti(h ? The Britifli have lb many of this ftamp already, that they are fending off (hip loads to Botany Bay every month. Could a fellow, for inftance i- magine, that having been the fecrctary of a back door club, would recommend him to the poft of fecretary in Canada ? Prudence would prevent the employment of one whofe only talent is, bloW' ing hot and cold with the fame mouth, bccaufe fuch a perfon might become the tool of every intriguing foreigner, and by his prevarication, might em- broil the whole government. Would any one (except one like himfelf) put fuch a man in a poil of confidence ? I put this queflion to every thinking American, and particularly to every Pennfylvanian. And with refped to Tom the Tinker himfelf, (for he is, on every account, entitled to the pre- eminence), what could he expedl among the Britifli ? If he were to play any of his drunken tinker-like tricks amongft them, it would not be begging pardon that would bring him off. If he were to tell them that his " hammer was " up, and his ladle hot, and that he would not " travel the country for nothing,^* I am miftaken if they would not pay him off with a good five hundred lafnes, well counted ; for the Britifh are pundual in paying their debts. They would * You give yourfelves to me, and I give you to the devil." ( 121 ) teach Kim how to fet people together by the ears another time. Could a f©t like Torn imapjine that the Cana- dian ladles would have iailen in love with him, becaule his fcull had often been decorated with a liberty Cap, to tellify his attachment to the na- tion from which they are defcended ? No ; the ladies, all the world over, are, from long expe- rience, too well convinced of the truth of Gold- fmith's maxim: " \ man who is eternally vo- " ciferatinpr liberty ! liberty ! is generally, in his " own family-^ a mofl cruel and inhuman tyrant.** The truth is, thofe among us who have made the mod noife, and have expreflfed the mofl ran- cour againfl: Great Britain, feem to have done it only to cover their enmity to the Federal Go- vernment, and confeqaently to their country, if we may with propriety call it their country. Let any man take a review of their conduct fmce the beginning of the prefent European war, and fee if this obfervation is not uniformly true. It was they who raifed fuch a clamour againfl the Pre- fident's wife Proclamation of Neutralitv ; it was they who encouraged an infolent and intriguing foreigner to fet the laws of the Union at defiance, and to treat the Supreme Executive Authority as if he had been a Talien or a Barrere, or the Prefi- dent of nothing but a Democratic or Jacobin Club; it was they who brought the vexations and de- predations on the commerce, and then Guillo- tined in effigy the AmbalTador Extraordinary, the Angel of Peace, who went to repair their fault ; finally, it' was they who fanned the embers of Rebellion in the Weft into a flame, and caufed fourteen or fifteen thoufand men to be taken 9.. V ,•• » U ( 122 ) fromtheirhomeSjto undergo amofl fatiguing cam'* paign, at the cxpencc of a million and an hall" of Dollars to the iJnited States. Ihe fame perverfc clan that heroically hurled down the Statue of Lord Cliatham, and manfully made war upon an Image and a Crown, endeavoured to introduce a law to prevent the Prefident of the United States iroin beiri?^ re-elcded, and openly declared (by the iifual vehicle of their manlteftovS, a gazette) that it was improper to fend the Chief Judge as Ani- baiVador Extraordinary to r^ngland, becaul'e they might want him here to — try the Prefident 1* It is rrthcr, an aukward circumda'^ce, I muft confefs, that the meddling enemies oi the Britifli iiovernment and of that of the United States ihould be the fame, the fact is however indifput- able, as will appear in a minute. For proof, 1 like always to have recourfe to what has appeared in print ; words arc wind ; a man fays a thing in earneft that he retraQs by turning it into a joke. Befides, we fay a hun- dred things in the heat of argument or palllon, that we do not think : but writing, and particu- larly writing for the prefs, is a deliberate a6t. "When a perfon fits down to write, his mind mull be in fome fort compofed ; time is necelTary for the arrangement of his ideas ; what he has writ- ten mud be examined with care ; he augments, curtails, corrects and improves. All this natu- • ' * Will not the reader be furprlfcJ to hear that the follow- ing toall was a favourite with them ? " May national grati- *• tude ever diHinguifli Americans." This is a pretty clear proof. I think, that they did not look upon themlclves as Americans; or, at leall, that in tlieir capacity of Demo- crats, they looked upon themfelves as exempted from all diofe moral obligations that bind the reft of mankind. ■\-.. ( >23 ) rally Implies the mofl mature reflection, and makes an aiFcrtion or an opinion in print be juft- ly regarded as irrciraclable. For this reafon, I iludl, in fupport of my pofition, brinj^ an extract iVon\ a print whoTe cliara«5ker in the patriotic world, yields to that oFno one. I have already done inylelf the honour of ex- tracling a fong from this print, after which its hatred to the Government of Great Britain will not be difputed, and, I think, the reader will - foon to be eonvinced that its hatred to that of the United States is equally fineere. Indeed the following extradl bears in itfelf fuch ample con- firmation of what I aflcrt, that it needs no com- ment. " There is a fet of men in this country [Ame- *' rica] who, to palliate, or rather deny the mal- *' adminidration of Government, charge the dij contents and clamours of the people to a reftlefs temper, or the afts of factious and defigning men. \xi order to illuflrate this af- fertion, it is infifled that our conJJiiution is a perfection of human wifdom — it is admitted that our conftitution is excellent, and that compared with the forms of government which have preceded it, we really difcover a fuperiority, that occafions a furprlfe that the people are not happy and contented.** " Whatever courtiers may plcafe to fay, on my part, I feel no incHnation to compliment men in power at the expence of the difpofitioii and gooid fenfe of my fellow citizens. To charge a people heretofore diilingulflied for their prompt and due fubmiflion to the Uws, and orderly condud, with turbulence cc cc cc Ci cc «c cc . } '*<5 ) S « fC " the people* — then it is to be hoped that the true Republicans of America will unite, and hurl with juft refentment from their exalted '^ ftations, men who have abufed the confidence " of a generous people. — To effect ibis — per- *' fevere ye writers in defence of liberty — and " you popular focieties^ relax not your laudable " purfuits^ your countrymen fhall blefsyou, and " your honeft zeal fliall be crowned with pa- " triotic rewards let no conliderations of *' paji fer'vkes^ or temporary dignity, deter you " from exhibiting to public view the public fer- *' varit who has abufed his trujl^ or acts not for '* the interefl of thofe who conflituted him.. Difregard the infinuations of men who object tc fuch inftitutions — no man would objett to fuch focietles, but one ivho ivijhes to reduce you to the condition of /laves, to deprive you of the right of thinking and exercifmg your opi- nions upon public affairs, or one whofe con- dud will not bear the teft of 'avefligat'on." I could go on to a thoufand pages with pieces of this calf, that have appeared within the lad nine months ; but, i dare fay, the reader will excufe my ftoj ping here^ This piece was among the fir ft I came at, and I have copied it word for word and lett^ir for lettei , ^"ithout even the omidion of a comma or a dalh,. Since the fail- ure of a certain enterprife, there is no doubt that the Author or Authors of it woidd wifh it turned into blank paper ; br:t, alas ! the wifh is vain ; in va^n would they cry, with Lady Mac- it * Tl\is prophecy appeared in print about the 20th of Ju- ly laft, jiiil at xh(t time when the Rebellion in the Well was breaking out j its date explains its meaning. V ■■"•v> ( 127 ) 'S le iil- Ibt it 13 ^':;'- beth ; " out, damn'J I'pot V' It is like thtir reputations. - • " ' * ' • ' Thus then I think, nobody will deny, that a hatred of the Briti/h Government and of that of the United States go hand in hand. Nor is the reafon of this at all myflerious ; it is not becaufe of their refemblance to each other in form, nor as the Democrats have ingeniouHy obferved, becaufe *' there is fome dangerous *' connexion between Great Britain anc^ our *' public affairs ; it is becaufe they are both purfuing the fame line of conducl with refped: to clubs and confpirations ; it is becaufe they have both the fame radical defe£l, a power to fupprefs anarchy ; it is, to fay all in on i word, becaufe they are governments. Great Britain has a government of fome fort (nobody will deny that i fuppofe), and this is fafficieiit to merit their execration. It is not the form of go- vernment, it is not the manner of its admini- Oration ; it is the thing itfelf, they are at war with, and that they mutl be eternally at war v/ith ; for, government implies ordc/, and or- der and anarchy can never agree. The Car- magnole fyftem (if there can be any fyftem in annihilation) is ' exactly adapted to their tafte and interefl ; a fyClem that has made " rich " men look fad, and ruffians dance and fing." If this were not the true reafon why fuch an eternal larum about the Britifh Government ? What have we or our Democrats to do with it If the people of that country like it, why need it pefter us \ That pious and patriotic Scotchman, the Author of the Political Progrefs^ teils us '' to *' wilh that an earthquake or a Volcano may 1 JI^-2 ^ C «28 ) iC <( c< cc -. .*, bury the whole Britlfli Iflands * together in the centre of the globe ; that a fingle, but decifive exertion of Almighty Vengeance may terminate the progrefs f and the remembrance of their crimes." Yea, be it even as thou fayefl:, thou mighty Cyclop ; but let us leave them then to the vengeance of the Almighty j let us not ufurp the place-of the Thunderer. < Underftand me, reader ; I would by no means infinuate, that a man cannot be a firm friend of the Federal Government, and at the fame time wifh all manner of fuccefs to the French, in their prefent ftruggle for what their vanity and our complaifance have ter T='d Liberty ; on the contrary, I think it ver .. .u;al for an Ameri- can, who has no other idea: of Liberty»than that which is conveyed to him by his fenfes ; who is not refined enough to tafte that metaphyfical kind of Liberty, that can exifl only in a brain afflicted with the mania reformatio ; who in fhort, has no notion that Liberty confuts in yield- ing up the crop he has laboured all the year to raife, and in receiving three or four ounces of black bread a day in lieu of it : it is natural, and even laudable, for fuch a m? ' i-i be zealous in the caufe of the French, who , L'^ is told, are fighting for Liberty ; but evt \ i;e ought to keep his zeal within the bounds of decency : when it b/eaks out into Civic-Feaits, Cockades m ' ''^ ^ ■" ."V''.- -,^ * And the Ifle of Sky, that « terrcftrlal Pai'adife," among the reft. •'-,«-'rf^-=' ,*%•:■ t If fomc fuch exertion had terminated another progrefs^ it might have fpared fomebod/ a good many fits of the gripes. .-..I- :i^•>■ •r-. the «J /a tricolor, and fuch like buffoonery, it expofes him to ridicule, and makes him one of the rabble. " Let the French wear their gar- *' lands of ftraw ; let them drefs up their itrura- *' pets in leaves of oak, and nickname their ca- " lendar ; let them play thofe pranks at home, *' and we fliall be but merry fpe^iators.'* ' Thefe are the words of a gentleman, who feems to have been, on this occafion, and, indecfi, on mod pther occafions, rather unfriendly to our allies. I am for carrying our complaifance further ; I *am for not only letting them play their pranks at > home, but here alfo, if they pleafe. If there be ' fomething, the feeing of .which may turn to our amufement or profit, I fee no reafon why we iliould Ihut our eyes ? Did not the wife Lacede- monians make their flaves drunk, and turn thehi ioofe, once a year, to infpire their youth with a horror for that beaftly vice ? In fliort, I am for hearing them, looking at them, laughing at them, or any thing but imitating them. Imitation here is ridiculous. When Shakefpeare wrote the cha- tacler of Tin lago or a Caliban, or Molier, that of a Tartuffe, they certainly never meant to ex- cite imitation. Ihoufands of mob crowd to fee one of their friends hanged^ but not one of '. them ever dreams of participating in the cere- mony. > Talking of dreaming puts me in mind of a dream i had iafl fummer, which is fo apropos to v the prefent fubjeft, and contains fo many* whim- fical circumftances, that I flatter myfelf it will not be diiagreeable to the reader. In the month of Au^ufl laft (I believe, it was on the 10//^ or \ith day), I retired to refl abjut R \: ;>L A - \ . ( 130 ) eleven o'clock ; but the heat and mufqultoes to- Fether prevented me from falling afieep, 'till the watchman had been round for three. Soon af- ter this I dropped ofF for about an hour and a half, during which time my fancy fported in the following dream. I thought, 1 was walking up Market Street, by the fide of Old William Penn, the founder of the City ; who told me, I thought, that he was come upon earth again to fee if his defceu- (lants, and thofe of his companions, continued to walk in the paths of peace and integrity. I thought, 1 afked him with a kind of a fneer, whe- ther he had hot found things furpafling his ex- pe(Station ; upon which tHe old man, after a heavy figh, told me a long deal about freeing Blacks vyith one hand, and buying Whites with the other, about godly malice and maple-fugar, and about thofe " precious hypocrites" (thefe were his very words) BriiTot and WarnerMifflin* &;c. &c. &c. to the end of the chapter. . ^ -V V * To j.uft{fy this title of ** precious hypocrites,*^ I fhafl liere give an extraft from Briflbt's TraveU, Letter IX. V (C (( (( <( *( I knew (fays Friend Warner to Friend Briflbt) I *' knew, friend, that thou waft here, and I am<:ome to fee thee. Bcfides I /ove thy nation. 1 was, 1 confel's, much prejudiced againft the French ; I even hated them, having in this refped, been mifled by an Engl'Jh educa- tion. But, when 1 faw them, a fecret voice faid to me ** that I ought to knoiv them and love them. I have inoiou ** them, and have found them to poffefs a fpirit of mildnefs ** and lentvolence that I never found among the Engltjhy " This made" fays Friend Briffot, " a deep impreffioii ** on my heart. What humanity ! what charity ! what love ** of mankind !" Yes, this m.ade fo ftrong an impreffion on Friend Briflbt*a heart, that the villain went home and fet to murdering with the utmoil diligence. This very Briffot was the leading fhaa I : ) I o fee fefs, nem, uca- me noion Idneff ^flioii love flbt'a with iding / •s? » ' C 131 ) >,. ' y • Before the good old man had finifhed his fto- ry, which, by the by, was a pretty tough one, we were, 1 thought, got to the upper end of Market- Street, where we were (topped by a monltrous crowd of people, that not only blocked up the way, but filled all the fields for a great way out. I thought, however, that we wedged along a- mong the crowd for a good while, 'till at lafl: we could penetrate no further. Our ears were aflfailed from all quarters with the firing of can- non, founding of trumpets, beating of drums, ringing of bells, finging, hooping, hallowing and blafpheming, as if hell itfelf had been broke loofe. Yet, the crowd feenied not to exprefs the lead fear : joy feemed feated on every counte- nance, and expectation in every eye. We had not waited long in this fituatidn, when two ban- ners, at fome little diftance, announced the ap- proach of a proceflion, at once the mod ludi- crous and mod idolatrous that ever eyes beheld. I thought, there was a fort of pyramid, made of ■ , •.' > > ... ,- . . ■', accufer of the king for the confpiracy of the loth of Auguft, and he himfclf alt( rwards boaftf d to have organized the con- fpiracy, in concert vpith Louvet, &c. " What humanity i *' what charity !" . As to Friend Warner, the Englifh learnt him to hate the French, though they could not learn him to pull off" his hat, ** What humanity ! what charity !" — A fecret voice told him that he ought to knoiv them and to lo've them, and he h^% known and loved them, and found them to poffefs a fpirit of mUilnefs, &c. Warner, feems to have forgotten their fcalping knives ; but let him notv tell us whether they are mild or n»t. If I knenv this Warner, I would make him a prefentof a *' Bloody Buoy,^' which I think v/ould convince him, that, in fpite of all his cant, the Englifh ftill pofTefs a little rnore nnldnefs than his new Friends. 1 beg. to be understood here, as throwing no flur on the feft to which Warner belongs, and for which I have as much refped as mofl. perfons. 1,. ./5- '. r V -" (^132 ) •■v-.. paper, with a red night cap upon the tnp of it, and carried by two Americans and two Foreign- ers, ail of whom, like the pyramid, were drefied in red night caps. Round the pyramid marched I thought a bevy of virgins in white robes, each wearing a crown and celtus tricolour, and bearing a garland in her hand ; and (what fluff do we dream of!) I thought thefe nymphs were uOiered by nine or ten pr;eits*, whofe only mark of dif- tinQlon was a nojc^ay of^ raw tied round with a ribbon. 1 thought that behind thcfe, came a company of artillery with their cannon, and that they were followed by a gang of mufic. Then, T. thought followed the two banners above menti- oned ; one of them having for arms the imperial Eagle, jufl" as it is feen on the ftandards of the Holy Roman Empire ; the other was fo black and -^irty that I could not diftinguilh its armory ; it *eemed, I thought, rather the enfign of the infer- nal regions than of any earthly nation. " After *' this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude that •' no man could number, of all nations, and *' kindreds, and people, and tongues,'* and cO" lours* I thou;i,ht however I could diftinguifh a- mongfl them (but it is all a dream) the Chiefs of the State of Pennfylvania ! ! I thought, we follov/ed this antick fliow into a fpacious enclofure, where, on an altar, not of burnifhed gold, but of deal boards, flood The GodJefs, the objed of the feafl. She was dreffed like the Cyprian Queen, when fhe received the prize from the Idalian Shepherd j that is to fay, — in her (kin : in her right hand ihe held a ftaff mounted with a night-cap, and in her left^ a dagger ; on her head fhe had a cap, decora-.. ted, in appearance, with lillies ; but, upon a k ' ^ v ^ ' ?■." / .V , If, 1/ *r ' >\*. «. '%ii' - .. -. ( '33 ) ■■ •..;>'; clofer examination, I thought, I found them to be real bells. This difcovery led me to per- ceive, that I had committed an error with re- • fped to the identity of her perfon ; for hear- ing that her worfliippers were called cus-nus, * I had concluded fhe was the Goddefs Gloacinay and in this opinion 1 was in fome meafure con- firmed by feeing; her worfhipped with nofe-gays of x Jiraw ; but the Cap and Bells fet me right at ^ once ; in fhort, I faw plainly it was the Goddefs of Foil f ; which, I thought, was befides fully proved by the behaviour of the crowd. But ' ilill, the dagger remained unexplained ; for, we all know, that that weapon is not among the infignia of this Goddels. In this perplexity I happened to caft my eyes downward, and, on the front of the altar, I thought I faw the following , phrafe from Voltaire : " Sous ma tulelle, lesfmges *' agacent les Tigres." ■.^.■V: ' , i The Priefts, I thought, were ranged round ; the altar, offering up their nofe-gays, and invok- ing the afliftance of the Qoddefs, while the air rang with Hallelujahs. The invocation was * no fooner ended and the benediction given by the High Prieft, than the whole (^not excepting the Chiefs^ I thoug'.t, of the State of FennfyU vania ) began dancing and capering a la camii- bale round the altar, at the fame time deafening the very firmament with their cries. Here my venerable companion, who, had been very uneafy during the whole fcene, would abfolutely flop no longer ; and to confefs a : truth, i began to feel a good deal uneafy my- J, felf. I thought, we got with fome difficulty to the out-fide, and feeing a young fellow of a ^■'< .vt.' '.:'<'. )' ,■' This /in the vulgar tongue, means, bare— —A -es. ».-v ■/' II n ' / •"( 134 ) «c C£ « (C milder afpe£i: than the reft, the Old Man ven- tured to aflc him, how long thofe people had been Pagans^ 1 thought, the fellow gave him a look of infinite contempt, and anfwered : " I fee you are a fuperftitious old fool, that knows no- thing of the luminous clofe of the Eighteenth Century. Why, you (lupid old dog, we are " all Chriflians yet : what you have feen to-day is only a jubilee, to celebrate the down-fall of our bejl friend^ and the maffacre of nine hundred of our neighbours by the hands of forty tbou- fand of their countrymen." — As he fpoke thefe laft words, I thought his perfon, which was that of a genteel and gentle American, alfumed the hideous form of the ter- rific Medufa ; his fingers were transformed into the claws of a Tyger, the fangs of a Boar hung down his foaming jaws, his eyes became a gla- ring ball, and his hair a bed of Snakes, curling round his fcuU and hiding de(trud:ion. The poor Old Man, though immortal, was appalled, and ruflied into the grave to hide himfelf from the petrifying fight. I uttered a fliriek, and a- waked ; but, awaking was very far from putting an end to my fright : itill the noife continued, and ftiil was I {tilTened with horror ; unable to determine whether it was a dream or not. My voice, however, had alarmed the family, and Oh ! how glad was I to find, that the noife I heard, was nothing but that of the French and our own citizens, aflembled to celebrate the *' Holy *' Infurreftion'' of the 23d Thermidor, 10th o£ Augujt, Old Style.* ■- * To thofe who h've at fome dillance from Philadelphia, it may be neccffary to fay, that this, is a correA defcription of the Civic Feajl that was held there on the loth of Aujj, 1794. r. y d .^!. Ah ! Mr. Author of The Political Progrffs ; you think I have forgotten you, do you ? You will find prefently that I have not : but I muft have time for flceping, you know, whether I • dream or not. I did not, like you, bring my pamphlet, reacjy fabricated, from Scotland ; and, befides, 1 have better company than you, at prefent, you will therefore pleafe to excufe me for a quarter of an hour longer. In France, and, 1 believe, it\ mofl: of the o- ther countries of Europe, when a Mountebank Do£lor, a puppet man, or any other of the iti- nerant tribe, enters, a town^ he goes round with a trumpet to announce his arrival. Tantarra foon brings a troop of blackguard boys round him, and, thus attended, he flruts about the. ftreets, flopping from time to time to advertife the people of the unheard-of feats tha.t are juft going to be performed, and concluding every harrangue with, " hollow, you dogs, holloiu V* tipon this follows a noife, compared to which, the War Hoop of the Indians, or even a debate , in the National Convention, is melody. jBut, ' deteflable as it is, it anfwers the purpofe of the Operator ; for though fober fenfible people v. fhun him, and all that belongs to him, as they would the Itch or the Halter, he gc lerally find« \ dupes in too great abundance. . How often has this/owrof European charla^ ianerie been played off upon us, fmce the month of March, 1793. Since that time more money has been fpent in drinking " deftrudlion to the " combined defpots," and liberty to the French, than would have ranfomed our unfortunate, and . I am afraid forgotten, brethren, who are groan- ing in chains in Algiers! Merciful Heaven I ' thaiheareft the moans of the Captive, and fcefl f ' \' •( 135 ) t^e hearts of all men, is this humanity!** Is this " patriotifm ? If any thing could add to the humiliation of having been the Zany of a charlatan, it would certainiy be this. Among the many (hining talents of our Demo- crats, there is none for which they arc more juftly deferving admiration, than their adroitncfs in tran'^ferring their attachment from one object to another. It is beyond the power of figures or words to exprefs the hugs and kifl'es tbAt were la- vifhed on Citizen Genet. The poor citizen had like to have fhared the fate of the image of Abel on the church of our Lady of Loretto, which, ■we are told, is almoft worn away by the ar- dent kifles of the Pilgrims : for our filgrims who went to meet the Citizen, were by no means lefs eager to give this mark of their af- fection to the darling of therreat Alma Mater of Anarchy. Such was their eagernefs to ob- tain precedence on this joyful occafion, that ve-" ry few parts, if any, of the Citizen's body, cfcaped a falute ; and before he arrived fafe at the " Capitol" of fome places, he was licked as clean as a bear at three hours after being whelped. For a long time La Fayette "WSls their god ; -)■ but it was found juli: and fit to exchange him for the *' virtuous Egalite." Egalite was fupplanted by Danton ; " the great and dreadful Danton ^' who comes thundering on the Ariftocrats, \ «■> ■\ Paine dedicated his fecond part of The r'lghs of Man to La Fayette J and, in lefs than a year afterwards, aflifted in pafllng an afl of condemnation againft him ; and a- nother 56I by which his innocent wife and children were left without bread to eat! Poor La Fayette ! to make ufe of a parody on your own words, " M?y your fate fcrve as a Icffon to demagogues, and as aa example to govem- mcnta.'* ( ,. 19 at ( ^Z7 ) . 1 • « " like Neptune from Olympus.*** But the O- lympian thunder of this Neptune was obliged to jijive place to the " morals and religion of Ro- I'e/picrre." After his pious report on the l'ubje«^ of religion, which the Unitarian Do6lor (Priefl- ley) read " with pleafure, and even enthufi- " afin," it is thought, that our Democrats re- ally began to believe there was a God ; and there is no telling what a favourable change of conduft this might have produced if the news of the unfortunate cataftrophe of the i8ih of July had not come to fet their affe^lion afloat again. Alas ! it is now wandering on the fca of uncertainty ; nor can we ever expe , C 'js ) The American Union prefcnts, at this mo- ment, a fpcdcicle thar llartlos the eye of reafon. We fee a kind of political land-mark, on one fide of which. Order wii'ks hand in hand with the mofl perfe<^t Liberty ; and, on tfie other, Anarchy revels, furrounded wiih its den of flaves. We fee, that thole who are mo(t accuftonied to the exercife of tyranny, are the firlt to oppofc every meafure for the curbing of licentioufnefs ; or, in other words, we fee, that anarchy and def- jotifm are the fame. If there could be found a perfon in this coun- try who has a doubt of this, I think, the follow- ing authentic pieces would operate his conviction. We ought not to fpeak ill of our neighbours, but if people will [peak ill of themfeKes, be- lieving then\ ought no ♦o be termed malice. liCt us hear then whi jr Democrats fay of themfelves -^ ^ I hope, reader, you are fcnfible of the benefits ye/ut Chriji has conforrtd on the wovld ; but perhaps you may not know v'hat has entitled Marat to ;n equahty with him. Know then, that Murnt was tht principal author of the majfacres of the 2d and 3d Si.pten.Uer, 1792, in which upwards of two thcu'aud live hundred innocent perfons ■were inhumanly butchcrid ; and that, after this, he open- ly declared, \\\ the Natior.al Convention, and publifhed re- peatedly, that another two hundred and fifty thoufand heads were necefTary to the tlUiblifhrnent of the Liberty of the French. , DvBtjr Moore (who was far from being an enemy to revo- lutionary piiuciphs) fpeaks of Mat at in the following terms. " Marat is a litt'e niar> of a cadaverous complexion, and " a countenance exceedingl;,- cxpreflive of his difpofition ; '* to a painter of nK-ifacres, Marat's head would be inetiima- ** ble." In another pla'-e, he fays : " This Marat is faid ** to love carnage like a vulture, and to delight in human " facrifices like Moloch, God of the Ammonites." Here, reader, you fee the man that the Philadelphia Gat-ttte (whofe end is the " public good") puts upon a level with the Mli^g'td Jefus ! ! /' •rf o- -: ^i ■,\ 18. ' ad •^■' ■ . *:> ' ; .'.' . ■ ■:'• ''^ ■ a- id " •■ ' " »■. ' an '» - ,•■' . -• •» ^ 1„' e. /i ■ \' • , ; fe :. . :-rA':y \c ■'*" ( '39 ) .: . Tonjfs drunk on the 6th of February, 1794, ^y French and American Citizens, " I. The Demncratic Societies throughout " the world uiay they ever be the watchful *' guardians of Liberty. " 2. Citizen Madifon and the Republican par- " Z;' in Congrefs. " 3. The firm patriot, and true Republican^ " Citi/ 1 Genet.* a falutc from the French «* Sloop of War. '« 4. 1 he Guillotine to all Tyrants, Plunder- *' ers, ^nd funding Speculators. " 5. May the flags of France and America !' ever be united againfl regal tyranny. *' 6. The 6th of February, lyyS^theday which " fecured liberty to America^ \ and fowed its feeds " in the foil of France. " 7. Gratitude. The firft of National as well as " individual virtues. { *' 8. May laws and not proclamations ^% be the *• mftruments by which free men fhall be regula- ted. 9. The perfecuted Citizen Genet ; may his country reward his honell zeal, and the iliafts (C cc cc ' * This was candid indeed. The Democrats might have left us to believe, that the " republican party* in Congrefa meant the real friends of this country ; but ihey have taken care to avoid leading us into this error, by calling Citizen Genet a true republican. \ Here they confefs then that the treaty with Louis XVI. fecured liberty to jinierica. :,, X Do you doubt of their gratitude ? Hear them fing, • ** Fame let thy trumpet found, . ;; ' ** Tell ail the world arpuiid ,;• "How Capet fell ; &c. § The reader hardly wants to be told, that the Prefident'* Proclamation of Neutrality is meant here. •'«.'■ -■V.' I ( I40 ) r ■; i^-r '^ o[ cot'imny levelled againfl him, recoil upon the " Archers.*^ - . *' ID. May all men who afpire io the ftiprcme *' piiiver^ be brought below the level of their fel- *' low citizens. , ,..^.', ., i " li. The courageous and Virtuous mouHiain, " may it crufh the moderates, the traitors, the *• federalijfs^ and all AriRocrats, under ivhatevcr " deno?n'uiati9n they may be li'guifed. " 12. Succefs to the brave Republicans of *' LouiJJatia.j- -.. *' 1.3. Dertrudion to the enemies of the French *' Republic, both by Sea and Land. " 14. Henry Grattan, and the Opoofition of '* Ireland. " 15. Citizens Fox and Stanhope, and the Oppolition in Engk.nd. " 16. Liberty, Eouality, and Fraternity — may " they pervade the Univerfr, Three cheers, and " a lalute of three guns." To thele extra £i:s i (lull take the liberty of add- ing two others ; both from the famel ewfpaper ; one of rhem is an elegant account of the clofe of a Civic-feaft, and the other, though not abfo- Ijtely on the fame fubjed as the firft, certainly i.dds to its ^"eauty. The firft is the precious jew- el, and the lafl: the foil ; I ihall therefore place them as near as poffible to each other. ^?''' * The Pre fident of the United v?tates was the, Archer that brought the Citizen from his lofty perch. Reader, is it not rather furprifing that Thomas Mifflin, Go- vernor of the iUte of Pernfylvania, Ihould afliil at the drink- ing of thefe two toafts ? / " -|- Thcfe Republicans were a gang of brigands, committing robberies in the Spanifti tyrritories, and who were profcribed by prodaiiiation. . .^ .-,..■ ( 141 ; ri 0.' ■' i-» " lor Sale, «' After this the Cap «• of Liberty was pla- " ced on the head of " the Prefident, then " on each Member. '*' The marfellois hymn " and other fmilar " fongs were friig by *' different French citi- *' zen members. Thus ''• cheerfully glided the " hours away of this " feaft, made by con- " genial fouls to com- *' memorate the happy *' day, when the fons " of Frenchmen joined " the fons of America " to overthrow tyran- " ny in this happy « land." J^ , -v Leaving this without commciit, I fhall add an extract or two from a debate of congrefs, which I fhall alio leave without comment : fuch things ficorn the aid of declamation. : >:f?.^ The fubjedt of the debate I allude to was, an amendment to a bill of Naturalization. A mem- ber ifoai Virginia had prcpofed, that a claufe fhould be inferted to exclude foreign noblemen from becoming citizens of the United States of America, unlefs they would firft make a folemn renunciation of ibeir Titles* A member from New England propofcd, as an amendment to this, that fuch noblemen Ihould alfo renounce the right of holding JJ lives. On this amendment a member from Carolina faid ; ^^ That the gen- *' Two neiiro lads o " one about twelve " and the other abcut " fifteen years old '• — both remarkably healthy ; — the youn- ' gcft is near four feet " nine inches high, " and the oldeil; above " five feet. Alfo " a negro wench for " fale, coming eigh- " teen years old, and " far adv.mced with " child but very " ftrong and capable " of any kind of " work." !!!! - v :/.,/<■ !■ '' tleman <3^wry? »o/ come forward, and tell th^ *' houfe, that men v/ho poffcJ/eJ JJaves were un- " fit for holding an office under a Republican *' government. — He defired the gentleman to *' confidcr what might be the cunfequence of *' this motion, at this lime, confidering what '' has happened in the Wefl Indies* — Flis a- " mendment would irritate the minds of thou- *' fands of good citizens in the fouibern States, " as it effects the property which they have ac- " quired by- their tnJiiJiry. — He thought that " the amendment partook more of monarchical *' principles than any thing which he had feen *' for fome rime.''* ' . . A member from Virginia faid on the fame oc- cafion, that " He held property facred^ and ne- , *' ver could conlent to prohibit the emigrant , *' nohiliiy from having Jlaves any more than o- *' ther p.^iple. But as for titles of nobility they '^ wcr'2 qtate a different ihing.'*f - ■ , * Tt is not amifs to hear Repuhluans declare, that monar^ ehical principles tend to dfcountenance Slavery. A doftrine like this would furprifc the partizans of citizens Stanhope and Fox. ■ ' . ... . '^^^ f This gentleman's motion againfl: titled foreigners haff excited fome cu.iollty, and ftill appears inexph'cable to ma- ny, feeing that it was totally unneccfTary : but if we refledl, v/e Oiall find it is no more than natural. It is in the heart of ) man, reader, you muft fearch for an explication of motions like this. When you go to take an airing in a chair, do you not find, that every Drayman and Clodpole, you meet or overtake, , thwarts you in your road as much as he can ? Does he not force creatures much more humane and polite than himielf, to ftifle you with duil or cover you with mire ? It is not a luxury to him, if he can overfet your carriage and .break your limbs ? You flare and wonder what ywi have done to the malicious Boor. Alas ! you have done nothing to him j all your fault is, having a chair while he has nons. Ii .tf.-* i I- /* e Oh ! happy Carolina ! happy, thrice happy Virginia ! No tyrannical Ariftocrat dares to lord it over the free born fwains who cultivate the delicious weed, that adorns, fiiit thy lovely fields and then the lovelier chops of the driveling drunk- ard ! After having fpent the day in finging hymns to the goddei^ of Liberty, the virtuous Democrat gets him home to his peaceful dwel- ling, and lleeps, with his property fecure beneath , his roof, yea, fometimes in his very arms ; and when his " indu/iry** has enhanced its value, it;.> bears to a new owner the proofs of his Demo- cratic Delicacy ! r What a difference between thefe happy States, : and thole vile ariftocratical ones in Europe I ; There, as the poets fays. tt -a few agree *' To call it freedom, when / hem/elves zrt free j ** A land of tyrants and a den of Slaves, ** Where wretchi.;. lind difhonourable graves." n -'* This I muft confefs is a gloomy fub]e<5t, a^fft therefore we wiil, if vou pleafe, reader, return,, once again to the Poi tical Progrefs of Britain 5 for change, they fay, even of calamities, is cheerful. though the enc iragers of this work might think it a means of deceiving the ignorant, and \ adding to the prejudic againlt Great Britain, ^ yet they fee m to ha had another view, which perhaps the cudden of an author knew nothing of. The Political Progrefs profefles to fhow " the ruinous^ confeqvences of taxation,** And, indeed, , this is the burden of the fong ; almolt every paragraph clofes with melancholy reflexions on the confequences of /^x< ( 144 ) Ci ihejl'tghtcjl and moft necejjar^ iaxes^ are very de- " flrudive." This it was that recommended the piece to the gentlemen who eticouragediht au- ^ thor topublifliit in America: it was fo apropos too; fojud the very thing. With refpeft to the expediency of taxation in general, it is not to my prefent purpofe to fay any thing* about it ; every one that is not already upon four legs, knc ws that he foon mud be fo without fomething of this kind ; | what I wifh to dired the reader's attention to, is, ^ the real obiecl of the publication in queftion. If then he will take the trouble to compare the . above doftrine on taxation, with that held forth by the " Weltern Brethren," and their relations in every quarter of the Union ; and if he will pleafe to take notice of the time when the PoU- ileal Progrcfs^ was preparing for prefs (the month of Augult lafl) he will I fancy be of opinion, wit!* me that the encourage rs had the United States in their eye, much more than Great Bri- tain. As if they had faid : look here^ Americans^ fee wb2t taxation has done in another country ; and, if \ you do not put a Jiop to it, if you not refij} it with all your mighty it will certainly do the fame in your own. The national debt, taxes, &c. of Great Britain were well adapted to their purpofe ; they knew, by themfelves, that the bulk of readers ' were incapable of going into calculations of this kind; of making jufl comparilbns between this . / country and that : is was like reading the hillory '^ of a giant to a pigmy. ' Nobody t,.n doubt, particularly if country be " taken into the confideration, that the grinders .N .•■'<. f May n(,L this be the reafon why our Domocrats are con- timially crying out againft taxes ? I rnuil confefs, I think they would not look amifs upon all fours. .% r^ 'A ( M5 ) . ' . and retailers of Mundungus were among the author's enconragers, I remember hearing a fpeaker of this honourable body, holding a talk to his brothers, in the Month of May laft, from the window of a certain State Houfe. I fhall not eafily forget his faying, among many other things equally modeft and unaflfuming, that he had told the Secretary of the Treafury, that if the Mundungus was taxed, " he would " be damn*d if ever he forgave him^ while he had " an exiftence." His fpeech, though from the fample here given, it may be fuppofed to furpafs in ribaldry thofe of Tom the 1 inker or even Tom the Devil, had an amazing effed upon the loons below, who were all watching with their jaws diftended to catch, not the oracular, but the an- archical belches. When the refolve was put, it would have done your heart good to fee and hear, What a forefl: of ruity hats and dirty paws were poked up into the air in token of ap- probation oi ^^ no excife P* '" ** Jack Straw at London — Stone with all his rout, .r ; '- •* Struck not the City with fo loud a fliout.** ^xm^''^y^.! But this had no eiTedl j and now they run about, (tunning us fc "" , '■, ■. ■ -, -- -^'-.^ . , , *' With many a deadly grunt and doleful fqueak, Lv-J *' Poor fwitie, as if their pretty hearts would break." It is certainly worthy of remark, that, among ' the fpeechifiers at this talk, there was but one American, and that, among the hollow boys, perhaps there were not twenty. How kind is /this of foreigners, to come and put us in the right road, when we are going wrong ! -_ , >., J 1-' • ■•/:, / , ■>. Wi [If ■ ( "46 ) n -"■'■■ n • * ■ . ^ 1 1 s Ccmpp.re the principles of the fiipportcrs of this talk, and thofc of their ** Wcftcin Breth- Icn/' with the piinciples inculcated in The' Pa- litical Prcgrefs of Britain, and fee if they do not cxadH) tally ; if they do not all point to the fame objed ; that is to fay, to the undermining of •t*ll government, and to the dcflrudion of the iocial fyiltin. Is it not fair then to conclude that The Political Progrcfs was employed as an auxiliary in this laudable enterprize ? If this was not its objed, '.vhat was its objc£l ^- I would ad; the lovers of their country, if fuch there are among the encouragcrs of this author, what good they could intend to render it by fuch a ftep ? I think they would be puzzled for an anfwer. Did they imagine, could they imagine, that his having narrowly efcaped tranfportation in his own country, was a fufficient fecurity for his being a mcfl excellent citizen in this ? Be- caufc his book had been burnt bv the hands of the common hangman in Scotland, did they ima- gine chat it was calculated for the edification of the people of the United States ? That the author believed this to be the cafe is clear, otherwife he uould not have introduced himfelf by expofing that, which he certainly would have kept out of fight, if he nad been appealing to virtue or reaCou, indead of prejudice. . -^ To what a pitch mull this unmeaning, this fruitlefs ill-nature againft a foreign country be carried, if to be declared infamous there, is be- come a recommendation here ! If a fellow, to uHier himfelf into favour, mufl: cry out: I have had a narrcw efcape ! Lobk ye^ good folks ^ here's the murk of the halter about my neck yet ! If this be the cafe, we. rnay as well adopt at once that fiimous decree of the Jacobin Club at Paris, s ■■\, ' \ **•. ( 147 ) of. ih- me of he idc an > \ ^- ch Dr, > ich an on "or k- of a- le or . le • i . n ' /> .:;t I fill' ■■■-i: / v/ ( H8 ) the / was to be turned upfide down, and the point was placed under the line thus ;. Ridicu- lous as this may feem, and much as the Author may, in fome people's opinion, appear to merit a cap and bells, yet we muft lupjpofe, he knew whom he was making the propolal to. There is hardly any thing too grofs for an appetite whetted by revenge. The preface to this greafy dab was a (harpening fauce, well calculated to make it go down. It was printed in the " Ama- rpan LanSuaSa** (I go as far as *' barbarian" types will permit me) ; but, for the benefit of the unlearned, the Author had the complaifance to give a tranflation of it on the oppofite page. This preface fet forth, as near as I can recollect, that, the United States of America having, by a moft fuccefsful and glorious war, fhaken off the difgraceful yoke of Britifli Bondage, they ought to endeavour by every poflible means to obliterate the memory of having ever borne it ; and, that nothing could be more conducive to the attainment of this defirable object than the difufe of a ^^r^^rowj language, impofed on them by tyrants, and fit only for flaves,. &c. &c. ^ I would advife the Author never to read this pre- face in the ftable j the horfes would certainly kick his brains out. Some readers, may imagine, perhaps, that this is all a joke ; but I certainly faw the thing, as I have defcribed it, and in the hands of feve- ral perfons too. It was in the month of Oftober 1793, that I faw it ; it was in a fmall o6lavo volume, printed at Philadelphia, and the Au- thor's name, ?f I am not miftaken, Thornton. After this, who would wonder if fome one were to tell us, that it is beneath Republicuns M ■ ' >»» ) . ( 149 ) to eat, and th-^t wc ought to eflablifii a fydem of French ftarvation, only bccaule the Engiifli live by eating ? ' . ,x. ' - J, .^ :;: • . u • There is nothing that might not be received Without furprife atur tlie projed of this Linguilt, and therefore we may remember with lels ailon- ifliment the notable projeft of that Democrat Brilfot, tor curing the confumption. He tells us, , I that our women are more fubjc£l to the con- Ifumption than men, " becaufe they want (as " they do in England) a ivill or a civil exijlcnct : *' the fubmiflion which women are habituated " to, caufes obfir unions ! deadens the vital *' principle and impedes circulation.'* As a re- .medy for this, he produces us, quack like, his % infallible noftrum, Liberty ^md Equality! Graci- -ous Heavens ! Liberty and Equahty to cure the > confumption ! . :^,.; vi;4i- : t V. •. Yes let him perfuade us. if he can, that our wives and daughters die of the confumption, becaufe they do not, like his execrable patriotic concitoyemies^ change gallants as often as they do their cbemifes. If he could even convince us of ,. the efficacy of his remedy, we fliould certainly ■7; reje6l it, as ten thoufand million times worfc V. than the difeafe. And you, ye Fair Americans, are you aihamed to follow the bright example of •; your Mothers ? Would you accept of Mr. Brif- ■.-^ ibt's nodrum ? No ; you are too mild, too -love- ly, to become the tribune of a Democratic Club : ' your lilly hands were never made to wield a ,; dagger, you want no rights, no power but . . what you poflefs : your empire is much better . guarded by a bofom of fnow, than it would be t Sec the 28th letter of his Travels In America. •?'-;/M ■v -•• >. .4 I:' Hi:' i'tV: ^;/X by the nifty battered bread plates, worn by thole terrible termigants, the *' heroin^, of Pa- (( ris. When I faid that w: fhould certainly reje6l Mr. .Briri'ot*s remedy, I by no means meant to include thcmc:nbers of Democratic Societies and others of that (ta!np : becaufe they are fo diame- trically oppofite in their taftes, to the rcit of mankind, that 1 quelUon much whether they do not look upon a pair of antlers as an honoura- ble mark of diflinriion. Nor is It impofTible that many of theui may really be decorated to their heart's content ; for, certain it is that the ladies do not bear them a very great affeelion. They imagine, and with reafon, that the Demo- crats, in their rage for equality, may, one of thffe days, attempt to reduce them to a level with their fable " property.** Befides, if they ftood ever fo fair In the opinion of the ladies, mull not their gander-frolicks, and their fqucez- ing, and hugging, and kiffing one another, be cxpefted to caufe a good deal of pouting and jealoufy ? And then, at the back of all this, comes there intriguing with that cutlandifh God- defs of Liberty ! this alone muft inevitably wean them from their lawful connexions : for, it- is moially Impofllble, that one, who is admitted to clandefline familiarities with a Deity, fhould not difdain a poor thing in petticoats. La Fon- taine'has a verfe which-fays that a man can ne- ver bend his knees too often before his God and his Miftrefs ; but our democrats have laia afide both God and Miflrefs, and have taken up With with a ftrumpet of a Goddefs, who receives the homage due to both. Being upon this fubje£t, It is hardly fair to omit mentioning a great and mighty democrat. ■\ .^^^'- I by Pa- ;je6l t to ani inc- t of r do jra- 'ib!c to the^^ on. no- of :vel icy cs, :z- be ^ us . 'r;. Id ' ' d ■\ r>-^ ""Vp C «i' ) -U>'L who is imiverfally allowed to be a pcrfccl piaio- " jiift both ill politics and love, and yet has the xinconfcionablc ambition to fct up for a man of ^cHantry. He has taken it into his head to run dangling from one Boarding School to another, in order to acquire by the art of fpcechifying, a reputation fur which nature fceins to have dif- qualified him. My imagination cannot form to itfelf any thing more perfedly comic than to fee a diminutive fupcrannuated bachelor, cocked up upon a ftool, and {pouting out compliments to an afibmbly of young mifies. Ah ! dear Plato ! take my word lor it, if your repuiation had been no higher among the tlemocrats than among the ladies, your name would never have found a place on their lid. " Phillis the fair, in the bloom of fifteen,'* feels no more emotion at your fine fpeeche.i, than flie would at the quavers of an Italian Singer : for, though they are both equally foft and fmooth, there is a certain concatenation of ideas (do you underfland me ^ ) that whifpers her heart, all you have faid, and all you can fay, is lot worth one broken figh fron\ lilooming twenty-two. Hear what a brother democrat %s : * ;•■■"■ " . ■■•- .,. ,.' *; A v.w». . *' Tut-il forti de I'Empire, c^t-i'l fcrvi Ls DIlux, *' Fut-il nc du Trident, 11 Languit s'il tit vicux ! This is a forrowful truth ; but, take heart, ci- tizen : all men are not made for all things , if a man does not know hew to play at cards, it ib kind of him to hold the candle ; he that has no teeth, cannot crack nuts ; but that does not liinder him from preparing them for thofe who can. * The Abbe de LiHc, a renegade from the Frencli clerpfy. This beautiful climax fell from his pen, before he difi^ractii himfeif. * !S j; . I * .: ( »5* ) Now, reader, fufFcr mc to rrtiirn, for the lafl time, to 7 be Volitical Progrcfs of Britahi ; though I niuft confefs it has :\t\v{\ only the part of an ufhcr, it oup;ht certainly to appear at the break- ing up of the ball. • . The Political Pro^rcfs contains among many ether reh'gioully patriotic thinj^s ton numerous to mention, a prophecy^ — not of the dcltruiSli- on of the Whore of Babylon aiul the *' perfonal reign, of Jcfus over the Unitarians.*'! but of the deftrufiion of tlie empire of Great-Britain ! This is certainly a mod defrible event, and fo abfokitely neceilary to our happinefs, that every thing which has been faid on the fubjedl, merits our attention. The Unitarian Dodor tells us, and in a fermon too, that his country muft foon undergo a " purification," or, as he calls it in another place, " the definition of them that have deftroyed the earth.'* '1 ^is opinion is a good deal (trengthened by a volume of dreams and predi^ions, publiflied at Philadelphia by a bookfcller from North Britain, and the whole appears to be fully confirmed by this plain un- qualified prophecy of the author of 7 /je Politi- cal Progrcfs. A Revolution will take place in Scotland, before the lapfe of Un years at far- thdt." If we want to know what fort of Revolution is here meant, we have only to look at the toafls drunk by the rcpuhlicn?i Britons at New-York: — " A revolution in Great Britain and Ireland, ** upon fans culotte principles — three cheers."— — But the long term of ten ycars^ mentioned in the Prophecy of the Author of the Political Pro- gfcfs, has given a good deal of uneafinefs to fome \ See Pricftlcy's Sermons. ' V .. "1 • ■■ •• c .53 ) • of his zealous friends in this country. Ten years! 'tis an eternity 1 they thought the Woe- Trumpet had already founded, and that the kingdom of PrielUey's fans culotte Heaven was at hand. As a proof that I do not advance this upon flight furmife, I beg leave to remind the reader of what was faid on the fubjed, in Con- grefs, the other day, by that *' true republi- " can Citizen Maddifon.*** " If a Revolution," faid he, " was to take place in Britain, which " for my part I expedt and believe will be the *' cafe, the Peerage of that country will be " thronging to the United States. I fliall be " ready to receive them with all that hofpitality, " refpedt and icndernefs to which misfortune is *' entitled. I fliall fynipathize with them, and " be as ready to aiford them whatever friendly " offices lie in my power as any ma.k. ' 'Tis a pity the poor devils are not apprifed of all this. It would certainly be an a6t of humanity in our good Citizen to let them know what blefllngs he has in Jlore for them ; they feem attached to their Coronets and Coach-and-fixes at prefent ; but were they informed that they can have as much homony and fat pork as they can gobble * This 18 the fame citizen who amiifed the Legiflature lall year with a ftring of Refolutions, as long as my arm, about commercial rellriftions with refpeft to Great Britain. They are now, and were then, called by way of excellence : ** Maddifon'a Refolutions;*' but, though they caught like touchwood, touchwood like, they lay fmouldering upon the table for nearly two months, without ever producing ei- ther light or heat. All the good they did, was to coll the Union about 20 or 30 thoufand dollars in debates. O ! rare Patriotifm ! u — ■I'l l ' . ( M4 ) , . own (once every day of their lives,) liberty to chew tobacco and fmoke all the week, and to ride out on the meeting-going mare on Sundays, it might tempt them to quit their baubles and their poor bit of an Ifland without a Aruggle, and Vy to the free State of Virginia. ..« And do you really imagine, Sir, that you will fee the Peerage of Great Britain come thronging round your habitation ? Do you really promiie youtfelf the extatic delight of feeing them (land in nen^d of your " fympathy, tender- *' nefs, hofpitality and good offices '*" It is well enough for Dreamers and Fortune-tellers, for a baffled Unitarian from Birmingham, or a fe- cond-fighted Mumper from the Ifle of Skye, to entertain us with fuch vifions ; but for you. Sir, whom the populace caHs *' a damn'd Clever " Fellow," to become their dupe, is fomething amazing. If I am not miftaken, you obferved the other day, that it was improper for Congrefg to meddle with the affairs of the Democratic Societies : and, is it not full as improper for one of its members to turn Soothfayer concerning the affairs of other nations ? And as for Syfnpa- t/jy and iendernefs^ Sir ; thefe things, though a- miable in themfelves, may fometimes appear ungraceful. Certain Legiflators have very \i^ife- ly obferved, that liberty is not a bird of every climate ; nor is iendernefs Sir : and though I do not abfolutely aver, that a Jamaica Slave-Dealer cannot poffefs one grain of humanity, yet, 1 con- fefs, if he were to talk to me of his iendernefs^ I Hiould hardly forbear laughing. Laying afide dreaming and foothfaying, what indications do we perceive of an approach- ing diffolutlon of the empire of Britain? Has "J ■ '^. ( ^55 ) • ' - •>* fhe loft an inch of territory, or has her enemy fet a foot on any of her extenfive dominions fince the beginning of the war ? Ii> fhe not in polief-. , fion of almott the whole Weftern Archipe- .- lago ? Are not her poflellions incre^ifed to an amazing extent in the Eaft-Indies ? Has flie not more men and more cannon afloat than the whole worlJ. befides ; and is (he not the undif- puted Miftrefs of the Ocean ? For my parr, the En^lirti are no favourites of mine ; 1 care very little if their Jfland were fwallowed up by an Earthquake ; as the Author of the pQlitical Ptogrefs lays j but truth is truth, and let the De- vil deny, if he can, that this is the truth. Arc thefe indications of weaknefs and diftrefs ? Are thefe indications of approaching diflblution ? We are told, the other day, by a newfmon- ger whom 1 have already mentioned too often, that " a verbal account, of the greateft authen- " ticity, had confirmed the taking of Amfterdam, " by the French ; and that, as foon as the offi- *' f/«/ account came, the Editor would not fail " to fing forth, in the loudeft notes, this Iq/i *•*• Jlroke to the power of Britain*' Of Britain ! 1 of the Dutch, he means ; of our poor old friends the Dutch ! And what have they done to us ? The truth is, 1 believe, that the Englifh would join us in rejoicing at fuch an event as this ; that is to fay when they have given the Hollan- ders time to carry all their treasures over lo Lon- don. We pretend to laugh at John Bull j but 1 fancy, that John is at this moment laughing in his (leeve at all the world. The Baboon has been tearing himfelf to pieces 'till he is no more a dangerous neighbour to John; and if he fhould now, in his mad pranks, give Nic Frog a fnap m\ •t I.''! A ( '«56 ) or even fwallow him up (as he is very fond of fuch diet), it will only turn another grifl to John's mill : John, if 1 know any thing of his temper, wants no rival of any fort. Again, our Demagogues attempt to make our hair (land on end with the Subficiies, the Englifti are paying to foreign princes ; and have the ingenuity to draw an argument of their poverty from a circumftance, which above all others, proves their riches, credit, and confequence. What does our experience fay ? If we go upon change, we fee people buying bills upon Lon- don at three or four per cent above par ; but if a fellow were to take it into his head to propofe the negociation of a bill on Paris, I much quelli- on if he would not get kicked out into the Itreet. There is no friendlhip in trade. The exchange is no place for fraternizing. If I recolle£i: right, the Secretary of State, in his report on the de- predations on the commerce, &c. complains that the French Convention had paid for certain cargoes of provifions in Affignats. In Afl'ignats ! . ' Morbleu ! what would you have ? Are we not told, by every looby of a Captain that arrives, that Afiignats are at par? And, what is more, ' has not the Convention ordered them to be at par^ on pain of the Guillotine? We have not, 4 I think, heard any complaints againft Englifh Bank Notes: and yet, we know the Englifh to . be upon the point of breaking. What fort of ^' work is all this ? But we are told that there mujl be a Revoluti- ^' on in England ; for, that the people are all ;: ripe for revolt. Where is the proof of this ? ' Not in the conduct of their land or fea forces. * At the beginning of the war, the Convention :¥■ '^^•-■: /" . 1 /. . , ' \ • : C ^57 ) '•" ' '' ••. . ■ ■ ■ , •.' decreed, that the crew, of every veflel captured ^. trom the EngHlh, Ihould fhare in the prize. What good did this bafe fatanic democratic de- cree produce I What good did the fraternizing fpeech of the Carmagnole Admiral do ? I do not believe he even found time to pronounce it. How did the crew of the Ship Grange behave to Citizen Bompard, when he told them they were , to fliare in the prize, and that they were not his prifoners, but his brothers ? " No/* faid they, " you French B r, we are none of your " brothers." Alas ! I fee nothing here that af- fords the leaft glimps of hope. But the people are difcontented, and complain of their taxes : where ? in England ? or here ? But they have infurreftions every year : and every day too, if we believe our Newfpapers ; it appears however, that there has been only one in England, of late years ; and that was/or the government, inftead of againll it. A troop of horfe put an end to that infurredion ; while fifteen thoufand men were obliged to march to put an end to ours. But they have a dozen prifoners going to be tried for High Treafon : and have not we more than two dozen, going to be tried for the fame offence ? — O ! but they have their Carmagnole Clubs, and their Stanhopes, and Foxes, and Sheridans : yes, and, God confound them ! So have we to our forrow ; and have them we fhall, 'till we take the fame method with them that the Englifh have been taking with theirs, for fome time paft. :j Suppofe Bradford, the Wat Tyler of the Weft, ■^- were to get over to London, and write a Political '%Pr})grefs of America, foretelling the diffolution of the Union ; would he not deferve a horfe-whip in V place of encouragement ? When the militia was 1, . <. ),.. r 1 I ■ / 4f It ■^■-::r ( '58 ) . , : ... called out, and cannon were planted oppofite the State Houl'e, laft May, to keep oft* a gang of in- folent Sailors, were we apprehenfive of a Revo-* lution ? No ; but if our Democrats were to^ hear of fuch an event taking place in the neigh- bourhood of the Britifh Parliament, I queftion but it might produce a Civic-Feafl. ^ ^- Even fuppofe, that that accurfed thing, call- ed a Revolution, were to take place among the Britifli ; what good would it do us ? Would it weaken their power ? that cannot be, becaufe we fay, it has rendered the French ftronger than ever. Would it deftroy their credit, and flarve them ? No, for our gazettes all aflure us upon their words and honours, that the French treafury is running over, and that the people's bellies are ready to burft. Would it make them turn atheids and cannibals ? Yes, but then, it is a good thing to cafl off fuperftition and pu- niih Ariftocrats. In fhort, which ever way I turn the matter, we are, according to my fim- ple. judgment, upon a wrong fcent. We are wifhing for a Revolution in England ! and for what, I would be glad to know ? to give the Englilh a (liare of all the goody goodies, eh ? No, no *, they are the exclufive property of our dear allies, and, in the name of God, let them keep them all to themfelves. To be fure they have juft given us a tafte, but then, I hope we (hall have too much fcnfe to run about crying roail meat. , -. - Let us open our eyes ; it is pretty near time, if we do not wifh to be led blindfolded to the end of the farce, and even after it is over. How can it be our intereft to give way to this moody temper towards a nation, with which, after all, cur connexions are nearly as clofe as ( 159 ) thofe of Man and Wife I (T avoid the compari- ^ fon of Mother and Child, for fear of afFe^ling >, the nerves of fome delicate conftitutions.) Be- - caufe a war once exifled between f^e two coun- tries, is that a reafon that they fhould now hate one another ? They had their battle out ; let ' them follow the good old cuftom, drink and Ikake hands, and not fufFer themfelves to be fet together by the ears by a parcel of out-landifh butchers. If the animofity were on the fide of the Britifli, they would have fome excufe ; it is almoft impoflible for the vanquiflied party not to retain fome tincture of revenge ; but for him ' who boafls of his viftory to brood over his ill-"^ nature^ is, to fay the bed of it, very unamiable. That maxim in war ; " a foe vanquifhed is a •' foe no more," ought ever to operate with him who calls himfelf the vanquifher, and, I believe, we fhould be very loath to furrender that title. The depredation on the commerce is now pleaded as the caufe of all this ill-blood ; but eve- ry man of candour will acknowledge thai this is not the caufe. The Newfpapers teemed with ' abufe, the mod unprovoked, unheard of, infa- mous abufe againfl Great Britain, before a fingle American veflel had been (topped by the Britiih. . Do we find any thing of this kind in the Englifli papers ? Do the Englifh publifh to the world that they wifh to fee our conftitution fubverted ? Have they a Marat to mark out our beloved Pre- fident and his Lady for the Guillotine ?* Do their Governors, Magiftrates, Military Officers, &c. * For you muft know, reader, Marat publiflied what DoBor Moore calls ** the bloody journal." The Editor of the Philadelphia Gazette will certainly think himfelf honour- ed by being compared tea perfon whom he has compared o Jefui Chriji, \ I r I !.|'C, ■•^■: (, 160 ) aflemble with cannon firing, drums beating, and bells ringing to celebrate every little advantage gained over our troops by the Indians ? Do they hoift the colxvt:»s of our enemy, and trample our own under their feet, and even burn them, •; But, fay we, have we not aright to do as we \ pleafe ? Have we not a right to hate them ? ,'/ Yes ; but do we exped them to love us for this ? Do we imagine that revenge can fmd a place no where but in the breafls of Americans ? Do we, becaufe a fet of fawning foreigners tell us we arc the only virtuous people upon the face of the earth, pofTefs the exclufive privilege of being ^ fyftematically vindidtive ? Forgivenefs of injuries .'. is what we have a right to expert at the hands of all men ; but love in return for hatred is what no mortal ought to expect from another ; it is ; an effort beyond the power of human nature. '- ; The publication of fentiments like thefe, un- doubtedly require an apology on the part of the Publiflier ; but I think, it is eafily found. Many ,v devout and fandified chridian Bookfellers, in- deed all of the trade in the United States, have aflifted in diftributing the Age of Reason ; and not one of them has yet expreffed the leafl: re- morfe of confcience for fo doing. Now, though it may be, and certainly is, a terrible thing to publiih the name of Britain unconnected with execration, yet it is not much worfe, at moft, than publifliing a libel againft God. As for myfelf, reader, I molt humbly befeech you to have the Goodnefs to think of me — Just what you please. . L' FINIS. COPY RIGHT SECURED ACCORDING TO LAW. *' ;.s/ ries of - hat ^ t is .'I