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 ancient Songs of a Nation has long 
 
 been efteemed a worthy occupation. 
 
 In other lands than this, thefe refearches, it 
 
 is true, go back to days of chivalry and 
 
 are rewarded by the acquifition of 
 
 What refounds, 
 In fable or romance, of Uther's fon 
 Begirt with Britijh or Armoric knights. * 
 
 In our own country, the range of inquiry is more 
 limited. We have no fuch legendary treafures to draw 
 upon. The invention of printing — the ufe of gun- 
 powder — the extenfion of navigation — all the difcoveries 
 that moulded the form and charader of modern times, 
 and feparate us from paft ages, preceded the European 
 fettlements in America, and ihut out from our foil the 
 
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 growth of any fchool of fiction akin to thofe that had 
 flourifhed on the other continent. The Go/den Legends 
 of the monks; the romances of knight-errantry; the 
 fatirical Sirventes of the troubadours — found no fuc- 
 ceflbrs here. And while various circumftances hindered 
 the new comers from bequeathing to this the local 
 literatures of their own lands, other caufes operated 
 with equal force to prevent the early developement of 
 anything like a national department of our own. Such 
 tales and legends of thofe days as have come down to 
 us are now as valuable for their rarity as for their 
 nature. Obfcure and remote, the Colonies for a long 
 while fcarcely claimed among themfelves, and certainly 
 did not obtain from Europe, the flighted confideration 
 on the fcore of mental excellence or cultivation. So 
 efl'entially were they in the fliade, that it is told as a 
 probable, if not a true ftory, that Cromwell would fain 
 have fought refuge here, as in an impenetrable covert, 
 from the wrath of the Court ; and if his efcape from 
 the Thames was obftrudled by the officers of Charles, 
 it was in all likelihood becaufe they conceived him 
 about to fly into regions where it would be difficult to 
 purfue and impoffible to detedl him. And many years 
 later, when pious men from Virginia befought official 
 favour in England to their fcheme of eftablifliing a 
 College in that Colony, fo flight was the efteem in 
 which American intelligence was held that the Attorney- 
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 General ftared in utter amazement at the proportion. 
 '* Why, what in Heaven's name," he exclaimed, "do 
 "you want with a College in Virginia?" "To im- 
 " prove the minds and the fouls of the youth of the 
 " province," was the humble reply. " Souls!" cried 
 the law-dignitary, aghaft at fuch prefumption — **Sou/s! 
 " D — your Joub ! make tobacco /" 
 
 Thus it happens that we find very little of local 
 fidion in any of its ordinary forms, among our ancient 
 American literature. The Revolutionary War, how- 
 ever, which gave this country ii feat in the circle of 
 empires, was fucceeded by an unlooked for and won- 
 derful profperity, that foon raifed it to greatnefs. And 
 as this conteft — the mod important epoch in our na- 
 tional hiftory — was not at all deficient in thofe political 
 verfes that naturally find their feat upon the lips of 
 men engaged in a long and impaflvoned (Irife, it does 
 not ill become us, who today enjoy the fruit of the 
 arduous toils of the founders of our State, to re£^;i! d 
 with an attentive eye every monument that remains of^ 
 the charadleriftics of their nature. Nor fhould the de- 
 fiire to retrieve, fo far as may be, every detail of the 
 men and manners of that period, be dealt with as an 
 idle inquifitivenefs, or ranked with that fpirit which, as 
 Sir Thomas Browne relates, would feek to know what 
 fong the Syrens fang, or by what name Achilles was 
 known among the women. 
 
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 If then we cannot prefent the lays of minflrels, who 
 
 In Jage and Jblemn tunes have Jung 
 Of turneys and of trophies hung ; 
 Of forejls, and enchantments drear, 
 Where more is meant than meets the ear | 
 
 we can at leaft eflay towards recovering the party lyrics 
 with which the contending ranks of our great civil war 
 foiaced their friends or provoked their foes : and if 
 there be any truth in the proportion of Fletcher of 
 Saltoun, that the fongs of a people control its adtion 
 not lefs than its laws, the production would be juftified 
 of every ftrain that can be fliown to have been born 
 out of the popular troubles of that day. There is a 
 clafs of ftudents who would gladly hear all that can be 
 told of every thing which went to form the charadef 
 and the habits of the adtors in the memorable fcene : 
 to whom no faft, however fmall, that relates to the 
 gnmd event of the Revolution, is deftitute of intereft: 
 and to whofe eyes the words of the Old Turcum fong, 
 that cheered the American camp-fires in the fwamps of 
 Carolina fourfcore years bygone, would be not lefs 
 precious today than the prefence of the finger himfelf 
 would have been to Tarleton while the Britifli fl:andard 
 yet waved in Charlefton ; and thefe readers, at leaft, 
 will not regard as altogether idle fuch collections as 
 that here prefented. 
 
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 In gathering up the poetry of the Revolution, a 
 peculiar intereft naturally attaches itfelf to the produc- 
 tions of the vanquiflied party. Of the fayings and 
 doings of our own fide, we may be prefumed to poflefs 
 at leaft a certain degree of information : but of the 
 Tory or Loyal party, the general reader can hardly fay 
 more than that it was numerous, brave, and intelligent ; 
 and that when it was fwept away from the face of the 
 land, its members feem to have vaniflied from the public 
 obfervation in the fame moment with the caufe which 
 they had fuftained. Like Cardinal Beaufort in the 
 play, it died, and made no fign. The reader may, as 
 he choofes, continue with Warwick, that fo bad a death 
 argued a monftrous life, or with the gentle king, lean 
 to a milder judgment of the men who fupported the 
 caufe of the crown. The queftion is of no moment 
 here'; and it is of as little importance to determine 
 whether their literary efFufions were poflefled of any 
 extraordinary merit. Their connection with the hiftory 
 of the times gives them value. The Englilhman's 
 boail, that he had fung the laft Stuart out of three 
 kingdoms lofes none of its point becaufe the verfes 
 themfelves have but little, and every modern reader 
 would refent the withdrawal from its appropriate place 
 of the fcurvy doggrel of LillibuUero as warmly as could 
 have been done by My Uncle Toby himfelf, whofe 
 favorite refource in time of trouble, was, it will be 
 
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 recolleded, the whiftling of that Williamite air. It is 
 their political rather than their lyrical merit that has 
 caufed this colledtion of revolutionary verfes: and 
 although, in the Editor's opinion, they are wanting 
 in neither the one qualification nor the other, yet it 
 may be as well on the latter fcore to premife that the 
 reader muft not look to dealing with them fimply 
 according to their poetical defert. " Ufe every man 
 " after his defert," fays Hamlet, " and who fhould 
 " 'fcape whipping ?* Ufe them after your own honour 
 " and dignity : the lefs they deferve, the more merit 
 " is in your bounty. Take them in." 
 
 But notwithflanding all that has been advanced, it 
 may ftill be doubted whether it was worth while to 
 difturb the repofe of the pieces here printed. The 
 Editor's intereft in a favorite line of refearch perfiaps 
 difqualified him for an unbiafTed decifion : and an ap- 
 peal to the judgments of friends was about as profitable 
 as that of John Bunyan in a like ftrait ; 
 
 Some jaid, John, print it : others faid, not Jo. 
 Some Jaid it may be good. Others Jaid No. 
 
 Accordingly^ as is not unufual in fuch contingencies, 
 he has followed the counfel that agreed bell ^ith his 
 own inclinations: fatiffied that the limited im^^reflion 
 of this book will at leaft prevent any very widefpread 
 diflatiffadion refulting from his proceedings. 
 
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 In its preparation for the prefs, the Editor has been 
 governed by the fame rules that controlled the appear- 
 ance of The Loyaliji Poetry of the Revolution. The 
 Notes are made purely with an intent to explain the 
 author's meaning. To maintain or to impugn the 
 fentiments exprefled has been far from his plan. What 
 incompletenefs appears in the Notes is as muoh to be 
 regretted by himfelf as by any other ; their hafty pre- 
 paration under circumftances that left him accefs to no 
 other authorities than what his own fhelves provided, 
 may be fuggefted rather by way of explanation, than 
 to juftify any deficiency. In the feledlion of the matter 
 for the text of this work, however, it has been thought 
 well to join together the names and the remaining 
 compofitions of Dodlor Odell and Mr. Stanfbury, who 
 were undoubtedly the two moft important loyal verfi- 
 fiers of the time. A concurrence of fortunate circum- 
 ftances gave the Editor accefs to what may be'reafonably 
 believed a complete collection of all that remains of 
 their writings. Many of thefe were unpublifhed ; 
 many in the original manufcript ; and narrowed as their 
 lift had already become under the hand ofTime, there 
 was every reafon to fuppofe they would continue to 
 fufFer a yearly diminution. What eftimate may have 
 been placed on them by the oppofing parties of the 
 period in which they had birth, has not weighed at all 
 to admit or exclude them from this collection ; nor 
 
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 have the opinions their language conveys been regarded. 
 When party heats run high, party judgments are of 
 little worth. ** Wit and fool," fays Dryden, are con- 
 fequents of Whig and Tory ; and every man is a knave 
 or an afs to the contrary fide. This arrangement in- 
 deed falls more feverely on the authors themfelves than 
 upon any others : for it cannot be denied that their 
 productions, as here given, are of very unequal merit 
 and comprife much that, in all probability, they them- 
 felves would on occafion have excluded. But the fault 
 refts here with that Chance which, being no refpedter 
 of merit, has preferved indifferently a meagre aflbrt- 
 ment, in point of quantity, of the numerous writings 
 of our poets, and in fo doing has condemned their beft 
 and their word efforts to a fort of Mezentian union : 
 Mortua jungebai corpora vivis. All that remains for 
 the Editor under thefe circumflances is to fet in meet 
 order and array the materials that he finds before 
 him. Like Rob Roy, if they be * ower bad for bleffing, 
 they are ower gude for banning:* and the mofl care- 
 leflly arranged line may perhaps be found to illuilrate 
 fome negledled point of hiilory. 
 
 Efpecial acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles 
 Lee, of Frederickton, N. B., and to Mr. J. Francis 
 Fifher and Mr. Charles M. Morris of Philadelphia, 
 for their contributions to the text of this volume. The 
 Editor would alfo remark here that from it he has 
 
 omitted 
 
Preface, xvii 
 
 omitted two poems by Doftor Odell : 'The American 
 Times, and The Word of Co«^r^jr— which are already 
 edited in The Loyaliji Poetry. To the critical reader, 
 who may object to the occafional omiflion of a phrafe 
 allowable enough in the laft century, but too coarfe for 
 the more delicate palate of this, he would urge that in 
 every fuch cafe a dafh has been fubftituted for the dif- 
 carded word ; fo, in the language of Peter Pindar, 
 
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 ^*^ On the Prefent Troubles,- - ■- - - 3 
 
 When good Queen Elizabeth governed the Realm, 4 
 
 Inscription for Franklin's Stove, - . - - ^ 
 Epigram, ------_. 6 
 
 Birthday Ode, 7 
 
 Song for a Fijhing Party, 9 
 
 A Welcome to Howe, - - - - - -10 
 
 A Birthday Song, - - - - - - -11 
 
 Tradesmen's Song, - - - - . -13 
 
 The Fourth of July, 14 
 
 A New Song, _-.---- 16 
 The Petition of Philadelphia to Sir William Howe, 17 
 Epigram, -_--_--> 19 
 
 The Kitten Song, 20 
 
 Verfes to the Tories, - - - - - - 22 
 
 The Carpet Knight, 23 
 
 A Fable, -..----.-25 
 
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 On the Downfall of Legal Paper Money, • - - 29 
 
 Ode for the Year 1778, 3' 
 
 A Pa/loral Song, ""33 
 
 A Song for the Times, 34 
 
 To Sir James Wallace, '35 
 
 The Church-and-King Club, - - - - 3^ 
 
 Church and King, - - - - - -*37 
 
 To Peace, 3^ 
 
 The Town Meeting, 39 
 
 The Congratulation, 45 
 
 The Feudejoie, 5^ 
 
 Ode for the New Year, ----- 58 
 
 The Lords of the Main, 61 
 
 Liberty, 63 
 
 Freedom, - - - - - - --64 
 
 On Admiral Arbuthnot, 66 
 
 A Pafquinade, 67 
 
 A Poetical Epijlle, ------ 69 
 
 Invitation, 7' 
 
 Ode for the St. George's Society at New York, - 74 
 A Song for St. George's Day, 1781, - - - 76 
 
 On the Revival of the Church-and-King Club, - - 78 
 Song for a Venifon Dinner, ----- 79 
 
 The Royal Oak, 81 
 
 Woodlands, -------83 
 
Table of Contents, 
 A Chrljlmas Song for 1 782, 
 Let us be happy as long as we can, 
 God Save the King, ... 
 
 The United States, . - - . 
 Cordelia, ..... 
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 SUNG AT THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE 
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 Tune : Black Sloven, 
 [From Jofeph Stanjbury's Original MSS.^] 
 
 E Sons of St. George, here aiTembled today, 
 So honeft and hearty, fo Chearful and Gay, 
 Come join in the Chorus, and loyally fing 
 In praifeof your Patron, Your Country and King, 
 
 Tho'plac'd at a diftance from Britain's bold Shore, 
 From thence either We or our Fathers came o'er : 
 And in Will, Word and Deed, We are Engliftimen all; 
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 Let Crefly, Poidiers, and let Agincourt fhow 
 How our Anceftors adled fome Ages ago : 
 While Minden's red Field and Quebec fhall proclaim 
 That their Sons are unchanged or in Nature or Name. 
 
 Should the proud Spanifli Dons but appear on the Main, 
 The Ifland they pilfer' d, by Force to maintain. 
 The brave Sons of Thunder our Wrongs will redrefs. 
 And teach them again what they learn'd of Queen Befs. 
 
 Tho* the proud Roman Eagle to Britain was borne. 
 Both Talons and Feathers got plaguily torn ; 
 And Caefar himfelf, both with Foot and with Horfe, 
 Was glad to fneak off with — "It's well 'twas no worfe," 
 
 Tho* party Contentions awhile may run high. 
 When Danger advances they'll vanifh and die ; 
 While all with one Heart, Hand and Spirit unite. 
 Like Englifhmen think and like Englifhmen fight. 
 
 Then here's to our King, and Oh, Long may He reign — > 
 The Lord of thofe Men who are Lords of the Main ! 
 While all the Contention among us ihall be 
 To make Him as happy as We are made free. 
 
 And here's to the Daughters of Britain's Fair Ifle — 
 May Freedom and They ever crown with a Smile 
 The Sons of St. George, our good Knight fo profound — 
 The Sons of St. George, even all the World round ! 
 
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of Stanjbury and Odell. 
 
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 ON THE PRESENT TROUBLES. 
 
 [Thefc Lines from the Stanjbury Manuscripts, have an inter- 
 c/l as Jhowing how Jbme even among thoje who, when War aftu- 
 ally broke out, were unflinching in their Loyalty to the Crown, 
 were at an earlier date dijgujled with the minijlerial plans for 
 America. The author's confidence in the overwhelming Power 
 of England is curioujly enough contrajled with his ajjcrtion of 
 Colonial Innocence.^] 
 
 ON cryftal throne, uplifted high, 
 Imperial Britain fate; 
 Her lofty forehead reach'd the ifky ; 
 
 Her awful nod was fate : 
 Terrific Mars, with War's alarms 
 
 Augments the pageant fhew ; 
 And fea-green Neptune's circling arms 
 Forbid th' invading foe. 
 
 Bright Science made her Name ador'd. 
 
 Her robes the Arts empearl'd. 
 Wide in her Lap fair Commerce pour'd 
 
 The Riches of the World. 
 Her Cheeks the Rofe in hafte forfook, 
 
 By jealous Fears purfued : 
 Her Voice the Earth's firm Bafement fhook, 
 
 And turn'd the Air to Blood. 
 
 Her Vengeance o'er the liquid Wave 
 
 Explores thefe weftern Climes : 
 Juft Heav'n ! a People deign to fave 
 Whofe wrongs are all their Crimes ! 
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 WHEN GOOD QUEEN ELIZABETH 
 GOVERNED THE REALM. 
 
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 Tune : Hearts of Oak. 
 
 [From the Stanjbury Manufcripts ; and probably compojed 
 for a meeting of the Sons of St. George in 1774 or 1775.] 
 
 WHEN good Queen Elizabeth govern'd the 
 Realm, 
 And Burleigh's fage Counfels directed the Helm, 
 In vain Spain and France our Conquefts oppof'd; 
 For Valour conduced what Wifdom propord. 
 
 Beef and Beer was their Food ; 
 
 Love and Truth arm'd their Band ; 
 
 Their Courage was ready — 
 
 Steady, Boys, Steady — 
 To fight and to conquer by Sea and by Land. 
 
 But fince Tea and Coffee, (6 much to our Grief, 
 Have taken the place of Strong Beer and Roaft Beef, 
 Our Laurels have wither' d, our Trophies been torn ; 
 And the Lions of England French triumphs adorn. 
 
 Tea and flops are their food ; 
 They unnerve every Hand — 
 Their Courage unfteady 
 And not always ready — ■ 
 They often are conquer'd by Sea and by Land. 
 
 St. George views with Tranfport our generous flame ; 
 " My Sons, rife to Glory, and rival myfame. 
 " Ancient Manners again in my Sons I behold 
 
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 " And this Age muft eclipfe all the Ages of Gold."" 
 
 Beef and Beer are our food ; 
 
 Love and Truth Arm our Band ; 
 
 Our Courage is fteady 
 
 And always is ready 
 To fight and to conquer by Sea and by Land. 
 
 While thus we regale as our Fathers of old, 
 Our Manners as Simple, our Courage as bold. 
 May Vigour and Prudence our Freedom fecure 
 Long as Rivers, or Ocean, or Stars fhall endure. 
 
 Beef and Beer are our food ; 
 
 Love and Truth arm our Band ; 
 
 Our Courage is fteady. 
 
 And always is ready 
 To fight and to conquer by Sea and by Land. 
 
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 FOR A CURIOUS CHAMBER-STOVE, IN THE FORM OF AN 
 URN, SO CONTRIVED AS TO MAKE THE FLAME DESCEND, 
 INSTEAD OF RISE, FROM THE FIRE : INVENTED BY 
 DOCTOR FRANKLIN. 
 
 [By Dr. Jonathan Odell.* 1776.] 
 
 LIKE a Newton fublimely he foar'd 
 To a Summit before unattained ; 
 New regions of Science explor'd, 
 And the Palm of Philofophy gain'd. 
 
 With a Spark, that he caught from the Skies, 
 He dimlay'd an unparallel'd wonder: 
 
 And we law, with delight and furprife. 
 
 That his Rod could proteA us from thunder. 
 
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 O had he been wife to purfue 
 
 The track for his talents defign'd, 
 
 What a tribute of praife had been due 
 To the teacher and friend of Mankind ! 
 
 But to covet -political fame 
 
 Was, in him, a degrading ambition ; 
 A Spark, that from Lucifer came, 
 
 And kindled the blaze of Sedition. 
 
 Let Candor, then, write on his Urn — ' 
 Here lies the renowned Inventor, 
 
 Whofe flame to tlie Skies ought to burn, 
 But, inverted, defcends to the Center ! 
 
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 ON A SERMON PREACHED BY THE REV. MR. PIERCY, 
 CHAPLAIN TO THE THIRD BATTALION OF PHILADELPHIA 
 MILITIA. 
 
 [By Joseph Stansbury. The late Rev. Df. James Abercrdm- 
 bie, Rc6?or of the united Parijhes of Chrijl-church and St. Peter's, 
 in Philadelphia (for notices of whom Jce Croker's BofwelPs 'John- 
 CoHy vol. Ill, p. 242, p. 285), who communicated this piece, could 
 not fix its date, but believed it to have been written in June or 
 Jnly, 1776. " The weather being very warm," Jaid Dn Aber- 
 crombie, " the Jcrvant of General Roberdeau (who commanded 
 the battalion), a very black and remarkably ugly Negro, Jlood 
 behind Mr. Percy, in the pulpit, fanning him with a degree of 
 vehemence proportioned to his inflammatory addrejs."^] 
 
 TO preach up, friend Percy, at this critical feafon, 
 Refinance to Britain, is not very civil. 
 Yet what can we look for but Fadlion and Treafon 
 From a flaming Enthufiafl, fann'd by the Devil ? 
 
 BIRTHDAY 
 
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 BIRTHDAY ODE. 
 
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 [Written by Dr. Odell, on occafion of the King's Birthday, 
 June 4th, 1776 ; and Jung by a number of Britijh officers (cap- 
 tured at St. John's and Chambly by General Montgomery) who 
 were prijbners at that time at Burlington, New Jerjey ; and who, 
 to avoid offence, had an entertainment in honor of the day pre- 
 pared on an ijland in the river Delaware, where they dined under 
 a tree." Printed from the author's copy, collated with a contem- 
 poraneous Manujcript.] 
 
 O'ER Britannia's happy Land, 
 Rul'd by George's mild command, 
 On this bright, aufpicious day 
 Loyal hearts their tribute pay. 
 Ever facred be to mirth 
 The day that gave our Monarch birth ! 
 
 There, the thundering Cannon's roar 
 Echoes round from more to fhore ; 
 Royal Banners wave on high ; 
 Drums and trumpets rend the Iky. 
 
 There our Comrades clad in Arms, 
 Long enured to War's alarms, 
 Marfhall'd all in bright array 
 Welcome this returning day. 
 
 There, the temples chime their bells ; 
 And the pealing anthem fwells ; 
 And the gay, the grateful throng 
 Join the loud triumphant fong I 
 
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 Nor to Britain's Ifle confin'd-^ 
 Many a diftant Region join'd 
 Under George's happy Iway 
 Joys to hail this welcome day. 
 
 O'er this Land among the reft. 
 Till of late fupremely bleft, 
 George, to fons of Britain dear, 
 Swell'd the fong from year to year. 
 
 Here, we now lament to find 
 Sons of' Britain, fierce and blind. 
 Drawn from loyal love aftray. 
 Hail no more this welcome day. 
 
 When by foreign Foes difmay'd, 
 Thanklefs Sons, ye call'd for aid : 
 Then, we gladly fought and bled. 
 And your Foes in triumph led. 
 
 Now, by Fortune's blind command. 
 Captives in your hoftile Land ; 
 To this lonely fpot we ftray 
 Here unfeen to hail this day ! 
 
 Though by Fortune thus betray'd. 
 For a while we feek the (hade. 
 Still our loyal hearts are free — 
 Still devoted, George, to thee ! 
 
 Britain, Emprefs of the Main, 
 Fortune envies thee in vain : 
 Safe, while Ocean round thts flows. 
 Though the world were all thy Foes. 
 
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 Long as Sun and Moon endure 
 Britain's Throne (hall (land fecure, 
 And great George's royal line 
 There in fplendid honor Ihine. 
 
 Ever facred be to Mirth 
 
 The day that gave our Monarch birth! 
 
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 FOR A FISHING PARTY NEAR BURLINGTON, ON THE 
 DELAWARE, IN 1776. 
 
 [Compojed by Dr. Odell, under circumjlances Jlmilar to 
 thofe which occajloned the preceding piece. To the third verfe 
 he has appended this Note t " Protejlant was a term adopted by 
 a circle of Loyalijls."] ' 
 
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 HOW fweet is the feafon, the (ky how ferene ; 
 On Delaware's banks how delightful the fcene ; 
 The Prince of the Rivers, his waves all afleep. 
 In iilence majeftic glides on to the Deep. 
 
 Away from the noife of the Fffe and the Drum, 
 And all the rude din of Bellona we come ; 
 And a plentiful ftore of good humor we bring 
 To fealon our feaft in the (hade of Cold Spring. 
 
 A truce then to all whig and tory debate; 
 True lovers of Freedom, contention we hate : 
 For the Demon of difcord in vain tries his art 
 To poffefs or inflame a true Proteftant heart. 
 
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 True Proteftant friends to fair Liberty's caufe, 
 To decorum, good order, religion and laws, 
 From avarice, jealoufy, perfidy, free; 
 We wifti all the world were as happy as we. 
 
 We have wants, we confefs, but are free from the care 
 Of thofe that abound, yet have nothing to fpare : 
 Serene as the iky, as the river ferene. 
 We are happy to want envy, malice and fpleen. 
 
 While thoufands around us, mifled by a few, 
 The Phantoms of pride and ambition purfue. 
 With pity their fatal delufion we fee; 
 And wifh all the world were as happy as we ! 
 
 A WELCOME TO HOWE. 
 
 [Written by Joseph Stansbury, on occajlon of the arrival of 
 Sir William Howe on the coajl of New York, in June, 1776.] 
 
 HE comes, he comes, the Hero comes : 
 Sound, found your Trumpets, beat your Drums: 
 From port to port let Cannon roar 
 Howe's welcome to this weftern Shore I 
 
 Britannia's dauntlefs Sons appear; 
 
 For Ages paft renown'd in War. 
 
 The Sword they draw, the Lance they wield. 
 
 Now Glory calls them to the Field. 
 
 With laurels crown'd triumphant fee 
 Britannia's Genius, Vidlory : 
 With her, fair Freedom fits in State, 
 And Mercy fmiles, ferenely great. 
 
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 What Juice afe'irT '^' ^"■ 
 
 For Juftice v.; r ' "" y""' "^'^ : 
 ■■ jultice yet fupports my Throne. 
 
 Would you be ftpp ? k r- , 
 Britannia bends at fT;.; ^'''1°'" 'hine: 
 Is Wealth your Wift^ f T ' ,'^""^- 
 
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 For Pow'r is mi^e an^fl^^?"^'^'^ °^P<»^'' 
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 HaiWd the day liTAr,?^^^^^^^^^^^ ^as born. 
 
 Then WiAM the bkffit'/i-^' . 
 
 And plenty Aow'd in wUh^a Mfr''^'"" ""^ P'^<=^> 
 Proudofourlotwerrj . j^^"'y'""eafe. 
 'ot we chanted merrily 
 
 Glory and joy crown the King! 
 
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 With envy beheld by the nations around, 
 We rapidly grew, nor was anything found 
 Able to check our growth while we chanted 
 
 God fave the King ! 
 O bled beyond meafure, had honour and truth 
 Still nurf a in our hearts what they planted in youth ! 
 Loyalty dill had chanted merrily 
 
 Glory and joy crown the King ! 
 
 But fee ! how rebellion has lifted her head ! 
 How honour and truth are with loyalty fled ! 
 Few are there now who join us in chanting 
 
 God fave the King ! 
 And fee ! how deluded the multitude fly 
 To arm in a caufe that is built on a lye ! 
 Yet are we proud to chant thus merrily 
 
 Glory and joy crown the King ! 
 
 Though fadtion by falfehood awhile may prevail, 
 And loyalty fufFers a captive in jail, 
 Britain is rouz'd, rebellion is falling : 
 
 God fave the King! 
 The captive fliall foon be releafd from his chain ; 
 And conqueft reftore us to Britain again, 
 Ever to join in chanting merrily 
 
 Glory and joy crown the King ! 
 
 TRADESMEN'S 
 
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 FOR HIS majesty's BIRTH DAY, JUNE 4TH, I777. 
 
 Tune : When Britain firft at Heaven's command. 
 
 [By Joseph Stansbury, and flrjl printed in the Pennjylvania 
 Ledger, O^ober 22d, 1777. The Ledger was a tory paper, 
 ^fued weekly by James Humphreys, at Philadelphia, during 
 Sir. William Howe's occupation of that city. On the 4th of 
 June the city was jlill occupied by the Whigs, and this fong could 
 not have obtained publicity before Howe's arrival without bring- 
 ing trouble on its author's head. 
 
 AGAIN, my focial Friends, we meet 
 To celebrate our annual Treat, 
 And with our loyal hearts difplay 
 This great, this glorious Natal Day : 
 'lis George s Natal Day we fing ; 
 Our firm, our fteady Friend and King. 
 
 For Britain's Parliament and Laws 
 
 He wUves his own Imperial Power ; 
 
 For this (Old England's glorious Caufe) 
 
 May Heaven on him its bleilings fliower ; 
 And Colonies, made happy, fing 
 Great George, their real Friend and King. 
 
 Since Britain firft at Heaven's command 
 
 Arofe from out the Azure Main, 
 
 Did ever o'er this jarring Land 
 
 A Monarch with more nrmnefs reign ? 
 Then to the Natal Day we'll fing 
 Of George, our facred Friend and King. 
 
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 To Charlotte fair, our matchlefs Queen, 
 
 To all his blooming, heavenly line, 
 
 To all their Family and Friends 
 
 Let us in hearty chorus join : 
 
 And George's Natal Day let's fing, 
 Our gracious Father, Friend and KingJ 
 
 And may the heavenly Powers combine, 
 While we with loyal hearts implore 
 Thjft one of his moil facred Line 
 May rule thefe Realms till Time's no more : 
 And we with chearful voices fing 
 Great George our fteady, natal King. 
 
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 THE FOURTH OF JULY. 
 
 1777. 
 
 [R. Chubb is the reputed author of theje lines : but as they 
 have aljb been attributed to Stansbury, the editor with Jbmc 
 hejitation gives them a place here. They arc printed from the 
 Pennjylvania Ledger of December loth, 1777; collated with a 
 manujcript copy. The text in the Ledger is prefaced by this 
 Note : " The following was written in commemoration of the 
 glorious action on the evening of the 4th of July lajl, when a party 
 of courageous Independent Sy headed by jbme of their Rebel Chiefs, 
 waged a mojl daring war againjl the unenlightened windows of 
 the Quakers and other enemies to their ridiculous independent 
 Jcheme in this city. "8] 
 
 WHAT times are thefe ? — a perfedl riddle ! 
 Whence fled the fcenes of former quiet ? 
 Blefs us — when Patriots ftrum the fiddle, 
 And Generals form and head the riot ! 
 
 The 
 
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 of Stanfiury and Odell. 
 
 The unarm'd Quakers and the Tories 
 Sudained the honours of the night, 
 
 And ftill their poor, unfhutter'd ftories 
 Hang zig-zag trophies of their might. 
 
 See General Gates and Dicky Peters,^ 
 With Jemmy Meafe of noted worth ;io 
 
 Richard and Tom the prime of aters, 
 Like ancient heroes fally forth.^^ 
 
 Our true Don Quixotes, by falfe guefllngs 
 Dired their calls and lead the van : 
 
 Miftake the Tories for the HeiTians, 
 And Quaker for poor Englifhman ! 
 
 Illuftrious Chieftains ! future ages 
 Shall mark your triumphs of the day. 
 
 While wide the patriotic Sages 
 
 Shall round the world your fame convey, 
 
 Still as a foil, ye new Law-makers, 
 
 To former happinefs remain. 
 Blunderers, go on : defpife the Quakers — 
 
 You never (hall their heighth attain. ^2 
 
 The wifdom of their gentle ruling 
 Can bear the retrofpeftive view ; 
 
 And this, with all your boafted fchooling. 
 Is more than will be faid of you. 
 
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 Tune: Cajar and Pompey were both of thetfty &c. 
 
 [By Mr. Stansbury : printed from the original Manujcript.l3] 
 
 WHEN Britain determined to tax us at pleafure, 
 We rofe as one Man, and oppofed the meafure; 
 Not liking the Pilgrimage, I can aflure ye, 
 Of going to England for Trial by Jury.^* 
 
 Therefore for Freedom alone we are fighting; 
 For that fort of Freedom was not fo inviting. 
 
 To Edidts of Britain fubjedtion refufine, 
 We fet up a Government of our own cnufing. 
 The Guardians of Freedom refolv'd to maintain it, 
 And publifh'd a long Bill of Rights to explain it. 
 For its for Freedom alone we are fighting : 
 The name of all names which true Freemen delight in. 
 
 We fondly imagin'd that all future Story 
 Should tell of our Juftice, our Freedom and Glory : 
 We laugh'd at Oppreflion, not dreaming or fearing 
 That Men would oe banifh'd without charge or hearing; 
 
 For Freedom indeed we fuppofed we were fighting ; 
 
 But this fort of Freedom's not very inviting. 
 
 If they with our Enemies have been partakers, 
 Then prove it in God's name, and puniih the Quakers: 
 But if there is nothing alleged but Sufpicion, 
 What honeft Man's fafe from this State-Inquifition ? 
 If fuch be the Freedom for which we are fighting. 
 This fample, good Folks, is not very inviting. 
 
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 When good Men are feiz'd on, who boldly defie all 
 The malice of Hell, and demand a fair Trial — 
 The caufe of refufal you vainly diffemble : 
 " The Churchmen muft bend, and the Quakers fhall 
 tremble." 
 Since this is the Freedom for which we are fighting. 
 The old-fafhioned Freedom was much more inviting. 
 
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 When Quakers and Churchmen have fuifer'd your 
 
 pleafure — 
 Their Worfliip and Confciences fhap'd to your mea- 
 
 fure — 
 The Catholics then may exped: Penal Laws, 
 Whereby we fhall have one Religion and Caufe.^^ 
 This, this is the Freedom for which you are fighting: 
 And let all who think it so, call it inviting. 
 
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 THE PETITION OF PHILADELPHIA TO 
 SIR WILLIAM HOWE. 
 
 [Written by Mr. Stansbury, about Oftober, 1777, and now 
 printed from his revijcd manujcript copy, collated with the rough 
 draft. The latter, by the way, Jupplies the names of Price and 
 Coffin in the thirtieth line. 16] 
 
 TO General Howe, Commiflioner in chief 
 To grant all injured Subjeds Jure Relief, 
 We, the Subfcribers, beg leave to prefent 
 This State of Fads, by way of — Compliment : 
 
 That long before the date of Whig and Tory 
 The Paper-Money was this Country's Glory ; 
 In all our Dealings did its Value hold 
 In fix'd Proportion to the Coins of Gold : — 
 
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 That when the Britifh Troops firft took Poffeffion 
 It paff'd as formerly by your Concefllon : — 
 
 That with the Fleet came up the Merchant-Stranger, 
 "Who, by refufing, brought it into danger: 
 (Inform'd perhaps that ftill in Rebel's hands 
 Lay all the mortgage-Deeds and mortgag'd Lands, 
 And reaf'ning thence hive fo miftook the Cafe 
 They hold the Money's tottering as its baje) 
 And certain Citizens, we muft confefs it t'ye. 
 Have brought their Brethren into fad neceffity. 
 
 That if fuppreft, it may be mildly faid 
 We have no Medium adequate to Trade ; 
 And if the Army* fell their Bills at all 
 Th' Exchange they fell at muft be very fmall. 
 
 That /*/ received the San^ion of the Crown : 
 And many Friends of Government in Town, 
 Sold each Half-Joe for Twelve Founds, Congrefs Trafli, 
 Which purchaf 'd Six Pounds of this Legal Cafti ; 
 Whereby they have, if you will bar the bubble, 
 Inftead of lofing, made their Money double: 
 Then pity them, the widow and the orphan — 
 Nor heed the partial Tale from Price or Coffin. 
 
 That in the Year (the famous) Fifty-Nine — 
 A Year which muft in Britain's Annals ftiine — ^"^ 
 The Army wanting Cajh obtain'd the Loan 
 Of Paper Money, Fifty Thoufand Pounds : 
 By which their Bills, that fcarce a Man would buy, 
 Advanc'd Fourteen per Cent immediately. 
 Its true the Army now has Cafti enough; 
 And therefore fhould fupport our Paper Stuff. 
 
 That a large Sum, collefted with difpatch. 
 Lays in the Treaf 'rers hands to pay the Watch, 
 Who will not take it, unlefs in the Shops 
 And Market it will buy them Food and Slops. 
 
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 Our Patrole therefore will have Guns and Swords, 
 Inftead of Lanthorns, Staves, and empty Words.^^ 
 
 That if you will affume our Load oi Ills, 
 Our Paper's ready to exchange for BillSy 
 To pay our Friends in England with your Gold, 
 And leave your Officers our Rags to hold. 
 
 Thefe and more cogent Reafons might be told 
 Why Paper Money ihould be par with Gold. 
 
 We pray the General in a general Way 
 Would grant Redrefs, and that without Delay, 
 And Value give the Paper we poffefs : — 
 And then — Wellftgn the long-ftnce penn d Addrejs?-^ 
 
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 ["Wrote extempore by Joseph Stansbury on feeing a thin, 
 Sieve-like Blanket returned by General Howe, in lieu of a good 
 Rofe Swan/kitiy taken from a Quaker. "20] 
 
 WHEN Congrefs had fled in a Fright from their 
 
 The Quakers they thought to fnug under the Ro/e. 
 
 But Billy, who fees with the Glance of an Eye, 
 
 Soon found though the Quakers were grave, they were 
 
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 Refolv'd to diftinguifli the good from the bad, 
 I'll fift 'em, he cries, if there's fieves to be had ! 
 
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 Tune : Come my kitten, my kitten, &c. 
 
 [Probably by Mr. Stansbury : publifhcd in Towne's Pennjyl- 
 vania Evening Pojl, December 2d, 1777, with this prefatory Note : 
 " Good Mr. Tow«^— You mujl have heard of the ajjociation or 
 agreement that the ladies of this city (Philadelphia) have entered 
 into, in order to Jupport the old paper currency which has received 
 the Jan^ion of our gracious jbvereign ; and of their determination 
 to exert themfelves, as far as ladies can, to rejlore it to its former 
 value. Now you muJl know. Sir, I am a fubfcriber to that 
 agreement, and being myfelf vajlly fond of a little fun and harm- 
 lejs humour, have concluded, from your phyjlognomy, that you 
 have no objection to either, I have therefore fent you a new 
 jbng to an old tune. By injerting it in your next paper, you will 
 oblige a number of ladies, and among the rejl your conjlant reader, 
 Flirtilla. Philad. Dec. 1,1777." In many refpeSs thefe lines 
 will remind the reader of the childijh nurjcry doggerel that Jup- 
 plies the air : but the circumjlances under which they were com- 
 po/ed conjlitute an interejiing feature in the local hijlory of the 
 day.21] 
 
 COME all ye good people attend 
 Pray hear what a new comer offers ; 
 I've all forts of good things to vend. 
 If you will but open your coffers. 
 Here we go up, up, up. 
 
 And here we go down, down-e ; 
 Here we go backwards and forwards 
 And here we go round, round, round-e ! 
 
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 Here is a fleet from New York, 
 
 And here the dry goods fhall abound-e ; 
 
 Here is both butter and pork, 
 And all juft now come round-e. 
 
 Here you have fait for your broth. 
 And here you have fugar and cheefe-e ; 
 
 Tea without taxes or oath. 
 
 But down with your goldy if you pleafe-e. 
 
 Here is an end to your rags. 
 Your backs fhall no more go bare-e : 
 
 Farewell to the fneers of the wags, 
 
 But your goldy Sir, muft firft take air-e. 
 
 Here you have good Irilh beef. 
 
 And here you have fugar and fpice-e; 
 
 Here you may part with your grief. 
 
 For gold we have plumbs for mince pies-e. 
 
 Here you have topknot and the 
 Too big for a bufliel to hold-e ; 
 
 Here you may drefs like the great : 
 And all for a trifle of gold-e. 
 
 Here you have catgut and gauze, 
 And cambrick and lawn very fine-e ; 
 
 Mits, hofe, and a thoufand kickfliaws, 
 For which let your silver be mine-e. 
 
 Here you have trinkets so fine. 
 
 And baubles to hang by your fide-e ; 
 
 Here you may glitter and fhine ; 
 
 For gold you may look like a bride-e. 
 
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 Then fpurn at the wife old dons, 
 Who make for their paper a rout-e ; 
 
 Here's goods for your gold at once ; 
 Come, out with your goldy come out-e. 
 
 Toull ruin the land, we knoWy 
 
 By joining with what we've told-e : 
 
 But fince all your wealth muft go, 
 We'll ftrive to encircle your gold-e. 
 
 Come, furely I've told you enough ! 
 
 We have all that you want and wifh-e ; 
 But pray give us no paper fluff: 
 We come for the loaf and the fifh-e. 
 Here we go up, up, up. 
 
 And here we go down, down-e ; 
 Here we go backwards and forwards 
 And here we go round, round, round-e ! 
 
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 [By Mr. Stansbury. Theje lines appear to have been 
 written in confideration of the hardjhips endured by perfons who 
 on the charge of being inimically dijpojed towards the interejls of 
 America, had been taken into cujlody by the Whigs, and con- 
 fined in fome interior and remote town. 22] 
 
 COME, ye brave, by Fortune wounded 
 More than by the vaunting Foe, 
 Chear your hearts, ne'er be confounded ; 
 Trials all mufl undergo. 
 Tho' without or Rhyme or Reafon 
 Hurried back thro* Wilds unknown. 
 
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 Virtue's fmiles can make a Prifon 
 Far more charming than a Throne. 
 Think not, tho' wretched, poor, or naked, 
 Your breaft alone the Load fuftains: 
 Sympathizing Hearts partake it — 
 Britain's Monarch fhares your Pains. 
 This Night of Pride and Folly over, 
 A dawn of Hope will foon appear. 
 In its light you (hall viifcover 
 Your triumphant day is near. 
 
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 [This piece, collated from two of Mr. Stanjbury 's Manu- 
 Jcripts, offers a renewed evidence of the dijejleem into which Sir 
 William Howe fell during his occupatio:?. of Philadelphia. The 
 Tories were furprized and di/gujled at feeing his fine army unem- 
 ployed in any ferious enterprife, and his fplendid military capaci- 
 ties yielding to Jlothfulnefs, dijjipation and extravagance ; and, 
 as many thought, even to avarice. The mortal whofe charms 
 were preferred, according to the fong, to thofe of Venus herfelf, 
 was probably a married lady from Jamaica Plains, near Bojlon, 
 who is named in this fame connexion, but in rather broader phraje, 
 by Francis Hopkinfon, in his Battle of the Kegs. The date of 
 this fong feemsto be December 24th, 1777 ; Jhortly after Howe's 
 return to the city from his idle attempt to furpri/e Wajhington's 
 Army at Whitemarjh.23] 
 
 LATE a Council of Gods from their heavenly abodes 
 Were call'd on Olympus to meet; 
 Jove gave his commands from his throne in the clouds: 
 Attend, and his words I'll repeat. 
 
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 Ye know, all ye Pow'rs that attend my high Throne, 
 Your Will to my Pleafure muft bow: 
 
 I will, that thofe Gifts which you prize as your own. 
 Shall now be beftow'd on my Howe. 
 
 Aftraa^ who long fince had quitted the Earth, 
 
 Prefented her Balance and Sword ; 
 The Honors derived from Titles and Birth 
 
 By Juno were inftant conferred ; 
 Fierce Mars gave his Chariot ; gay Hermes his Wand; 
 
 Alcides, his Club and his Bow ; 
 Sweet Peace with her Olive-branch graced his hand ; 
 
 And FenuSy herfelf did beftow. 
 
 Thus, enrich'd with fuch Gifts as the Gods can impart. 
 
 The Hero by Jove was addreff'd : 
 As you wifh to reclaim each American heart. 
 
 Let Juftice prefide in your breaft ; 
 Exhibit the bleflings of Order and Peace 
 
 As wide as your Conquefts fhall fpread ; 
 Let your Promife be facred — Rebellion fhall ceafe. 
 
 And the Laurel fhall bloom round your head. 
 
 I know that fell Di/cordj your zeal to oppofe. 
 
 Will nourifh Sedition and Hate : 
 Miflakes may occur, and Friends fufFer with Foes : 
 
 Yet your Wifh is confirmed by Fate.^* 
 Sweet Peace fhall revive from the horrors of War ; 
 
 Her Empire again be reflor'd ; 
 AfFedion and Duty fhall cover each Scar, 
 
 And Hrwe by the World be ador'd ! 
 
 Now with fhame mufl the Mufe the fad fequel difplay; 
 
 With Sorrow, and Shame, and Surprife : 
 The Gifts oi Aftraa he lofl by the way. 
 
 And her fillet he plac'd o'er his Eyes. 
 
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 The Arms of Alcides he fent to Burgoyne, 
 And with them the Chariot of Mars : 
 
 For what but Affiftance and Weapons divine 
 Could finifh fuqh Quixotic Wars ? 
 
 Hermes* Wand was now ufelefs ; no Snakes would unite: 
 
 The Olive in vain was difplay'd ; 
 For blefllngs no longer attended the fight, 
 
 And Loyalty fled from its fliade.^s 
 The Gifts fent to Burgoyne return'd to the ikies — 
 
 Defpairing he yielded his Arms : 
 And fair Fenus, difgufted, beheld with Surprize 
 
 A Mortal preferr'd to her Charms. 
 
 A FABLE. 
 
 [Printed from Mr. Stanjbury's Manufcript, and bearing date 
 January gi4th, 1778.] 
 
 IN antient Times, the Poets fing, 
 The Lion was elected King ; 
 And all the Beafts, with homage due, 
 ProfFer'd and fwore allegiance true 
 To him and to his heirs forever ; 
 A nd fo far all went fmooth and clever. 
 
 But his dominions were fo large, 
 He could not execute his charge 
 And give his fubjeds that prote<5lion 
 He promif'd them on his eledlion, 
 Unlefs he call'd in fome afliftance : 
 For Brutes, as Men, will make refiftance 
 To lawful Kings, when at a diflance. 
 
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 And, as he rul'd with feebleft fway 
 
 Where Pennyfeather's Forefts lay, 
 
 He named the Leopard, Greyhound, Fox, 
 
 To hold them as with Bolts and Locks ; 
 
 Three trufty Brutes to adt together 
 
 As joint Viceroys o'er Pennyfeather. 
 
 Some time the proje(5k feemed to anfwer. 
 All day the happy Beafts could dance, or 
 Sing and play a thoufand tricks ; 
 Make bows or cringes ; jump o'er flicks ; 
 And do what in their power lay 
 To pleafe the Brutes who bore the Sway. 
 The Viceroys made fuch large Profeflions 
 Of guarding every Brute's pofTeflions, 
 As private Virtue, public Zeal, 
 The good of all the Common Weal, 
 Alone infpir'd their patriot Wifh : — 
 No diftant view of Loaf or Fifh. 
 All felf and felfifh aims fubdued. 
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 And yet I may in truth declare it t'ye. 
 They dealt their Cards fo well about 
 That no one entertain'd a doubt 
 But Jujiice had refign'd her throne. 
 And left her Scales with them alone. 
 
 The tale proceeds : Upon the ground 
 An Oftritch Egg one day was found. 
 By fhipwreck cafl upon the fhore. 
 The Beafls the prize in triumph bore, 
 And laid it at their ruler's feet 
 With honour and obedience meet. 
 
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 Too lone upon this precious fliell. 
 What — but an Egg to be divided ! 
 How can this buiinefs be decided ! 
 
 Why, cries the Fox, this lucky Stroke 
 May be improved — the Egg's unbroke — 
 Then inftant place it on the Strand, 
 And careful cover it with Sand ; 
 Expofe it to the Sun's warm beam, 
 And foon the Egg with Life will teem ; 
 Produce a Bird of monftrous fize 
 And weight and worth — a glorious Prize ! 
 A Prize which we will fhare together, 
 Nor throw away a (ingle Feather. 
 
 Sir Fox, cries Leopard, fure you joke, 
 
 Nor think how 'twill the Beafls provoke. 
 
 We rule with delegated Powers ; 
 
 They think the Prize is theirs, not ours. 
 
 Oh, how our Cheeks will burn with Shame 
 
 When they traduce our public Fame, 
 
 And every Rafcal cries at pleafure — " he * 
 
 " Is one of thofe that robb'd the Treafury, 
 
 " And fmuggled to himfelf the Gold 
 
 " For which the Egg ftiould have been fold." 
 
 Let my advice this time prevail : 
 
 Expofe the Egg to public Sale : 
 
 And whatfoe'er it lliall produce, 
 
 Apply it to the public ufe. 
 
 The Greyhound pauf 'd< — then thus began : 
 I much approve the Leopard's plan. 
 What he obferves is very true ; 
 The Rabble think the Egg their due, 
 
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 And would with endlefs noife and clatter 
 Purfue us, if wc fmugg'd the matter. 
 What yN^Jhould Ao is mighty plain : 
 What we may do, I'll juft explain. 
 We may amufe the Beads who crave it, 
 And fay — the hicheft bid (hall have it. 
 But few of them nave feen fuch Fowl, 
 Or know an Oftrich from an owl. 
 Afraid the Bird may (hortly die, 
 They'll cautious be, nor bid too high: 
 And thofe who know its worth and ufe, 
 Will fwear they would prefer a Goofe, 
 Or Hen that lays good ftore of Eggs : 
 That bating Feathers, Neck and Legs, 
 It was no larger than a Widgeon, 
 Nor half fo rat as good Squab Pidgeon. 
 Then make a Bid with carelefs Air- 
 Not half its Value, you may fwear. 
 Hence we may take a fair Occafion 
 And ferve, each one, his own Relatiorl, 
 In fuch a way, the candid muil 
 And will acknowledge, ftridlly juft. 
 Let's inftant pay the higheft price — 
 The Matter's fettled in a trice — 
 And give our Friends the Egg to nurfe ; 
 The Public's ferv'd — -who fares the worfe ? 
 Pray, why may not our Puppies claim 
 Their honeft fhare of Wealth or Fame, 
 And fill in time the higher clafles ? 
 And, cloathed with honor, be juft Afl*es.? 
 
 The Speech produc'd a general Smile : 
 And 'twas agreed to ftiare the Spoil. 
 
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 ON THE DOWNFALL OF LEGAL PAPER 
 
 MONEY. 
 
 [Written at Philadelphia In the winter of 1777-8, by Mr. 
 Stansbury, and printed from a collation of his revijed manu* 
 jcript copy with the rough draft. From the allujion in the 
 Jixteenth line, the piece would feem to have been addrejjed to 
 Rev. Dr. William Smith, whofe oration on the death of General 
 Montgomery (Feb. 19th, 1776) was long con/idered a model of 
 patriotic eloquence. Literary tajles and a common religion may 
 have ejlablijhed a congeniality between Dr. Smith and the author 
 which political prejudices need not have dejlroyed.26] 
 
 WHEN Charles's Horfe, for want of Breath, 
 Like others fell a prey to Death, 
 No courtier dar'd to raife his head. 
 And tell the News, " that he was dead." 
 At laft they fix'd on Killigrew — 
 For what may not a Jefter do ? 
 A licenf 'd Wag, who, fpite of Rule, 
 Will fpeak bold Truths and play the Fool, 
 And tell a Monarch to his face 
 His Horfe is dead, if fuch the cafe. 
 
 In pride of War, when Heroes fall, 
 Then — Eloquence fhould grace the Pall; 
 In nervous Style their Worth proclaim ; 
 And fix them on the rolls of Fame 
 In patriot drains, devoid of flummery, 
 Like your Oration on Montgomery .^7 
 
 No Hero's praifes claim my Song ; 
 No praife is due to acting wrong : 
 
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 To burning, ftripping, cheating, plundering : 
 Delays, Miftakes and endlefs blundering : 
 Nor Charles's German horfe that's dead : 
 But faith, it is the Want of Bread, 
 Which threatens hard, (look e'er fo funny) 
 Since the deceafe of Paper Money .28 
 
 Seiz'd by a Fit of Oppofition 
 Which baffled ev'ry State Phyfician ; 
 Each lenient Meafure tried in vain 
 To bring her back to Health again ; 
 Her nerves fo firm and weak by fpells ;29 
 It pofed the Dodtors Smith and Wells : 
 And when they order'd ftronger Med'cines 
 She languilh'd— puked— in fine, is dead fince. 
 
 Ah ! what avails her former Pride, 
 When bufy Commerce roU'd his tide 
 Obedient to her nod ? Her fmile 
 Richly repaid the Lab'rers toil. 
 The regal Crown, with Splendor bright. 
 From her has afk'd, and borrowed Light* 
 Ah ! what avails the Peafant's cry : 
 The tatter'd Veft : the afking Eye : 
 The famifh'd Look ! the aking Heart 1 
 The Infant's fcream : the Parent's fmart 1 
 The fainting Wife : the Friend expiring, 
 For want of Food and Cloaths and Firing ! 
 
 In this fad Cafe, Humanity mull fail. 
 Nor Charity can fave the Wretch from Jail ! 
 Both want the means to eafe the vidim's Woe, 
 Since Gold is Wealth, and Paper only Shew. 
 With heartfelt Sorrow then infcribe her Urn, 
 And bid Pofterity the Story mourn. 
 
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 Here refts, in hope fome future Day to rife 
 
 With former Luftre in thefe weftern Skies, 
 
 A Heap of Paper, once by Britain made 
 
 The Life of Commerce, Agriculture, Trade ; 
 
 The Sign of Wealth, and all that Wealth could grant ; 
 
 The Friend of Man, the Antidote of Want ! 
 
 Tho* by Rebellion now entomb'd awhile, 
 This feeming lifelefs Heap again ihall fmile ; 
 Again revive — exert her native Fire — 
 And ftiall with Britain Tiourifh or expire ! 
 
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 FOR THE YEAR I778. 
 
 [Printed from a contemporaneous Manufcript, and believed to 
 have been written by Mr. Stansbury.] 
 
 WHEN rival nations, great in arms. 
 Great in power, in glory great, 
 Fill the world with loud alarms. 
 
 And breathe a temporary hate : 
 The hoftile ftorms but rage awhile. 
 
 And the tir'd conteft ends. 
 But ah ! how hard to reconcile 
 The foes who once were friends. 
 
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 Each hafty word, each look unkind, 
 Each diflant hint, that feems to mean 
 
 A fomething lurking in the mind 
 That almoft longs to lurk unfeen ; 
 
 Each fhadow of a made offends 
 
 Th' embittered foes who once were friends. 
 
 That Pow'r alone, who fram'd the Soul, 
 And bade the fprings of paffion play. 
 
 Can all their jarring ftrings controul ; 
 And form, on difcord, concord's fway. 
 
 *Tis He alone, whofe breath of love 
 
 Did o'er the world of waters move — 
 Whofe touch the mountain bends — 
 
 Whofe word from darknefs call'd forth light ; 
 
 Tis He alone can reunite 
 
 The foes who once were friends. 
 
 To Him, O Britain ! bow the knee. 
 His awful, his auguft decree. 
 
 Ye rebel tribes adore ! 
 Forgive at once and be forgiven : 
 Ope in each breaft a little heaven ; 
 
 And difcord is no more ! 
 
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 A PASTORAL SONG. 
 
 [By Mr. Stansbury, and purporting to have been written at 
 Mr. Smith's in the Summer of 1778.] 
 
 WHEN War with its bellowing Sound 
 Pervades each once happy retreat. 
 And Friendfhip no longer is found 
 
 With thofe who her praifes repeat ; 
 The good from the crowd may retire, 
 
 And follow fweet Peace to the Grove 
 Where Virtue rekindles her fire. 
 And raifes an altar to Love. 
 
 There bleft with a fociable few — 
 
 The few that are juft and fincere — 
 We bid the ambitious adieu. 
 
 And drop them, in pity, a tear. 
 We grieve at the fury and rage 
 
 Which burn in the breafts of our foes, 
 We fain would that fury affuage ; 
 
 We dare not that fury oppofe. 
 
 With Peace ^nd fimplicity bleft. 
 
 No troubles our pleafures annoy : 
 We quaff the pure ftream with a zefl 
 
 The temp' rate alone can enjoy. 
 Thus innocent, chearful and gay 
 
 The fwift-fleeting moments fecure: * 
 An age would feem fhort as a day 
 
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 A SONG FOR THE TIMES. 
 
 1778. 
 
 [By Joseph Stansbury. This piece is a clofe paraphrafe 
 of Plato* s Advice (Aikin on Song-writing, cd. 18 10, p. 340), 
 which itfelf was an alteration of the Rev. Matthew Pilkington's 
 Jong, beginning, ** Why, Lycidas, jhould man be vain ?" The 
 allufions are eajily underjlocd. In 1777, Congress had rejblved 
 that the Jlars and jlripes Jhould conjlitute our flag ; and the treaty 
 of alliance with France of February 6th, 1778, had infpired the 
 Whigs of America with the utmojl gratitude and confidence.] 
 
 SAYS Cato, why fhould Man be vain, 
 Since bounteous Heav'n prefcribes his dates? 
 Or feek with fo much fruitlefs pain . 
 
 To form thefe independent States ? 
 Can ftriped Flags with Stars beftrown, 
 Or naked Wretches dragg'd to War, 
 Can upftart Honors e'er atone 
 
 The pangs of Guilt or fierce Defpair ? 
 
 The Merchant's plan, the Farmer's toil, 
 
 That raif 'd our Wealth and Fame fo high 
 And made our Plains like Britain's fmile. 
 
 In Duft without Diftindion lie. 
 Go, fearch for Gold the public Cheft, 
 
 Where once abundance heap'd her ftore — 
 Our Wealth is Paper at the beft ; 
 
 And all its Credit is no more. 
 
 What tho* the Frenchman crowns the fcene, 
 And we mifcill him " Mankind's Friend;" 
 
 Not all his pow'r can Rebels fcreen — 
 Rebellion's drawing near her end. 
 
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 now, by Jove s command it dies 
 And melts to common Air aga^!' 
 
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 TO SIR JAMES WALLACE 
 
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 The,r Bark is Jefuits/refcin/. 
 And I dare tell you, free as wnk 
 
 Sr if" o „'"" "■"''' "'^y "'^" «ink • 
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 COME, honed Tories, a truce with your Politics; 
 Hoc age tells you in Latin as much : 
 Drink and be merry and — a Melancholy ^ nix ! 
 'Tis de fame ting do I fpeaks it in Dutch. 
 If old Diogenes lov'd altercation. 
 
 Had he, fir, a drop of good Wine in his 1'ub ? 
 Mirth and Good-humour is our occupation : 
 
 Let this be the Rule of the Church-and-King Club. 
 
 Well do we know the Adelphts mifcarriages. 
 And the difafters of Johnnv Burgoyne ; 
 
 As to Beef-Stakes, no good fellow difparages 
 One who in battle finds leifure to dine.^^ 
 
 Congo pretends (O good Lord, what a Fibber 'tis !) 
 Now to feel boldy and to fear no mifchance. 
 
 As well might he fay that he fights /or their liberties. 
 Whom he hath fold in a mortgage to France \^^ 
 
 Soon fhall you fee a rebellious minority 
 
 Blufh for the part they have adted fo long ; 
 
 Britain fhall roule and regain her authority : 
 Come then, a Bumper, and call t'other Song. 
 
 If old Diogenes lov'd dtercation, &c. 
 
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 [Written by Joseph Stansbury c/rfa January, 1779.] 
 
 N days of yore when, free and unconfin'd, 
 Man rov'd a ' -'e, and his own Will was law, 
 
 No ties reftrain'd his felfifh favage Mind ; 
 
 The Mighty kept the Weak in (lavifh awe. 
 
 Till ^ome fagacious Soul, pervading thro' the whole. 
 
 To Harmony reduc'd each jarring ftring ; 
 And now the tuneful Band obeys the Mafter's hand, 
 
 While Echo founds refponfive Church and King! 
 
 In thefe, our vain and motley modern times. 
 When Whim, not Reafon blindly leads the way; 
 And Virtue's varnifh covers o'er our crimes. 
 Abhorrent to the honeft face of Day ; 
 Now Freedom ftrikes the Lyre, and vainly would 
 infpire 
 
 Celeftial Ardor to each broken String : 
 But we defpife the Foe, and by Experience know 
 
 No Harmony's compleat without Church and King. 
 
 Tho* Rage vindidive Meafures would infpire, 
 
 And hurl promiscuous Ruin far and wide ; 
 
 Yet Mercy checks the Britifti Hero's fire 
 
 And Pity gently pours her foftening tide. 
 
 By Fate's fupreme Decree this happy Year Ihall fee 
 
 The Royal Standard ev'ry Straggler bring. 
 Like Sheep, into the Fold from which they thoughtlefs 
 ftroll'd. 
 
 To join in lading Chorus of Church and King. 
 
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 Then, let each firm ana trufty loyalHeart 
 Relate with glee his tale of fufF'ring o'er ; 
 And think with pride, he bravely play'd his part 
 And reach'd triumphant the long wifh'd for more. 
 The wreath let Victory ♦^ine, immortal and divine ; 
 
 The Laurel and the Bay let Fame now bring : 
 While Time (hall hobble round, all Pleafures (hall 
 abound. 
 
 And the Virtues and Graces crown Church and King. 
 
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 [Frdm the Manujcripts of Joseph Stansbury.] 
 
 OCOME, light borne on eaftern gales^ 
 And bid our forrows ceafe : 
 With flow* rets crown our fmiling Vales 
 Thou gentle Cherub Peace ! 
 Efface the horrid marks of War ; 
 Each private Grudge remove ; 
 With Plenty load the ruftic's Car, 
 And fill the Land with Love. 
 
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 THE TOWN MEETING. 
 
 [This clever but bitter piece was written by Joseph Stansbur y, 
 and flrjl publijhed at New York in Rivington's Royal Gazette, 
 No. 286; June 26th, 1779: under the title of An Hijiorical 
 Ballad of the Proceedings at Philadelphia^ 2^th and 'lyh May^ 
 1779, by a Loyaliji who happened to pafs through the City at that 
 Timey on his way from the Southward to New York. It is here 
 printed from the text in Rivington, collated with jeveral contem- 
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 TTT^WAS on the twenty-fourth of May, 
 X A pleafant, warm, fun-fhiny day. 
 Militia folks paraded 
 With colours fpread, with cannon too ; 
 Such loud huzzas, fuch martial (hew ; 
 I thought the town invaded ! 
 
 But when, on clofer look, I fpied 
 The Speaker march with gallant ftride, 
 
 I knew myfelf miftaken : 
 For he, on Trenton's well-fought day. 
 To Burlington mijiook his way. 
 
 And fairly fav'd his bacon.^^ 
 
 With him a number more appear'd 
 Whofe names their Corporals never heard- 
 
 To mufter-rolls a ftranger : 
 To fave their fines they took the Gun ; 
 Determined with the firft to run 
 
 On any glimpfe of danger. 
 
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 The great ^'fClenachan beftrode 
 
 His prancing horfe, and fiercely rode: 
 
 And faith, he had good reafon ! 
 For he was told that, to his forrow. 
 He, with a number more, tomorrow 
 
 Should be confin'd in prifon.^^ 
 
 *Tis faid, fome fpeculating job 
 Of his had fo inflam'd the mob 
 
 That they were grown unruly ; 
 And, fwearing "by the Eternal God'* 
 Such villains now fhould feel the rod, 
 
 RefoJv'd to " come on coolly.'* 
 
 The People's Majefty — of Laws 
 The proper end, the onlycaufe — 
 
 Now fhone in all its glory \^^ 
 — Morris the wife ; Arnold the brave ; 
 The double Mafon ; Wiftar grave — 
 
 Confounded with the Tory I^^ 
 
 Nor age, nor wealth, nor rank, nor birth 
 Avail'd with thefe true fons of earth. 
 
 The ofFfpring of the Valley : 
 For all the lore of ages paft 
 What car'd the Statefman with his Laft,^^ 
 
 Or Hero of the Alley? 
 
 Cover'd with fweat, with bawling hoarfe. 
 At clofe of day no tired horfe 
 
 ^ More gladly reach'd his home. 
 Each doft his oaken civic crown r^s 
 Firft took a dram — then laid him down 
 And dream'd of joys to come. 
 
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 Now Titan raif 'd his flaming head, 
 And drowfy Centinels to bed 
 
 Retir'd from irkfome duty : 
 For they were plac'd, as it behov'd. 
 To watch if Tory Goods were mov'd, 
 
 That they might fhare the booty. 
 
 The Mob tumultuous inftant feize 
 With venom'd rage on whom they pleafe; 
 
 The People cannot err! 
 Can it be wrong, in Freedom's caufe. 
 To tread down juftice, order, laws, 
 
 When all the mob concur ? 
 
 But now, thro* Mitchell's brazen throat, 
 Fadlion with loud, abufive note 
 
 Proclaim'd a Grand Town Meeting : 
 Where printer's devils, barber's boys,^ 
 Apprentice lads, exprefs their joys 
 
 The Council Members greeting. 
 
 Each vagabond from whipping poft,45 
 Or ftranger /Iranded on the coaft,*^ 
 
 May here reform the State: 
 The Porter /F/7/,47 and Shad-roe Jack,^^ 
 And Pompey-like McKean, in blaclc,*^ 
 
 Decide a People's fate. 
 
 The Trained Bands of Germantown 
 With Clubs and Bayonets came down. 
 
 And fwell'd the motley train ; 
 Refolv'd to change, like him of old. 
 Old rags and lampblack^^ into Gold, 
 
 Or Chaos bring again. 
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 And now the State-houfe yard was full, 
 And Orators fo grave, fo dull, 
 
 Appear'd upon the ftage : 
 But all was riot, noife, difgrace ; 
 And Freedom's fons thro' all the place 
 
 In bloody frays engage. 
 
 Sagacious Matlack^^ ftrove in vain 
 
 To pour his fenfe in Dutchmen's brain, 
 
 With ev'ry art to pleafe : 
 Obferv'd " that as their Money fell. 
 " Like Lucifer, to lowed Hell, 
 
 " ThQ* fwift, yet by degrees — 
 
 " So fhould it rife, and goods fhould fall 
 " Month after month, and one and all 
 " Would buy as cheap as ever ; 
 ** That they loft all, who grafp'd too much"- 
 • (This Colonel 5«//52 explain'd in Dutch), 
 — But fruitlefs each endeavour. 
 
 With folemn phiz and aftion flow, 
 Arofe the Chairman, Roberdeau^^^ 
 
 And made this humane motion : 
 * That Tories, with their brats and wives. 
 Should fly, to fave their wretched lives. 
 
 From Sodom into— Goflien.'^* 
 
 He central flood, and all the ground 
 With people cover'd, him furround ; 
 
 And thence it came to pafs 
 That, as he fpoke with zeal upon't. 
 He turn'd his face to thofe in front ; 
 
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 He fhouid have fhown his face all round, 
 
 Like whirligig in focket: 
 Or, if that did his art furpafs. 
 He ihould at leaft have ta'en 
 
 And put it in his pocket.** 
 
 Then Hutchinfon^^^ that great bull-calf — 
 A gander has more brains l-y half — *'' 
 
 In crocking, froglikf note 
 Approv'd the motion, aid demands 
 The People's fenfe, by A^ew of hands, 
 
 To fave or dan^n the vote. 
 
 All raif'd their hands, with r ighty burft 
 Of loud acclaim— TH*" rafe reverr. , 
 
 All lift their l.am^s aeain ! 
 Blue Bayard grinn'd — that long-ear'd aft— 
 With mobs he faw it was a farce 
 
 To reafon or explain. 
 
 But thoughtful Rujh^-^ and artful Gaff,^'^ 
 And Bryariy^ too much vex'd to laugh, 
 
 Were fill'd with grief and pity ; 
 And foon difmiff'd the Rabble Rout : 
 Concluding what they were about 
 
 Wirr\ cuufing a Committee. 
 
 Hoping to get them more in tune 
 Before t'lc twenty-fifth of June, 
 
 VVhich was the chofen day 
 For them to meet by found of Drum ; 
 Unlefs the Enemy fhouid come 
 
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 To their prime movers Jqfeph Reedy 
 
 " The virtuous andjublime!" 
 So virtuouSy that he cheats his friends, 
 Sublimely cheats to gain his ends ; 
 
 And glories in the crime. 
 
 Ambition is his darling theme : 
 Integrity an idle dream 
 
 That vulgar minds may awe. 
 At home, abroad, with friend or wife, 
 In public or in private life. 
 
 The tyrant's will is law. 
 
 Of deep referitments, wicked, bold. 
 The thirft of Blood, of Power, of Gold, 
 
 Poflefs alternate fway : 
 And Johnftones bribe had furely won 
 Rebellion's pale-fac'd matchlefs fon. 
 
 Had Mammon rul'd that day.^^ 
 
 But time would fail me to rehearfe 
 In my poor limping doggrel verfe. 
 
 His character divine: 
 Suffice it that in Dunlafs page. 
 Drawn by himfelfy from age to age 
 
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 [Written by Rev. Dr. Odell, on occafion of the failure of the 
 great expedations entertained by the Americans from the pre- 
 Jence in our waters of D'EJlaing's fleet during the years 1778 and 
 1779. This piece appears to have been very popular at the 
 period, being printed at New York in Rivington's Royal Gazette 
 of November 6th, 1779; and again in the Supplement of No- 
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 JOY to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 In vain has [Franklin's] artifice been tried, 
 And Louis fwell'd with treachery and pride : 
 Who reigns fupreme in heav'n deception fpurns, 
 And on the author's head the mifchief turns. 
 What pains were taken to procure D'Eftaing! 
 His fleet's difperf'd, and Congrefs may go hang. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 
 Heav ns King fends forth the hurricane and ftrips 
 
 Of all their glory the perfidious fhips. 
 
 His Minifters of Wrath the ftorm diredl; 
 
 Nor can the Prince of Air his French proted. 
 
 Saint George, Saint David (how'd themfelves true 
 
 hearts ; 
 Saint Andrew and Saint Patrick topp'd their parts. 
 With right Eolian puffs the wind they blew ; 
 Crack went the mafts ; the fails to fliivers flew. 
 Such honeft Saints fliall never be forgot ; 
 Saint Dennis, and Saint Tammany, go rot.^ 
 
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 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold ; 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 Old Satan holds a council in mid-air ; 
 Hear the black Dragon furious rage and fwear — 
 — Are thefe the triumphs of my Gallic friends ? 
 How will you ward this blow, my trufty fiends ? 
 What remedy for this unlucky job ? 
 What art ftiall raife the fpirits of the mob ? 
 Fly fwift, ye fure fupporters of my realm. 
 Ere this ill-news the rebels overwhelm. 
 Invent, fay any thing to make them mad ; 
 Tell them the King — No, Dev'ls are not fo bad; 
 The dogs of Congrefs at the King let loofe ; 
 But ye, brave Dev'ls, avoid fuch mean abufe. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 
 What thinks Sir Wafhington of this mifchance ; 
 
 Blames he not thofe, who put their truft in France ? 
 
 A broken reed comes pat into his mind : 
 
 Egypt and France by rulhes are defin'u, 
 
 Bafeft of Kingdoms underneath the ikies. 
 
 Kingdoms that could not profit their allies. 
 
 How could the tempeft play him fuch a prank ? 
 
 Blank is his profpeft, and his vifage blank : 
 
 Why from Weft-Point his armies has he brought ? 
 
 Can nought be done ? — fore fighs he at the thought* 
 
 Back to his mountains Wafhington may trot : 
 
 He take this city — yes, when Ice is hot. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold: 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 Ah, poor militia of the Jerfey State, 
 Your hopes are bootlefs, you are come too late. 
 
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 Your four hours plunder of New-York is fled, 
 And grievous hunger haunts you in its ftead. 
 Sorrow and flghing feize the Yankee race, 
 When the brave Briton looks them in the face : 
 The brawny HefTian, the bold Refugee, 
 Appear in arms, and lo ! the rebels flee ; 
 Each in his bowels griping Jpankue feels; 
 Each drops his haverfack, and trufts his heels. 
 Scamp'ring and fcouring o'er the fields they run. 
 And here you find a fword, and there a gun. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold ; 
 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves ccjol'd ! 
 
 The doleful tidings Philadelphia reach. 
 
 And Dufllield^^ cries — The wicked make a breach ! 
 
 Members of Congrefs in confufion meet, 
 
 And with pale countenance each other greet. 
 
 —No comfort, brother? — Brother, none at all. 
 
 Fall'n is our tower; yea, broken down our wall. 
 
 Oh brother ! things are at a dreadful pafs : 
 
 Brother, we finn'd in going to the Mafs. 
 
 The Lord, who taught our fingers how to fight. 
 
 For this denied to curb the tempefl:'s might : 
 
 Our paper coin refuf 'd for flour we fee. 
 
 And lawvers will not take it for a fee. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 What cauf 'd the French from Parker's fleet to fteal ? 
 They wanted thirty thoufand caflcs of meaL 
 Where are they now — can mortal man reply ? 
 Who finds them out mult have a Lynx's eye. 
 Some place them in the ports of Chefapeak ; 
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 And fome fuppofe them in the deep below. 
 One thing is certain, be they where they will. 
 They keep their triumph moft exceeding ftill. 
 They have not even Pantagruel's luck. 
 Who conquer'd two old women and a duck.^^ 
 
 Joy to great Congiefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 
 How long fhall the deluded people look 
 
 For the French fquadron moor'd at Sandy Hook ? 
 
 Of all their hopes the comfort and the ftay, 
 
 This vile deceit at length muft pafs away. 
 
 What impofition can be thought on next. 
 
 To cheer their partizans, with doubt perplex'd ? 
 
 Dollars on dollars heap'd up to the fkies. 
 
 Their value finks the more, the more they rife ; 
 
 Bank notes of bankrupts, Itruck without a fund, 
 
 PufF'd for a feafon, will at laft be fhunn'd. 
 
 Call forth invention, ye renown'd in guile ; 
 
 New falfehoods fnime in matter, and in ftyle ; 
 
 Send fome enormous fi6bion to the prefs ; 
 
 Again prepare the circular addrefs ; 
 
 With lies, with nonfenfe, keep the people drunk: 
 
 For lliould they once refleft, your power is funk. 
 
 Joy to great Congirefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 The farce of empi re will be finifh'd foon. 
 And each mock-monarch dwindle to a loon. 
 Mock-money and mock-ftates fhall melt away. 
 And the mock-troops diflband for want of pay. 
 Ev'n now decifive ruin is prepar'd : 
 Ev'n now the heai t of Huntington is fcar'd.^'^ 
 
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 Seen or unfeen, on earth, above, below, 
 All things confpire to give the final blow. 
 Heaven has ten thoufand thunderbolts to dart ; 
 From Hell, ten thoufand livid flames will ftart ; 
 Myriads of fwords are ready for the field; 
 Myriads of lurking daggers are conceal'd ; 
 In injur'd bofoms dark revenge is nurft : 
 Yet but a moment, and the ftorm fhall burft. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 
 Now War, fufpended by the fcorching heat. 
 
 Springs from his tent, and fhines in arms complete. 
 
 Now Sicknefs, that of late made heroes pale. 
 
 Flies from the keennefs of the northern gale. 
 
 Firmnefs and Enterprize, united, wait 
 
 The laft command, to ftrike the ftroke of Fate. 
 
 Now Bofton trembles ; Philadelphia quakes ; 
 
 And Carolina to the center fhakes. 
 
 There is, whofe councils the juft moment fcan : 
 
 Whofe wifdom meditates the mighty plan : 
 
 He, when the feafon is mature, Ihail fpeak ; 
 
 All Heaven fhall plaud him, and all Hell fhall fhriek. 
 
 At his dread fiat tumult fhall retire ; 
 
 Abhorr'd rebellion ficken and expire ; 
 
 The fall of Congrefs prove the world's relief; 
 
 And deathlefs glory crown the god-like Chief! 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 What now is left of Continental brags ? 
 Taxes unpaid, tho' payable in rags. 
 What now remains of Continental force ? 
 Battalions mould' ring : Wafle without refource. 
 
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 What refts there yet of Continental Sway ? 
 A ruin'd People, ripe to difobey. 
 Hate now of men, and foon to be the Jeft ; 
 Such is your fate, ye Monfters of the Weft! 
 Yet muft on every face a fmile be worn, 
 While every breaft with agony is torn. 
 Hopelefs yourfelves, yet hope you muft impart. 
 And comfort others with an aching heart. 
 Ill-fated they who, loft at home, muft boaft 
 Of help expefted from a foreign coaft : 
 How wretched is their lot, to France and Spain 
 Who look for fuccour, but who look in vain. 
 
 Joy to great Congrefs, joy an hundred fold : 
 The grand cajolers are themfelves cajol'd ! 
 Courage, my boys ; difmifs your chilling fears : 
 Attend to me, I'll put you in your geers. 
 Come, I'll inftrud you how to advertize 
 Your mifling friends, your hide-and-feek Allies. 
 O YES ! — If any man alive will bring 
 News of the fquadron of the Chriftian King : 
 If any man will find out Count D'Eftaing, 
 With whofe fcrub ai^ions both the Indies rang: 
 If any man will afcertain on oath 
 What has become of Monfieur de la Mothe :*s 
 Whoever thefe important points explains, 
 Congrefs will nobly pay him for his pains, 
 Of pewter dollars, what both hands can hold, 
 A thimble-full of plate, a mite of gold ; 
 The lands of fome big Tory he ftiall get. 
 And ftart a famous Colonel en brevet : 
 And laft to honour him (we fcorn to bribe) 
 We'll make him chief of the Oneida Tribe !^* 
 
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 Urgetur pugna Congrejfus iniqua. — Virgil. 
 
 [Written by the Rev. Dr. Odell, and printed here from 
 Rivington's Royal Gazette of November 24th, 1779. The 
 gallant and fucceJPul defence of Savannah by the Britijh under 
 Prevojl, Maitland) and Moncrieffe, and the final repulje of the 
 Allies led by Lincoln and D'EJlaing, on the 9th of Oflober, 1779, 
 occajloned great exultation in the Britijh army at New York, 
 and gave origin to theje verfes. Their title relates to the cujlom 
 of celebrating any vidory or other occajion of triumph in the 
 American (and perhaps in the Britijh) Army, by a general dif- 
 charge of firearms.] 
 
 LET Tongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 And every Mufe difcharge a/^« dejoie! 
 Hail, Congrefs, hail ! magnificent, renown'd : 
 Rejoice, be merry ; the loft Sheep is found ! 
 You, Congrefs, knew him by his graceful bleat. 
 We only know him by his foul defeat. 
 Great Bell Wether, he led his fcabby flock 
 In apt conjunction with the rebel ftock. 
 He came, he pufh'd, he fled with half his train ; 
 While fav'd Savannah fwell'd with heaps of flain. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 What awful filence thro' the land prevail'd 
 Since Count D'Eftaing from St. Domingo fail'd. 
 No voice, ng breath, no found, no rumour flew. 
 Left Parker fliould with all his fleet purfue."^*^ 
 
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 Left reinforcements from New York fhould come. 
 To catch the Britilh napping was their thought : 
 Now, by my faith, a Tartar have they caught. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ. 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 The French, entangled in a dreadful fcrape. 
 From the Weft-Indies made a fine efcape. 
 Arriv'd upon the coaft, the fcene was chang'd : 
 Uncivil Winds their armament derang'd ; 
 Their firft reception was exceeding rough ; 
 Howe'er they landed: landed fure enough. 
 Afhore, they vapour and defy the Storm, 
 And foon with Lincolris troops a jundion form. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ. 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 Plunder's the Word ; but Plunder foon is o'er. 
 Rob folks of all, and you can rob no more. 
 Live ftock or dead, they capture and condemn : 
 Come Whig, come Tory, 'tis the fame to them. 
 The Continental gentry ftand aghaft 
 To fee their good Allies devour fo faft. 
 Are thefe the Troops of Louis, Friend of Men ? 
 They're rather Tygers, loofen'd from a Den. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 The fworn confederates manfully advance 
 In queft of Glory and the Good of France. 
 Go fummon. Trumpeter, yon haughty Town : 
 Bid them furrender to the Gallic Crown. '^^ 
 What, are they reftifF? — fcorn they to obey ? 
 Pefte — we'll compel them with what fpeed we may. 
 
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 Eredt your batteries, Engineers, in hafte : 
 Mortars and Cannons in the Works be plac'd. 
 Upon the right my valiant French (hall load ; 
 You Continentals, line th' Augufta road. 
 Moncrieffe feems adlive, but he'll foon be fick. 
 When fhells and balls and bullets rattle thick.72 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ. 
 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 
 The brave D'Eftaing encourages his troops. 
 
 And promifes good ftore of drams and foups. 
 
 Work on, work on, ye jolly Pioneers. 
 
 The town fhall foon be knock'd about their ears. 
 
 Meantime, ftrid guard about the camp we'll keep. 
 
 And neither in nor out a moufe Ihall creep. 
 
 But whence arifes, in the dead of night. 
 
 This horrid noife to fill us with affright ? 
 
 Are all the devils got loofe ? — D'Eftaing cries out. 
 
 — No, fir, 'tis Maitland puts us to the rout.'^^ 
 
 Stop him this inftant ! — Sir, he won't be ftopt. 
 
 Chop him — En verite, ourfelves are chopt. 
 
 The town he Ihall not enter, I declare, 
 
 — True, noble Count, for he's already there. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 The Gallic Chief, his batteries complete. 
 Conceives the Britifti humbled at his feet. 
 Full thirty cannons, mortars half a fcore ; 
 No doubt Prevoft muft tremble at their roar. 
 They open, and proclaim Savannah's doom ; 
 Hide day with fmoke, with fla(hes night illume. 
 Now whittle through the air the pond'rous plumbs ; 
 Now mount aloft, and now defcend the bombs. 
 Inceflfant thunders rend the frighted Iky, 
 And bluffs and hillocks to the found reply. 
 
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 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 What great effedt has all this fire produc'd ? 
 Here fills an houfe, and there a turf is loof 'd. 
 What, no (lain warriors tumbled in the trench ? 
 Yes, by the Mafs: — abundance of the French! 
 No cannon yet difmounted can you fee ? 
 Oh yes — a number marked with Fleurs de Lys. 
 Where are the Yankees ? — where they were at firft. 
 What have we got then ? — we have got the worft. 
 How can this be ? Six days, and nothing done ! 
 The cafe is plain — the foe gives three for one. 
 Our thirty cannon' have no chance at all, 
 Moncrieffe falutes with ninety from the wall. 
 Pize on't — this way of fiege is moft abfurd: 
 We'll have no more on't — Storm fhall be the word ! 
 
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 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 
 The Veterans of France have form'd the line. 
 
 Expecting daybreak and the promif 'd fign. 
 
 The Rebel Bands are marfliall'd in array, 
 
 Boaftful and loud, and covetous of prey. 
 
 What held the Town of beauty, wealth, and power. 
 
 Was all devoted in that cruel hour. 
 
 Sore figh'd the Mother, for her Babes afraid ; 
 
 And, anxious for herfelf, the blooming Maid. 
 
 The Merchant trembled for his crouded ftore : 
 
 One dreadful paufe — and all perhaps is gore ! 
 
 So to the rock Andromeda lay bound. 
 
 When rofe the Monfter from the vaft profound : 
 
 But foon her brave Deliverer fac'd the foe ; 
 
 No matter whether Perjeus or Prevoji, 
 
 His winged courfer gallant he beflrode ; 
 
 He look d a Hero, and he mov'd a God ! 
 
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 He met the Monfter in his fierce attack, 
 And to old Ocean headlong drove him back. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 
 Lo ! from the Artillery pours the grand falute : 
 
 Then Silence flows — and all is hum'd and mute. 
 
 Sudden the drum rebellows ; fwells the fife; 
 
 And all move forward to the mortal ftrife. 
 
 The (houting warriors and the trumpets Ihrill 
 
 The meanefl heart with martial ardour fill. 
 
 With rapid march advance the hoftile rows, 
 
 While Britifh fire the ranks tremendous mows. 
 
 Now nearer ftill and nearer they engage, 
 
 And War puts on accumulated rage. 
 
 There is the din of battle ; there the crafh ; 
 
 The roaring volley, and the frequent flafh. 
 
 There animation in the front appears : 
 
 There charge the chofen Gallic Grenadiers. 
 
 There, where each moment death they take or give, 
 
 Scarce Immortality herfelf could live ! 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 Now Slaughter triumphed and refiftlefs ftrow'd 
 With mangled carcaflfes the reeking road. 
 Ev'n then, when blood was ftreammg like a fount, 
 Polajki rufh'd the ftrong Redoubt to mount. 
 Again the grape-fhot thunders from the walls : 
 He falls— half hero, half a fiend, he falls. 
 OflF from the field his foldiers bear their chief; 
 Art was invok'd, but Art gave no relief; 
 Deep in his groin was fix'd the deadly wound. 
 Worthlefs, tho' brave, a glorious fate he found. 
 
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 Such noble death what right had he to hope, 
 
 Whofe odius Treafon merited a Rope ? 
 
 Undaunted minds were made in verfe to (hine ? 
 
 But hate to parricides blots out the line. 
 
 Not Valour's felf the Traitor can excufe : 
 
 Him Truth condemns: him execrates the MufeJ* 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 
 Such defperate efforts the battalions thin. 
 
 Diforder and difmay and rout begin. 
 
 The worn brigades from fight recoiling fwerve ; 
 
 Their courage droops, they faint in every nerve. 
 
 Yet ftill remains an excellent refource — 
 
 Bring to the charge the Continental Force. 
 
 What ails thefe Braggadocios of the Land ? 
 
 Won't they come forward ? — ftiff as Pofts they iland. 
 
 Strange petrifaction on their hoil attends. 
 
 Deuce take the fools, they level at their friends ! 
 
 Some angry Demon fure their fenfe mifleads ; 
 
 See, the French tremble, and their General bleeds. 
 
 By rebel hands (Lo ! Providence is juft) 
 
 The rebels' patron wounded bites the duft.'^^ 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ. 
 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 
 'Tis done : Confufion fits on every face ; 
 
 Inevitable ruin ; foul difgrace. 
 
 Now Terror domineers, and wild Affright : 
 
 No hope in Arms : no fafety but in Flight. 
 
 Now, Britons, Hefilans and Provincials pour : 
 
 Arreft the fugitives and bathe in gore. 
 
 'Tis done: — D'Eflaing betakes him to his fhip ; 
 
 To Charleflown Yankies thro' the forefls flip. 
 
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 Go reckon up thy lofs, amphibious Count ; 
 Mark Fifteen Hundred to the full amount: 
 Of wounded and of killed an equal train 
 Left Lincoln weltering on the bloody plain : 
 Whilft forty Britons on the lift appear. 
 O Earth confefs^ the Hand of Heaven was here ! 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 Does Lordly Congrefs relifh this defeat — 
 Say, is it pleafant to their fouls and fweetP 
 What, both o'erthrown, America and France, 
 By one fmall fplinter of the Britiih Lance ! 
 Yet thefe were they, gigantic in their boaft, 
 Who fwore to chafe us from this Weftern Coaft : 
 Yet thefe were they who built flat-bottomed boats, 
 And vow'd to drive us like a Flock of Goats. 
 Unftable as the fand, their arts (hall fail : 
 As water weak, they never fliall prevail. 
 Thefe, Reuben-like, their parent's couch defile ; 
 Like Judas, thefe fhall perifh in their guile. 
 Could the Sword fpare them, yet of Heaven accurft 
 Their very Bowels would afunder burft. 
 
 Let fongs of triumph every voice employ, 
 
 And every Mufe difcharge a feu de joie ! 
 
 Ye poor deluded owners of the foil. 
 
 For others* good who labour and who toil — 
 
 Ye wretches doom'd to forrowful miftake. 
 
 Who hunger and who thirft for Congrefs' fake — 
 
 Aroufe for Shame : like Men your rights refume. 
 
 And fend your Tyrants to the Land of Gloom. 
 
 If Shame prevail not, ftill let Wifdom plead. 
 
 If both are flighted. Vengeance muft fucceed. 
 
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 Your Parent State grows ftronger every hour ; 
 As yet, its Mercy fir exceeds its Power. 
 Your Congrefs every moment weaker grows. 
 Rags are its Treafure : Honeft Men its Foes. 
 Its Building cracks, tho' buttreff'd by the Gaul : 
 It nods, it makes, it totters to its fall. 
 O fave yourfelves before it is too late ! 
 O fave your Country from impending Fate ! 
 Leave thofe, whom Juftice muft at length deftroy. 
 Repent, come over, and partake our joy. 
 
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 and now printed from his Manujcript copy.] 
 
 WHEN rival Nations firft defcried. 
 Emerging from the boundlefs Main 
 This Land by Tyrants yet untried. 
 On high was fung this lofty ftrain : 
 Rife Britannia beaming far ! 
 Rife bright Freedom's morning ftar ! 
 
 To diftant Regions unexplor'd 
 Extend the blelTmgs of thy fway ; 
 To yon benighted World afford 
 The light of thy all-chearing ray ; 
 Rife Britannia, rife bright ftar ! 
 Spread thy radiance wide and far ! 
 
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 The fhoots of Science rich and fair, 
 Tranfplanted from thy foftering Ifle 
 And by thy Genius nurtur'd there. 
 Shall teach the Wildernefs to fmile. 
 Shine, Britannia, rife and fliine ! 
 To blefs Mankind the talk be thine ! 
 
 Nor (hall the Mufes now difdain 
 To find a new Afylum there : 
 And ripe for harveft fee the plain, 
 Where lately rov'd the prowling Bear. 
 Plume, Britannia, plume thy wing ! 
 Teach the favage Wild to fing ! 
 
 From thee defcended, there the Swain 
 Shall arm the Port and fpread the Sail, 
 And fpeed his traffick o'er the Main 
 With Ikill to brave the fweeping Gale ; 
 Skill, Britannia, taught by thee, 
 Unrivall'd Emprefs of the Sea ! 
 
 This high and holy ftrain how true 
 Had now from age to age been fhown ; 
 And to the World's admiring view 
 Rofe Freedom's tranfatlantic throne : 
 Here, Britannia, here thy fame 
 Long did we with joy proclaim. 
 
 But ah ! what frenzy breaks a band 
 Of love and union held fo dear ! 
 Rebellion madly (hakes the land. 
 And love is turn'd to hate and fear. 
 Here, Britannia, here at laft 
 We feel Contagion's deadly blaft. 
 
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 Thus blind, alas ! when all is well, 
 Thus blind are Mortals here below : 
 As when apoftate Angels fell. 
 Ambition turns our blifs to woe. 
 Now, Britannia, now beware : 
 For other conflids now prepare I 
 
 By thee controul'd for ages paft. 
 
 See now half Europe in array : 
 
 For wild Ambition hopes at laft 
 
 To fix her long projected fway. 
 
 Rife, Britannia, rife again 
 
 The fcourge of haughty France and Spain ! 
 
 The howling tempeft fiercely blows. 
 And Ocean rages in the ftorm : 
 'Tis then the fearlefs Pilot fliows 
 What Britifh courage can perform. 
 Rule, Britannia, rule the waves 
 And ruin all intruding flaves ! 
 
 
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 [Publijhed at New York, February i6th, 1780, in Rivington's 
 Royal Gazette, and believed to have been written by Stansbury. 
 In this, as in the piece immediately preceding, reference is made 
 to the hojlilities between Spain and England which had broken 
 out in the pajl fummer. The other allufions to Carpenter's Hall 
 at Philadelphia, where Congrejs met ; to Congrejs itfelf, and to 
 the French Alliance, will be readily underjlood. The tenth line 
 of the lujl Stanza Jeems to have been a favorite : it is already 
 ujed by the poet in an earlier page of this volume.] 
 
 WHEN Fadion, in league with the treacherous 
 Gaul, 
 Began to look big and paraded in date ; 
 A meeting was held at Credulity Hall, 
 
 And Echo proclaim'd their Ally good and great / 
 By lea and by land 
 Such wonders are plann'd ; 
 No lefs than the bold Britifh Lion to chain I 
 Well hove ! ia.ys Jack Lanyard, 
 French, Congr. :.nd Spaniard, 
 Have ^z/jyoa— rememb.1 vvs're Lords of the Main ! 
 
 Lords of the Main—aye, Lords of the Main; 
 The Tars of Old Etigland are Lords of the Main. 
 
 Though party-con tentio-i a while may perplex. 
 And lenity hold us in doubtful fufpenfe ; 
 
 If perfidy roufe, or ingratitude vex 
 In defiance of Hell we'll chaftife 
 
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 When danger alarms, 
 *Tis then that in arms 
 
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 Frefh triumphs to Britons, as Lords of the Main. 
 Lords of the Main — ay, Lords of the Main — 
 Let Thunder proclaim it, we're Lords of the Main. 
 
 Then Britons, ^n'^^ home — make fure of your blow : 
 
 The chafe is in view ; never mind a lee-fhore. 
 With vengeance o'ertake the confederate foe : 
 'Tis now we may rival our heroes of yore ! 
 Brave Anjon and Drake ^ 
 Hawke, Rujfell and Blakey 
 With ardour like your's we defy France and Spain ! 
 Combining with Treqfon 
 They're deaf to all reafon : 
 Once more let them feel we are Lords of the Main. 
 
 Lords of the Main — ay. Lords of the Main — 
 The firft-born of Neptune are Lords of the Main. 
 
 Nor are we alone in the noble career ; 
 
 The Soldier partakes of the generous flame : 
 To glory he marches, to glory we fteer ; 
 
 Between us we fliare the rich harveft of fame. 
 Recorded on high. 
 Their names never die. 
 Of heroes by fea and by land what a train ! 
 To the Kingy then, God blefs him ! 
 The World fhall confefs him 
 * The Lord of thofe men who are Lords of the Main.* 
 
 Lords of the Main — ay. Lords of the Main — 
 The Tars of Old England are Lords of the Main. 
 
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 WHEN at firft this land I preft, 
 Pleafing rapture fill'd my breaft ; 
 Swains in carols fweet and free 
 Sung the praife of Liberty. 
 Now their Halcyon days are o'er ; 
 Fled to fomft more happy fhore. . 
 There, from civil Difcord free 
 Dwells the Goddefs Liberty. 
 
 At Bellona's harfli alarms 
 Simple yeomen fhine in arms. 
 Brother flain by brother, fee ! 
 Dreadful fruits of Liberty. 
 Law and order proftrate lie ; 
 Commonwealth is all the cry. 
 Tho* we flaves at prefent be 
 *Tis all for glorious Liberty. 
 
 What tho* Commerce droops her head. 
 All her fons to deferts fled : 
 Let's to Clinton bow the knee ; 
 We're fecure of Liberty. 
 Wealth propitious fwells our fliore ; 
 All our Coffers running o'er ; 
 Dollars cheap as dirt {hall be. 
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 Crowns of Kings are lin'd with Pain. 
 Friendihip only give to me, 
 Social joys, and Liberty. 
 Let me in my humble fphere 
 Free from envy, free from care. 
 Spend the days allotted me 
 Bleft with Peace and Liberty. 
 
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 TO Freedom raife the lofty fong. 
 Sublimeft joys to her belong. 
 *Tis fhe that fmooths the face of War; 
 Hides with laurel ev'ry fear. 
 Huzza for the bleflings of Freedom, oh ! 
 
 To her we OM^e, that fix'd as fate 
 
 Appears our independent State ; 
 
 Our crowded ports and growing trade ; 
 
 Honours too, which ne'er fhall fade. 
 
 Thefe, thefe are the bleflings of Freedom, oh ! 
 
 'Tis She pro^iuc'd thofe wife and great 
 
 And hoaeft men who rule the State; 
 
 To meaner trades no more confined — 
 
 Awls and handfaws left behind — 
 
 How great are the bleflings of Freedom, oh ! 
 
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 Some wretches may difgrace the Caufc 
 (For human nature's full of flaws) 
 And filch away the public wealth : 
 Speculate- — by way of ftealth — 
 Difgracing the banners of Freedom, oh ! 
 
 The Tories cry our Paper down ; 
 Count forty dollars but a crown : 
 For which we'll tax and plague them more 
 Than Pharaoh's flaves in days of yore ; 
 And all for the honour of Freedom, oh \ 
 
 Then fill the glafs to Fredom, oh ! 
 
 Fill up the glafs to Freedom, oh ! 
 
 May the prefent conteft hold 
 
 Till my Paper's turn'd to Gold — 
 
 Then, a fig for the battle for Freedom, oh ! 
 
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 [This piece Is attributed to Mr. Stansbury, and is a fair 
 example of the manner in which the inertnejs of the Englijh 
 leaders was criticized by the loyalijls. It is prejerved in the 
 Political Magazine, vol. 11, p, 291 (London, May, 1781). It 
 refers to the failure of Sir Henry Clinton's plan of an attack on 
 the French fleet and troops lately arrived at Rhode IJland by a 
 co-operation of the Britijh land and naval forces from New 
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 OF Arbuthnot, my friend, pray tell me the news ; 
 What's done by his fhips and their brave gallant 
 crews ? 
 Has the old Engliih man ihewn old Englifh fpunk 
 And the ftiips or the French burnt, taken, or funk? 
 
 In truth, my good fir, there has been nothing like it. 
 *Tis eafier to threaten a blow, than to ftrike it. 
 No fhip has been taken, or frigate, or lugger : 
 
 Nor e'en a poor Frenchman for jacktars 
 
 Though this was a promife fo folemnly made 
 When he call'd on the Tailors to give him their aid : 
 Yet himfelf he has hid under Gardiner's Ifland, 
 And fwears the French fhips muft be now taken by land. 
 
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 STUCK UP AT NEW YORK ON THE 25TH OF AUGUST, I780. 
 
 [By Stansbury; prejerved in 11 Political Magazine, 291. 
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 AS the Marquis la Fayette 
 Taken off all our hay yet ? 
 Says Clinton to the wife heads around him : 
 Yes, faith, great Sir Harry, 
 Each flack he did carry. 
 And likewife the cattle — confound him ! 
 
 
 
 Befides he now goes 
 
 Juft under your nofe. 
 To burn all the houfes to cinder. 
 
 If that be his projed, 
 
 It is not an objed: 
 Worth a great man s attempting to hinder. 
 
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 I care not a loufe ; 
 For revenge let the loyalifts bellow. 
 
 I fwear I'll not do more 
 
 To keep them in humour. 
 Than play on my violencello. 
 
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 I can live a whole year on that fame, Sir. 
 
 Ride about all the day ; 
 
 At night, concert or play ; 
 So a fig for thofe men that dare blame. Sir. 
 
 If growlers complain 
 
 I inactive remain. 
 Will do nothings nor let any others ; 
 
 *Tis fure no new thing 
 
 Tojerve thus our King ; 
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 we may infci that Stanjbury had come to Philadelphia, and \\w-:> 
 waiting pcrmijjion from the Prejident and Executive Conrxil of 
 Pennsylvania to return to New York. The Jocular re/ercnce to 
 the cau/e of delay relate to Francis Hopkinfon, Judge of 
 
 Admiralty, and the only Judge at the time, who was al/o known 
 *♦ as a Wit and a Poet bcjide," in the city. Mr. Hopkinjbn's 
 witty Letter on JVhitewaJhing may aljb be alluded to.] 
 
 MY Dear, 
 You'll not wonder I'm almoft in vapours ! 
 This mercilefs, gracelefs detention of Papers— 
 When my head and my heart were as light as a Cork, 
 With the hope of a fafe and quick pafTage to York — 
 Is almoft too much for a Mortal to bear ! 
 But Prudence fuggefts we fhould never defpair ; 
 And Reafon points out that Good Humour and 
 
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 Are better Companions than half our Relations ; 
 Take off the rough edge of illnature and malice 
 And make our dark Prifon as gay as a Palace. 
 
 Tho* kept in fufpenfe, yet, my dear, don't pronounce ill 
 Of Prefident's views, or intentions of Council. 
 Such bafelefs opinions I'm fure you will alter 
 When once you refled: that a hugeous Defaulter, 
 A Judge, and a Wit, and a Poet befide. 
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 For Bribery's nothing compared with Treafon. 
 And what was this bribe ? Why, a glafs of good Wine, 
 Which all men in office fhould have when they dine. 
 Whether paid for when bought, or a month or two after. 
 Might furnifh the court with a fubjedt for laughter; 
 Which Judges and Council, a pack of fly elves, 
 Moft wifely determin'd to keep to themfelves : 
 Afraid left the Secret fhould 'fcape thro' the key-hole, 
 The method of changing a Black to a Creole — 
 Or, if the comparifon is not too trite. 
 The Secret of making a Blackamoor white ! 
 
 A Caufe fo important has made me lofe one day ; 1 
 Tomorrow muft follow, becaufe it is Sunday ; > 
 
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 [By Joseph Stansbury, then at New York. Printed from the 
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 lively lines contain jbme covert jatire on the royal leaders, and 
 the encouragement they then be/lowed on worthless /eceders from 
 the American Cauje. A dafs of arrivals not enumerated, how- 
 ever, by the poet, is defcribed in the Manujcripts of one of his 
 friends, alfo a refugee at this period in New York.—" Our 
 little half-demolijhed town here jeems crowded to the full, 
 and almojl every day produces frejh inhabitants. Two or three 
 days ago, Ave or Jlx waggon loads of women and children 
 were fent in from Albany, in imitation of the prudent policy of 
 Philadelphia. It was impojfible to ]ee them without pain, driving 
 about the Jlreets, in the forlorn attitudes which people fatigued 
 with travelling and riding in waggons naturally fall into, making 
 fruitle/s jearches for their hujbands and their fathers."] 
 
 YE Members of Congrefs and Councils of State, 
 By Rebellion v;rho hope to become rich and great; 
 The projed, tho' bulky^ is lighter than Cork, 
 Then quit it in time, and come hither to York. 
 
 You*ll here fee an Army polite and well-fed ; 
 And crowds of fine folks, who lay three in a bed ; 
 With Ladies too wife to be fhut up in Cioifters, 
 Or live upon Pulfe, when there's plenty of Oyfters. 
 
 If Mufters, Fines, Taxes, improv'd beyond reafon, 
 Or loyal attachment tranfformed to Treafon, 
 Have wailed your Means or your Patience, come all 
 Where you'll pay, for the prejenty no Taxes at all. 
 
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 But iirft load a VefTel with lumber, and fend her : 
 'Tis true (he may meet with fome Man of War's 
 
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 My Shelah fell in with the Savage and Triton ; 
 They fold her, and left me the fubjeft to write on.''' 
 
 If Loyal, come freely — if Rebel, come too ; 
 Only come without leave, it is all you've to do. 
 Take the Oath, and declare you was forc'd to this pu(h ; 
 And if Tork will not fuit you, repair to FlatbufliJ^ 
 
 You'll there find a country in which you may thrive ; 
 And two dollars, from you, will go farther than five 
 From a poor Refugee : and the reafon is clear — 
 ' It is good to provide left the Rebels come here,' 
 
 Here plenty of all things for Cafh may be had ; 
 If that fhould be wanting, your cafe will be bad. 
 Yet Money's fo plenty, you'll find, to your coft. 
 That Gold, like your Paper, its value has loft.'^ 
 
 Should Fortune deny you a Mattrafs or Bed, 
 
 Or a Clofet or Hovel to fhelter your head ; 
 
 Conceal your chagrin, and a Volunteer enter. 
 
 And fwear you came here Life and Fortune to venture ! 
 
 If this fhould not fuit you, you may if you pleafe 
 
 Join freely with loyal and brave Refugees, 
 
 And plunder your Friends and your Foes, great and 
 
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 And if you arc caught, why— they'll hang you, that's 
 
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 They'll hang you, that's all — I repeat it again : 
 And that, you'll confefs, puts an end to your pain. 
 'Tis what you are ufed to — but hercy by the Lord ! 
 Theft, rapine and murder may fmile at the Cord. ^ 
 
 But, joking apart, all the difference I find 
 'Twixt this place and that I left lately behind ; 
 I lie down in peace^ and xnjafety arife. 
 And Liberty* s mine, an invaluable prize. 
 
 So here I enjoy, with unfpeakable pleafure. 
 
 The objeds for which fo much bloodflied and treafure 
 
 Have idly been wafted by both fides, I fear : 
 
 And all who would tafte them, fhould wifely come here. 
 
 If all in Rebellion would take this advice. 
 The rupture fo wide would be clof *d in a trice. 
 Forgetting paft Quarrels we'd happily fing, 
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 IN early Time, e'er infant Law 
 From Wifdom's bed 
 Had rear'd her head, 
 The tyrant kept his flaves in awe. 
 
 Juilice feebly poif *d the fcale : 
 Wifdom only could prevail. 
 
 In vain the aged Matron weeps 
 O'er blufhing Beauty's rifled charms ; 
 Her eyes on Heaven in vain flie keeps ; 
 
 The fainting Virgin fills the Robber's arms. 
 
 Secure he riots o er his helplefs prey. 
 Mocks all her woes, and bears the prize away ! 
 
 Now brighter days began to dawn. 
 OppreflTion faw the lignt, and fled : 
 In dark Cocytus plung'd her head 
 
 Beneath the infernal wave. 
 Fair Freedom gilt the fpreading Lawn ; 
 Her fons confeil a generous flame : 
 Each ardent^ero pants for fame. 
 By gallant deeds to build a deathlefs name, 
 Or fill a nobler grave. 
 Immortal Glory high in air 
 The heavenly flandard fpread ! 
 The laurel Wreath, 
 The marble Buft, 
 
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 The trophied canvafs, and fwcet Clio's page 
 Defy, O Time, thy utmoft rage. 
 
 The good and juft 
 
 Her rpirit breathe. 
 *Tis Glory fires the Hero's prayer, 
 And crowns th' heroic dead. 
 
 Swift at her call in every clime 
 Her fons appear in Virtue's caufe ; 
 Valour iupplied the force of laws, 
 And raif 'd their fame fublime. 
 
 *Twas thus great George our Patron (hone. 
 No Virgin then was heard complain : 
 No injur'd Matron fued in vain : 
 To diflant lands his fame was known. 
 
 The friend of Man, the Tyrant's foe. 
 His bofom felt a generous glow 
 
 To fuccour the diftreft : 
 To lateft times are handed down 
 His gallant deeds, his juft renown: 
 
 And make his Memory bleft. 
 
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 In honor of his natal day. 
 
 His Sons their annual homage pay 
 
 And emulate their Sire. 
 Nor (hall their grateful tribute end. 
 Till final peals the Heavens fhall rend 
 
 And wrap this Earth in fire. 
 
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 N this day our Countrymen, ages before ye. 
 
 Have fung of St. George, long remembered in 
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 The Patron of England, refplendent in Glory. 
 
 Then Huzza for St. George and Old England ! 
 St. George and Old England, huzza ! 
 
 Some Wits have pretended that George, like old Dagon, 
 Had little of Courage and Glory to brag on ; 
 Himfelf a tame Prieft, and a Fadion the Dragon. 
 
 And Dick, of eood fellows the pride and the life, 
 
 Imagined, to keep up the whimiical ftrife, 
 
 St. George was a Bully — the Dragon his Wife. 
 
 Tho* this explanation may now raife your laughter. 
 Could he punifh a Wife, he can punifh a Daughter, 
 And all his bad Children, we'll mow you hereafter. 
 
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 Who exulting Rebellion's ftriped Standard advance : 
 Repenting they foon muft fubmit to his Lance. 
 
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 And when to their Duty recovered aeain, 
 
 And humbled the Pride of France, Holland and Spain, 
 
 His Flag fpread in triumph (hall govern the Main. 
 
 Then Clinton and Rodney and all gallant Souls, 
 Whofe zeal for their country her fortune controuls. 
 On this day we'll honour with full flowing Bowls. 
 
 And while of St. Georee with frefh ardour we fing. 
 We'll pledge his great Namefake, our patriot King, 
 And loud ^ith his Praife may the Univerfe ring. 
 
 So huzza for St. George and Old England ! 
 
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 WHEN a vile rebel band from Britannia's ilronc; 
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 Would fain pluck the Sceptre and Ball, 
 For our Church and our King we will fight or we'll (ing ; 
 And with them we will (land or will fall. 
 Then come let us play. 
 And keep holiday 
 To celebrate Church and King. 
 
 A Club fo renown'd, with fuch choice Spirits crown'd ; 
 
 Where honour and humour attend ; 
 Should not flag or decay while the Sun rules the day, 
 
 Nor till Time his long journey fhall end. 
 
 Thus united we'll meet, while our Army and Fleet 
 
 The fame of old England advance ; 
 Till from Eafl to the Wefl we Hand viftors confeil 
 
 O'er the Congrefs, the Spaniards and France ! 
 
 When that sera arrives, with our Sweethearts and Wives 
 
 In Chorus we'll joyfully fing 
 A hymn to fweet Peace ; may her bleflings increafe, 
 And furround both the Church and the King ! 
 Oh, then how we'll play, 
 And keep holiday. 
 To celebrate Church and King ! 
 
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 FRIENDS, pu(h round the bottle, and let us be 
 drinking 
 While Wa(hington up in his mountains is (linking. 
 Good faith, if he's wiie he'll not leave them behind him. 
 For he knows he's fafe nowheres where Britons can find 
 
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 When he and Fayette talk of taking this city, 
 Their vaunting moves only our mirth and our pity. 
 
 But tho' near our lines they're too cautious to tarry. 
 What courage they (hew when a hen-rooft they harry ! 
 Who can wonder that Poultry and Oxen and Swine 
 Seek (belter in York from fuch Valour divine ; 
 While Wa(hington's jaws and the Frenchman's are 
 
 aching 
 The fpoil they have loft to be boiling and baking. 
 
 Let Clinton and Arnold bring both to fubjedion. 
 And fend us more Gtek here to feek our rrotedtion. 
 Their fle(h and their feathers (hall meet a kind greeting: 
 A fat Rebel Turkey is excellent eating : 
 A Lamb fat as butter, and white as a Chicken — 
 Thefe forts of tame Rebels are excellent picking. 
 
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 Today a wild Rebel has fmoaked on the Table : 
 You've cut him and flic'd him as long as you're able. 
 He bounded like Congo, and bade you defiance; 
 And plac'd on his running his greateft reliance. 
 But Fate overtook him and brought him before ye, 
 To (hew how Rebellion will wind up her Story. 
 
 Then chear up, my lads: if the ProfpeA grows rougher, 
 Remember from whence, and for whom 'tis, you fuffer : 
 From Men whom mild Laws, and too happy Condition, 
 Have puffed up with Pride and inflam'd with Sedition : 
 For George, wnofe reluAance to puni(h Offenders 
 Has ftrengthened the hands of thefe upftart Pretenders. 
 
 THE 
 
of Stanjbury and OdelL 
 
 8i 
 
 THE ROYAL OAK. 
 
 [By Joseph Stansbi/ry : printed from his Manufcrtpt, dated 
 May 2nd. 1781.82J 
 
 WHEN Britain firft, at Heaven's fupretne com- 
 mand, 
 Emerging rofe from out the azupe main ; 
 This was the Charter of the favour'd Land, 
 
 And crouds of Guardian Angels fune this drain : 
 Secure while Ocean roars around your chalky 
 
 ihores, 
 Thy Genius (hall defy each hoflile ftroke ; 
 The Fates for you ordain the empire of the 
 
 Main, 
 And Glory hovers over your Walls of Oak. 
 
 The Oak, an emblem of your future fame, 
 
 Abides unmov'd the elemental ftrife ; 
 And one day fhall acquire a glorious Name 
 By (hielding in his arms great Charles's life. 
 
 Then filling earth and ikies your mighty deeds (hall 
 
 rife : 
 No nation then fhall dare your rase provoke. 
 From the Eaft unto the Weft, to Neptune's Sons 
 
 confeft. 
 The world fhall bow in homage to the Royal Oak. 
 
 II 
 
 Then 
 
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82 
 
 The Loyal Verfes 
 
 Then fhall the long expedted day appear 
 
 When Britain's King (hall be as good as great ; 
 Rever'd by Foes, and to his People dear ; 
 The Friend and Father of a mighty State. 
 
 Yet Faftion in his days her hydra- head fhall raife, 
 And wrap her fpotted Carcafe in a Patriot's cloak : 
 But Clinton on the fhore fhall banifh'd Peace 
 
 reflore, 
 And Arbuthnot rule the main in the Royal Oak. 
 
 Arbuthnot, train'd for half an age to war ; 
 
 To face death and danger where glory points the way ; 
 And, often borne on Vidlory's beaming car 
 Enjoy'd the triumph of the well-fought day — 
 May he with vengeance fall on the perfidious Gaul, 
 And flrew their pale-faced Lilies o'er the main ; 
 That, as they run away, D' Aflouche himfelf fhall 
 
 fay, 
 " Begar, me n'engage pas Royal Oak again ! 
 
 WOODLANDS. 
 
of Stanjbury and OdelL 
 
 WOODLANDS. 
 
 83 
 
 [Printed from Mr. Stansbury's Manufcript copy. Whence 
 its title the editor cannot fay. It is dated December 24th, 1782, 
 at which period Stanjbury mujl have been in New York, and 
 could not therefore have written this piece at the Woodlands on 
 Schuylkill, the feat of a brother tory, Mr. William Hamilton.] 
 
 WHEN Terror to Madnefs had near work'd the 
 brain. 
 How fweet to return to cool Reafon again ! 
 To find that our hopes in our Country were juft : 
 That Subjedls with George might their Liberties truft. 
 
 Now Time from the eyes of the Vulgar has drawn 
 Burke s fine cobweb reafonings — thofe curtains of lawn.^^ 
 The Man of the People the People defpife. 
 As children thofe Toys which a moment they prize. 
 
 When Rodney the lucky with his Seamen brave 
 Stood forth like true Britons their Country to fave ; 
 The conqueft to Neptune fo pleating was found, 
 Their temples with. Laurel and Seaweed he crown*d. 
 
 And now brighter profpedts are fpread to our view ; 
 Frefh honour prefaging this Year that is new ; 
 Indulge we the hope War its horrors may ceafe. 
 And all Men enjoy foon the BlefTmgs of Peace. 
 
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 84 
 
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 When Peace fhall return here, and bring in her train 
 Eafe, Love, Joy, and Plenty, to brighten the Plain : 
 The Sword and Spear be to Ares rcngn'd, 
 And the Plough, Loom and Sail then fhall comfort 
 mankind. 
 
 Foul Fadion and difcord no more fhall be known ; 
 But Love, Pity and Kindnefs fhall fit on a throne 
 To which all around us fhall joyfully bend, 
 And Peace crown our fhores till the World's at an end. 
 
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 A CHRISTMAS SONG 
 
 FOR 1782. 
 
 [By Stansbury : printed frcun the original Manu/cript. The 
 verje alluding to Cariton and Wajhington, under the names of 
 Guy and Hannibal, feems to have been dejigned for obliteration 
 by the poet.] 
 
 NOW that Chriftmas-time is come, 
 Sound the Fife and beat the Drum : 
 We'll live cheerily, . 
 We'll fing merily. 
 Now that Chriflmas-time has come. 
 
 Be the future Peace or War, 
 We're refolv'd to banifh Care : 
 We'll lay forrow by. 
 And tomorrow, try 
 Whether it be Peace or War. 
 
 Why 
 
of Stanjbury and OdelL 
 
 Why fhould we our moments lofe 
 For a choice we cannot chufe ? 
 
 Since we cannot tell 
 
 Guy or Hannibal 
 Conquer will— no moments lofe ! 
 
 Life, by Fear and Care deftroy'd, 
 Longeft feems when moft enjoy *d. 
 
 Let us live a day ; 
 
 And not give away 
 What by Care is foon deftroy'd. 
 
 Hope her brighteft banner fp reads : 
 Viftory dazzles o'er our heads : 
 
 Britain rifes high. 
 
 Rebel Prizes fly ; 
 Now, while Hope her banner fpreads. 
 
 Soon fliall Congrefs, France, and Spain, 
 Wifli themfelves in Port again ; 
 . While the Dutchman's fate 
 Makes him cry too late ; 
 Curfe on Congrefs, France and Spain ! 
 
 Fill your Bumpers, charee them high : 
 Britain's n^me fhall fill the fky ! 
 Prone her foes be hurl'd : 
 Peace fhe'U give the world : 
 And her Fame (hall never die ! 
 
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 LET 
 
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 LET US BE HAPPY AS LONG AS WE CAN. 
 
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 % Aong. 
 
 [Printed from the original Manujcript of Joseph Stansbury, 
 and evidently adapted to the Jituation of the tory refugees at New 
 York, during the latter part of 1782 atid the commencement of 
 1783, when the profpefl was daily growing Jlronger of Great 
 Britain relinquijhihg the War. In this Jun^ure many of the 
 loyalijls forefaw the difRculties attendant on their choice of a future 
 place of abode, when the protedion of the king's troops jhould be 
 withdrawn.] 
 
 I'VE heard in old times that a Sage uf'd to fay 
 The Seafons were nothing — December or May — 
 The Heat or the Cold never enter'd his Plan ; 
 That all fhould be happy whenever they can. 
 
 No matter what Power direded the State, 
 He look'd upon fuch things as order'd by Fate. 
 Whether govern'd by many, or rul'd by one Man, 
 His rule was — be happy whenever you can. 
 
 He happen'd to enter this world the fame day 
 With the fupple, complying, fam'd Vicar of Bray. 
 Thro* both of their lives the fame principle ran : 
 My boys, we'll be happy as long as we can. 
 
 Time-ferving 
 
 'M 
 
of Stan/bury and OdelL 87 
 
 Time-ferving I hate, yet I fee .io good reafon 
 A leaf from their book fhould be thought out of feafon. 
 When kick'd like a foot-ball from Sheba to Dan, 
 Egad, let's be happy as long as we can. 
 
 Since no one can tell what tomorrow may bring, 
 Or which fide fhall triumph, the Congrefs or King ; 
 Since Fate muft o'errule us and carry her plan, 
 Why, let us be happy as long as we can. 
 
 .'If 
 
 Tonight let's enjoy this good Wine and a Song, 
 And relifh the hour whicn we cannot prolong. 
 If Evil will come, we'll adhere to our Plan 
 And baffle Mififortune as long as we can. 
 
 GOD 
 
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 T^he Loyal Verfes 
 
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 GOD SAVE THE KING. 
 
 [Collated from two Manufcrlpt verjions and written by Mr. 
 Stansbury, at New York but a Jhort time before the end of 
 the war.] 
 
 TIME was, in defence of his King and the Right, 
 We applauded brave Waftiington foremoft in 
 fight: 
 On the banks of Ohio he fhouted luftily 
 
 God fave the King ! 
 Difappointed ambition hi^ feet has mifled ; 
 Corrupted his heart and perverted his head : 
 Loyal no longer, no more he cries faithfully 
 
 Glory and joy crown the King 1^4 
 
 With Envy inflam'd 'tis in Britain the fame ; 
 Where leaders, defpairing of virtuous fame. 
 Have puih'd from their feats thofe whofe watchword 
 was conftantly 
 
 God fave the King ! 
 The helm of the State they have clutched in their grafp 
 When American Treafon is at its laft gafp : 
 When Firmnefs and Loyalty foon ihould fing valiantly 
 
 Glory and Joy crown the King ! 
 
 But Britain, with Glory and Conqueft in view. 
 When nothing was wanted, but juft to purfue — 
 To yield — while her Heroes chanted triumphantly 
 
 r God fave the King ! 
 With curfes confign to the Furies his Name, 
 Whofe Counfels thus cover'd his Country with ihame ! 
 Loyalifts ftill will chant, tho' heavily, 
 
 Glory and Joy crown the King. 
 
 Tho' 
 
of Stan/bury and OdelL 
 
 89 
 
 Tho* ruin'd fo deeply no Angel can fave : 
 
 The Empire difmember'd: our King made a Slave ; 
 
 Still loving, revering, we (hout forth honeftly 
 
 God fave the King ! 
 Tho fated to Banifhment, Poverty, Death, 
 Our Hearts are unalter'd, and with our laft breath 
 Loyal to George, we'll pray moft fervently 
 
 Glory and Joy crown the King ! 
 
 THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 [Theje lines, by Mr. Stansbury, are written on the back of 
 his Qodfave the King. Their date is probably about that of the 
 recognition by England of our independence.] 
 
 NOW this War at length is o'er ; 
 Let us think of it no more. 
 Every Party Lie or Name, 
 Cancel as our mutual Shame. 
 Bid each wound of Faction clofe, 
 Blufhing we were ever Foes. 
 
 Now reftor'd to Peace again, 
 A<^ive Commerce plougns the Main ; 
 All the arts of Civil Life 
 Swift fucceed to Martial Strife ; 
 Britain now allows their claim, 
 Riiing Empire, Wealth, and Fame, 
 
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 TO CORDELIA. 
 
 [Thefe Hnc« were addrejfed to his wife by Mr. Stansbury 
 from Nova Scotia ; wtiither at the clofe of the Revolution he had 
 retired with many other tory refugees. They arc printed from a 
 manufcript copy collated with a verjion publijhed at Philadelphia » 
 in 1805, on page 140 of The Evening Firejlde — a literary peri- 
 odical chiefly fupported among the Quakers.] 
 
 BELIEVE me, Love, this vagrant life 
 O'er Nova Scotia's wilds to roam, 
 While far from children, friends, or wife, 
 
 Or place that I can call a home 
 Delights not me ; — another way 
 My treafures, pleafures, wi flies lay. 
 
 In piercing, wet, and wintry flcies. 
 
 Where man would feem in vain to toil 
 
 I fee, where'er I turn my eyes. 
 Luxuriant pafture, trees and foil. 
 
 Uncharm'd I fee : — another way 
 
 My fondeft hopes and wifties lay. 
 
 Oh could I through the future fee 
 
 Enough to form a fettled plan. 
 To feed my infant train and thee 
 
 And fill the rank and ftyle of man : 
 I'd cheerful be the livelong day ; 
 Since all my wiflies point that way. 
 
 But 
 
of Stanjbury and OdelL 
 
 But when I fee a fordid (hed 
 
 Of birchen bark, procured with care, 
 Defign'd to Ihield the aged head 
 
 Which Britilh mercy placed there — 
 'Tis too, too much : I cannot (lay, 
 But turn with ftreaming eyes away. 
 
 9« 
 
 Oh ! how your heart would bleed to view 
 Six pretty prattlers like your own, 
 
 Expof 'd to every wind that blew ; 
 Condemn'd in fuch a hut to moan» 
 
 Could this be borne, Cordelia, fay ? 
 
 Contented in your cottage ftay.' 
 
 'Tis true, that in this climate rude, 
 The mind refolv'd may happy be ; 
 
 And may, with toil and folitude. 
 Live independent and be free. 
 
 So the lone hermit yields to flow decay \ 
 
 Unfriended lives — unheeded glides away. 
 
 If fo far humbled that no pride remains. 
 
 But moot indifference which way flows the 
 ftream ; 
 
 Refign'd to penury, its cares and pains ; 
 
 And hope has left you like a painted dream ; 
 
 Then here, Cordelia, bend your penfive way. 
 
 And clofe the evening of Life's wretched day. 
 
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NOTES. 
 
 Note i. Page i. 
 
 jLTHOUGH the date o( this piece is anterior to the com- 
 mencement of hoftilitics between England and America, its 
 allufions to the " party contentions " which were already 
 beginning to rage, may juftify its infertion here. Of the author, 
 Mr. Joseph Stansbury, the editor is not able to give much in- 
 formation. He was an Englifhman who had emigrated to America 
 fcveral years prcvioufly. The following verfes were perhaps the firll 
 fruits of his Mufc in his adopted land. They are given from a manufcript 
 verfton collated with that printed in the Evening Firefide (Philadelphia, 
 1 805), page 1 24 ; and purport to have been written by Mr. Stanfbur)* on 
 his arrival in Penniylvania towards the end of the year 1 767. 
 
 MV NATIVE LAND. 
 
 Borne by Eolus o'er the Atlantic waves. 
 
 To Indian lands unknown I wayward ilray, 
 Whofe verdant bofom filver Schuylkill laves ; 
 
 Stately and filent as the clofc of day. 
 Where rears the lofty fpire its gilded crcll. 
 
 And thriving Commerce drives the bufy Ciir, 
 In folemn pomp, by liberal Nature drell, 
 
 Majeftic rolls the mighty Delaware, 
 
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 Tho' Toothing Friendfhip here her healing balm. 
 
 From unexpe£led hands, benign beftows. 
 And o'er life's troubled furface fpreads a calm 
 
 Which lulls to filent reft my former woes ; 
 Still painful Memory prompts the gufhing tear, 
 
 (Her retrofpeftive mirror in her hand,) 
 When lively images of kindred dear 
 
 Infpire the wifh to fee my native land. 
 
 Tho' manly health with each returning fun. 
 
 Sheds choiceft bleffings on my favour'd head. 
 And when this bufy varied day is done 
 
 Still keeps his watchful llation round my bed : 
 Yet ftill, beneath fevere Refleftion's power. 
 
 The numerous paft tranfadions prefent (land. 
 And Nature's ftrongeft ties, each prefent hour. 
 
 Urge me in vain, to hail my native land. 
 
 Tho' Wealth, the lordly power by all ador'd. 
 
 Seems kindly to increafe my little ftore ; 
 And hardy Temperance with a frugal board 
 
 Forbids pale dreary Want to haunt my door j 
 Yet will a gentle race of kindred dear. 
 
 Like airy Shades, conjur'd by magic wand, 
 Arife in view, and force a briny tear, 
 
 A tear of reverence for my native land. 
 
 Tho' here Religion, heaven-illumined Fair, 
 
 Breathes free, by papal (hackles unconfin'd ; 
 Prompts from the inmoft foul the vital prayer. 
 
 Alone well-pleafing to the Eternal Mind : 
 Still in my troubled fight, forever dear. 
 
 Of relatives appear a much loved band ; 
 Nor can my eyes reftrain the dreaming tear. 
 
 While thus they call me to my native Isind. 
 
 Nor 
 
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 of Stan/bury and OdelL ^j 
 
 Nor can the tender folace of a wife ■' 
 
 The lov'd idea from my breaft erafe ; 
 Tho' much the deareft treafure of my life, 
 
 Adorn'd with every fweet, attradive grace. 
 The friendly forms beloved, forever dear. 
 
 Still ftand confelT'd and beckon with the hand : 
 Adown my cheek faft flows the briny tear, • 
 
 While thus they call me to my native land. 
 
 Alike the profpe£l of an ofFfpring moves 
 
 Life's purple current gladdening thro' my breafl: ; 
 The long-wifli'd produce of our mutual loves ; 
 
 The fweeteft femblance of a foul at reft. 
 Yet ftill impetuous gu(h fpontaneous tears. 
 
 Like heaven-direAed Nile o'er Memphis' ftrand : 
 To Wifdom's calming courage, deaf mine ears : 
 
 I pant impadent for my naUve land. 
 
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 Say, for what new and kindly purpofe given 
 
 This wondrous impulfe, when abroad we roam : 
 
 Did Fancy plant it? No, it is from Heaven 
 
 That joy fprings blooming round the thoughts of home. 
 
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 'Tis this by Liberty infpir*d, adorns 
 
 The brighteft pages of hiftoric truth. 
 While Afia's Chief his vanquifh'd thoufands mourns 
 
 Before the ardour of th':; Spartan youth. 
 
 No wonder then diftils the pearly tear ; 
 
 It ftreaming flows at Nature's high command : 
 The ties of kindred are forever dear. 
 
 And dear the memory of my nadve land. 
 
 Mr. 
 
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 98 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 Mr. Stann)uiy was probably a native of London. In 1785, his fifter, 
 Mrs. Collins, reiided at St. Paul's Churchyard in that city. But, from 
 the time of his arrival in America, he appears to have confidered this 
 country as his home. In Philadelphia he eftablifhed himfelf in trade ; 
 and by his commercial integrity, his literary taftes, and his many private 
 virtues, foon acquired the efteem of moft of the chief charaflers of the 
 city. 'At a more advanced period his political opinions brought him into 
 dire£b oppofition to a number of his perfonal friends : but defpite the 
 ready wit with which he aflailed the whigs and even the perfonal adhe- 
 rence that he gave to the royal ftandard, he ftill continued to command 
 their good-will. " He ufed to rail without meafure at the whigs, whom 
 " he held in great contempt," fays tradition, ** but neverthelefs fuch was his 
 " amiability of difpofition and his focial worth that even by whigs of the 
 " firft ftanding in politics and fociety he was prized and elleemed." 
 
 When the Britifh occupied Philadelphia in 1777, Stanfbury was of 
 courfe one of thofe who remained to welcome Howe and his followers, 
 in whom he viewed the reftorers of civil order and the deftroyers of re- 
 bellion. So far as can be gathered now, he had belonged up to a certain 
 period, to the moderate oppofition : diflatiffied with the minifterial pro- 
 ceedings in regard to America, but totally averfe to a refort to arms to 
 procure redrefs. There was a large and influential clafs in Pennfylvania 
 who took this view of affairs ; and the Declaration of Independence in 
 1776, was a fignal for the withdrawal of many (fuch as the Aliens and 
 others) from the whig ranb, even after they had afTociated in arms 
 againfl England. They would refifl as Englifhmen, not as Americans. 
 By all who came under fuch a category, the approach of the king's troops 
 was of courfe gladly hailed. By reference to the local newfpapers of the 
 day, we find that Stanfbury on the loth Oftober, 1777, removed hii 
 china flore to Front street, between Market and Chefnut streets ; and 
 that in the fame month he was appointed by the royal general one of a 
 commiflion for feleding and governing the city watch. On Monday, 
 May 4th, 1778, he was chofen a direftor of the Library Company of 
 
 ^ Philadelphia; 
 
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of Stan/bury and OdelL 99 
 
 Philadelphia ; and on the 1 5th of the fame month, his name is publiihed 
 with thofe of feveral others of the leading citizens, as a manager of Howe's 
 Lottery for the relief of the poor of the place. On the evacuation of the 
 city, he probably accompanied the fleet to New York, where he con- 
 tinued to dwell during the remainder of the war. During all this period 
 his pen was a£live in the caufe of Great Bricain, nor did he always fpare 
 the follies of her friends, while he condemned what he confldered the 
 crimes of her enemies. All of his produ£lions that can be identified by 
 the editor, and have any political bearing, are given in the preceding pages : 
 the following lines were omitted however in the body of this volume, be- 
 caufe though attributed to Stanfbury, the evidence of their authorfliip is 
 purely conjectural. They were printed in Rivington's Gazette— Riving- 
 ton's Lying Gazette, the Americans ftyled it — March 2d, 1782. Their 
 occafion was the fubjoined Epigram, that appeared in the Freeman's 
 Journal (publiflied by Francis Bailey at Philadelphia), February 13 th, 
 1782, in regard to the tide of Rivington's paper having been fo blurred 
 in the printing as to be fcarcely legible. Rivington's firft name was 
 James. 
 
 Says Satan to Jemmy, I hold you a bet 
 
 That you mean to abandon our Royal Gazette ; 
 
 Or, between you and me, you would manage things better 
 
 Than the Title to print on fo damned a Letter. 
 
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 Now, being conne£ted fo long in the Art, 
 It would not be prudent at prefent to part : 
 And People perhaps would be frighten'd and fret. 
 If the Devil alone carried on the Gazette. 
 
 Says Jemmy to Satan, (by way of a wipe) 
 Who gives me the Matter fhould fumifli the Type. 
 And why you find fault I can fcarcely divine. 
 For the Types, like the Printer, are certainly thine. 
 
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lOO Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 'Tis your's to deceive with the femblance of Truth, 
 Thou Friend of my Age and thou Guide of my Youth ! 
 But to profper, pray fend me fome further fupplies, 
 A Sett of new Types and a Sett of new Lies. 
 
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 This effuiion was fubfcribed M. The anfwer in Rivington bears the 
 letter N : and is fo inferior to Stanfbury's ufual llandard that it can hardly 
 be of his compofition. 
 
 THE RETORT-COURTEOUS. 
 
 Says the Poet .to Bailey, pray what is the Reafon, 
 Since you fo delight in printing our Treafbn, 
 That your paper is oft times iofofi and fo blue. 
 That we cannot tell Tool from Fooly or / from TJ f 
 
 Says Bailey, the reafon is plain, Mafter Poet ; 
 Had you one grain of Senfe you furely would know it. 
 Its foftnefs refembles the fculls of my Writers, 
 Who're a Sett of nervelefs infipid Inditers. 
 
 And tho* the Colour's unlike bv>th Chriftian and Jew Skin, 
 Yet it greatly relembles a true Rebel Blue-Skin : 
 Befldes the texture well fuits fuch labours as thine. 
 Which evon Minerva can't fave from Clo'cine. 
 
 Perhaps the following extra£l, from a manufcript letter from a loyalift 
 in New York to a friend in Philadelphia, may explain how the author- 
 Ihip of thefe lines was given to Stanfbury. It is poflible that Bremner 
 was, for caution's fake, ufed for Bailey ; and though the year in which 
 the letter was written does not appear, yet it was certainly not remote 
 from 1782. In reference to fome enclofures he had received from Phi- 
 ladelphia, the writer, under date of Feb. 26th, fays : " The German 
 
 paper 
 
of Stanjbury and OdelL i o i 
 
 " paper pleaf 'd fevcral Hcffian officers and the lines on Bremncr fcveral 
 " perfons of tafte. Stanfbury was charm'd with them, and Rivington is to 
 " uflier them into the world." 
 
 While in New York, Stanfljury preferved the friendftiip of his old 
 friends among the loyalifts; and would even fecm, in December, 1780, 
 to have vifited Philadelphia. At the clofc of the war, he went to Nova 
 Scotia with a view to fetding there on the lands affigned by England to 
 the refugees ; but the country feems to have found as little favour in his 
 eyes as in thofe of William Cobbctt, and he foon returned to the United 
 States. Under date of November 14th, 1785, a lady at Philadelphia 
 writes : *' Jofeph Stanftury called on us the other day : his fpirits and 
 ** vivacity are rtill the fame. He propofes living in this city in the fpring : 
 ** at prefent his family are at Mooreftown in the Jerfeys, where he fays any 
 " body may live." But if the People at Mooreftown were willing to for- 
 give and forget, thofe at Philadelphia were not. On December 22nd, 
 1785, the manufcript laft quoted from fays: "Jofeph Stanfbury lives at 
 " Mooreftown ; but intended to have taken a ftore here and gone into the 
 ** fame line of bufinefs as before. But a fortnight fmce, when he was in 
 ** town, a letter diredted to him was thrown into a houfe where he was fup- 
 " pofed to lodge. The purport of it was that he muft immediately leave 
 " this city, as he would not be permitted to live in it ; and figned Mulberry 
 " Ward. His friend R. Wells advifes him to give up the idea of coming 
 ** here al prefent, and go to Wilmington as a place of trade. Some warm 
 " people met the evening before the letter was fent and had fet in judgment 
 ** on Jofeph's works; his Town-Meeting and fome other performances were 
 ** read and did not tend to cool, but rather to warm ; and produced the 
 *' hint to depart. I fhould not have mentioned this affair but that I know 
 ** fuch reports often go abroad with additions, and that it would be beft to 
 " relate it as it is. He is a very obnoxious charafter with fome people." 
 From another fource I learn that he finally fettled in New York, where 
 he paffed the remainder of his life. 
 
 Although there were others of his name in America before the war, it is 
 
 not 
 
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 1 02 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 not known whether they were of the fame family with our author. 
 
 On 
 
 the 17th January, 1775, we find D. Stanfiury,]\mor, one of the Com- 
 mittee of Obfervation (whig) for Baltimore county, Maryland ; and the 
 name yet exifts in Baltimore. 
 
 With a ytry few exceptions, I am authorized to believe that the pieces 
 prefented in this volume do not give a fair eftimate of Stanfbury's genius. 
 Although he wrote a great number of poems, &c., during the Revolution, 
 but a fmall number are preferved ; and thefe owe their fafety rather to 
 accident, or to the fad of their being already in print, than to his own 
 inclinations. '* He wrote much in the heyday of the Revolution that he 
 " afterwards deftroyed : for with him all refentments died at the dofe of 
 " the finale, and he even feemed to forget who had hated and who had 
 " injured him. His friends he never forgot." The beft authority that I 
 can refer to on this point declares that mod of his pieces coUefted in this 
 volume were but the creatures of the moment, " Scarce a line of which 
 " he would himfelf have remembered a day after the ink was dry." Never- 
 thelefs, lince fortunate circumftances have enabled me to gather together 
 pretty much all that is known to exift of Stanfbury's writings, I cannot but 
 efteem them worthy of prefervation ; often for their own decided merit, 
 and in every cafe as lignificant memorials of the days gone by. 
 
 The only paflage, in the Song that has occalloned this note, which 
 may demand an explanation, is the reference in the fourth ftanza to the 
 difpute between England and Spain relpe6Ung the Falkland Iflands. After 
 all, Spain finally retained undivided poiTeffion of the worthkfi but diA 
 puted territory. John Adams's letter to his wife of 23rd April, 1776, 
 contains fome curious fads about the St. George's Society at Philadelphia 
 at that day. 
 
 Note 2, Page 3. 
 
 The antecedents of many who, towards the crifis of war, became tories, 
 or at leaft were oppofed to taking up arms againft England, are thus 
 inveighed againft in the Monitor, No. VIU, publiihed at New \ or ., 
 November, 1775: 
 
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 ** The very men who have now luckily fallen into fuch a pleafant 
 
 dream of loyalty and obedience, in the time of the Stamp A£l were moft 
 
 of them * patriots of diftinguifhed note ;* the moft vociferous clamorers 
 
 for liberty and property ; the life and foul of mobs ; the leaders in all 
 
 the valorous expeloits of plebian phrenzy, fuch <ts parading the ftreets with 
 
 effigies, pulling down houfes, tarring and feathering and the like. In a 
 
 word, they did not fcruple in thofe days to run headlong into practices 
 
 much more wanton and diforderly than any that have happened in the 
 
 courfe of our prefent ftruggle, which has been managed with Angular 
 
 decency, regularity and prudence. 
 
 ** They then thought it no treafon, no mortal fin, no Republican or 
 
 Prefbyterian contrivance, to form a Continental Congrefs ; to petition 
 
 " and remonftrate with fpirit and freedom ; to deny the right of taxation 
 
 ** claimed and exercifed by the Parliament ; to enter into agreements for 
 
 ** the reftri£Uon of conmierce ; to aft in every refpe£t with fuitable vigour 
 
 ** and refolution. They did not tremble at the found of Minifterial ven- 
 
 " geance ; neither were they afraid to adopt any decifive meafure, becaufe 
 
 ** it might tend to irritate, to widen the breach, to throw an obftacle in the 
 
 " way of peace and reconciliation, and the reft of the trite nonfenfe, the 
 
 ** produft of thefe exuberant times. The contracted views of party, the 
 
 " fordid motives of ambition and avarice, had not then taken fuch firm hold 
 
 ** on their minds as they have fmce. They felt the force of reafon, liftened 
 
 " to its diftates, and cooperated in the necefTary means of bringing fpeedy 
 
 " relief to their Country." 
 
 Since the above has been in the printer's hand, the editor has been 
 favoured with fome pafTages in reference to Stanfbury, cxtrafted from the 
 Pennfylvania Records and Archives, which are fubjoined. 
 
 On the 25th November, 1776, at a meeting at the Indian Queen, in 
 Philadelphia, " Mr. Smith attended and informed that he thinks Jofeph 
 ** Stanfbury fung God Save the King in his houfe, and a number of perfons 
 ** prefent bore him Chorus, on the 15th Oftober, 1776," &c. For this 
 offence, the fingers were, it feems, forced to enter into obligations to con- 
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 fine thcmfclves to their own dwellings : and they probably foon under- 
 went 3 feverer punilhment. On December loth, 1776, the Council of 
 Safety ordered that an enquiry (hould be made into the caufes of the 
 commitment of Jofcph Stanfbury, William Smith, and others, and that 
 the confirmation or annulment of their confinement fhould depend on 
 their being found free from difafFedUon to the Whig caufe, and on their 
 taking the oath of fidelity and allegiance to America. On January 4th, 
 1777, this Council ordered £5 \\s. ^d. to be paid Stanfbury for glafs 
 and delph ware obtained for the Montgomery, a public fhip. In the 
 Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council ihefe entries occur : " Phila- 
 " delphia, Nov. 27, 1780. Monday. Ordered, that Robert Smith, Efq., 
 " Agent for Eftates, do .make out an inventory of the goods & effefts in his 
 " pofTefTion, now or late the property of Jofeph Stanfbury, and make return 
 "to this Board immediately. * * * Dec. 13, 1780. A petition from 
 " Jofeph Stanfbury, praying to be permitted to retire within the lines of the 
 ** enemy was read, and the fame was rejefted, fo far as it refpefts his going 
 "to New York. * * * Dec. 18, 1780. On confideration. Ordered, 
 " That Jofeph Stanfbury, with his family, be permitted to go to New York, 
 " he giving his promife upon honour to proceed immediately to that city, 
 " and ufe his utmoft endeavours to have Abijah Wright & Cafper Geyer, 
 " now prifoners on Long Ifland, releafed and permitted to return home, 
 ** and that he will not do anything injurious to the United States ; that his 
 " efFefts be reflored to him, & himfelf liberated as foon as he fhall be ready 
 " to fet out for New York ; that the agent for confifcated eflates be direAed 
 ** to deliver up the keys of his property. * * * January 8, 1 781. On 
 " application, a pafs was granted to Mrs. Stanfbury (wife of Jofeph Stanf- 
 " bury), for herfelf, fix children, and a fervant maid, with her cloathing, 
 " bedding, &c." 
 
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 " May America prove a fure and lafling Afylum for the Liberties of 
 "Mankind!" (Author's note.) 
 
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 Of the hiftory of Dr. Odell, the author of thefe vcrfes, I have very 
 little to add to what is already given in The Leyaliji Poetry of the Revolu- 
 tion, page 1 99. That he was the writer of The American Times (under 
 the pfeudonym of Camillo Qucrno), printed in that work, is a fad of 
 which I have now no doubt, although it is not there fo dated, and although 
 it has been attributed to the Rev. Dr. Myles Cooper. In the Royal 
 Pennfylvania Gazette of 26th May, 1778, is a long piece in blank verfe 
 entitled Americans Lamentation, and fubfcribed C. Q. R. ; which letters 
 would more appofltely reprefent the name aiTumed by the writer of the 
 Timet than that of any other perfon conneded with the tory prefs known 
 to me. But this does not afford fufficient warrant for its introduction here. 
 It opens thus : 
 
 O Thou who, with furpafling glory crown'd, 
 Look'ft down from Albion's throne ; the fole jufl Lord 
 Of this new world ; to thee I'd fondly call ; 
 And with a filial voice fUll ufe thy name, 
 
 Sire, to tell thee how I love thofe beams 
 That bring to my remembrance from what ftate 
 
 1 fell ; how glorious once, under thy fhine, &c. 
 
 In regard to the proceedings againft Odell in the Provincial Congrefs 
 of New Jerfey (fee The hoyalift Poetry, page 201), it may be added 
 here that when charges were firft lodged with that body, he at the fame 
 time (Oft. 13th, 1775) prefented a prayer that his cafe might be heard 
 that day. He was in attendance on the houfe, and was paroled to return 
 on the 1 7th ; when after a hearing, it was rcfolved in fubftance that 
 although his intercepted letter expreiled his oppolltion to the whig pro- 
 ceedings, yet as that congrefs did not wifh to violate the right of private 
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 public meafures, etc., they would pafs no public cenfure on him. He wu 
 afterwards more ftringently dealt with, in July and Auguft, 1 776 ; doubt- 
 lefs in confequencc of his connexions with certain Britifli officers in June, 
 as commemorated by himfelf in the Birthday Ode and the piece fucceed- 
 ing it, ante, p. 7. The remainder of his life was chiefly pafled in New York 
 and Nova Scotia. The manufcript of a loyal lady who mentions vifits 
 from him at the former place on the 28th 0&.., 1781, and 15th Feb., 
 1782, thus refers to his fcttlement in the latier. "January 5th, 1785. 
 « • * • j)j Odcll I fee is at his deflincd abode, and really the Doftor's 
 " profpe£ls are very flattering. To hold three or four of the mod lucrative 
 ** offices in the Government is not always the lot of one perfon ; which will 
 *' bring in JSipoo /. ann., and is a fituation beyond what he could expe£l. 
 " I envy none their profpe£ls in a new country. jBioo in my native uad 
 ** with my friends is worth £1000 clfewhere." 
 
 In addition to the poetical cffliflons of Dr. Odell already given, the 
 following pieces may intereft the reader, although from their not pofleffing 
 a political bearing they could not well be inferted previoufly. They are 
 printed from manufcript copies, and now, it is believed, for the firft time. 
 The fubjoined verfes were doubtlefs addrefl*ed to the corps in which he 
 had once ferved. 
 
 A WELCOME HOME TO THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT 
 
 AFTER THE PEACE OF 1 763. 
 
 From burning fands pr frozen plains. 
 
 Where Vidlory cheer'd the way. 
 Hail, ye returning, fmall remains 
 
 Of many a glorious day ! 
 
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 In eight revolving years, alas. 
 What havoc war has made ? 
 
 A tear fhall fwell one circling glafs 
 In memory of the Dead. 
 
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 With Englifh hearts, to fate rcfign'd. 
 They earn'd a deathlefs fame : 
 
 For England bled, and left behind 
 A fadly-pleadng name. 
 
 On many a widely diftant land. 
 
 Or in the howling deep, 
 Tho' now they fcem by Death's cold hand 
 
 Held in eternal fleep : 
 
 Yet are they far from what they feem ; 
 
 Their clay alone is cold : 
 They0«/, a warm, etherial beam, . 
 
 No power of Death can hold. 
 
 This mortal frame is but a Screen 
 
 Between us and the Skies ; 
 Death draws the Curtain, and the Scene 
 
 Then opens on our eyes. 
 
 'Tis we that dream ^ not they x!tizt fleep: 
 
 Theif* hovering Spirits fly 
 Around you Hill, and on you keep 
 
 A friendly watchful eye. 
 
 And thus the Chief, who lately led 
 
 Your courage to the field. 
 May (till be fancied at your head ; 
 
 Still warn you not to yield. 
 
 Your loft companions thus may ftrive 
 
 With you each toil to bear : 
 May ftill in Fancy's eye furvive 
 
 Your future fame to fluu'e ! 
 
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 With joyful triumph, then, review 
 
 Your toili and dangers paft j 
 Fill up the circling glafs anew. 
 
 And— Welcome home at laft I 
 
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 London : the allufions to Pope's works need no explanation. 
 
 ON POPE'S GARDEN AT TWICKENHAM: 1765. 
 
 Behold the confecrated Bowers 
 
 Where oft, with rapture fweet. 
 The Mufe beguil'd the lingering hours. 
 
 And cheer'd her Bard's retreat. 
 
 " To wake the Soul, the Genius raife, 
 
 *' And mend the Heart," he fmgs : 
 Echo repeats the melting lays ; 
 
 And Fame her tribute brings. 
 
 Here nothing fplendid, nothing great 
 
 Your admiration claims : 
 No proud difplay of wealth or ftate 
 
 Your envy here inflames. 
 
 No vain fepulchral pomp is here ; 
 
 But every paffing eye 
 Here pays the tribute of a tear. 
 
 And every heart a figh.*,^* 
 
 No breathing marbles do you meet 
 
 Near this enchanting fpot ; 
 But Infplration holds a feat 
 
 In yon Mufe-baunted grot. 
 
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 Dtlightful Hermiuge ! where Hill 
 Some namelefs charm refides \ 
 
 But ah ! no more the murmuring rill 
 Acrofs the cavern glides. 
 
 The Genius of the grotto fled ; 
 
 And left the mournful ftream. 
 No longer by the Mufes fed. 
 
 To vanilh as a dream. 
 
 Yet here entranc'd a fimple Swain 
 With rapture feems infpired. 
 
 Here Fane/ liftens to the ftrain 
 That firft my bofom fired. 
 
 Methinks I hear in every tree 
 The fluttering Sylphs around ; 
 
 And lo ! the ravifli'd lock I fee, 
 A conftellation crown'd ! 
 
 Here, ihelter'd by the folemn (hade. 
 The Cloijier feems to rife. 
 
 Where Eloifa, haplefs Maid, 
 Still vents her tender fighs. 
 
 Here, flirouded in a bloody vail, 
 
 A more ill-fated Fair 
 Glides by, and fwells the hollow gale 
 
 With flirieks of wild defpair. 
 
 But hark? an evangelic fong 
 Reechoed from the Spheres, 
 
 Here floai3 the filvcr Thames along : 
 " A God, a God appears !" 
 
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 With awful and fublime delight 
 
 This hallow'd ground I tread ; ' 
 Where Angels nover in my fight. 
 
 And whifper o'er my head. 
 
 The next piece was evidently compofed during the ftof m of the revolu- 
 tionary war. 
 
 MOLLY ODELL ON HER BIRTHDAY. 
 
 BY HER FATHER. 
 
 Amidft the rage of civil ftrife. 
 The orphan's cries, the widow's tears* 
 This day my rifing dawn of life 
 Has meafured five revolving years. 
 
 Unconfcious of the howling ftorni. 
 No figns of ftiipwreck'd peace I fee; 
 For what, with all its buftling fwarm. 
 What is the noify world to me? 
 
 My needle and my book employ 
 The bufy moments of my day J 
 And, for the reft, with harmlefs joy, 
 I pafs them in a round of play ! 
 
 And if, ere long, my vacant heart 
 Is to be fill'd with Care and Pain, 
 Still I (hall bravely bear my part 
 While Truth and Innocence remain^ 
 
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 With one more poem, this {election from Odell's mifcellaneous manu- 
 fcripts muft terminate. The cnfuing is chofen as partaking of an auto- 
 biographical charadler. 
 
 ON OUR THIRTYNINTH WEDDINGrDAY; 
 6th op may, i8io. 
 
 Twice nineteen years, dear Nancy, on this day 
 
 Complete their circle, fince the fmiling May 
 
 Beheld us at the altar kneel and join 
 
 In holy rites and vows, which made thee mine. 
 
 Then, like the reddening Baft without a cloud. 
 
 Bright was my dawn of joy. To Heaven I bowed 
 
 In thankful exultation, well aflured 
 
 That all my heart could covet was fecured. 
 
 But ah, how foon this dawn of Joy fo bright 
 Was followed by a dark and ftormy night ! 
 The howling tempeft, in a fatal hour. 
 Drove me, an exile from our nuptial bower. 
 To feek for refuge in the tented field. 
 Till democratic Tyranny fhould yield. 
 Thus torn afunder we, from year to year. 
 Endured the alternate ftrife of Hope and Fegr \ 
 Till, from Sufpenfe delivered by Defeat, 
 I hither came and found a fafe retreat. 
 
 Here, join'd by thee and thy young playful train, 
 
 I was o'erpaid for years of toil and pain. 
 
 We had renounced our native bojiile fhore ; 
 
 And met, I truft, //// death to part no more ! 
 
 But fail approaching now the vei^e of life, 
 
 With what emotions do I fee a Wife 
 
 And Children, fmiling with aiFe£tion dear. 
 
 And think— how fure that parting, and how near ! 
 
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 The folemn thought I wifh not to reftrain : 
 
 Tho' painful, 'tis a falutary pain. 
 
 Then let this verfe in your remembrance live. 
 
 That, when from life releafed, I ftill may give 
 
 A token of my love ; may whifper ftill 
 
 Some fault to fhun, fome duty to fulfill ; 
 
 May prompt your Sympathy, fome pain to (hare ; 
 
 Or warn you of fome pleafures to beware ; 
 
 Remind you that the Arrow's filent flight, 
 
 Unfeen alike at noon or dead of night. 
 
 Should caufe no perturbation or difmay. 
 
 But teach you to enjoy the paffing day 
 
 With dutiful tranquillity of mind } 
 
 A£live and vigilant, but ftill rellgn'd. 
 
 For our Redeemer liveth, and we know. 
 
 How or whenever parted here below. 
 
 His faithful fervants, in the Realm above. 
 
 Shall meet again as heirs of his eternal love. 
 
 The Infcription on Franklin's Stove was undoubtedly written by Dr. 
 Odell. Independently of the aflertion of his family, and the faft of a 
 manufcript verfion in his handwriting, dated 1776, being now before me, 
 abundant evidence of his authorfliip will be found in contemporaneous 
 authorities. It is fo ftated in the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1777 ; 
 in Towne's Evening Poft; Philadelphia, Nov. 29th, 1777; inBourcher's 
 View of the American Revolution (London, 1797), p. 449; and in 
 Rev. W. Smith's Works (Philadelphia, 1803), App. to Sermon on 
 Franklin. But Judge Yeatcs, writing from Lancafter in December, 1 777, 
 attributes it to Mifs Deborah Norris ; and a general tradition in Phila- 
 delphia afcribes it either to that lady, or her townfwoman Mifs Hannah 
 Griffitts (See 11 Mems. Hift. Soc. Penn., pt. 2; p. 91) ; both of them 
 of repute as authors. Nor were thefe the only fatiric verfes in which 
 Franklin's lightning-rods figured. The reader will call to mind how 
 
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of Stan/bury and Ode 11, 113 
 
 Peter Pindar rung the changes on the preference beftowed by George III 
 and Sir Jofcph Banks upon blunt over pointed conduftors ; the latter 
 having been recommended by Franklin and the laws of nature as exclu- 
 fively fuitable for proteftion againft eledlricity. And as for Odcll's 
 cenfure of Franklin's political courfe, it may, howfoever erroneous, be 
 extenuated by the eftimation in which the latter was held by as warm a 
 whig as the former was a loyalift. In 1772, Arthur Lee wrote from 
 London, to Samuel Adams, that Franklin (who was then in that city) was 
 the tool and not the dupe of Lord Hillfborough's defigns againft the charter 
 of Maflachufetts. Several years after, Lee deliberately explains the cir- 
 cumftances under which he made that ftatement : ** That he could be 
 " deceived as to the deiigns of the adminiflration, I could hardly believe. 
 " That he was bribed to betray his truft I had not fufpeded. It remained, 
 ** therefore, as nhe moft probable conjecture, that he endeavoured to lull his 
 ** conftituents into fecurity, that he might prevent any commotions which 
 ** would hazard the lucrative polls he poflefled. From whatever motive 
 ** the deception fprang, the mifchief of it was fuchas rendered a counter- 
 ** aftion of it neceflary. For that purpofe, the following letter was written ; 
 *' but it was written in anger, and yet the experience I have had flncc 
 ** would juftify the worft interpretation of his conduft.'*— Zi^^j A. Lee ,• 
 I, 216, 257. 
 
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 In the abfence of any authority of reference concerning Mr. Piercy, I 
 am induced to add fuch notices of him as occur to my hand. He be- 
 longed to the methodift branch of the Church of England, and was one 
 of the few of that clafs who oppofed the caufe of the crown. John 
 Adams, then a delegate to the Congrefs fitting at Philadelphia, mentions 
 him in his Diary under date of Sunday, 061. 23rd, 1 774 : ** Heard Mr. 
 '* Piercy, at Mr. Sproat's. He is chaplain to the Countefs of Hunting- 
 ** don, comes recommended to Mr. Gary, of Charleftown, from her, as 
 ** a faithful fervant of the Lord ; no genius, no orator," He afterwards 
 
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 pafled to the fouthward, and in February, 1778, is mentioned by Elkanah 
 Watfon (Memoirs ; p. 53), as having been left by Whitfield in charge of 
 the Orphan Houfe at Bethefda, in Georgia. *' We found the family of 
 " Mr. Piercy highly refined and intelligent, and enjoyed their kind hofpi- 
 ** tality with much intereft. Meeting people of their cultivation and 
 ** delicacy in this remote and folitary abode, was the fource to us of equal 
 " furprife and gratification. The religious duties of the evening were per- 
 ** formed widi great folemnity and impreffivenefs. At the ringing of a 
 *' fmall bell, the negroes, with their children, all came to unite with the 
 ** family in their devotions." Dr. Piercy was during the war a good deal 
 in Charlefton, preaching to and encouraging the American troops. Con- 
 fequently, on the fall of the city in 1780, he was ordered to relinquifli 
 his clerical dudes ; and as his name does not figure among thofe of the 
 ** two hundred and ten moft refpedtable inhabitants " who addrefled Sir 
 Henry Clinton in June, 1780, we may conclude that he took no pains 
 to conciliate the new authorities. In this fame year we find the " Rev. 
 ** Wm. Piercy, clerk," included as a rebel in the difqualifying aft of the 
 tory legiflature of Georgia. 
 
 Paffing to England, he foon managed to break with his ancient pa- 
 jronefs, Selina, countefs dowager of Huntingdon, as appears from one of 
 his letters, dated Woolwich in Kent, April 3rd, 1784, now before me. 
 He afcribes the caufe to ** the attempt to raife a new Sell or Party ^ 
 " under her Ladyfliip's patronage, called by the fine name of Seceders, alias 
 " Self-created Bijhops. But as I did not chufe to expofe myfelf to the juft 
 " contempt of all ferious men of all denominations, I ftand now totally 
 " unconncfted with her Ladyfhip : as (he Hands entirely unconnefted with 
 *' dear Mr. Whitefield's places and all his people. This has fo much dif- 
 " pleafed the Countefs, that, with her great age arid all together, fhe now 
 ** refufes to fulfill the folemn engagements made with me in the year ■; 
 " which was to allow me an handfome falary as long as I was her minifter 
 ** and chaplain abroad, together with full and honourable compenfation for 
 ** One Hundred a year, fettled on me for life, that I was under the neceffity 
 
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 uunreis, rewrites ''J hon,. k rj . '°^^ PJ'opertv of fJ,« 
 
 *' mumed to England. wh„e hi f r"'" "P°» ">' ""«•" In .8,,' 
 *«W„gC,edo„b',™7*![°°"'fierdied. lefaeoMofD/p^'" 
 
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 TJus feftiv-Vfe thus Jluded to in ,1, n- 
 «>». « Publifted in the Hiftorfe^ „*' °"7 of James C„fiof Buriing. 
 
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 •o" »-ly within read, of I*^ "^'^x'-'i fen, Bniton 'T'"' 
 
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 Due allowance for the power of the poet's imagination mufl be made 
 while reading his panegyric on Queen Charlotte and her *' blooming 
 heavenly line.** Wolcott paints her majefty as 
 
 ' a downright flop 
 Form'd of the coarfeft rags of Nature's (hop ; 
 
 and greatly lamented that " fierce George Hardinge," her Solicitor, de- 
 terred him from doing fuller juftice to her fordid traits. As for the 
 children of the king and queen, there was certainly nothing stiy 
 heavenly " in the minds and morals of fome of them. 
 
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 The manner in which the Declaration of Independence was celebrated 
 at the city where it was ena£led and in the earlieft years of the war, is a 
 matter of fome intereft. 
 
 On the 5th of July, 1776, Congrefs ordered that copies of the Declara- 
 tion (hould be tranfmittcd to the feveral Aflemblies, Conventions, Council ^ 
 of Safety, &c., that it might be properly proclaimed. On the 6th this 
 Refolve was received by the Philadelphia Council of Safety, which ordered 
 ** that the SherifFof Philadelphia read, or caufe to be read and proclaimed 
 " at the State Houfe, in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the 8th day 
 ** July, inftant, at twelve o'clock at noon of the fame day, the Declaration 
 ** of the Reprefentatives of the United States of America, and that he 
 ** caufe all his Officers, and the Conftables of the faid City, to attend the 
 ** reading thereof." The Council likewife refolved to attend the reading 
 in a body, and to invite the Committee of Infpeftion to be prefent. In 
 the latter Conmiittee it was, on the 6th, refolved fo to attend. " At the 
 " fame time, the King's Arms there are to be taken down by nine Afib- 
 ** ciators, here appointed, who are to convey it to a pile of caiks erefted 
 *' upon the commons, for the purpofe of a bonfire, and the arms placed 
 
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 Accordingly, on Monday H,- 8,u r , , 
 
 "^ John Ni,o„. The Xy^';;""" °""*'^"''™- - ™a 
 Room, Sutt Houfe, „ „„ f,^^ ""^ «'» down a. ,hc Cou„ 
 
 p™ca,n,ed a. each of ,hc «vc Ba,J n "T-T''^'^ "■' '"^^ «« 
 
 ftranom of joy upon 4e nnantaCl! "'' """■ °*" ««« d^on- 
 
 On Ae night of Friday, ,S2 Tj^T"" °'*= <''*"'ion." 
 «aUona,jnhi,e^„,,„;;,^J ;4*.^77-Ae M anniverfa^ „f „„ 
 
 *« '• .here wasag^nd exhibW „ of ' c ^f ^"^W- of ,he,i™e, 
 eluded „i,h thirteen rockets) on 1 * ^"''''''' "^S"" »»<i "n 
 
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 «ord B faid in eheir news coI,unn T ^°'' ""' "»"■=■•'"»'•" Not a 
 
 -«d • civic n,^„,,^^ nt :l; 2 r' *"'"= ^'■■••■* "■« A 
 
 » very large part of the inhabiJ^lL^^V?' " ™ "otori„„„hat 
 <- lefi fecredy hoftile not only "tie r^^, f' '^uaten, were n,ore 
 P"V in power. The Friends! ^T^'" ''"' ">= "-^fures of the 
 "*"paffive„raaiveenc::;:~' 7'" "<" ™'--C 
 bm^e themfelves into genej X b^ ,hf °"^"'"' ' -"l ^^^ 
 
 ■7* May, ,776; by their „urm '"°''™ "^ '■"'''nefi on the 
 
 -a by Aeirindifporfdon :~:f . ^j"" ■*= "- order of thL^! 
 
 "". .776, when the -.reatenTa^^irlfr'" "' "'^'■" °-- 
 
 ■ '^^ "'' "'^ "owe p„, all eh, „y^ ^^ 
 
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 1 1 8 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 tranfpordng their effe£ls to places of fafety. ** The Friends here," fays 
 Marfhall, " moved but little of their goods, as they feem to be fatisfied 
 ** that if Gen. Howe fhould take this City, as many here imagined that 
 ** he would, their goods and property would be fafe." To be furc there 
 were many Friends who took up arms for America ; but as thefe were 
 almoft all expelled from the Society for fo doing, their condu£l ferved 
 only to make that of their old comrades more objeftionable. Accord- 
 ingly the celebration of the 4th of July, 1777, might reafonably have 
 been expefled to involve fome local dillurbances. The following letter 
 from George Bryan, a diftinguifhed whig, to his wife, will give fome no- 
 tion of the proceedings of the occafion. 
 
 Philadelphia, 4th July, 1777. 
 My partner and friend : 
 
 It is now near eight in the evening. This has been a day of feafting 
 and the anniverfary of independence, which has, as fuch, been much no- 
 ticed. I am juft returned from dining with Congrefs at the City Tavern. 
 * ♦ * V7e have ordered out conftables and watchmen, and expe£l two 
 hundred foldiers to patrole, and that all illuminations and bonfires are to 
 be put out at eleven this night. Perhaps fome diforders may happen, but 
 we were willing to give the idea of rejoicing its fwing. The fpirits of the 
 whigs muft be kepC up. 
 
 One thoufand Carolinians paraded under arms in Second ftreet, and 
 were reviewed by Congrefs and Generals Gates and Arnold. Two. 
 companies of artillery and a company of Georgian foot performed a feu 
 de joie. The Maryland light horfe attended and were reviewed. The 
 gallies and ihips cdme up and paid their compliments. I am, my deareft 
 madam, your moft devoted lover and partner and friend. 
 
 George Bryan. 
 
 Mr. Bryan's anticipations were well-founded. Although, as has been 
 fuggefted the local newfpapers were perhaps under a top ominous preflure 
 of whig bayonets to venture on publifhing anything likely to injure the 
 caufc, there neverthelefs appears, in the Philadelphia Evening Poft of 5 th 
 
 July. 
 
^ windows, *c. On .he ,;!»,;; ."p'"' °'"'*' "»'Wbr„k™ 
 
 •"« public empl„y„„« „„j„ CoZfi . '^""'' •« °*» hold- 
 
 ferrol .0, aleogc,h„ denied hhTl!:"' "■' " "-""«in perfon, » 
 
 »«. upon .be h„„fa „f J^ „,„ -^ "•; 'We «,„ , p„,^ 
 
 P"Pe« conuin noU.i„g fi,^„ oTll/f!; ♦^ '777. T),e newt 
 MonAly Meeting „f Fri,„j, pl,*/.^ ' ''"' *' "«"■* "f tke 
 
 for .he ,e«ta„ ^^ ,^ ^^^ -^^ m^ be r„bje«ed .0 fuffering 
 
 And lilewife on .he evj^ t" ' ^'^^ '""PP"" Ae de/icienc,' 
 
 >-»'■" public „j„icing. divertpje ? :T"'^ '^ •*' P™'"™' 
 
 ■''»-">aa„g .heir „!ndo„,. b„. « 1 'T "'"■ *' "-""""d^ ■" 
 " ">y Friend of d,e lof. or i^l^T^' ^ >>«» ''n.ngh. i„ by 
 DMria the„ i, , „„ recoT'^ltTo^r''-:, ^"^ --'Nor.he: 
 Wy taken from ftem „„ , y;^ ^f ' ">«" l>Iante« had been fo„i. 
 ' - men .0 ^ ,„ „„,. ^^HXT;, ""'"" '" ^ ^or teg 
 "« having appointed a com„i„e. " ° "t^""" "' "^>°^ »ud,ori 
 PMaddphia,334b,anfc.for,;ra " "'^/" -he ci,y ,„d co„„^ of 
 'o Area the proportion .0 be .alen^L "°™'"'' '""'»P<'»'='-d 
 "ppraifed value : but to r„ch tie o!!'"' "'"^' "" '"^■""' "f- 
 t;""al Paper Money, ,hi, p. ' ^U'ten ., „ould no, receive Con- 
 
 con-pdled." conUnue ,he' gX, " I '"" """"• " ^-^ being 
 Purpofe h« been grievous .0 honefl mind 1 ""'*""'"" """^ " » 
 " «ock of ti,!s neceraty article folt' ^"^ '"™= "■'« W their 
 "-edfnlcoveringinallert^^ ";^' " !° >« '■^"/ 'o want .he 
 
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1 20 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 ** with a good degree of patience and mcekncfs ;" and then recite the 
 impofition of having foldiers billeted on them ; their dwellings abufcd, 
 and their windows broken, &c. ; " bccaufc Friends could not illuminate 
 ** their houfes, and conform to fuch vain pradlices, and outward marks of 
 ** rejoicing, to commemorate the time of thcfe people's withdrawing 
 " themfelves from all fubjcflion to the Englifh government, and from an 
 *' excellent Conflitution, under which we long enjoyed peace and prof- 
 ** pcrity." — Almoifs Remembrancer ; Yf zi^z. Gtlpin^s Exiles ; 294. 
 
 It was probably becaufe of the troubles of this night that, the next year, 
 Congrefs and the Council forbade any illumination at Philadelphia on 
 July 4th, 1778; "on account of the exceflive heat of the weather, the 
 ** prefent fcarcity of candles, and other conjiderations.** The billedng of 
 foldiers referred to above was probably that mentioned by Marfhall, 
 under date of January 25th, 1777 : ** Great quantities of backwoodfmen 
 '* coming to town this day : fo many that with what were here before, 
 " an order was iflued for the billeting of them in the non-aflbciators* 
 ** houfes, which was put into execution in our part of the city." The 
 non-alTociators were fuch as would not take up arms for America. 
 
 Note 9, Page 15. 
 
 Of General Gates and Judge Richard Peters, it can fcarcely be necef- 
 fary to fay anything. The latter was born in 1 744, and was during a 
 great part of the revolution a member of the Board of War. He was 
 always diiUnguilhcd for his pleafantrics ; and acquired a more enduring 
 reputation as a jurift during thirty-fix years of fervice on the bench of the 
 Diftrifl Court of Pennfylvania, to which poll he was appointed by 
 Wafhington. 
 
 Note 10, Page 15. 
 
 James Meafe was horn at Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland ; but 
 came to Philadelphia before the commencement of the revolutionary 
 
 tr<:»ubles. 
 
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 Wclard and Thoma, WilH„. , 
 
 %Pi.« .od,e.™,i„ RoCm "'""''■"«' <"" '•""iftin^ 
 
 ;^;- r4. a^d :^;x7.f:;r "■": ^^ "^:: 
 
 c^riMbits 9t the ftyJc of l,v;« u ' P^''°^ of Ws Jife Mr a J 
 
 Enplane tr ^ '^'"« ^« «ncountered in ^k , "'*' ^'- Adanu 
 
 ^"giand. He rarely rifes from the uT u '°'°"'^» ^°«h of Nevir 
 with a particuJarity worthv r ,! "^"^""^ chroniclW its .n. 
 
 «« P^« to Kvc a, he „„ living ;,T. " T ''"'»»'= "»' he would 
 
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 l" fy.c„„fide„bledi«e.e«cebeJrd,e «' *' '^"°<' *'« *" P™ 
 '»'h«r%,e„niwng. *"'"'™""<'"« middle colonie, 
 
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 This paflage relates to the Conilitution of Pennfvlvania framed in 1776 
 by a convention not regularly authorized fo to do ; yet under which the 
 State was governed for feveral years. In his anitnadverfions upon it, the 
 tory fatirill has more reafon than in mod of his philippics. Graydon fays 
 that its principal authors were George Bryan and a fchoolmaller named 
 James Cannon ; though Dr. Franklin was fuppofed to have given either 
 his aid or his countenance to their lucubrations ; and tradiuon affirms that 
 it was drawn up in a Angle night. It is unnecciTary here to go into a re- 
 capitulation of its details. It muft fuiRce to obferve that it differed funda- 
 mentally from the form of government which it oufted ; and that it was 
 bitterly oppofed not only by the tories, the Quakers, and the " moderate 
 men," but alfo by Cadwalader, St. Clair, Morris, and numerous others 
 of the moll diftinguifhcd among the whigs. Its own limitations fliut out for 
 fbme time <nv change in its provifions, and the whole power of the State 
 was thus vcfted in its friends. Thus John Adams, who was no admirer 
 of it, thought it " agreeable to the body of the people ;" yet he could not 
 conceal the light in which it defervcd to be regarded. " The proceedings 
 *' of the late convention," he writes fliortly after it had framed this conftitu- 
 tlon and diflblved, " are not well liked by the bed of the whigs. Their 
 *' conftitution is reprobated, and the oath with which they have endeavored 
 *' to prop it, by obliging every man to fwear that he will not add to, or 
 ** diminifli from, or any way alter that conftitution, before he can vote, 
 ** is execrated." It certainly had one good effe£t, in excluding from any 
 political influence every inhabitant of the ftate who was not in favour of 
 the extreme meafures of the party fupporting Independence: but as it 
 alfo excluded many who were in favour of that (lep, and as it was, after 
 all, tyrannical alike in its birth and in its adminiftration, it was a wife 
 proceeding to get rid of it as foon as poffible. To be fure feveral dif- 
 tinguifhed characters, who were averfe to it at the commencement, in time 
 accepted offices under it ; but in fuch cafes the purity of their motives 
 
 muft be weighed againft the foundnefs of their judgment. 
 
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 ofStanJbury and Ode//. 
 
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 When every one at aJJ aaiv^ / "owe m the winter of 177^ , ^ . 
 
 , " "« ">o.> wifdom ,„ do. Th 1" ?7 """'^ '"•» ■>•= country, .. 
 ■Pprchcndcd. They „c J, f *" "'*"«' »»' "il to be 
 
 „ ^,"."''''^ "»fc "d female, c^ t ' "^ ' ^'' "f ""^'i 
 
 _^ W.e,. houfe, .„d „„„^ ; «»- -o 1..VC p„p,„d Aeir mind, .„d 
 ••no« defpicbfe in ,h. ° ^"««pt.on, b„, d,efe .„ fe„ ™ 
 
 .. l""' X"" •- ^ . dead wdghZ^' '"■'f ™« "^ "- 8"ake„f 
 
 lK.r money.- Mr. Adam, haj "J "^ "*" """ ■"»« than all 
 'og-cal eon^overiy „ich forof l^rr'^ '"" Wmfelf engaged"/' 
 ^«mon, of the day, .„„ C „«t^" '"'°™^ -°"« Friendf on I 
 
 """ '""' P"« "f U,e f„„„,„ J"^^ J""" '«""« them. Aeeordingly 
 Howe wouidrpeedi-jyrift . pMed 117' I " ™ P"*""' '^t 
 "« w.<aon, of recuring d,e ^rf„« of '« f' t'"""'""' "^ PMadelphi. 
 
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 documents were fufficient to ^ve an opportunity for the fulfilment of the 
 wiihes of many of the whigs ; and it was refolved (Auguft 28th) to re- 
 queft the Supreme Executive Council of Pennfylvania to forthrvith appre- 
 hend eleven of the chief Quakers of the city, named in the refolution. 
 The Council did as it was defired, and more. On the 9th of September^ 
 it ordered that twenty-three gendemen named in the decree, ihould be 
 removed to Staunton in Virginia and there fecured. All of thefe were at 
 the time in confinement at Philadelphia, and were generally Quakers ; 
 though there were fbme Church of England men among them. The allega- 
 tion againft them was that they had umformly manifefted a hoftili^ to the 
 United States } that they had refufed to pledge their allegiance to the 
 State of Pennfylvania and to promife to hold no correfpondence with the 
 enemy, and that they confidered themfelves fubje£b of the King of Great 
 Britain. They were imprifoned, it was further faid, becaufe they would 
 not promife to remain in their own houfes while their cafe was under dif* 
 cuflion. 
 
 Thefe people endeavored to extricate themfelves by Habeas Corpus t 
 but the exercife of the writ was fufpended fo far as they were concerned. 
 No expoflulations which they would make, nor &ny effort to bring their 
 cafe before a court of jurifdi£tion, availed them. They were dealt with 
 in the fpirit of martial rather than common law ; and perhaps the exigen- 
 cies of the times may have rendered a difcreet exercife of fuch power 
 advifable. Unfortunately however under the conflitution of 1776 the 
 control of the State was then mainly in the hands of the Prefbyterians, 
 between whom and the Quakers, and to fome extent the Churchmen, 
 there was a long-eflablifhed political feud. This circumflance undoubt- 
 edly infpired vindi£tivenefs on the one part and exafperation on the other. 
 On the 8th of September, Adams thus writes from Congrefs : ** You will 
 " fee by the papers enclofed that we have been obliged to humble the 
 '* pride of fome Jefuits, who call themfelves Quakers, but who love 
 " money and land better than liberty or religion. The hypocrites are 
 " endeavoring to raife the cry of perfecution, and to g^ve this matter a 
 
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 " religious turn, but they can't fucceed. The world knows them and 
 " their conununications. A£luated by a land-jobbing fpirit like that of 
 ** William Penn, they have been Toliciting grants of immenfe regions of 
 " land on the Ohio. American independence has difappointed them, 
 " which makes them hate it. Yet the dallards dare not avow their hatred 
 " to it, it feems.** 
 
 In purfuance of the Order above mentioned, the prifoners in queftion, 
 with others feized on a like ground, were exiled to Virginia and detained 
 there rbr a very confiderable period. Among thofe fo treated was Ben- 
 jamin Chew, formerly Chief Juftice, of whom Thomas Lynch had written 
 to Waftiington on the 13th November, 1775 : ** I am fure Mr. Chew is 
 " fo heartily difpofed to oblige you and to fcrve the caufe, that nothing 
 •* in his power will be wanting." Perhaps the arreft of fome of the 
 number was rather intended to prevent their doing future harm to the 
 caufe, than in puniftiment for any offence yet committed. Among the 
 names included in the Order of Council is that of Thomas Wharton, 
 Jenior. Thomas Wharton, yVxr/or, was Prefident of the Council, and, as 
 fuch, the Chief Executive Officer of the State. It was to him that the 
 following charafleriftic letter was addrefled by one of the prifoners, a 
 gentleman of high ftanding in the city. 
 
 Hopewelly Virginia^ March 9, 1778. — ^I could not have fuppofed that 
 thou would have refufed anfwering my letter merely on account of its 
 wanting a litde form. That this may not be negle£led for the fame reafon, 
 I now addrefs thee under the tide of (being only intended as a matter of 
 form). 
 
 Friend Wharton, 
 
 Thee may remember that in the winter 1 776 I and my fon Ifaac 
 were dragged before the Prefident and Council of Safety upon no other 
 authority than the will and pleafure of a drunken Sergeant and his guard. 
 On my return home I was very much affe£led with the thought that a 
 perfon with whom I was formerly agreeably conne£led ihould be in 2 
 fituation the moft degrading of any I could conceive : It being evident 
 
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 thou waft under the influence of this military guard. The next day I 
 wrote thee a letter on the occaflon. Whatever then influenced thee not 
 to return an anfwer, I dare fay thou art now convinced it would have been 
 better to have done it. Hadft thou thought it worth while to have heard 
 what I could have faid on the occafion, it is probable I might have been 
 ufeful to thee. With regard to our cafe, who have been condemned and 
 baniflied without trial ; thofe in authority have either not judged at all, 
 leaving it to Congreis to judge for them, or they have judged moft un- 
 righteoufly. 
 
 Notwithftanding the account thee gives of thy time being taken up with 
 thy father Fifliboume, &c., thou figned orders for our removal under efcort 
 of two of the Troop, dated Sept. loth, and orders to Col. Morgan of the 
 fame date to look out fora proper perfon to convey us from Reading to 
 Staunton ; alfo a letter to John Hancock refpeAing our application to 
 Council for our detention at Winchefter, dated 1 2th of September. 
 
 From the above mentioned authentic papers, it is evident thou haft 
 been our enemy ; and well might I fay in my former letter that with re- 
 gard to anything friendly, I am at a lofs in what manner to addrefs thee. 
 But to take thee on the ground of ina£tivi^, on which thou pretended to 
 ftand, but on which in reality thou didft not-— what would it amount to, 
 but that thou would not commit the evil thyfelf, but keep out of the way, 
 and let others do it ? A bafe defertion of the caufe of the innocent and 
 opprefled: but I have already fliown thy crime is of a deeper dye. 
 
 Thou figned orders for our removal under efcort oftw9 of the Troop. 
 Now what evidence hadft thou againft us, whereby thou wouldft juftify 
 thyfelf in figning this decree ? Did the general charge of the Congrefs, 
 publiflied in all the papers, againft the people called Quakers, convince 
 thee of our guilt ? A moft fliamelefs performance, and which we could 
 have fully anfwered in a fliort time, had we been allowed our undoubted 
 right of being heard in our defence. And now I put it to thy confcience : 
 what could induce thee to conient to our being baniflied for life ? Thou 
 couldft not have believed we had been guilty of any crime that could de- 
 ferve fuch puniflunent 
 
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 A' lie lime dm. thofe ch.»«, „,7 '° **"''°" <>" remo„ft™„„ 
 
 «"« of i„j„tti„. *'* ««« «ffi'i"i>)'. A „„„fa,bfc i„: 
 
 ■A fewr words more an^ t l 
 
 r;' »»^' of „, .„d u... ,k„ ^ *°" -« -" »c,„,i„«d „ii , 
 
 - «"ee„,y „p«,„ «,, a/;^;" 7'' P-" i" 'V own J^ Jj 
 
 :■""■"">»' of «fe. " .he d;fi„:?'^'r""f ' «»«« -Pen«„cea„d 
 -•7 -"" P-oprie-y fubfcribe htofe™;;^:,'^^;;"' ""' "'" p'-. 
 
 J Edward Penington 
 
 «""■;<• for Aeir f«„ who efte.:^™ «>' - V°» ' "« d,e„ „„ „„ 
 ■»>»d's eye beheld ^ " ' "''P'"" pertecutfon, and i„ ,he 
 
 P'o«««,.JWo„,whipp.da„dfcor.d.e 
 8-.ke««dMed,od*eh™,p.d.ndft:;.d. 
 
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 Notes to the Loyal Verjes 
 
 Note 14, Page 16. 
 
 The power claimed before the war by the Britiih Parliament, of tranf- 
 porting to England for trial perfons charged with the commiffion of cer- 
 tain offences in this country ; and of in many cafes depriving the fubjeft of 
 the benefit of trial by jury ; were efpecial American grievances, and are 
 recapitulated as fuch in the Declaration of Independence. 
 
 Note 15, Page 17. 
 
 This paflage again refers to the allegation that the revolt in the colonies 
 was the work of the Prefbyterians and their Congregational brethren in 
 New England, and defigned for their efpecial benefit. 
 
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 Note 16, Page 17. 
 
 During its colonial exiftence, Pennfylvania had a paper currency to 
 fupply the neceflities of its people ; fpecie not being always fuificiently 
 abundant. The bills were iflued by virtue of afts of the legiflature, ap- 
 proved by the crown and containing certain provifions for their redemp- 
 tion. They were loaned in various amounts to the inhabitants of the 
 ftate on mortgage fecurity, and thus readily went into circulation; and 
 feem really to have been of great fervice to the community. When the 
 continental paper bills however began to be iflued, very many perfons 
 refufed to receive them ; and of courfe, on Howe's occupation of Phila- 
 delphia, their circulation was entirely prohibited. Such of the inhabitants, 
 however, as adhered to the old order of things, and who had alfo, in all 
 probability, accumulated a confiderable fum in the Provincial (or as it 
 was called Legal) Paper Money, faw no reafbn why this fort of currency 
 ihould not continue in its former value. Some time elapfed after the 
 Britifh army as feated in the city before the fleet of men of war and of 
 tranfports from New York, led by Admiral Lord Howe, could force a 
 pafTage up the Delaware, which was for the period commanded by the 
 
 American 
 
tf Stanjbury and Ode II, 
 
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 American fortifications on th b t 
 
 " "f "g could be r«« „„; '^;4,;"i''r« ""' '^•^ -^ %=«&. 
 
 Pi-Wdphia , ,„d they „ho h^H ^v ? '' *° '^'""««' "■"'« of 
 -'y would „ce,ve .oil bue J :f **. °^ *™ « once decW 
 « the poet u»os, that " ,h, „ u '"'" P'J"""'- If it be true 
 
 ■*' iand. mortgaged f„, thei "l!^ t""""' '""'* »■« ""'x "f 
 *= whip, but alfo by reafor If Z """« ^"^ '» "« '""•^ of 
 wi4d«w„; .here wa, cer«il /^ -"ortgage^^ the„,fe,ves being 
 f^ u^ed. o„ ,k, „T ':/ttTK-,f ' *'" ""•"-• Thf 
 ranaioned by the King; that Zy «dt /""' '''« '^^ "-der law. 
 ■»edi™„ in the province, thattLl / '"»« ^" '""om^on c!rculad„, 
 I in^'Muai. By deWing^l:t:-U~" "^ ^ f ' «'-■'«- 
 'l>e only medium adequate to i,- „, 7 ■ ' '' '" '"'''• ^ oulling 
 
 would fuffer. if all ^Z^ ^^^l """ ""' "" ^ 4 -W 
 filver. Their opponent,, ,h ^k^' *" >■: P"'' ^^ here in gold and 
 
 X' r"™'' """ « ">' '"d p^T/ vr "^ '"^ ""•' *- 
 
 beleve that Sir William Howe wa- fr , "* " S''" ''''"on to 
 
 *«fanger, mendoned in r.:,''::^'^;"^ -■*«»• one of 
 .nd for thi, caufe he may have be^; ^^fc ," ';T *- '" "« «"- : 
 ".oney .hat would only be valnable „ In '7. ^e 'f tT"""" » W- 
 
 In the piece ,„ which this note re].,;* ,'"'^'"^w« viflorious. 
 ^^ been wilhng to ind" t '"m "'""'''"""" "^'-S'' S'--"- 
 fcllow loyalilb, by verfifying ,h: 1 n«. r^' " "" "P™""' <"■ *« 
 feme ofthe advocates for tl.e eftorT'? u' ''""°" 'o ""-from 
 - ^ ^ .n.e interpolaH, th'ltX: o^adtl^r '"'^"- "" 
 
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 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
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 Note 17, Page 18. 
 
 The year 1759 was diftinguiflied in America by the great fucceflet 
 gained over the French by the Britifh. Ticonderoga, Niagara and 
 Quebec were taken, and the way made clear for the downfall of French 
 power in Canada. 
 
 Note 18, Page 19. 
 
 The accuftomed night-watch of the city was of courfe infufficient to 
 preferve the peace on occaflon of twelve or fifteen thoufand llrangers being 
 added to its population ; and the firft days of Howe's occupation were 
 marked by conftant thefts and burglaries. It was not confidered defirable 
 to eftablifh a military patrol in place of a civil police ; fo Howe appointed 
 a number of citizens to be Commiffioners of the Watch, and to increafe 
 its numbers and efficiency. Of thefe Stanibury was one. But as the 
 men would not receive their pay in the paper money, which would buy 
 them nothing in the fliops; and as the Commiffioners had no other to 
 give them ; there arofe an opportunity of bringing the matter before the 
 Englifh General. 
 
 Note 19, Page 19, 
 
 This muft refer to an Addrefs of Congratulation to Howe on his arrival 
 at Philadelphia, and to the refufal of people to fign it until he had iecured, 
 fo far as in him lay, the value of their local currency by placing it, if not 
 on a par, at lead in a due proportion to fpecic as a legal tender. 
 
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 Faithful to their principles, the Quakers of Philadelphia were the only 
 clafs there refolute not to be moved by the events of war. When Howe 
 actually took poflTeffion of the city in i'/ ^ / '^eir condu£l was flmilar to 
 that which they difplayed in the precedin ear when he threatened to 
 
 advance 
 
'f Stan/bury and Odell 
 
 *= fa™e on dKhtterocciionT , " ""™ •"' ""% P.in«d 
 
 „ *t """^ »«'»"ch„V. The O J'r " d ,:*1?' '"' "'"' « '"b 
 "Jly re™i„,. «,. o Howe'. ~h! """ '^"'"'" P««y genc- 
 
 »=• One of Aem reh,., «, ^.e ™„ ?!" "^ "^"^ '' '^ before 
 ''""■i^d copies of i, „.„ „„,;„7;''''" °f 'W.Epig„™„„d «b„,o« 
 
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 "■•ntcd for the TrooM 14,,?', ° '"'*« H^dred Blanket. , 
 
 « » ftw D,y,.. s^ ^ "^o »"ll W for Aem, or «tam then, 
 
 ™«- to refto^ bUto fo, bW ,*"'«°;. •"'' « -. doubdef, an eaf" 
 
 wrnend^ d.dnoefcela»fenfiM.rk •• ""PraWematicai 
 
 %P'y bhnfc« , Ae Englifl. fold e^^^t ^7 °' '^"^ ""'<• - » 
 ■"'. " ^ -en.,, complain of i, fo Z^J^. ^ ''""""" = >« *=X dH 
 
 Nons,, p.g.,„ 
 money iflbed under the nr« "^ ''^^ circulation of th. „ 
 
 orpwudeipi^-. wfobfSr.rr-V"'"' '-^^^^ - 
 
 "■'""by they promifcd to Bite it, f^^;- ''"«' Oa°ber ,ft, .,^ 
 "Ob. effimated at thirty.i|„tC T\ f" "'" = "■ ^^liA. ^ 
 . Spanifl. d„„r a. fev; and fiXt t T;""™"^' ^"■■■'^« 
 
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 The fong itfelf, though Tet to a jingling nurp-y air, has its intereft as 
 Ihowing how matters were carried on at the time. The Philadelphia 
 market was almoft bare of many articles of neceffity, and ofalmoft all of 
 luxury, when the Britiih came in. That of New York was in a better 
 condition; and from it and from England cargoes were wa'^ngtobe 
 difcharged on the wharves at Philadelphia fo fooi. ts opportunity offered. 
 Of courfe the profits were to be heavy ; the more {o^ as being confined to 
 a favoured few. On the 8th Auguft, 1777, a writer from New York 
 fays : " For fome time paft the demand for goods of all forts, and the 
 " high prices given for them, has made the fortunes of thofe who brought 
 ** out cargoes with them. This lucradve traffic has been confined to a few 
 *' favourites, chiefly Scotchmen. It was thought the Britifh Prohibitory 
 " A£l would have prevented the arrival, in America, of all Britifh goods ; 
 " butfo far from it, that A£l has thrown the whole trade into theh. ds of 
 " a few who make a monopoly of it. But the departure of the fleet and 
 " army, which has carried off 24,000 people, foldiers, failors, and at- 
 " tendants, together with a proclamation ifTued out, prohibiting all inter- 
 ** courfe with the Jerfeys, has made trade very dull of late ; however, 
 " many of thofe who came out lately, and have not got their cargoes fold, 
 ** are refhipping their goods, to be ready to fail whenever intelligence 
 ** arrives of Sir William Howe having made good his landing, where they 
 " intend to difpofe of their goods to great advantage." The character of 
 the fupplies mentioned in the Song is amufing; and the arrival of the fleet 
 of tranfports is fpoken of as refloring to the docks of Philadelphia their 
 former appearance of conunercial profperity. But there muft have been 
 a great fcarcity of many of the ordinary flaples of traffic before Howe 
 appeared, as may be gathered from the fa£t of the importation of Irifh 
 beef: an article that had been theretofore prized for feaflores in this 
 country, but not for confumption on fhore, where our own cattle were 
 abundant. " For long voyages," fays the teflimony before the Embargo 
 Committee in 1777, "Irifh beef is preferred in America becaufe it keeps 
 '* better : there is not the fmallefl probability of its being preferred for 
 ** the army."— ^/iw«/r*j Remembrancer , viii : 207. 
 
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of&tanjhury and Odell. 
 
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 ««". where ,h.„ „„« h„„d,^d, T°I^ 1 "'^"- ^' P^WelpKi, 
 «• ""Id br .he whig. i„ . ^fT "f '7"' P-hvife, , f 
 
 Mgnitie., b« when Jft,liri« b^t l^^ """! ''^'^'^ '» •"■'•"n" and 
 Whig difp,«f„„. J, , ,„, - -- 2'- ■*'^, ^* "■= f"« -ish. of 
 -i--' in reeking «, i„j„„ d-ei/op;!^' l""* ""' "^ -« »»• 
 'hrows n,o« „, fcf, ,igh, „„ ^ ^^"^^ E'e-T record of ,hc „W 
 
 confe,«nce of a civil „„ i„ 2 f", "*'"'" ""^ •.«"■". 'he ineviuble 
 
 " - prcven, d,e plunderof fn^bfr „ t ■"* '" ■'" *' "'"' <•-• 
 which, i,'s f,id ,0 ,he ,„„„„, TT " '^°"« ■» *» Jerfes (p„, „, 
 
 I» ■777. we find Aie«„d„ H.nnl2 '*"'-'^™'^>"™" friend.. 
 
 """'■'^-"■PWpunift.enr.r^^ ;^;« Govern„rI.iWngft„„ ,„ 
 enl*ng men for ,he Britift fer„„ ."' '"'. " ;» ""- " employed in 
 for treafon againft ,he ftate whlll ^'""S"™ '■"8=<i 'hen, 
 
 ,f ;"«• '"O "» w™„ .o Conrr^;["" ;^".« ""= ™°« "-iou. 
 
 I (hall not be difappointed if a I.™, ! ' 8"^' '■"ght; and 
 
 ;-of.hec„„nd« Zi o^;t^r "°''''''"'^''"-"»'-- 
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 Sir William Howe's bittereft enemies never denied him the poflfeffion 
 of " thofe military abilities which were demonftrated in his manoravres 
 " on Long Ifland and the Brandy wine, and that undaunted courage which 
 " was (o apparent in the aftion at Bunker's Hill." But his warmeft 
 friends muft have perceived in his conduct of the American campaign, an 
 alloy of ignoble traits that, under Cromwell or Napoleon, would have 
 brought a commanding general to a very diigraceful end< 
 
 In confidering his career in America it muft be borne in mind that great 
 refults were at firft expe£led by his brother. Lord Howe, and himfelf, 
 from the pacific powers with which, as Royal Commiifioners, they were 
 jnvefted. It is very probable that Lord Howe, who was a purer charac- 
 ter thff ii Sir William, counted a great deal on the influence of Dr. Franklin 
 and fome other leaders in the American councils in favour of brining 
 about an accommodation. His interviews with Franklin on this fubjefl, 
 while the latter was yet in England, as related by the doAor himfelf, could 
 not have infpired him with very ftrong faith in the fuccefs of fuch an 
 undertaking : yet we muft remember that each party may have looked at 
 the event in a different light. It is certain that Lord Howe took every 
 preliminary ftep that was in his power to gain favour in the eyes of the 
 Americans ; among other evidences of which is the following letter (which 
 I believe has not been publiftied) from Mr. De Berdt, to James Kinfey, 
 £fq., of the New Jerfey Legiflature. 
 
 London, May 5, 1776. Sir: My Brother in Law Jofeph Read Efq. 
 having particularly informed me the honor your Ailembly has done me 
 by choofing me their Agent in November laft, and how the obligation 
 was encreafed by the unanimity of the choice, give me leave Sir with the 
 acknowledgment of the favor to attempt fome proof of my attachment 
 and regard to your Province and Country. 
 
 I would inform you that from public report there was the greateft 
 
 reafon 
 
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 «> ray belief of wjat , ... ° " ' »■"' "Pon kim ,nd „„ fo „„/ "" 
 
 ■-««• I do „„, „,,c ,hi 2" 't'*"' " ' "■»' " your ,^ Z 
 "»»<' « « . prudent «ep only b" " "'"" "^ "P'"'™ or rL^ 
 
 >"r»«nce. A,, i, „,T, t, «« " » r,gh.-,„d fi,„h„ , 
 
 «■" 1» requeaed. ^'"' '"'' "■« "o ™„.fc„,y, ^^_^^^^;;« 
 
 -f ;f "« :;£^^ .re co„«„d 
 
 bcLeved he h„ r„ch difpenfing' 'pJC^^^Tf °'"" ^« " " ^'"^''X 
 
 Co-re^cet;:;!:.—!"" d'°"'"°-'' -'"•""Vor 
 ^-o- converfe on ,he «.„ of p^slV^tT'T '^""•"' ^"■" '-« 
 The generri „p„„ ;„ ' ^ '«"" " Gentlemen 4 Frien*. 
 
 flora private c„nfe«nce. with fol,*" '*'"'"•"' '"•'raiom confirn«d 
 
 Araene, be„ hi, Wj/hip ,„d r2. .f'** "■'"''^'' *« P«ple of 
 «» Officered a GentlLTn,^™':- f'' """"■^>»'^C^ 
 forae r„ch reafon, in which the ^^'^^^^ ""' "^ '"^^ '^ '^ 
 
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 P"of to your honorable Hodc of aT k. "^ '"" "' «'""« "'I^ 
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 the vrelfire and happinefs of his conftituents, thefc motives ic thefc alone 
 influence my Heart it actuate my Condufl. 
 
 However infucceflTull this humble attempt of mine may prove, I beg it 
 may be remembered as a proof of my good wiflies and intentions. I beg 
 you will communicate this to the HoSfe as j^flible and to accept my 
 aiTurances of eftccm & regard. I am your obliged and obedient hble 
 fervt. DiNNis Di Buidt. 
 
 Favored by Lord Howe, 
 
 With fuch credentials Lord Howe departed on his miflion, in expeAa- 
 tion, no doubt, of procuring an accommodation. In a contemporaneous 
 manufcript notebook of George Chalmers, I find this memorandum : 
 ** C. Stewart fays — that Lord H — having been aflured by Dr. Franklin, 
 " what would fatiflfy the Colonies, made it a point that he fliould be 
 *' empowered to grant thefe. He was empowered. He took privateers 
 " on his voyage, butdifmiiTed them, defiring them to fay; Lord H — was 
 " to make peace. He told Arbuthnott at Halifax t that peace would be 
 " made within ten days after his arrival.** Had he arrived in feafon, it is 
 within the limits of poflibility that he might have eiTefled fomething, if 
 we may draw any inferences from the anxiety difplayed by the advocates 
 for Independence in Congrefs to propagate the belief that there were no 
 fuch CommiiTioncrs coming at all ; and the attention that was given to the 
 report by others who were not fo warm in that caufe. " Wc are waiting, 
 " it is faid," fays Adams in April, 1776, " for commiflloners ; a meffiah 
 " that will never come. This llory of commifHoners is as arrant an illu- 
 ** lion as ever was hatched in the brain of an enthuiiaft, a politician, or a 
 " maniac. I have laughed at it, fcolded at it, grieved at it, and I don't 
 ** know but I may, in an unguarded moment, have rip'd at it. But it is 
 " in vain to reafon againft fuch delufions. I was very forry to fee, in a 
 " letter from the General [Wafhington] that he had been bubbled with 
 " it ; and ftill more, to fee, in a letter from my fagacious friend, W. 
 " [James Warren] at Plymouth, that he was taken in too." But Com- 
 miflioners were coming, and it would be rendering flight juftice to New 
 
 England 
 
W. or u,c ,efol„d„„ decMn, •• ,1, 7 T. "»«mnt on the ,„H 
 
 "gl-' o.«h. to be, fie. .„7L .'^° """«' C»W.3 .« L 1 
 
 •kougl, Uk Howe, ».;, ! ? '"*!*»*"' Sute,.» a„. ' "^"^ 
 
 lis opponents. Bu^ k» . '"perior to thofr nf 
 
 "6 tne Amerjcana on r n«« r/1 . "' O' an armv ac^^ 
 
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 military affairs may not be worth much. Fortunately I have before me a 
 feries of manufcript memorandums by Sir Henry Clinton, on the events 
 and condudl of the war, that may better teft the value of Howe's fervices. 
 Of the meafure that led to the American viAories of Trenton and Princeton, 
 Sir Henry obferves : ** There were who thought (and were not lUent) 
 *' that a chain acFofs Jerfey might be dangerous. General Howe wrote 
 '* to General Clinton thus a few days before the miffortune : ' I have been 
 *' prevailed upon to run a chain acrofs Jerfey : the links are rather too far 
 ** afunder.' * * * I am clear," Clinton continues, ** it would have been 
 ** better if Sir William Howe had not taken a chain acrofs Jerfey." 
 
 Of the maraudings in 1 776-7 of the Engliih in the Jerieys, Clinton hyi : 
 *' Unlefs we could refraip from plundering, we had po buiinefs to take 
 " up winter quarters in a diftridl we wifhed to preferve loyal. The 
 ** Heffians introduced it." 
 
 Of Howe's movement from New York againft Philadelphia, he ob- 
 ferves : " I owe it to truth to fay there was not, I believe, a man in the 
 '* army except Lord Comwallis and General Grant who did not reprobate 
 *' the move to the fbuthward, and fee the neceility of a cooperation with 
 ** General Burgoyne." 
 
 Of Howe's fuffering Wafliington to retreat, comparatively unpurfued at 
 the moment, from the field of Brandywine : ** 'Tis pity Sir William 
 " Howe could not have begun his march at nightfall, inftead of eight 
 ♦* o'clock in the morning." 
 
 Of Howe's crowning the campaign with the occupation of Philadelphia : 
 ** General Clinton told Lord George Germain, April 27th, and Sir 
 ** William Howe repeatedly, after his return to America, his humble 
 " opinion that Philadelphia had better clofe than open the campaign, as 
 ** it required an army to defend it." 
 
 Of the batde of Germantown and the check to the Americans Qcca- 
 fioned by Mufgrave's throwing himfelf with a few companies into Chew's 
 Houfe, Sir Henry makes a remark that, while it fhews on what chances 
 the fate of a batde may turn, does not at all fupport Howe's afleveradon 
 
»'■« 4«r cafe ^ . " f """l '■> exhibi, Sir Willr . 
 
 "-"^ ^n"rc'^'-" "^"'"'Sr r:'"*""*™*' 
 
 «">w«nd in Am, ?™ " " '^8'' price •• r, ' '"''• « " ^'V 
 
 "-«™, „ "^^■"^;'' *- - /be /„;, f.-;»« *= period of i,^ 
 
 b-m. in .7,,.. "^ '"""'•"'''« ''""ch of the fcl ? °™"- " Tie 
 
 " •» peftWes L,d!r "^ "»»«'« to fe ,^ ' " " "««*d 
 
 ^"o"*" and hi, co»,„„ 1 **°'» *« "Odd combi,«:7°i ,"" ° '"^ 
 "owe was g„a,„ :„ ,.7' "* " "o Pofitive evid, ^ """'' ^ 
 
 "™»i • Specimen of wJUd, " " '^' """Wned i„l ^^ " '"" 
 
 ^'"-S in M.y, .*, "">■ ■» found i„ u,. V^f f'^'"""'*« 
 »««. "d conunii^f!: °" """ion of e<,™ppi„, , ^" "f^M in ' 
 
 
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 Who force thee from thy native right, 
 Becaufe thy Heroes will not fight : 
 (Perfidious men ! who millions gain 
 By each protra£led, flow campaign !) 
 
 Sir Nathaniel Wraxall fpeaks very plainly of the eftimate he put upon 
 Sir William and his brother ; they were " either lukewarm, or remifs, or 
 ** negligent, or incapable. Lord North's fele£lion of thefe two com- 
 *' manders excited, at the time, juft condemnation. However brave, 
 " able, or meritorious they might individually be efteemed as profeffional 
 " men, their ardour in the caufe itfelf was doubted, and ftill more quef- 
 " tionable was their attachment to the adminiftration. Never, perhaps, 
 " in the hiftory of modem' war, has an army or a fleet been more pro- 
 ** fufely fupplied with every requifite for brilliant and efficient fervice, 
 " than were the troops and Ihips fent out by Lord North's cabinet, in 
 ** 1776, acrofs the Atlantic. But the efforts abroad did not correfpond 
 " with the exertions made at home. The energy and a^ivity of a 
 '* Wellington never animated that torpid mafs. Neither vigilance, enter- 
 ** prife, nor cooperation characterized the campaign of 1776 and 1777. 
 " Diffipation, play, and relaxation of difcipline found their Way into the 
 ** Britifti camp." 
 
 The fecret of the appointment may have been that North, knowing 
 the profeffional abilities of the men ; the efteem in which their relation- 
 fhip to the Howe who was flain in America during the Seven Years* 
 War entitled them to be held in that country ; their political connexions 
 with the Whigs in England ; and perhaps, their kindred (on the wrong 
 fide of the blanket, it is true — and indeed the fame was whiipered of the 
 premier himfelf — ) to the fovereign ; was influenced by one or all of 
 thefe confiderations to bef^ow on them the pofls in queflion. To carry 
 this through, arrangements had to be made in regard to Sir Guy Carleton, 
 the commander in Canada, who was Howe's fenior officer — an older 
 fbldier, and perhaps a better; at all events a more zealous and active one. 
 Indeed, fuch was Howe's flug^flmefs and love of pleafure in almoft every 
 
 form 
 
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 vuicrs as gallant as he ; 
 •nd in Simcoe a me * • 
 
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 ** fuppofe, to be calkd to dccourit for a^ng according to inftru£tions.*' 
 Lee thought that the conflidl between Wafhington and Howe had refolved 
 itfelf into a trial of the efficacy of their refpe£tive blunders. " It feemed 
 " to be a trial of (kill, which party fhould outdo the other, and it is hard 
 " to fay which played the deepeft ftrolces ; but it was a capital one of 
 " ours, which certainly gave the happy turn which affairs have taken. 
 t* Upon my foul, it was time for Fortune to interpofe^ or we were inevit- 
 " ably loft." So far as his treatment of Americans was concerned, 
 Howe's blunders were indeed capital. He incenfed the whigs by his 
 feverities : he repelled the loyalifts, by putting as litde confidence in them 
 as might be, and difcouraging their organization and action in arms ; and 
 he wafted his time in futile efforts to open, through the medium of Sulli' 
 van, Lee, Willing, and other whigs, negotiations with Congrefs. He 
 returned to England unpopular alike with the minifiry and the nation, 
 although followed by the applaufe of thofe whom he had conmianded. 
 Even at Notdngham, his own town, he was not acceptable to the inhabit- 
 ants. Unlike Iiis brother, who lived to do his country brilliant fervice 
 and to add a freftier luftre to the maritime glory of England, Sir William 
 was never again, fo far as is generally known, invefted with command. 
 He appears to have fucceeded to this brother's Irifh Vifcounty (the Eng- 
 lifli peerage failing, for lack of a fon to its pofleflbr) and died ift 1814. 
 
 • Note 24, {'age 24. 
 
 Though Difcord, your generous txA to oppofe. 
 
 Shall nourifh fedidon and hate. 
 Till your Friends feel the horrors of War with your Foes, 
 
 Your fuccefs is enlur'd you by Yzx&.—Autbot's Variation* 
 
 Note 25, Page 25. 
 
 Hermes' Wand the fierce Snakes could no longer unite ; 
 
 Its Virtues they wholly defied : 
 The branch of the Olive did only affright. 
 
 To fee it at random applied.— ^«/i&0r'/ Variation. 
 
 Perhaps 
 
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P..K . ^J" ^^"^^fiury and Odell 
 
 S«c at tiie time as a patriotic device. 
 
 "»;)« 'o thank Ae 0™or, .„d ,ft ?'„ \'*'^- " A motion „„ 
 
 "f "five paflSges. Thi, i, „„,, "' "'^' '"""« ■>« or altering feme 
 cha^n of the age. X ne^h^M oTl "7^' "^ «^"8.« 
 "nhmg about him b„. hi, abili d" wWch '^ ""^ '^ -« "^ 
 ,_ «°od- The appointment of himt' mat 1 *°"'""^ '"»«'' '° >» 
 %h. «d miftake." The o^^J^^ ^'""^ *" • g«e over. 
 
 Nora j8. Page jo. 
 
 -N«loflorde«lorf„™der'dHorte, 
 
 Ijo„>dtoHeave„i.„e„„o"t 
 
 ^•«n I mui. .our Patience aft 
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 Whether Howe or Mongomery be aimed at in the firft part of the 
 paragraph referred to hj this note, the reader may decide. Perhaps the 
 poet, in no very amiable mood at the time, when Howe's conduct had 
 reduced to worthleiTnefs the moneybags of many of the citizens, may have 
 purpofely deah in an ambiguous expreflion. As to the Want of Bread 
 which threatened him and his friends, left thus in the lurch without avaih- 
 ble funds, the prices that provifions bore in Philadelphia at that period 
 would feem to warrant his alarm. Before the Americans withdrew, the 
 better clafles had been forced in great meafure to relinquifh the ufe fo 
 Weft India goods. " Milk has become the breakfaft of many of the 
 " wealthieft and genteeleft families here." Loaf fugar ibid then at four 
 dollars a pound ; brown' fugar of the pooreft quality at a dollar ; and 
 New England rum at forty (hillings a gallon. After the royal army en- 
 tered the city, and before the arrival of the fleet, beef was at three and 
 nine pence (half a dollar) and butter at feven and fix pence (one dollar) 
 the pound ; and this in fpecie. And before the winter was over, even 
 theie difficult times were made more arduous to be endured. In February, 
 1778, flour commanded three guineas the hundred weight, and all other 
 provifions were at a propordonal rate. Congrefs had made it a capital 
 felony for any inhabitant of Penniylvania or New Jerfey to fupply provi- 
 fions to Philadelphia, and the American patrolling pardes made it an 
 efpecial point to cut off* all fuch perfons as, tempted by the prices their 
 commodities brought in that market, would feek to evade or defy the 
 decree. As the troops were well fumifhed with garrifbn radons, this 
 prohibition fell moft feverely on the cidzens of the town ; and its rigour 
 forced a parliamentary admiflion of its injuftice from Marfhal Conway, 
 one of the fteadieft opponents of the Englifh miniftry. He ftated cor- 
 redly the military principle ** that when the hope of fubduing an enemy 
 ** by flarving made the penalty of fupplying them with provifions death, 
 ** then thoie who were the trefpaflers did it at their peril, and the general 
 " who publifhed the order was juftified : but in no other cafe." In thefe 
 ftraits, the leading Quaker gentry of Philadelphia were, it is faid, com- 
 1 pelled 
 
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 " Art thou really dry, every time thou carried the liquor to thy mouth ?" 
 " What," fcreamed Wallace in a guft of rage—" what ! do you think I 
 " am a hog, only to drink \«henlam dry!" The Quaker retreated 
 under a volley of oaths, fatiffied no doubt with the homethruft he had in- 
 iliAed. Wallace was however a good failor ; and though he and the 
 Experiment were taken by D'Eftaing's fleet in September, 1 779, he was 
 foon at Tea again. Indeed the Experiment itfelf is reported as being at 
 Gibraltar in June* 1780, and in July Wallace himfelf, in command of 
 the Nonfuch, juft after completing the deftrudlion of the Legere, a French 
 frigate, was fo lucky as to fall in with and capture La Btlk Ptule, re- 
 nowned in naval fong for her encounter with the '* faucy Arethufa." In 
 1783 *>(> made a fenfation'in London by profecuting to conviction Mr. 
 Bourne, of the Marines, for an aflault, to the unqualified difgufl of the 
 corps : which pafled a refblve that no gendeman bearing his majefly's 
 commiflion ought to go out with a man who, having been publicly caped, 
 liCf thought fit to feek for his redrefs in a Court of Juflice. 
 
 Note 31, Page 35. 
 
 You Tories compare thefe poor devils to Mites, who always deflroy 
 the fubftance that gives them life and {upport.—jiuthor's Noff, 
 
 
 Note 32, Page 35. 
 
 The Experiment man of war conmianded by Sir Jimcs.—jiuthor's 
 Note. 
 
 Note 33, Page 35. 
 
 Brandy won't fave them — "as the faying is." %* The Ship's Cargo 
 confUled of the above mentioned wt^de&.^-'jiiitkor^s Note. 
 
 .-r : .^ Note 
 
 
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 1-. ' 
 
of Stan/bury and Odei/. 
 
 H7 
 
 ^«e aJJu/ion to the Ho 
 ;,-P«-e of Bu^oyne's annyTt s" '''" ''''' " ^"^^^^^r clear TK 
 «««,i,.ifo,^^^^^-^ « Sa^toga, and U. dinner ^i^Ce^J 
 
 It^ ^°" 36, Page 36. 
 
 A« CongrT^l^^f '\ '^" P^"°^' by the advocates nfv , 
 
 by that power. Of courfer' '""'^ ^°^ ^^«^ affi/bnce .7 I. 
 
 "Stations of the 4 ^''^ ^«^ no truth in rh ^""^'^ "» 
 
 ^"* -Americans anri ^f^ "* the report. Tk 
 
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148 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 the 8th of May, 1778, Congrefs had iflued an addrefs to the people, in 
 which the certainty of viflory over England was proclaimed, and a warm 
 picture given of the profperity which would then attend the deftinies of 
 the United Sutes. 
 
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 If- 
 
 it 
 
 Note 37, Page 39. 
 
 Nothing more vigourous than The Town Meeting is to be found among 
 all the loyal fatires produced during the revolutionary war ; nor was its 
 popularity furpailed by that of any other of its dafs. That it hit the whigs 
 fevercly, and that its perfonalities were (hrewdly aimed, is evident to any 
 one familiar with the hiftory of the times : and Stanlbury's familiarity 
 with the people and politics of Philadelphia enabled him to eaflly bring 
 into fucceilTul ridicule many of thofe fubordinate charaflers of the 
 6x9xm-^Glaucumquef Medontaque, Therjilocbumque-^yfho rarely figure 
 in ifolated pofitions on the pages of hiftory. The refult has been ilated 
 in an earlier Note ; the refentment of this clafs fubfifled in ftrength fuiS- 
 cient to prevent his return to the city after the Peace, while that of more 
 important charadlers had long faded away. Men who are unaccullomed to 
 public admiration are generally unforgiving of public cenfure, or farcafm. 
 
 Unlike the majority of the author's produ6Uons that have appeared in this 
 volume. The Town Meeting is not printed from his original manufcript. 
 But as it was firft publifhed under his own infpedtion, that text has been 
 taken as a ftandard for comparifbn with a number of contemporaneous 
 manufcript copies in various hands. One of thefe, formerly among the 
 papers of the late Edward DuiEeld of Moreland, was printed feveral years 
 fince, in an edition of ten copies, by the late Edward D. Ingraham ; viz : 
 The Town Meeting : A Tory Squib. From the Copy found among the 
 Papers of the late Edward Duffield, Efquire, of Moreland. Le bon vieux 
 temps. Philadelphia, 1837. 8 vo. pp. 8. 
 
 Another, though a (lightly incorre£l veHion is given in Watfon's Annals 
 of Philadelphia, 11 ; 204. 
 
 To properly comprehend the verfes, the condition of affairs exifting in 
 
 the 
 
^f Stanjbury and Odell 
 
 '^e city at the period muftb^n c H9 
 
 '■-Pponcd i„ g^. „„,„„ ^-' »Jo W-. no, .„.«,-,. „^i 
 
 «- of .he „„,.*;„ .„, J~^ °; P- ror.„a .0 ^,,r, .,, Z 
 
 There we« whifpen .h.e i, „„ .i* " ""^ *' f°Pul.iio„ i. improbable 
 
 «n .leemoon i„ ,he charafter of ,1.7 '^ *"^ "■"»» "f piworin. 
 
 b"ru>e6 for he had „o good opi^T "°' ""; ^ "volved i„ Z 
 H» coIIe,g„.San,„e, Ad™,, howler Lri 7r'""" "^ «°'»™""'- 
 " "T"-;-^ of which he w s noT.^C*""' '""'^ '" '"'"'"' " »" 
 Gordon, fo„e perfom " ,o drop dift " T," "/" f""'"''' "«»"«■>« '• 
 
 Focu«d ,„ .dopuon, and iff„„., X"t'<.'l *= P"P'e 'ha, had 
 'he «"« »d d>= righ« of d,e i„Lw, f ''"™"' '" '■"''"'iBD' ,o 
 
 ponders, i, „a, becaufe ,he„ tl2\ ''"™"* '—« 'W 
 ««hori,y in ,h, s«e ,k,„ by .leTd oT^ ""^ "' ""-'""^ -i, 
 
 In the mean time ri>. S„.- • i "'* P^V- 
 
 ■- ^^ on .he .4tflr"K':r f r-^- Ptodncing 
 Congrefi, about futy million, of doL" "'' *"" """^ "««« emi„ed, by 
 
 ;: "-'-•»» '■>'' """"eemed^t^lTrr- *'' "« ^ 
 fo' money, borrow^, abou, for J^r,,"" '"= ""^ "« Uni'ed S,a.«, 
 
 '"■*' ofconfcde^don gave Q^Lt^rT^ ''''" ""^ of ,he 
 n..™ofdifeha,ging,hefedeb«: .'^d ^^^7' ^"" " "''"=•*' 
 ■"*«. body, had no, a, ye. con^TJ' , f """' "■°'«''«'P«fe„.ed 
 
 P«nodin<,„emo„;ti,.Con«„enul w . ^ ^''^'^^-- At d.. 
 '^e million, of dollar for J," I" 7 ^ '""'"' ■» »" """bont 
 
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 150 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 arofe from the common confent to give and take it in fome proportion or 
 other to its nominal value. Tender lawi, which compelled creditors to 
 receive it, or have their debts cancelled by refufal, ferved only to injure t 
 certain number of mortgagees or bondholders ; they could not endow the 
 paper money with vitality. Nothing of courfe could do this but a reafonable 
 ground of belief in its eventual redemption by the United States ; and the 
 praflical comment upon the juftice of fuch a belief may be feen in the 
 bufhels of bills that cumbered, within the recolleAion of the prefent 
 generadon, more than one old garret. Accordingly, the value of the 
 notes iflued by Congrefs was daily decreafing through all the war : fo that 
 while in 1 780 three hundred pounds in this currency would buy a dog, and 
 three thoufand an ox and a half and a few eggs ; in 1781, feven hundred 
 pounds in paper reprcfented but ten in fpecie ; and a mob is faid to have 
 paraded through the Ilrcets of Philadelphia with colors flying and cock- 
 ades of paper dollars in their hats, efcorting a dog which had been tarred 
 arid tlien ftuck over, not with feathers, but with congreifional paper money. 
 In the next year this currency found its real value, at which it has re- 
 mained ever fince. 
 
 The compulfory laws, which forced creditors to receive this money, 
 could have produced no good eiFefl on the morals of the community. 
 Watfon obferves that one of the worft ufes to which it was put " was to 
 " prefent it as ' a legal tender,' to pay with almoft no value what had been 
 " before purchafed for a bona fiit valuable conlideration. Many bafe men 
 " fo acquired their property : efpecially when ' to cheat a tory ' was deemed 
 ** fair prize with feveral. Houfes ftill Hand in Philadelphia, which, could 
 " their walls fpeak out, would tell of ftrangely inconfiderable values re- 
 " ceived for them by the fellers. The large double houfe, for inftance, 
 " at the north- weft corner of Second and Pine ftrcets, was once purchafed, 
 " it was faid, with the money received for one hogshead of rum. The 
 " lot in Front, below Pine, whereon four or five large houies ftood, called 
 '* Barclay's Row, was fold for £60 only of real value." When however 
 the continued depreciadon of the bills had reached a point that rendered 
 
 their 
 
'«»« fold ,he/l" '" •« '»•«'•<. The fe,.,, . ° "'"' "'■•'» money 
 
 '•"-fylMni, /„ , "" '"""•"•on of p„„, . "°.7' "« ""Aorida of 
 r"« «PJ«.r ,0 k.rr 'r'^"'"- UnfonT.!^" °[ """°"-'"« "» 
 
 •• "»"w .wpit. """'■^■"•""io^rjr"'" '■"''"■«'"'» 
 
 «"<•<>■«".«, of rt'T'" ■'•"'' « public n-ori" TL""" """""Pofe 
 
 "■"'. "'«.dy fi^oLl!' •^'* "^ May, ,/ *' • """■ ".»«ing„„ 
 
 ""-•'-ynot ^,:r,7'"""'""— "f-^o^;r"■•<"^''«•• 
 '" *=" « Of u„ b^. ;™f ^ «"• • con„«acd accor r ?""' *<^™''- 
 
 '"*«iy P»b««,,a fy\^" "» " O'-d/ide .„:Lr" '"«'"•«' 'o , 
 
 '■°" 'f Ao public. tC cT?' °'"" °««"of U,Xf : °"*«°°' 
 
 ^"'"fi".rp.ccl, 
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 152 Notes to the Loyal Verjes 
 
 in which the evils of foreftalling were dwelt upon ; the orator's convic- 
 tion declared that a combination had been formed for railing the prices of 
 goods and provifions ; the neceflit)' of fuch combinadons being put down 
 by the people aiTerted ; and the fa£l expatiated on, that during the paft 
 fix months prices had rifen week by week : then introduced a feries of 
 refolutions that had been prepared beforehand by a committee of citizens. 
 Thefe pointed out Robert Morris by name as the oftenfible a£lor in 
 bringing about the recent rife of prices, and ordered that a committee 
 fhould inveftigate his condud, and that he fhould anfwer in writing the 
 interrogatories to be put to him : that the prices of Welt India goods, tea, 
 flour, &Cm fhould inflantly be reduced to the rates of May ift; that 
 offenders againft thefe refolutions fhould be noticed by the committee ; 
 that the condu£l of fufpefled public officers under Congrefs be examined 
 into by another committee ; that all perfons " inimical to the interefl and 
 ** independence of the United States " fhould be expelled from the com- 
 munity, &c. Thefe refolutions were, after fome debate, agreed to. 
 On the next day (May 26th), General Jofeph Reed, Mr. Bayard, and 
 fome others, prefented a memorial to Congrefs on the fame fubje£b as had 
 occafioned the meeting : it was referred to a committee of which John 
 Dickinfon was chairman ; and an anfwer prefendy appeared that was not 
 at all fatiffaflory to thofe who prefented the memorial. On the 26th of 
 May, the Committee appointed at the Town Meeting on the 35 th, pub- 
 lifhed a tariff of prices ; at which rates only were people to be permitted 
 to buy and fell. In June, another and a yet lower tariff" was adopted, 
 and the Conunittee made its power felt by feveral of the chief merchants, 
 whofe conduct had not tallied with the will of the people. Morris in 
 efpecial was the fubje£l of indignadon. His own flatement of his pofition, 
 and of the diflurbances to which his bufmefs had been fubje£ted, will be 
 found in the local newfpapers of the day. On the 26th July, the Com- 
 mittee, through William Bradford, Efq., its chairman, publifhed an Ad- 
 drcfs, in which the juftice and ejq)ediency of their conduA was maintained, 
 and the fadi declared that the refult of the Town Meeting in May had 
 
 been 
 
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"«&n.d.p„d,do„7 L ""'""•. i" n,aU„, I ''""-"vain 
 
 "« up„,4„;*"^™"'y could b. bougie Hfo'' """"'^''' 
 *«*'WcouMb^t,'^r'''"' '"^ ""-^no 1 1*""— ™ 
 
 '"d in view b» T ^' " -» '""w nov t'l, "^ """' '™ of 
 
 "™" of Wafcu. ,*7^-'"' « Ae d„4 ^/^^''f-^ -o f„.i 
 ^«"i « Robert MoH. T''™"'- ""« k. „,, „f"?* '"'' " Signer 
 
 Jongbefo„i„,i^^, fornS" ' "'"• "" -""^^^Zr"" 
 "reatened with „^ , ^ ^i-earon. He u,ac .l Pej-rons not 
 
 '»<'aJCaf;7'r7"^""«' '"^toZZ^T" ™°"«-ofe 
 
 * "^-^ "■"'«' ".v .he .T'y:::'" ■"= ^"y 
 
 ^'■y happily, /,ow. 
 ever. 
 
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 154 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 ever. General Mifflin was one of the number, who was a warm political 
 •^nemy of General Reed, the head of the executive of the ftate. Mifflin 
 had very fagacioufly advifed that information of the approaching aiTault 
 fhould be fent to General Reed, and his counfel had been carried into 
 effe£l. The houfe being prefently attacked, and life loft upon either fide, 
 Mifflin threw open a window, and attempted to addrefs the mob. A man 
 immediately difcharged his piece at him, the ball ftriking the window-fafh 
 clofe by his body j on which the General returned the fire with both his 
 piftols. A byftander relates that he queftioned the aflailant if he knew 
 whofe life he had aimed at : " he replied * he fuppofed fome damned 
 " Tory,' and when I informed him that it was General Mifflin, he ex- 
 " preflcd his furprife and regret." The mob, however, was repulfed, and 
 for the moment retired. It prefently returned with cannon ; and a party 
 of men armed with fledge-hammers and iron bars foon made a breach in 
 the houfe. The arrival of General Reed with a couple of Baylor's 
 dragoons, caufed the aflailants to paufe ; and very foon after a few of 
 the Firft City Troop charging into the crowd, it was completely difperfed. 
 The defenders of the houfe then Tallied out, and aided in the feizure of 
 prifoners. 
 
 It is ftated by Watfon that, in anticipation of the affray, the Troop 
 (which was then as now compofed of the gentry of the neighborhood) 
 had prepared on this day to be ready for fervice at a moment's warning. 
 The deceitful calm that prevailed during the morning had induced rhe mem- 
 bers to retire for dinner to their refpeftive homes, and it was only nine of 
 their number who were got together in time to ad. Charging fuddenly 
 on the mob, ignorance of their real ftrength aided the panic of their ad- 
 verfaries ; and the cry of " the horfe, the horfe /" was a fignal for general 
 flight. The partj' incurred great odium by this feat, and Major Lenox 
 '* was particularly marked out for deftruftion." His houfe at Germantown 
 was fubfequently furrounded in the night-time, and nothing but the 
 opportune arrival of the Troop difperfed his enemies. In allufion to his 
 having thrown afide his long coat, to avoid being dragged from his horfe 
 
 on 
 
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 "" «" 4.h or o« f^"'"^''0' and OdeJl 
 
 in ,he a J! , r*''^- A" an ,i, ^J,^^^'"^ «« ''■ken bv the 
 
 «= excitement furviVed ^, 
 
 ^^' Jt was the 
 
 belief 
 
156 
 
 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 belief of more than one of his enemies that General Reed was implicated 
 in the defign of the riot : but the charge is not fupported. Watfon 
 remarks that General Arnold came to reprefs the mob, but he was (o 
 unpopular that they ftoned him. Arnold was Reed's open enemy. He 
 arrived with his weapons at Wilfon's houfe juft after the riot was quelled, 
 and turning to the byftanders, obferved : " Your Prefldent has raifed a 
 ** mob, and now he cannot quell it.'* Reed was ill in bed when the riot 
 occurred ; and feveral years after, in reference to the remark that he had 
 gone to quell it at the riik of his life, I find this Ilatement in the manufcript 
 of a Philadelphian who certainly bore him no good will: " That is true: 
 " for, as he had raifed the mob, it was inftfted he ihould go out and 
 *' and quiet them, and his life was threatened if he did not." 
 
 The feventeenth and eighteenth Stanzas of the Second Canto of The 
 Town Meeting are quoted in the Life and Correfpondcnce of Prefident 
 Reed, volume 2nd, page 1 49 : which ihows that Stanfbury's fatiric fhafts 
 did not, in every inftance, penetrate very deeply. 
 
 For other particulars of this crifis in the revolutionary hiflory of Penn- 
 fylvania, which fo' i. moment fo r'^rly threatened the inauguration of 
 fcenes fuch as thofe that a few years later tranfpired in France, fee Reed's 
 Reed, 11; f. 6: Biog. Signers, vij 150. The local newlpapers of die 
 day appear to have refrained from the ilighteft allufion to the emeute. 
 
 Note 38, Page 39. 
 
 Watfon makes this ftanza refer to General Reed, but he is in error, it 
 would feem. ** John Bayard, for a time Speaker of the Penniylvania 
 " AfTembly, and a Major in the regiment of which Mr. Roberdeau was 
 ** Colonel and Mr. Reed Lieutenant-Colonel " is believed to be the per- 
 fon alluded to. As early as 1 774, Mr. Bayard was an adtive whig in 
 the politics of High Street Ward, Philadelphia. Early in 1776 h; and 
 Roberdeau fitted out a privateer which foon captured a valuable prize. 
 In 1785 he was a member of Congrefs, and died in 1807. His nephew, 
 James A. Bayard, was one of the American negotiators at Ghent, and 
 
 his 
 
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 '"'' '"" i.an /Iril^r*'^ ■•»*= public r„vi„ r. ; 
 
 "h^ror^o! o„ aife !, ' """ " »« ■» vogue- ". f •^''" 
 
 'o* Ma,, .,80. "" '"'' "■»<>« »ni, hopc.»_c«„t\::: 
 
 '^°" 39, Page 40. 
 B'"-- M'Clemchan wa, a la ^• 
 •«■- w% ^ New y„ ;,^^':* 7;"'« '•■- ™.ade,p,ia. a„a an 
 
 l^«i"in..pp«e;ro,;t:^r or'": '"'"■'"^°» - '» ^^"ir: t 
 
 Thomas M'Kean, John Mi,che„ !d R '' •"■ ^'''' '""■"■"■'^d f'ol 
 M-i»=l Hillega,. ^4000 : bti. •'™'" '*"'*• *'<»° each ?. 
 
 7»2, It h^;s been faid that he Joft K f ^^ *'°""f'-/ i--' 1 78o r 
 
 ^"i«8.cu«o.a^.,,„::^^«^*^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 fla^-aL ;°.''.°f"'"V"'re of ,he iruk Tp '^"^ """ ">= Count 
 
 opWom by the arrival of an 7-'°' ""' ""= ""finned if '„" 
 -f d .he co.™e„cen,en ::,;;::" """=" *''' P" = C ^ 
 
 «ffer, being inform, i 
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 158 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 of the refult of the engagement, were exceedingly downcuft until they 
 were told of the flagihip's mifFortane : on which their fpirits immediately 
 revived : — " it was all a millake, a delufion," they cried ; — ** the Ville de 
 ** Paris could not poffibly be taken." But William Bingham, Efq., who 
 had means of obtaining very good intelligence from the Weft Indies, had 
 probably received fecret but authentic tidings : at leaft it was fo reported 
 at Philadelphia foon after. He therefore commenced to open policies on 
 the faff ty of the Ville de Paris with all who would underwrite her. 
 Thefe were chiefly the warm and wealthy whigs, and M'Clenachan is faid 
 t< j.ave been of the number. Bingham and his friends paid at firft 10 
 per cent premium, and from that up to 25 and yi per cent. Some four 
 . r five hundred thoufand- dollars were thus underwritten. The one fide 
 was encouraged in its miftake by a letter received by the French MiniAer, 
 written from Martinico after the battle, that gave caufe to believe the Ville 
 4'' Paris had not been taken ; while the other relied on its own intelligence, 
 Vi'hatcver that might have been. After the war, M'Clenachan was fued 
 in England by one Brag for damages caufed b> him while adting under 
 public authori y from the Americans. This proceeding, however unjuft 
 in itfelf, was balanced by the New York Statute of 17th March, 1783, 
 prefcribing fimilar meafures againft the other fide. He finally failed in 
 bufinefs, and was imprifoned fcr debt. He was a warm anti-federalift : 
 his propofition at a public meeting during Wafhington's adminiftration, 
 * to kick Jay's Treaty to hell * excited much merriment at the time. He 
 feems to have been a warmhearted, enthufiaftic man, and a liberal friend 
 to the American caufe during the war. 
 
 Note 40, Page 40. 
 
 Art. IV. " That aU pov^er being originally inherent in, and confe- 
 quently derived from, tho people ; therefore all officers of government, 
 whether legiflative or executive, are their truftees and fervants, and at all 
 times accountable to them." — Penn/ylvania Conjiitution 0/" 1 776 : Chap. i. 
 
 Note 
 
 
"f Stan/bury and Odei/. 
 
 '59 
 
 «<"»«Mo„i,B . ""^ ♦'''■'«= 40. 
 
 t€ 
 
 '^'"' 42. Page 40. 
 
 -' ^"^ Shoemaker." 
 
 ^°^^ 43, Page 40. 
 
 ' ""'*mencans, 
 
 Jf,l. L , ''°"4+. Page 4, 
 
 , I*^*' barber wJ,o ffi,ved ,. 
 ■" Adams's fewr, ,„ i •'°''" ^"iams. and „!,„ c 
 
 tole ftUo^ ^J' ""*» "'""^l. w%. 4j^ "": •*' barber of PM,. 
 
 •^^ ^«'/eA.^. PnVa,eer * rr^* " ""'^^'^ «» cha e of f '"""'' 
 <='=«» fine prices. „'"/'"''' "'* the W^, »" ° '"''""' "' 
 " <^f on board ,he J! ^f"""' '^^ '^ ''•^K Sir ■ { '""'• ^^ 'atoa 
 
 :-^--4 '::^';r7-^-e;; -;f-;ean,, 
 
 'Now/ favs J * k wondered /he h j ^* ^^'^^^ wives 
 
 "■■■' Tb'e X ; is t"^"":^' "•= «-« td ' b"7"^ ^"""•''■- 
 
 ^» /ays /he * r • , 
 
 ^ ^"*^' I wouid rather 
 
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 1 60 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 ** called Burne the barber's wife, than Captain Burne's widow. I don't 
 " deiirc to live better than you maintain me, my dear.' So it is. Sir, by 
 " this fweet, honey language, I am choufed out of my prizes, and muft 
 *' go on with my foap and razors and pincers and combs. I wi(h (he 
 ** had my ambition." 
 
 Note 45, Page 41. 
 
 A manufcript note fupplies here the name of a perfon ** whipp'd at 
 ** Annapolis : now a Committee-man." 
 
 . Note 46, Page 41. 
 ♦* Dr. Fallon, chairman of one of the Conunittees."— Af<?»«/?ri// Note, 
 
 ■ II 
 
 
 I. 
 
 »■■;•' 
 
 Note 47, Page 41. 
 
 One manufcript of TT^e Town Meeting has Porter Mich, and adds this 
 note to the whole line : " The one a Porter, the other a Fiflierman ; now 
 *' Captains in the Army." Watfon alfo reads Mich.; and the verfion 
 printed from the Duffield copy fays Pewterer Will. I prefer to follow 
 the text in Rivington. Mich, might poffibly refer to Michael Hillegas, 
 a whig of confiderable local influence ; but the defcription of his antece- 
 dents will not apply. Will may lignify Colonel Will, afterwards Sheriff 
 of Philadelphia County. 
 
 Note 48, Page 41. 
 
 ** John Mitchell, famous for eating Shad-roe," fays a note in the Duf- 
 Held impreflion. He is referred to in the third Stanzas of this Canto. 
 In 1777, Colonel Mitchell waa Adjutant-General of Pennfylvania. The 
 Marquis de Chaftellux in a flcetch of one of the City Aflembly Balls at 
 Philadelphia in the winter of 1 780-1 (where the airs danced to, by the 
 way, went by the names of Burgoyn^s Defeat, The Succefs of the Cam" 
 faign, Clinton^ s Retreat, &c.) fays : ** The Managers are generally chofen 
 
 ♦'from 
 
 '^f ^1 
 
■■ -ri^ boTo^^ *! ■" *°'^"' •»" Who TJu^'r "•" % 
 
 " W. office wi^ ^ ' ''"•"' "•"■««. He i. r i " "^ "»»'"- 
 
 
 in 
 
 
 i nomas M *JCMn 
 ""••"•■•on, .,, :: l^'^^' oro- Co,g,efi of .76, . .. 
 ««6 from ,„^ , °"'' »»n who wa. con«.„ri. ./' *'«~' »'■''» 
 
 ContinentaJ Paper Moacy. 
 
 Timothy Madack: in ,.8, ^ 
 vama. '78o a Member of Conitajfi f » 
 
 21 
 
 NoTB 
 
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 n '■ 
 
 162 
 
 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 Non 52, Page 42. 
 
 Colonel John Bull of Philadelphia county ; afterwards of Montgomery 
 county. In 1772, he was a Juftice of the Peace; in 1777, he was 
 Colonel of the Firft Regiment of Pennfylvania Levies; and a Member of 
 AfTembly from Philadelphia County. He commanded at Billingfport j 
 and was Adjutant General of the M>Htia> 
 
 Note 53, Page 42. . 
 
 " Daniel Roberdeau, a lumber merchant and militia general."— Afi/ff«- 
 fcrift Note. A Member of Congrefs with Robert Morris from Penn- 
 fylvania in 1777 ; and that body meeting at York, where accommodations 
 were fcanty, he opened his hcufc to Gerry, and Samuel and John Adams, 
 delegates from Maflachufetts. Though' of French extraflion, he was a 
 great public favourite at Philadelphia, where he had long dwelt. The 
 following Warrant, iflued (if genuine) when the Whigs there were pre- 
 paring to fly before the enemy, \\ not printed in the Archives. — " In 
 " Council of Saftiy, Philadelphia, Dec. 9, 1776. You arc hereby au- 
 " thorized and required to imprefs either James Pemberton^s^ John Pern- 
 
 * 
 
 ** berton*St Samuel Emletfs, jun., or John Reynold^ clofe carriage and 
 " horfes, for to remove General Roberdeau. By Order of Council, 
 " David Rittenhouftt V, Prefident. To John Bray, or any other Con- 
 " ftable." Thefe coach owners were probably not very zealous whigs. 
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 NoTC 58, Page 43. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin Rufli : but the adjeAive does not agree with Mr. Adams's 
 eftimate, in 1775, ^^ Rufli's charaAer. "He is an elegant, ingenious 
 " body, a Tprightly, pretty fellow. He is a republican. * * * But Rufli, 
 " I think, is too much of a talker to be a deep thinker ; elegant, not 
 " great."<^Zi^ and Works, 11; 427. From circumllances, and his own 
 talents, few men became more odious to the Tories than Ru(h : and he 
 cordially reciprocated their fentiments. Smyth, who while in gaol at 
 Philadelphia came into contadl with him, ftyks him *' a man eminent in 
 " phyfic, but as eminent in rebellion, and ftill more fb in unfulfilled pro- 
 " feffions." Bui: every thing that envy, hatred, malice^ and all uncharita- 
 blenefs, ever did to vilify the character, conduct and connexions of Dr. 
 Rufh, pales befide the rancorous hatred and the powerful idiom of Cob- 
 bett, who aAually kept up a periodical called Tbt Rujb-Ligbt, with no 
 other end or ftaple than witty abufe of the doctor and his friends : its 
 motto was from Job .*— " Can the rufh grow up without mire ? can the 
 " flag grow without water ? Whilfl it is yet in his greennefs, and not cut 
 " down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the paths of all that 
 " forget God ; and the hypocrite's hope fhall perifh," &c. See PtrtU' 
 finii Works, xii : Index. 
 
 NoTB 59, Page 43. ^ 
 
 " Timothy Matlack, Efq., caUed from his cock-fighting propenfities, 
 •« Tim Gaffr^Dufield, 
 
 Note 60, Page 43. 
 
 George Bryan, Efq.; bom in Ireland, 1730; died in Pennfylvania, 
 27th January, 1791. He was prominent as a leader of the democratic 
 wing of the Whig Party. See a previous Note : alfo Rettts Reed, s: : Index s 
 and LitteWs Grajdan, 287. "He was faid to be a veiy diligent reader, 
 
 "and 
 
f : • 
 
 « 
 
 " courfcs he held r-u "*T '^^'^ '"onotonoiia taJUr u . "^ 
 
 Not* 6i, pggg 
 »">igc; «7r^' """^ »«""«' -h^ bribe; CfI r "^ '"''°« ■■'■- 
 
 »» t>ut he intimated that it n,„ u ^ ^ ^*^«y of private in^- 
 J«» nature ntvfr k- l *°'^<^ one dav K- • '^"^^^^ 'nai- 
 
 that " fK. • .« °« ^°«^ as KovaF n . '^^^*^' Eden, and 
 
 ,. '^^ ""^n^ftcrs of fingUnj • ^^^''^ Commiffioncrs to An,l • 
 " miJhon of aune« , ^ ^''^ °"f ^« they hav. ^ r America, 
 " n«r.- *^ ' *° P*^« the way to - f ^ ^ ^^^fpatched haif a 
 
 P " •" ^«<^™y of Reed V^tK! V -^ " '""J'^'O i" Ccngrefs " T 
 Reedini7«ft« l ^ ^^*^ "">« caJumfi«»^ ^ ^ 
 
 " '78o," who formerly in M. • ^''''■' ''^'ote FniniJ,„ . 
 
 ' ^°8d««' «»d HaiTifon, 
 "of 
 
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 1 66 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 *' of betraying the fecrets of Congrefs, in a correfpondence with the Minif- 
 " try :")— and hi$ teftimony therefore as to the unworthy artifices to be 
 employed, is of importance. A writer in Hall and Sellers' Gazette (Philadel- 
 phia, September ift, 1779)1 remarks with great earneftnefs on Johnftone's 
 general avowal of the ufc of " other means befldes perfuaflon." He declares 
 it to be the opinion " of many hardy zealots in our caufe/' reafoning from 
 the conduct of the Congrefs of 1 778-9, that " it is impoffible that General 
 ** Reed, whofe confequence in Congrefs was not of the firft order, could 
 " be the only member of that body who did not attra£l the notice of a 
 " bribe. To this great and good man a bribe was undeniably otfered. 
 " It was no doubt offered to others. Gen. Reed was the only one who 
 " divulged, and therefore the only one who refufed it — for if offered to 
 " others, and that it muft have been offered to others befides the General, 
 " is next to a certainty, how came it to pafs (fay thefe fcrutinizing zealots) 
 " that they did not, like him, for reputation fake even, divulge the pro- 
 " ferred corruption ?" If this infinuation had any real foundation, I 
 cannot explain it : but if, as is mod likely, it was defigned to affeft the 
 political antagonifts of the local party to which Reed belonged, its expla- 
 nation may conflft in the fadls already referred to in the Notes to The 
 Town Meeting, of the hatred in which Robert Morris was then held by 
 many/ Mr. Morris, Mr. Dana, and Mr. Reed having each been addreifed, 
 on his arrival, by letters from Johnflone. Govemeur Morris and William 
 Duer, Members of Congrefs from New York, were alfo, in 1779, on 
 terms of political hoftility with General Reed. 
 
 u 
 
 Note C2, Page 44. 
 
 ** nJe the Letter from Clevds on the Lower Rhine, in Dunlap's Penn- 
 
 fylvania Packet, May i5th, 1779." — Jutbor's Note. "Alluding to a 
 
 " piece publiihed in the faid paper founding the good Qualificadons of 
 
 •• Prefident Reed : ftrongly fufpeSed to he compofed by bimfelJV — Manu- 
 
 fcript Note, This kft infinuation is probably falfe. The article in quef- 
 
 tion was undoubtedly printed in Europe, and thence tranilated to America, 
 
 Mr. 
 
,. """in. . fine culog, „„ m, j„fe.™"" f "•= I--" Rki„ 
 
 "■"n received here „i,k eo^^ pW ™" ;"''"'°'«' '» "'"-Pt. h« 
 herefo.. g,,c„ ,h, „, „ ,^^ .ft^^^^f " '•»' »"' "..de. .„d have 
 
 ro-i«vemadej„„e«,„..LCl ""*=''"P='°f''- After 
 Amenean Independence. « „ p„X her""'""'""' '^ "■"PPo" 
 *» Cons^fi itf,,f.. , „,,^ Gold dMribut^ °'*""'""°''Co"g«fi,a„d 
 ■" "1 our righ„, and cover you ^T^'f, *''''"''»' »«> ^^Mift „ 
 
 "cl. enough .o do i... V,>.„o. a j fit; «"*.f °™"'"'"» " "oT ' 
 we can pafs over in fifcnce a „p| "ftl ™° ""^ ' O" ""t beheve eh« 
 of being e<,„a„ed » -he /ineft ™'«";''"<>'"« "-o icnerou,, „ord,y 
 foul, of which .he anUen. ^pufcoft" "'?"'"■" """ ^^"^ of 
 
 '- ">« name of all Aofe whof'heaL T. *° T'"''' "' P^ ro .hy virj 
 """""' ''"^ """^ -i-o" in Co: : T"? "' "■ May J; 
 We „«m,do ,he fa,a, progref, ,1, haveZeT ? "'' ""' '"^"V 
 Su^l.. nuance, of magnani™;^ remind ^t I """''" '"^"°'^< 
 Srft fteps toward, independence «« ulen '"'""«''• *"«- "« 
 
 »t=». wc ve„.„r^ ,0 p^.^ 
 
 ■That 
 
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 f! Hi 
 
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 i68 
 
 Notes to the Loyal Verjes 
 
 \\s\ 
 
 ' That the Americans would exhibit examples of grandeur that would 
 aftonilh our little fouls.' And Mie have every day the fatiffafUon to fee 
 that we have not miftaken this extraordinary people, made to do honour 
 to human nature, and to recall the idea of its primitive dignity." 
 
 Note 63, Page 45. 
 
 The fleet under D'Eftaing was fent from France with a view to deftroy 
 the Britifli fquadron in the Delaware, and thus lend a vital aififtance to 
 the cau{e of America. Had it, inftead, failed dire£Uy to the Weft or 
 Eaft Indies or to other expofed poflelfions of England, it might doubtlefs 
 have gained great advantages for France. The length of time D'Eftaing 
 was on the voyage, and the tidings that came to the Engliih, enabled them 
 to get on their guard ; and the French on arrival found them gone to 
 New York. After landing M. Gerard, the Minifter, D'Eftaing pro- 
 ceeded to Sandy Hook, where for eleven days, in the fummer of 1778, 
 he lay moored outfide the bar. The pilots could not carry his largeft 
 ihips over ; and thus a fmaller fquadron, at New York under Howe, 
 efcapcd the dubious conflict. The French admiral then went to Rhode 
 Ifland, to cooperate with the American land forces under Sullivan againft 
 the Britifti : where, after fome ikirmiihing he was overtaken by a ftorm 1 
 and his fleet fuffered much lofs ere he could get into Bofton. His flag> 
 fliip, the L^nguedoCf 90, loft her rudder and mafts. The Americans 
 were very angry at his leaving Newport and refuting to fend any of his 
 veflels back from Bofton : and did not omit to publifli their vexation in 
 protefts anrl general orders. While refitting at Bofton (September, 1 778), 
 a ferious row occurred between his people and fome on the fliore. 
 Whether the laft were Americans, or Britifti prifoners, I do not know : 
 but one or two of the French officers were dangeroufly, if not mortally 
 wounded. A like occurrence was faid to have occurred at Charlefton, 
 S. C, about the fame period ; when the French from their fliips fired 
 cannon and muflcetry, which the Americans retorted from the wharves. 
 After his fleet was refitted, D'Eftaing left Bofton, for Martinique as was 
 
 believedt 
 
^J Stanjbury and Odell ^ 
 
 believed. The attr-mn. xr ^^^0 
 
 Pontd .hem. ™" •"■" ■*« F«nc), flc« „„ ^^, f^^_ 
 
 Note 64, P^ ^5. 
 
 R. Not. 65. p,g. ^7. 
 
 » and of his Ambaakdor. 
 We 10,0 % "^"^ «>'"«<= 48. 
 
 "^ ■-= people o'f iCC N T .tr: *' """" "~' 
 A. prober, of Ac inco^^^'bfci- '"'■'/« ««''»j»ftice l"" » 
 
 "»'•"<)" of hi. e„™e, ..'r^L^, " " ' ''-" '" <""»"««. .he re- 
 
 co^rae „„ pcnomcZk ven,« L ?' """" "^ *• « """b, 
 • « ««b.., d„ coup ^, „„g Z"^ ''•"":■»* <" W«e vilfc. et 
 
 hnre ii. chap. «,-,. '^" * <?'>'f"W'«M « A fM^gr.^/, 
 
 Non 67, Page ^g. 
 
 Governor Samuel Huntington of C„n »• 
 ««6, in .779 and ,780. Maf^ZT"*- "" '*««'''« of Con- 
 F-bHci., When he pJd the";^ae?.''^ T,"^"^"' "x hi. of 
 by . folitaiy candle. ' ""' ""< *"»<) hi, charabe, lit 
 
 42 Note 
 
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170 
 
 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
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 Note 68, Page 50, 
 
 Charles-HcAor, comte D'Eilaing, had ferved under Lally in India, and 
 was captured at Madras by the Englifh in 1759* He brolce his parole: 
 wherefore, being again taken prifoncr, the Englifli would not truft him, 
 but lodged him in durefle. This circumftance gave birth to his continued 
 animofity to Britain. His French biographer accufes him of time-ferving 
 in the civil turmoils of that kingdom : he teftified againll Marie Antoinette 
 at her trial, and was prefently guillotined in his own turn. M. de la 
 Mothe Piquet was another French naval officer of diftin£lion, who ferved 
 on our coafts during the war. 
 
 Note 69, Page 50. 
 
 The Oneidas were the only tribe of the Six Nations in the interell of 
 Congrefs. In 1779, Gen. Sullivan (whofe objection to being left by 
 D'Eftaing at Newport, in 1778, as already referred to, gives point to 
 this allufion) led an expedition againft the hoftile favages, and exchanged 
 fpeeches with the Oneidas. Unlefs I am miftaken, Congrefs bellowed 
 military rank upon feveral of the chiefs of this tribe: an inexpenfive 
 grant of honours, that probably fuggefted its repetition to the poet. 
 
 Note 70, Page 51. 
 
 The capture of the Alcmene frigate, O£lober 21ft, 1779, gave Rear 
 Admiral Hyde Parker the firft aflurance of D'Eftaing being gone to 
 America. 
 
 Note 71, Page 52. 
 
 D'Eftaing's firft fummons to Savannah was that it fhould furrender to 
 the arms of the King of France. It may be noticed here, by the way, 
 that the firft news of the defence of Savannah reached New York on the 
 
 i8th 
 
Hlf. 
 
 ■'"■November f ^'""■^"'y «nd Odell. 
 
 y-" -PKarcd ,•„' S' "^.^^ °-/ before ,fc„ „„ „,,^, ^ '7l 
 
 P'« of Dr. Odea H- 7 "■'"'^" « "piAV of " '™ "' '« A 
 
 ■»"k of „"', ;■' °'"'"' ''«'oft. .« fci, offi'L ? """■ "« '■"""•on 
 
 " Trinity Ch^rk "'^'"'•0=c. ,o,h, ,,„, PP"' ''«m«cj,a„d 
 
 Note 
 
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 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
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 Non 73, Page 53. 
 
 Colonel Maitland, an excellent officer, fucceeded in getting into the 
 town after the Aege began. The relief he brought was very important, 
 as the place, not expeAing fuch an attack, was not ftrongly garrifoned. 
 I have not leen this epitaph on him in print. 
 
 On the honourable Colonel Maitland, whofe death was occafioned by the 
 fatigues he fuffered in his admired march from Beaufort to Savannah, 
 and whofe memory in the Charles Town Gazette receives its higheft 
 panegyrick from the mouth of an enemy. By Mrs. Dt Lancty. 
 
 O'er MaitlantTs corpie as ViAory reclin'd 
 RefledUng on the fate of human kind : 
 Is this, (he cried, the end of all thy toils ! 
 What now avail thy laurels or thy fpoils ! 
 
 Worn with fatigue thou cam'ft thy friends to fave— « 
 Saw them reliev'd, and funk into the grave I 
 Now grief and joy together blend their cries; 
 Savannah's fav'd, yet generous Maitland dies. 
 In vain around thy conq'ring foldiers weep : 
 Thy eyes are clof 'd in death's eternal fleep. 
 Yet while a gratefiil King or Country fighs. 
 O'er thy lov'd aflies marbles proud ihall rife. 
 Nay, even the Foe, reliev'd awhile from fear, 
 . Confefs thy Virtues, and beftow a tear: 
 Own, that as Valour ftrung thy nervous arm. 
 So gentle Pity did thy bofom warm. 
 
 O double praife — to make the haughty bend ; 
 Yet make the vanquifh'd enemy a friend ! 
 Thus Maitland falls, though his undying name 
 Shall live forever on the lips of Fame. 
 
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 'rom the town, the who), a- r "''^ « ^wcepin« fi„ „r * ' '** 
 
 'nutual civiJities oaffi-H T '" "^^ ^*=8« was about h '"" ^°^' 
 
 tnc i^mericans. General P- • . ^ °' w /coundreJ I Jn/ 1 ,. 
 Engli/h Officer mentr J "^"^^ ^'"^°^» ied our f„ " ""** 
 
 '' «"w one aaotlwrt tluwiB." 
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 When the French fleet came to Rhode-lflind in July, 1780, Qinton 
 wi(hed to make 1 conjoined attack on the enemy there, but the Admiral, 
 who was not only a bad uAician but a flow old man, did not aA with 
 fufl'icient hade, and all fell through. In recruiting at New York, he 
 dropped a coarfe remark which it not repeated in the text ai here re- 
 printed. Sir Henry Clinton in a Manufcript Note fays : " It had been 
 " propofed that 6000 men under Sir H. C. fliould have been landed in 
 " Efcourt Pafl*age to meet the French on their embarkation : but as the 
 " Admiral was not informed of their arrival till ten days after, and that 
 " they had been reinforced and had had time to fortify, it would not 
 " have been quite fo prudent for the Army alone to attempt ; and if the 
 ** Admiral had feen the propriety of taking an adlive part with the 
 " Navy, he would have accepted the propofal of Sir H. C." 
 
 Note 77, Page 72. 
 
 The King's floop Savage, of 16 guns, was loft near the river St. Law- 
 rence before 1780: the Triton was a look-out veflel of Arbuthnot's fleet 
 at New York in 1780. 
 
 NoTi 78, Page 72. 
 
 A place hard by New York where, it would appear, captive American 
 Officers were often detained and boarded at two dollars a week. See 
 LittelPs Grayion: 245-255. 
 
 Note 79, Page 72. 
 
 Here is a confirmation of the aflertion of the anonymous tmnflator of 
 Chaftellux. Immenfe quantities of Englifli, Spanifti, and Portuguefe gold 
 coin were brought into America, during the war, at the coft of Great 
 Britain : but " had all of them holes punched in them, or were otherwife 
 " diminiftied at New York, before they were fuffered to pafs the lines ; 
 " from whence they obtained the name of Robertjons in the r^i^/ country ; 
 
 "but 
 
" b.r .K ^ ^^"njhury and Odell 
 
 *'« the profit., if, „„ „. , "^ ^^'"* ijc 
 
 " -n. rcn,.i„ .Vcc .T^^ °;,'^« -"'Zander. o„ ehi. „e, ^,. '^^ 
 
 ^o^ai Governor nf Z '^■J°'-Gcncni] ;,,„„ RoK ^ °" °^ '^« 
 
 the W. .r °:°' ^'^ y°'''.- his lurirJ.-. _''°''''"'^" ^" the l.ft 
 
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 " <»A./A ,„„ * „ • •"'' "»' will e«„„ tiu, „„ ^ " ' *'« »ot 
 
 Vil. beef ^. „ .,<, ":7;, «""« ««> l."«=r w„ „ « .»tt """• 
 
 %: mAoguft Lf ' '''■ '» June, .„ J ^'^ ' ™'"7d. 
 
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 Note 82, Page 81. 
 
 The manufcript is addrefled : ** 'i'o Capt. Duncan. P. P/s correc- 
 tion and alteration of the enclofed hafty dafh is requefted by the author.'* 
 Captain Duncan was of the Eagle ^ Lord Howe's flagflup, in 1778. The 
 Royal Oai, 74, failed from England with "the hardy Byron" in 1778, 
 and was for feveral years in the American feas. M. Deftouches was at 
 Rhode-Ifland, in Auguil, 1780, in command of Le Neptune ^ 74. 
 
 Note 83, Page 83. 
 
 Now Burke, with his ProfpeH, no longer can charm ; 
 
 Nor Giants or Goblins the Nation z\i.Tm.-—Jutbor's Variation, 
 
 Note 84, Page 88. 
 
 To caft a flur on the chara£ler of Wafhington would, today, be the 
 aft, if of an American, of a very filly or a very difhoneft man. The 
 latitude of party heats and perfonal rivalries permitted a lefs reftrained 
 conduft during his life-time. The Tories had furely fome excufe for 
 fpeaking bitterly of the only man by whom the American Armies could 
 have been led to Viftory and Independence ; for the vanquifhed party 
 has in all times poflefled at leaft the privilege of murmuring againft its 
 conqueror. But it muft not be forgotten that long before and long after 
 the War, as well as through its continuance, Waflungton was the objeft 
 of the envy and the calumny of others than the adherents of the 
 Englifh crown. The earlieft public outrage offered to his chara£ler 
 appears in the official Memoire, fent in 1756 by Louis XV to the other 
 fovereigns of Europe, in which, referring to Waihington's Ohio- expedi- 
 tion and the death of Jumonville, in 1754, he fays : *' II pardit que I'im- 
 '* pofture ne coute rien a M. Wafinghton ; ici il fen fait honneur." It 
 is amufing to Hnd that Beaumarchais in 1779, replying to Gibbon's ftate- 
 ments and juftifying the aid ^ven by France to America, heads his lift 
 
 of 
 
' of Stan/bury and Ode II 
 
 ^-fer "„,, b, ^iv™. V^hTf"' 'f "'"" '^ ' *■- °f "■" bald 
 '".■'■' -r wc„ „„, ^ ,^Jl";;\. »«*e friend, of ^„X 
 
 ■dM of h„ nomination to be c„™ j ''^*"" '"™be« „i,i, ,h„ 
 
 »^"»ny of d.c delesaj » ^T'"' ; °^ ">= ^™y = b„, the c^!^ 
 «-».ies of .he eaf, ,„, ^/rVorr;™ "' °"'^ ^^^ ^V *= 
 °f -be gondemen who made it. ^ numbj/ T."'""" ""'^ »"' baif " 
 «»coet ; „„„ „„ ^ "^rnber of the n,en,be„ „e« for Mr 
 
 ^ateft„„mber.erei„fJ*:^;^;;;-X;-Wan.i„^„„, ^^ 
 ever for the i„fe„„„ ^ ^„^ ^"™« Ward. There is „on, how- 
 
 X 7f " « Ae continent, e^o .N T "" ^"^ •" " "'JonV 
 
 England officer. „ «,h, Ne^Cn^tr. "'"'"""^' """New 
 
 J*e„ „saSoud,en, pa«y again/T No! °" '^'" ^"8^"^ foil. 
 
 „ ^^^ -"en," fa,, t^gj ,™"',""; "»d fo man, „f o„r 
 
 »<>'b.ng without conceding to it T^. *° P'""' "»' »e conid carty 
 
 „«™P"blic,,tnow„,.J„^,^„^ ;*" -b.-rment. which Z 
 
 „ '""''=^- M.. Hancock and Mr CuLnT *''"'' ''='=S«'e= «ere 
 „- come forward, and even ,^ -s^tud^ ""^^ ' '"■^'''^^^ 
 
 Chtef * . . When I came to defcrib^^«.t; '''°'"!"' ^ommauder-in- 
 I -ever marled a more ftrild„, ". ,,!*'"«"'" ^'" *= commander 
 : *"-'^- "« -Tentmc t : re' 1^*» ^"""^^ of countenant 
 ~ck.,)„eco„,dexhibi,them" mTc'^'';, forcibl, a, his (Han. 
 Hancoclc nor Ward was ever afterwards ^ , "" '^' ""' " "ei'ber 
 
 Mr. Pendleton was ,^ eiear and fi^ ^J^l .^^ ' " P»™W,, 
 
 8«nit.t. When the queflion 
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 was debated, there was a warm oppofition to Wafhington : on public, 
 however, and not on any perfonal grounds. Pendletop, Sherman, Cufli- 
 ing, and feveral others joined in it ; fearing " difcontents in the army 
 " and in New England." This army, it mull be recollefted, confifted 
 at that time almoft entirely of the men raifed by and in New England, 
 and gathered before Bofton. There was in Congrefs a ftrong jealovify of 
 Maflachufctts, and a fufpicion of her real objcdls ; and her reprefcnta- 
 tivcs were obliged to be very guarded in the exprcilion of their fentiments, 
 left other colonies (hould recoil from them. Waihington's appointment, 
 therefore, was juftly regarded by Adams as valuable, in fecuring the union 
 of the colonies in defence of New England ; and the troops forthwith 
 raifed in the more fouthern provinces and fent thither by Congrefs juftiHed 
 his prediflions. And it muft likewife be remarked that at the time of the 
 fele£lion of Wafhington, Hancock writes favourably of the appointment. 
 The pay of the General Officers was alfo a hard morfcl for fome of the 
 delegates to fwallow. Samuel and John Adams and Paine were earneft 
 to reduce it, but in vain. ** Thofe ideas of equality, which are fo agree- 
 " able to us natives of New-England, are very difagreeable to many gen- 
 " tlemen in the other Colonies. They had a great opinion of the high 
 " importance of a Continental General, and were determined to place 
 *• him in an elevated point of light. They think the Majfacbujetts 
 " eftablifhment too high for the privates, and too low for the officers, and 
 " they would have their own way." Probably the original fuggeftion of 
 Waftiington for Commander-in-chief came from Johnfon of Maryland, 
 or fome other Southern delegate ; but to John Adaips was due his public 
 nomination. " Virginia is indebted to MaiTachufetts for Waftiington," 
 he bosifted, " not Maflachufetts to Virginia. Maflaphufetts made him a 
 ** general againft the inclination of Virginia." But this can onb- refer to 
 the voice of the delegates from thefe States, who were generally i imately 
 allied in Congrefs on any party queftion. Long after the Peace, John 
 Jay faid that in the Congrefs of the Revolution there was always, from 
 firft to laft, a moft bitter party againft Waftiington. What were the 
 
 various 
 
 \i'- 
 
** 
 
 «™« .o,,„ „, f^"'»/i«0' and Odell. 
 
 " WreW f" ""^ l*"^*' of a doubt T """'^''- '' » bu, 
 
 =»«• " The CnW "n'hoencM of ,1,, ,„ ' """>' "ra 
 
 «0"ld have siv,„ . '^""' '"'°' «> fore»> .u . *'''"=• "hofc 
 
 " '» E.„i«, „^,„ ^ -' been d.«i„^.a,, ,^ ^; -ot ^re«. .„a 
 
 Poor Joft America I,; u l 
 
 KnoMTs nought of r . "°"" ">'«"& 
 
 -"-4:oixi::^rjr--«... 
 
 K«o»s nough, of coro„e« 2 r °«" 
 ^ '°'-*de,heWelv'^Mr'?r'"'""«'- 
 ««;i"W™p,.hepeJe„t':^' 
 
 ^•'-"'^::ehr:!":*--«'-n«. 
 
 For fo«i, „, y . *'"! "> "-"""d our «,r : 
 
 Butfuch •■ fears of ,L , 
 i-man ««,„ . ,„j ' ™ ?"« "d foHies of rhe wife » 
 
 "fouthern 
 
4 
 
 |!f! 
 
 1 80 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 " fouthern troops. If it had been, idolatry and adulation would have 
 " been unbounded ; fo exccffive as to endanger our liberties, for what I 
 ** know. Now, we can allow a certain citizen to be wife, virtuous and 
 " good without thinking him a deity or a Saviour." It was in the fame 
 year that the writer took fire in Congrefs at the fentiments entertained for 
 the General by certain members : " I am diftrefled to find fome of our 
 " members difpofed to idolize an image which their own hands have 
 " molten. I fpeak of the fuperftitious veneration which is paid to General 
 " Wafliington. I honour him for his good qualities, but in this houfe, 
 " I feel myfelf his fuperior. In private life, I (hall always acknowledge 
 " him to be mine." The Caia/ againft Wafliington was never more 
 violent than at this time, and probably debate ran high and warm lan- 
 guage was ufed on either fide : and his enemies, if we may rely on the 
 following anecdote, were more powerful in the Council-chamber than in 
 the Camp. In a Life of Lord Stirling the father-in-law of William Duer, 
 written by Mr. Duer's fon (and the relationfliip is of ibme importance to 
 the authenticity of the anecdote), occurs this Angular paflage : " It is 
 " related by Mr. Dunlap in his Hiftoiy of New York, upon the authority 
 ** it is prefumed of the late General Morgan Lewis, that a day had been 
 " appointed by the Cabal in Congrefs for one of them to move for a 
 ** Committee to proceed to the camp at Valley-Forge, to arreft General 
 " Wafliington ; and that the motion would have fucceeded had they not 
 ** unexpeftedly loft the majority which they poflTefled when the meafure 
 " was determined on. At that time, there were but two delegates in 
 " attendance from New York ; Francis Lewis, the father of the late 
 " General Morgan Lewis, and William Duer, the fon-in-law of Lord 
 " Stirling — barely fufEcient to entitle the State to a vote, if both were 
 ** prefent. But Mr. Duer was confined to his bed by a fevere and dan- 
 " gerous illnefs. His colleague, Mr. Lewis, had fent an exprefs for Mr. 
 " Gouverneur Morris, one of the abfent members, who however had not 
 " arrived on the morning of the day on which the motion was to have 
 ** been made. Finding this to be the cafe, Mr. D. inquired of his phy- 
 
 *' fician. 
 
I ♦'. 
 
 *t 
 
 tt 
 
 ./"'Jprefcr y„„.,id. The"! J ""'' '"°"'=''°^^ ^l^' «i"- 
 
 of n u,„,eceflar^, and baffled d,/w T ''"^"''' "« *"-"'■" -fe 
 
 ■"iprobabfe da, d„ American A™7 V w !' '° '"^ " <^"«"»'y 
 •I'Po'-al, would have fc,ela„„.ht^''' "/"'"'"^ "' ^'«>"S'on( 
 
 " the winter of Ae ^ear ,„» d'» ''' '^^ " "■= V"!'')' Fo J n 
 
 -"d been on a Conn™,L .oTSl*:' " "■='»^' "'■ Conger, wbo 
 •he advice of Gene«] Wafti^j! T^f '" ""=" ""'''I 'h= troop, wi.h 
 
 '!?' "» '-y together.' » C" "^ «"« """« of d„, „an had 
 worlanpintheCongnrfsof ,,,8 t« T* '^ ^'■*< "^ it. 
 ;- that deiega-e, fron, mSuI: Vnd v""""" - "'■"- "-uid 
 f'"- S»".uel Adan,s, he fap, wa, co^J ^'r*" ""= "i^P ■" the 
 «nny was fo confden, of i, an7r '' '" "' '"<• ""i* •• " The 
 
 : - »-i. -itn. a, he ap ^I^e^ IZ^^' '^'^'^"n. .e„ «a J!: 
 ke .3 con^nonly p„refled of g„od i„«m ™°" '"'"«• »« 
 
 " « . fafe dittance. Had he Zi '."""'«'°"- """l «« carcfd to iteeo 
 
 ::;» tkat ^^r. Of *::::":- :^^ -«* -f .he o«cer.. :z 
 ■— y«fer.o.,an.;^::t^^^^... 
 
 "junto 
 
 « 
 
 i 
 
i 
 
 182 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 ** junto who have endeavored tofubjefl all things to themfelves, all powerf 
 " civil military and marine : Who have endeavored to remove every 
 " perfon that would not mingle in their fadlious views ; and to place none 
 " in office but their friends, relatives and dependents ; againft whofe 
 " malevolence the unfullied fame of the great American patriot was but 
 ** a flender barrier; whofe vi£lim was a W********* — and whofc idol 
 " was a L**." The fame journal (July 9th, 1779) mentions the cxift- 
 ence in Congrels of a fort of Club of certain New England, New Jerfey, 
 and Pennfylvania delegates, with two or three from the Southward ; the 
 foundation of which had been laid in the firfl Congrefs, when there was 
 caufe to fear that New York and one or two other Middle Colonies were 
 averfe to extreme meaflires. Among the Wafhington party in Congrefs, 
 I Ihould put fuch names as thofe of Robert, Lewis, and Gouverneur 
 Morris; Jay; Paca; Burke; Drayton; Duane; Duer; Francis Lewis. 
 The queftion is not fo clear in regard to Samuel Adams ; Mifflin ; Wither- 
 fpoon ; Ruih ; Jefferfon ; the Lees, i^c. i though any conclufion to be 
 arrived at mull in fome meafure be conje£lural. In 1789, Samuel Adams 
 in a manner denied to a friend the truth of Dr. Qordon's ftatement of his 
 having been concerned in a plot to remove Wafhington. And in 1 796, 
 when John Adams was a fucceflTul candidate for the Prefidency of the 
 United States, he makes an obfervation that would imply a well-eftablifhed 
 community of action between Samuel Adams and Thomas McKean : 
 *' The feelings of friendfhip excite a curiofity to know how McKean will 
 " vote. By that I fhall guefs how Governor Adams would have voted." 
 On April 4th, 1778, Patrick Henry wrote to Richard Henry Lee that he 
 (Lee) was traduced in Virginia by perfons who alleged that he was en- 
 gaged in a fcheme to difcard Wafhington: and in 1780, Dr. William 
 Shippen, jun. wrote thus to him of General Greene : " He is a little 
 " fufpicious that you are not perfedly fatifHed with his conduA, becaufe 
 " you were faid to be inimical to our conmiander, and of confequence 
 " to him, who was fuppofed to be one of his flatterers~-this falfe 
 '* idea I have reprobated to General Greene, and afTured him he would 
 
 "find 
 
 .^! 
 
««1 you h« friend ,„d rfoM c„„fid,„, » a . • • ^ 
 
 '" '7"' "" 'W'fly becufe he had col^lUd :"' '"" '^' '" ^ong^f. 
 «"«• His biographer and „an,efalie If 1 f """"^ '" '»>' "•"■• 
 "■"ie by Judge J„h„f„„, i„ ewt^- ■" '^''"' P'»«». flo„« Ae eharge 
 
 ■Oy., had .he moral couraH"? 't """" ""' "° "-.' '» >»-" 
 nefi , indeed i„ ver, n^nf If 7 ^l^' "" "'"'^'^ •" ">= M- 
 »- "fraid or alhanfedT vol ^Zf 'f"""^' "" "' ™™bers 
 ■0"! of ,he hour, whom i. Zo^" 7 J""" '"' ^""""y *"» >» . 
 «"- »h„fe name .„ affi,eZ f^C • " ". *"-''''"'" '" «'"« 
 b"' >vhich was eoncoaed by n« ™d ^T ^ '""'"'""^ W"""! "f 
 Ae a„en,i„n of ,he world Lmt rt? f"" '" """^ ""''X •" "vcr 
 "■= 'oveand veneraeion for wTfti 1? '"k ' '" "■= ^™^' «■<««), 
 -" W .™„ V .he «umb,itbt:„T:-^e""''''-'"''"'""'''^-'-"'' 
 ™n,ed,a,e circle of fome of diefbrZ K T™"- " ™ ""'y •" ">-= 
 °"' - "PPo-i.e opinio:::^" t^- .^^--X. ^-^ ^nd 
 Waflungton and his p„ppi„ .. ,„ T. , ""'"" '" "«»'•<' "> 
 
 '-••he fays .0 Gafe. -^ D^c^^^^Ty^ T" '"-»• " ^-. 
 damnably deficien..- " As .o hi. T, 7 ' ' '"'"'" 8'«' man i, 
 
 "i»d->..- The.flim;„ "^,;^^- '*™^'' ••'*'y were mifeJe 
 »comfor,abIe houfe in one place ;'' f" ^ f"''^""" «™v= from 
 cufc Wa/hi„g,on, „i.h vaftlyt;! f "''"' '^'" '" '■»"». "x- 
 of Pi^delphia. would be a!n'u f^^^ '"!■" "« ^-e «„„; ou, 
 
 « « poWon ,0 obtain a comfonable iJZr--. "'""T"^ ""■ <"""■* 
 pudding, and mtaced pies ••_i,e could rl • *°. '""^ '"''^' P""" 
 the condition of ,he Amy i„ m, *^"°"'''' *"= ""'ionceived 
 
 iuftlyobferves, " .he fnff™;,"; ,t "T''^' /» Mr. William B. Ct 
 
 ;;n.en. at Ae Valley Foi^L.ttXTe^ff ■■"'"'"'" ""'°"- 
 
 — s...... ve.i„.ee„d:^S::,-tf.^;;»=;. 
 
 Howe's 
 
 
 If 
 
 
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1 84 
 
 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 " M 
 
 ff 
 
 Ml 
 
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 ;5^ 
 
 Ho>fve*8 movements, a Pennfylvania Whig remarks : ** All this is done in 
 " the view of our Generals and our army, who are carclefs of us, but care- 
 " fully confulting where they (hall go to fpend the winter in jollity, gaming 
 " and caroufing. O tell not this in France or Spain ! Publifh it not in 
 " the ftrccts of London, Liverpool or Briftol, left the uncircumiifed there 
 ** fhould rejoice, and fhouting for joy, fay " America is ours, for the 
 " rebels are difmayed and afraid to fight us any longer ! O Americans, 
 " where is now your virtue ? O Walhington, where is your courage ?** 
 In this Note, no citation is made of Tory or Britifli accufations againft 
 Walhington. One of thefe was, however, againft his chaftity : and fome 
 of the charges went fo far as to identify the woman and to trace the ofHpring. 
 This is only recurred to here, becaufe of a like infinuation being made 
 apparendy by Charles Lee, to General Reed, in 1 778 ; but with great pro- 
 priety the latter repelled as unworthy of credence the ilanders that charged 
 the Commander-in-chief with " great cruelty to his (laves in Virginia, and 
 *' immorality of life, though they acknowledge it is fo very fecret that it 
 " is difficult to deteft it." 
 
 In the clofe of 1779, General Sullivan warned Wafhington that the 
 Cabal oi 1777 againft him ftill exifted, and waited only for fufficient 
 ftrength to attack him openly. He therefore advifes him to keep on his 
 guard. " Appearances may deceive even an angel. Could you have 
 " believed, four years ago, that thofe adulators, thofe perfons {o tenderly 
 *' and fo friendly ufed, as were Gates, Mi(Hin, Reed, and Tudor, would 
 *' become your fecret and bitter, though unprovoked enemies. If we view 
 '* them now, we cannot help lamenting the want of (incerity in mankind." 
 
 But everything faid or done during the War, by Whig or Tory, falls 
 far (hort of the dreadful chaises brought againft Wa(hington by his 
 political opponents and fellow-citizens in 1795, 1796, and 1797. Com- 
 pared witli the language of ValeriuSy Pittacbus, A Calm Obferver, Wr., 
 former fcurrility almoft became praife. Every variety of evil, from 
 avarice and fraud to tyranny and murder, was imputed to his hands, 
 with a power of conception and expreffion that leaves us no room to 
 
 wonder 
 
OJU1II9HI 
 
 American liberty would have b^- " """""'' " "•« '""ip of 
 
 :^-«i% achate ha. ^Z^^ ^T^ '°"'"- "'"P"/ ^or 
 
 "»%, will be found koj^f ;^y P'P" edited wi,h d«e«able 
 more lamentable than fuch li„„^ . ' """"• '^'■at can be 
 
 (M-ch 4.h. .7,,) of Ci ':t.d;::j"""'-" "■= --^ -^p-* 
 
 "fctteft now thy fervant a,„,T '"'''« P^'f: lik I "-Lo-j 
 
 ;; [Ovation, wa.'^.eXIrull?:' "" ■»'"' '^" <-« ToeX 
 "Winef, ruflun, in upon' ^I™, °'; ™» *"-» beheld . good of 
 
 would licenfe the „i,e™V>„ of tht T" '^" "" " "■"«. *« 
 
 -vcd: for the man who 1.,.^ ^1"^ Tt"' ""' '™= " "- 
 
 . "7'^' » *» <<'y reduced to a ^Zl t" '*';,»«■■'""»« of our 
 nolongerpoflefledofapowerto!, 7-^ fcUow-citizens, and is 
 
 ; If "cr the., wa. , pcH^T, l^^'"^'' "^ •<.= United State! 
 heart m unifon with the freedom . j?*' '"^ "">"><=".• Everv 
 
 ; -«; Kigh with «uitauJ7^:r„"',!:Tw°:''"' ''~^"' <»■«'■"' 
 
 ■' «.fa to give a currency to polidcal "*'"«'°" <"«>■» *i' <<"/ 
 
 :: """^ "--»«.-. now opemtul'""' "" '° '=«"«« "^P" 
 tothe people, for public'^rCrmr """"'"'> P"-"""""--" 
 " ■nerit., and nefariouf p^cr^" """ ""» "»"d upon d.eir own 
 
 : ^"^ -"ofpeai. taL'omrcj:r-^ '7"°"'' '^ • ■>»- 
 
 yean, it i, a fubjea of the gr^^taTT "^«"*« for eight 
 " ftould have cankered the pS« /"^T '' '^' " ""«'= ^'W- 
 ;; people juft emerged from STe XlSM" '" "- "'*-'"^ 
 Ms defign, again* public liberl to&l'^^-J"'^ *""" »»« carried 
 
 V'O Sir. „,„ have p„, in jeopardy it, 
 24 " very 
 
 <t 
 
 ^(fl 
 
 M 
 
 I 
 
*l 
 
 lU.V. 
 
 1 86 Notes to the Loyal Verfes 
 
 " very exiftence : Aich, however, are the faAs, and with thefe ftaring us 
 " in the face, thi* day ought to be a jubilee in the United States." In 
 1 813, John Adams, writing to Jeflferfon, refers to ** the terrorifm excited 
 " by Genet, in 1793, when 10,000 people in the ftreets of Philadelphia, 
 *' day after day, threatened to drag Waihington out of his houfe, and 
 " effect a revolution in the government, or compel it to declare war in 
 " favor of the French revolution and againft England. The cooled and 
 " the firmed minds, even among the Quakers in Philadelphia, have given 
 " their opinions to me, that nothing but the yellow fever, which removed 
 " Dr. Hutchtnfon and Jonathan Dickinfon Sergeant from this world, 
 " could have faved the United States from a fatal revolution of govern^ 
 ** ment." But Adams's morbid jcaloufy of every one whofc fame out- 
 ihone or even (in his own opinion) rivalled his own, cankers very many of 
 his judgments on Waihington. While Prefident himfelf, he complained 
 that he was annoyed by " puppets, danced upon the wires of two jugglers 
 •* behind the fcenes; and thefc jugglers were Hamilton and Waihington." 
 In another and (as believed) unpublifhcd manufcript, he fays (Aug. 23 rd, 
 1806): " The Federalids, as they arc called by thcmfelves and their 
 ** enemies, have done thcmfelves and their country incalculable injury by 
 ** making Waihington their political, religious, and even moral pope, and 
 
 " afcribing every thing to him. Hancock, Samuel Adams, , and 
 
 " fevcral others have been much more eflcntial charaders to America, than 
 *' Waihington. Another character, almod forgotten, of more importance 
 " than any of them all, was James Otis. It is to offend againft Eternal 
 " juftice to give to one, as this people do, the merits of fo many. It is 
 " an effeAual cxtinguilher of all patriotifm and all public virtue, and 
 " throws the nation entirely into the hands of intrigue. You lament the 
 " growth of corruption very juftly ; but there is nDne more poifonous 
 ** than the eternal puffing and trumpetting of Waihington and Franklin, 
 " and the inceiTant abufc of the real Fathers of the country." 
 
 Dcfpite all that has been faid too of Mr. Jeffcrfon's relations with 
 
 Waihington, it is difficult to hold that thefe really could have been of a 
 
 . perfeftly 
 
 ILi- 
 
«HiA. r "-f ^'""fiury and Odell. ,», 
 
 P«'ft<MMnce« .„d friendly „,„„ . ^ "7 
 
 «yd„.ft„„,,bof„„ „^j"7, '' ""Sieved i„ w.n„„g,„„.. 
 
 con(!d«a-.l clerk „ ,hc „„,„ ,,• '"" , "^ «™""»""' "k' »« W"nung,„„.. 
 
 The firft was," he /iid, "rather . I,„ T """" *" "'"■J- 
 
 " ™ <•» revere, ,„d „ei ed C ^ul T "' "'r' ">= '■«»"■' one 
 
 » * „„ hi. head a. he reco d^ r,;" "T' t' "" ■"" '•'^"«' 
 
 <f"d_,h.t the third was of a Ju ' ""' " """' P'»<l»ce a 
 
 "ofam,,der.o„e, b„t„„,a,,^^„,^.__^ 
 
 "." "o'. « thU day, ,<«, „„,^ „ , . 
 
 "-"■""-.re .„dg„„, i„ fc„^„ na,..^ .'''"""■""'" '^»'"e« of all 
 ™""^""J»=fiofJ„dg„,e„,o,„^^;' ""■°"7 " "> -!u=«io„,hat 
 charaaerof C„.^,*:,^^ ""'"^""f P-'Pofc, who imp„g„, ,^, 
 
 'ii:' 
 
 f 
 
r. 
 
 •l 
 
 J N D E X. 
 
 A''ERCROMBIE,Rcv.Ja™„, 
 
 AchiJIcs, xi. 
 
 Adams, CharJesF., 177 
 
 Mn. ,02. n^:\^,, , 
 
 ;77;. 78,. 79, i8i;.8j; 
 
 on the Howes, 139. 
 
 on the Pennfylvania Con. 
 ftitution, 121 
 
 ontheOuaJccrs,'„3 .J. 
 
 noi™„atesWaflu„gto„7,77, 
 
 fcmJmcnts towards Wafli 
 
 Jhgton, ,85, ,86. 
 SamucJ, „3, , ,g 
 
 ;trtr.8^:^*"^-' 
 
 acmes it, ,82. 
 Alcides, 24, ,j. 
 
 Amboy, i^y, 
 
 Amcricanifms, 36. so ic-r 
 Andre, Major /ohnfi', ^7. 
 
 Andromeda, 54. ^ 
 
 Annapoh's, 160. 
 Anfon, Lord, 62. 
 
 A^^. Man.. ../,V ,^, 
 
 , notice of, ,7,. 
 
 Arnold, Ben die., 4o, 79. u8, 
 
 . V^»59, 171, 17c. 
 • book attributed to 17, 
 Afl-cmbJy bails, ,60. ' '^'• 
 Aftraia, 24. 
 
 Aur«ra,denounce,Walhingto„,.85. 
 
 W&oU^^ 
 Beaufort, Cardinal, xi,t 
 Beaumarchais, ije. 
 ff' Paul, ,5/ 
 Bcliona, 9, 63. 
 Bcnezct, Mr., irr 
 
 Binglam, William, ,;g 
 
 Brandywine, ,34, ,33 
 
 anecdote of, ,7, ^ * 
 Bradford, Wm., .ri * 
 Bray, John, ,62. ^ 
 
 Vicar of, 86. 
 
w 
 
 If t 
 
 i 1 
 
 L''^ 
 
 ft' 1 
 
 f 
 
 
 ill. 
 
 1 il 
 
 1 
 
 190 
 
 Index, 
 
 Britifli fucccfs in 1759, 18, 130. 
 Browne, Sir Thomas, xi. 
 Brunfwick, 137. 
 Bryan, George, 43, 118, 122. 
 
 notice of, 164. 
 Bui], John, 139. 
 
 Col. John, 42, 162. 
 Bunker-hill, 134. 
 Bunyan, John, xiv. 
 Burd, Mr., 155. 
 
 Chew, Benjamin, 125, 138. 
 Chubb, R., 14. 
 Church-and-King club, 147. 
 Cleves, letter from, 166. 
 Clinton, Sir Henry, 63, 66 1 67, 
 77. 79.82,114, 138,141, 
 171, 174. 
 private comments on Howe, 
 138 ; on A buthnot, 174. 
 Clinton's Retreat, 160. 
 
 Burgoync, Sir John, 25, 36, 68, Clymer, Daniel, 155. 
 
 138, 147. 
 Burgoyne's defeat, 160*. 
 Burke, Edmund, 83, 176. 
 
 (of America), 182. 
 Burleigh, Lord, 4. 
 Burlington, 7, 9, 39, 169. 
 Burne, the barber, 159. 
 Byron, Admiral John, 176. 
 
 George, 155. 
 Cobbett, William, loi, 121, 164. 
 Cocytus, 73, 
 
 Coffin, Mr. 1 7, 18, 129, 139. 
 Coghlan, Mrs. Margaret, 171. 
 Coldfpring, 9. 
 Collins, Mrs., 98. 
 Congrefs, 36, 143, 144, 1 65, 169, 
 
 180. 
 ^ABAL againft Wafliington, 180, Conftitution of Pcnnfylvania, 122, 
 
 124, 158. 
 Conway, Marlhal, 144. 
 
 ^^ 182. 
 
 Cadwalader, Gen. John, 122 
 
 Camillo Querno, 105. 
 Caefar, ?., 141, 185. 
 Campaign, the fuccefs of the, 1 60. 
 Campbell, George, 155. 
 
 Captain, 155. 
 Canada, 130, 140. 
 Cannon, James, 122. 
 Carliflc, Earl of, 165. 
 Carleton, Sir Guy, 84, 140, 141. 
 Carpenter's Hall, 61, 155. 
 Cary, Mr., 113. 
 Cato, 34. 
 
 Chalmers, George, 136. 
 Chambers, Colonel, 155. 
 Chambly, 7. 
 Charles Firft, x. 
 
 Second, 29, 30, 81. 
 Charlotte, Queen, 14, 116. 
 Chaftellux, M. de, 160, 169, 174. D'Eftouches, M., 82, 176. 
 
 Gen. Thomas, 183. 
 Cooper, Rev. Dr. Myles, 105. 
 
 William, 133. 
 Cornwallis, Lord, 138. 
 Craft, James> 115. 
 Crefly, 2. 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, X, 134, 185. 
 Cufhing, Thomas, 177, 178. 
 
 "r\ANA, Francis, 166. 
 
 Daftouche, Adm., 82. 
 De Berdt, Denis, 134, 137. 
 De Grafle, Count, 157. 
 De Lancey, Mrs., lines by, 172. 
 Delaney, Sharpe, 155. 
 Delight ((hip), 157. 
 D'Eftaing, M., 45, 50, 51, 53, 56, 
 
 168, 170. 
 
^'Pf>dcs the, ,69.' 
 ^'•ake. Sir Francis, 62. 
 
 ^fyden, xvi. ' "* 
 
 
 Rev r7 ' ^''' '^°^ 
 
 g"7n> Captain/, 7^ 
 ^"nJap, WilJiam, ,80. 
 
 EAGLE gh-p^, 
 
 Eden, WiiJiam, ,6c 
 Edinburgh, ,39. '°^- 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 4. 
 Woifa, ,09. 
 
 EmJcn, Samuel, 162. 
 Experiment, the, 35, ,45. 
 captured, ,45. 
 
 PABRICIUS, 169. 
 Fallon, Dr., ,60. 
 
 ^/her,MuaF^.:5;f4. 
 
 Fatbufli, 72, ,74. 
 
 Eietcher, Andrew, xii. 
 Eoolcs, Paul, ,,7. 
 
 FothergilJ, Dr., ,45. 
 
 Franklin Benjamin, 5,45, ,12, 
 ,8l: '"' '^^' '36, .65, 
 Arthur Lee's opinion of him. 
 
 191 
 
 Fuler, colonel L. V., ,7,. 
 
 G^LLOWAnjofeph, ,4,. 
 Gargantua, i6g/ ' *'* 
 
 Gates,GenHoratio,^5,,,8.,,o, 
 .'+7. 157, i8j, 184. 
 
 » — •» low. 
 
 Gerry, ElbrV. '.6 '' '^*' '"■ 
 
 gS^;; "iff '°'- 
 
 Gibbon, Edward, i,6. 
 
 Gordon, Rev, Will4, .g, ,„, 
 
 Gr»m, General, ,38. 
 Graflc, M. de, ,j^7. 
 
 Graydon, Alexander, .j^ ,0, 
 Grayfon, Colonel, ijc ' '3- 
 
 Gr«.e,Gen.Na,l,.,",37,,8.. 
 
 H^M/J-TO^, Alexander, .33, 
 
 William, 83. 
 Hamlet, xiv. 
 
 »'P;« .0 command ,hc army, 
 
 *ough, by Adam, of more 
 -conn, .ban Wm.^. 
 Hannibal, 84. 
 Hardie, captain, 4, ,60 
 
 John Adams on, iS6. u ,. - -t- 
 
 Howe's hopes fron,, ,,. Hrr^"' ^'P'«'"' 4i, 16, 
 *36. 34. "'*™inge. George ,16 
 
 Franklin's Stove, author/hip of its Slf °"'. ?^">'"i"> 165. 
 mfcnption, ,,2. ^ ' "" JJ^^^'^e, Adm. Edward 62 
 
 Hazen's regiment, ,55' ' 
 
 
192 
 
 Index. 
 
 m 
 
 ■• 
 
 M 
 
 Henry, Patrick, 182. 
 Hermes, 24, 25, 142. 
 Heflians, 47, 56, 138. 
 High-ftrcct Ward, 1 56. 
 Hillegas, Michael, 41, 157, 160, 
 Hillfborough, Lord, 113. 
 Hopkinfon, Francis, 23, 69. 
 Howe, George vifcount, 140. 
 
 * TAY, John, 165, 171, 178, 182. 
 J charged with treachery, 165, 
 Jay's Treaty, 158. 
 Jcfferfon, Tliomas, 182, 186, 187. 
 roughly handled by Walh-r 
 ington, 187. 
 Jefuit's bark, cargo captured, 145. 
 
 , o , . Job, 164. 
 
 Richard, earl, 36, 128, 134, Johnfon, Thomas, 178. 
 
 *35. U6, I37i »39» HO» Johnftone, Com. George, 44, 165, 
 142, 168, 176. 1 66. 
 
 confults Franklin, 134, 136. Jones, Dr. John, 181. 
 expedts to make peace, 134, Jove, 23. 
 135. » 36. . Judas, 57. 
 
 his flagfliip, 1 76. Jumonville, M. de, 1 76. 
 
 Sir William, 10, 13,17,19, Juno, 24. 
 23, 36, 98, "5. "7» 
 1 1 8, 1 23, J 28, 1 29, 1 30, TT ILLIGREW, Thomas, 29. 
 
 1 3 1 . » 34. » 37» 1 38. » 39> -"^ Kinfey, James, 1 34. 
 140,141,142,144,183. 
 
 fufpefted of being fecretly j ^ Belle Poule captured, 146. 
 concerned m trade, 1 29, Lj Lafayette, M. de, 67, 79, 1 75, 
 139, 140. Lally, Count, 170. 
 
 his proclamation, 19, 131. Langdon, John, 165. 
 Chnton's crmcifms on him, Languedoc, 168. 
 
 *38' Lanyard, Jack, 61. 
 
 notice of, 134» 142. ^. . . - 
 
 liis amours, 23, 25, 141. 
 
 Humphreys, Daniel, 1 19. 
 
 James, 13. 
 Huntingdon, Countefs of, 113,114, 
 
 115. 
 Huntington, Samuel, 48, 169. 
 Hutchinfon, Dr. James, 45, 163, 
 
 186. 
 
 INDEPENDENCE, Declaration 
 ■*• of, 14, 116, 136, 137. »53»>79- 
 Inglis, Captain, 157. 
 Ingraham, Edward D„ 148. 
 Irifli beef, 21, 132. 
 
 Lauderdale, Lord, 171. 
 Lawrence, Thomas, 155. 
 Lee, Arthur, 113, 16;. 
 
 Gen. Charles, 141, 142, 177, 
 182, 183, 184. 
 his opinion of Waihington, 
 142, 184. 
 Mrs. Charles, xvi, 
 Richard Henry, his enmity to 
 Waihington alTerted and de- 
 nied, 182, 183. 
 Fort, 137. 
 Legal Paper Money, 17, 29, 128, 
 
 130* »3>> »43- 
 
 A 
 
^ere frigate deftroyed. j.6 
 pnox Major David! ir/^^- 
 Wis Francis, ,80; ,//* 
 
 Livingfton, William i,, ,,, 
 i-onng Mrs JJ: 37. 
 i-oughborough, Lord. ,,0 
 
 ^oupgarou, ,60, 
 ■Lucifer, 6. 
 
 Index, 
 
 ^ewis, 182. 
 
 ^^J^". 40, 121. ,22, ,„ 
 
 Napoleon, ,34. 
 
 Neptune, 62. 
 
 M r,^^' '76. 
 New England. ,37. 
 Newton, s;- ^c^.' 
 
 M'W, Allan. ,„. fc.'fe-''.7- 
 
 Mars, 24. ' ' ' 
 
 Maurepas, Count, ,6c 
 
 Mifflin, John T., ,rc r» • T"' ^ 
 
 »*««. Co,. JoH „, ,„, ,^_ ,^ ^^^^ 
 
 ^, H4. 171. ' ^' ^^' PantagrueJ, 48 ,60 
 
 Morgan, CoJonel. ,26. ^"P^*- "^oney/Ai ,.0 .r 
 
 Morns, Charles M. L ^^i- ^^' ^°' '^3, 
 
 2^ Pans, ,3,. 
 
 Nottingham, ',4 ^ 
 
 "^^^^f^ so, ,70/^- 
 ^tis, James, ,86. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 
194 
 
 Index. 
 
 n I' 
 
 as 
 
 (11 
 
 Parker, Adm. Sir Hyde, 47, 51, (QUAKERS, 14, 17, 117, 122, 
 
 170. 
 Pafchall, Benjamin, 40, 159. 
 Pattcrfon, Mr., 157. 
 Pembcrton, James, 162. 
 
 John, 162. 
 Pendleton, Edmund, 177, 178, 
 Penington, Edward, 125, 127. 
 
 Ifaac, 125. 
 Penn, William, 125. 
 Pennyfeather, land of, 26. 
 Pennfylvania, bank of, 157. 
 
 Conftitution of 1776, 122, 
 124, 149, 158. 
 
 its formation, 122^ 
 
 obnoxious to many, 1 22. 
 Pepys, Samuel, 121. 
 Perfeus, 54. 
 
 Peters, Richard, 15, 119, 120. 
 Philadelphia, 95, 129, 130, 131, 
 132, 138, 143, 144, 150, 
 
 >^ 123,127,130,144,163,186. 
 Quebec, 2, 130. 
 Querno, Qamillo, 105. 
 
 "D ABELAIS, Francis, 169. 
 *^ Rattlefnake, the, 159. 
 Reed, Gen. Jofcph, 44, 69, 134, 
 152, 154, 156, 157, 165, 
 166, 167, 184. 
 is varioufly accufed, 44, 1 56, 
 
 165, 166, 184. 
 William B., 183. 
 Regimen:, Lines on 23rd, 106. 
 Reynolds, John, 162. 
 Rivington, James, 39, 45, 63, 99, 
 
 Roberdeau, Gen. Daniel, 6, 42, 
 151, 156, 162, 163. 
 
 Robertfon, Lieut. Gen. James, 175, 
 Robertfons, or dipt coins, 1 74. 
 
 •53» 156, 159» '62, 163, Robinfon, Andrew, 155. 
 
 185, 186. Rodney, Adm. Lord, 77, 83, 157. 
 
 Aurora attacks Waftiington, Royal Oak, the, 81, 176. 
 
 185. 
 Piercy, Rev. William, 6, 113. 
 
 notice of, 113. 
 Pilkington, Rev. M., 34. 
 Pindar, Peter, xvii, 113, 179. 
 Plato, 34. 
 Plymouth, 136. 
 Poidliers, 2. 
 
 Poniatowiki, king Staniflaus, 175. 
 Pope, Alexander, 108, 173. 
 
 Edith, 108. 
 Potts, John, 155. 
 Prevoft, Gen. Aug., 51, 53, 54, 
 
 17^ 173- 
 Price, Mr., 17, 18. 
 
 Princeton, 138. 
 
 Proclamation, 131. 
 
 Pulafki, Count Cafimir, 55, 173. 
 
 Rulh, Dr. Benjamin, 43, 157, 164, 
 
 182. 
 Rulhlight, the, 164. 
 RuiTel, Admiral, 62. 
 
 OANDY Hook, 48, 137, 168. 
 *^ Savage, the, 72, 174. 
 Savannah, 51, 53, 170, 172, 173. 
 Schaffer, John, 155. 
 Scott, Sir Walter, 141. 
 Sergeant, Jonathan D., 1 86. 
 Shelah, the, 72. 
 Sherman, Roger, 178. 
 Shippcn, Dr. Wm., 182. 
 Simcoe, Col. John G., 141. 
 Smith, Robert, 104. 
 William, 104. 
 
Index, 
 
 i 
 
 Smith Rev. William, 29, , ,2 , . , ^ * ^ ^S 
 
 „ Mr., 33. 103/ ^' ""' '«. Trenton 39, ,38. 
 
 Trinity Church, ,7,. 
 
 Triton, 72,174. 
 Troop, Firft Citv 1 c^ 
 
 Twickenham, 108,. 
 L/nited States, 89. 
 
 „ Mr., 33. ,03. 
 Smyth, J. F. D., ,64. 
 oodom, 43. ^ 
 
 Sproat, Mr., 1,3. 
 St. Andrew, 45. 
 
 s': St «"■ ^"'■"' '"• 
 
 St. Dennis, 45. . ., , 
 
 St. George, i, a ac ^^ -^ United States, 8 
 
 St. Paul's Churchyard 08 ^ 
 
 00, 68,69, 81. 8t S^R^ H5- 
 
 f.S?,!^;95..oo*''*' "^^Jjo'e; Horace. ,3,. 
 
 Mr'lV?; '*'' '«' '5' 
 
 Staten r/land, 137 
 
 Stewart, Charles, \.S, 
 
 Sti'-hng,Gen.Lord,^8o 
 Sturdy Beggar, the,', 59°- 
 Succefs of the Campai^?, ,60 
 
 '''T/o:^r84^°^-^ 
 
 Swift, Dr. Jonathan, x-j^, 
 
 T^MENUND, 45, ,65. 
 
 Tarleton, Col. Banaftrc xii 
 Thompfon,Gen.Wm., c'*/"' 
 Ticonderoga, ,30. ^^• 
 
 Titan, 4,. 
 
 Tonyn, Gov. Patrick, ,7, 
 Towne, Benjamin, 20. 
 
 » ^^"' -riricmas, 
 Warren, James, i^e. 
 Warwick, earl of, xvi. 
 Wafhington, 46, 79, g^, 88, ,20, 
 
 '25, 131, 136, ,38, ,,g 
 
 diftrufted in congrefs, ,77 
 ;79, .80, ,8,, ,82, A\\ 
 
 defired as Emperor, ,70 "* 
 I^anforhisarreft, ,80 
 
 MnAdamson, ,36, ,86. 
 Beaumarchais on, 176 
 Gates on, ,83. 
 
 Sutxv'°"''^.'''«3''84. 
 J,"P""^^on, ,76. 
 
 Philadelphia Aurora on, ,85 
 
196 
 
 Index. 
 
 Wafhington, his plans againft New 
 
 York, 46, 79, 175. 
 
 reviled by newfpapers, 184. 
 
 threatened with violence, 1 86. 
 
 deterred from further public 
 
 life, 185. 
 his retirement welcomed by 
 
 fome, 185. 
 perfons faid to be hoftile to 
 
 him, i8z, 184. 187. 
 ftrong letters to Jefferfon, 187. 
 Wafliington, fort, 137. 
 Watfon, Elkanah, 114. 
 
 JohnF., 154, 156, 160. 
 Watfon's Annals, 148. 
 Wedderburne, Alexander, 139. 
 Wellington, 140. 
 Wells, R., 30, 101. 
 
 Wharton, Filhboume, 1 26. 
 
 Thomas, 125. 
 Whitefield, Rev. George, 114. 
 Whitemarfh, 23. 
 Will, William, 41, 160. 
 Wilkinfon, Col. James, 161. 
 Willing, Richard, 15,121. 
 
 Thomas, 15, 121, 142, 143. 
 Wilfon, James, I43.i53> «S5. »56. 
 
 threatened with violence, 153. 
 Wiftar, William, 40, 1 59. 
 Witherfpoon, Rev. John, 1 82. 
 Wolcot, John, xvii, 1 1 3, 1 16, 1 79. 
 Waxall, Sir Nathaniel, 140. 
 Wright, Abijah, 104. 
 
 YEATES, judge Jafper, 112. 
 * York, duke of, 171. 
 
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