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MUSICAL REPOSITORY
' IS NOW OPENED
At Chalk's Circulating Library,
No, 75 JSTortb Third Street,
WHERE *nav be had, all tba Fafiionmble Music |
comrofing the song"» fee. lately fold at the
Repository in South Second Street. To which, in
a few days, will be added, some PIANO FO& TES
of a very fupcrior tone and quality, Flutes, Fifes,
Violins, bell Reman Violin String?, and every
other article in the musical line, which will be
fold in prime order, and ow the moil reasonable
terms.
subscriptions received for the Muftcal Journal
{or the Piano Forte, and the Flute or Violin, tha
firft fix numbers of which are already published,
and may be purchased together or fsparately by
non fubicribers.
March 6, 1800.
NOTICE.
THE Parterfrip of JOHN HAtNES & IVIL
LI AM JONES, trading under the firm fef
HAINES iff JONES, was by mutual agreement
diflolved on the 24th of January last. All persons
interefte'J, especially those indebted to them, will
pita fe to call as early as polfible on William Jones,
who is duly authorifecl to adjud their concerns.
JOHN HAINES.
WILLI \M JONES,
The business will in future be conduced by
William J ones y at the former stand No 132 Mar
ket ft. eet, 3d door abovs 4th, where he has on
hand and means to keep a regular supply of the
best and mofl »afhionable saddles and bridles. Pla
ted saddlery and silver mounted whips. Harness
of all kinds ancj fire buckets, together with a gen
eral afTortTJienr. of every other article ufualiy at
tached to that line of bufiaefn.
, March n
THR FOLLOWING
VALUABLE LANDS
Will be offered for sale, at the Merchants
Coffee House in this city, between the
hours of six and eight 011 the evening of
SaTURDAT the twenty-second of March
next.
In the County of GLYNN and State of
GEORGIA —all patented in trails
of to;o acres.
7,000 Acres at the confluence of Fred-rici
and Tin tie river,, and head of St. Si
mon's found, near the town of Bi unf
wick.
»8»,oco Acres on the -witers of the areat and
little Satilia rivers, and of Baffaloe
creek.
41,000 Near the above described trails,
15,000 Near the above described tracts
aßc,coo Acres on the waters of the great Sa
tilla and Ahtaharna.
147,000 Acres on the fame waters
50,000 Acres on the waters of the great Sa-
- tilla.
50,ce0 Acres on the waters of little Satilia and
Alatamaha rivers and Buffaloe creek.
<O,OOO Near the above described tracts.
In the State of VIRGINIA—aII patented
44,000 Acres in the county of Hath, on both
fides i f Green Briar river, subject to
to 3000 acres of prior surveys, in-
cluded within the said 44,000 acres,
but exclufrve of that quantity.
41,cc0 Acres in the county of Bath, en the
ealt fide of tha Cow Pallure river and
and on linth fides of the Waggon
Road leading from the Warm Springs
to Staunton, subject as aforefaii to
50CO acres prior surveys.
40,00 c Acres in the county of Randolph, on
Buchanan river, subject as aforefiid
to 4588 acres prior surveys.
30,000 Acres in the couny of Bath, on the
eatl fide of Calf Paftute river, subject
as afurelaid to 5000 acres prior sur
veys.
In PENNSYLVANIA.
Acres in Northumberland county, fur
veyed and returned.
«6 ,800 Acres in Northumberland county, sur
veyed and returned.
40,400 Acres in Bedford county, surveyed ar.d
ready to be returned
*s* Fcr tht greater part of the pyrchafe
money a liberal credit will be allowed the pur
chafcis, giving unqueflionable fecuriiy.
Persons uiftiiMg particular information will
pleafc to apply at No. 41 Arch flrset, where
the patents and drafts, and atfo certificates of
the quality of the Georgia and Virginia Lands
are deposited
THOMAS FITZSIMONS,
BENJAMIN R. MORGAN,
JEREMIAH PARKER.
|C7* Also, at the fame time and place,
43473 acres and one-third of an acre in
Malon county, in the State of Kentucky,
on the Nprth Fork, within four miles of
its juuftion with the Middle Fork of Ken
tucky river—this trail was surveyed in tbe
plying as above dire&ed.
Philadelphia, Jan. 7.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
March 6, ISOO.
PROPOSALS
WILL be received at this Office until the
seventh day of April next for rutting out
cloathing for the Army of the United States. —
The proposals must fpecify the price required
for cutting out eaA of the several articles, to
wit, Horseman's cloaks, regimental coats, veils
and overalls.
PROPOSALS will also be received until the
seventh day of April next for the delivery of
five thousand hats and twenty thotfand (hirts.
The hats to be made of good wool to be well ma
nufailured, full cocked, bound with narrow
black binding, the fan «r hind part eight inch
es bread, fides and corners fix inches broad.—
The shirts to be of linen equal in quality with
the pattein article, and to be as well made as
the said pattern.
One half of the hits and Ihirts to be dsliver
edoflor before the 6rft day of June next, and
the remainder on or before the fir ft day of July
next.
Patterns of the several articles may be seen at
the Military Stores kept by John Harris, orf the
wharf between Arch and Race ftreeti.
Security will be required
JAMES Mc. HENRY,
. Secretary of War.
dt5A.
March 7,
TPIOMAS CLAYTON
public in -general, that he ha* rerriov'd the
whole Stock in trade of the late firm of J. f. MAL
COM & co. clruffeift'» to figu of Fothergiils Golden
Head, No. 97 South Second Street, dire&ty oppo
lite to the City Tavern, where the business in all
its branches will be condu&ed as heretofore in enn
junAion with WILLIAM LEHMAN, under the
firm of WILLIAM LEHMAN & Co.
March 6
AS Mr. Thomas Claytop, in hi* advert
tifemerit above, ha? indire&ly aiTerted that
I have declined business, I feel it my outv
to inform my friends and the public, that I
continue the Drug and Apothecary Bufinei's,
as ufuai, at the old stand, sign of tnthergill s
golden head, No. 26, iouth Secohd {licet, a
little below oppolite Black, ilorle Alley,
where may be had, constantly, every article
in the line. JOHN J. MA LOOM.
MEDICINE CHESTS,
For (hipping, with plain approved directions,
put up at an hour's notice.
March 7
Orations and Eulogiums.
• This Day Published,
BY J. ORMRO D,
No. 46, Chcfnut r. ft, (price 31 cents)
ON THE SUBLIME VIUVV.S OF
GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON.
At the same place may be bad,
3UW3W-
The Rev. Dr. Rogers's Prayer, delivered
on the 22d February 1800, before the Penn
sylvania Society of the Cincinnati; To
whith are fubjomed, the Hymns sung on
that mournful occasion, by the choir under
the dire£tion of the Rev. tylr. Law.—Price
lo cents.
I RESPECTFULLY invite you siiherto tie
City Tavern, Hardy's Hotel, Francis' Hotel,
the Indiat» Queen, Dunwoody's Tavern, the
Fraakliu'n Head, or to the George, to examine
a specimen of Rowlett's Tables of Discount or
Interest, on every Dollar, from I to 1,000 ; «n
every ten, from 2006 to 2500 ; on every fifty
from 1500 to 3000 ; and on every five hundred
from Jooo to 5000 ; from otae day to 64 days
includve, at fix per cent, comprising in the
whole, upwards of one hundred and thirty two
thousand one hundred and fifty calculations of
difcatint ; al! performed according to the equi
table piincplts of tie Banks, and as pradtifed
between individuals throughout the United
States ; being a perfeft ftawdard on the fubjedl :
with notea, ihewing how to use the tablf» at
five, seven and eight per tent, reckoning either
360 or 165 day> to the year, and the modt of
calculation on cents; to which is added, the
principles of computation of the various ex
changes between each State rtfpedlively, ar.d
between these ami London and Paris, at differ
ent rates of exchange.
The work is dedicated, by permission, ;o the
President and Directors of the Sank of North
America, and has already received the patronage
•of John Ad«ms, Piefident of the United
States; of Thomas Jefferson, Vice Presi
dent of the United States and lYefident of the
derate ; of a large number of the Senators and
Members of the House of Reprcfentatives of the
Unjted States ; and of tie Pi efidents and Di
reilors of the different Banks unanimously :
a lift of the whole is printed and attached to the
specimen book.
The preface to the specimen explains, among
other matters, the methods to be purfutd to
render the work perfe&ly accurate —and gen
tlemen who will rcfledt on those methods will
agree in the fadt. Every one will acknowledge
the arduoul'nefs of the undertaking.
Thetxpences, independent of any compensa
tion fur my trouble, will require afum between
three and four thousand dollars, which is two
mach to hazard—all must depend therefore up
on a general fubfeription ; .for uniefs fifteen
Centre Square, Feieuaty 5, 1800. hundred fubferibers are obtaine ', it wou'.d ccr-
IM compliance with the inftntc'ions of the . » : ' I! V be imprudent to execute the work.
,1 ? . r . , • . 1 •, olibicnbers -jail run no nlk, as the book
Committee for Watering the city, and v/ith , r .
.. 0 ~£. 7 . , (which will be quarto, from aco to aa< pages,
my own inclinations, every poflible admit- | or more _ price tWo .dollars) is not to be paid
tance and information has been given to f or until delivered rigorously conformable to
thole citizens who have visited the Works j my engagements cxpreffed in the conditions
during their progress. The Engines are now ; affixed to the specimen, which confxfts of fix
arrived, and are immediately to be put up, detached pages of the work,
and it is hoped that it will be thought re a- !„ * wblc o{ al! the P ost «°wn» >n the United
r«.,nki a nn,i ;.. n u„♦ u *.~ T3..ki - „, 1 States, and foxne other ufeful information (not
ionable and luit, both to the rublic, and to \ , »
. f, A c it--, « exprefied in the title) wilUollow the computa
the Contraftor for the Engines, that the ti / n , of #xchMg( , ' betwfen this country and
workmen ihould not be interrupted. As,£ j England and France s,and provided, gentlf^ien,
very few months will fully gratify the cu- that a fwfficieat number of you come forward
riofity of the citizens, by (hewing them the and fubferibe, a further.addition shall fee made
Engines in full operation, a temporary ex- °f the coins and money of account of the piin~
clufion of all vifitorsfrom the Engine houies ci P a ' ! maritime trading places in Russia, Sweden,
cannot appear improper. %r,mark Norway Prussia, Poland, Germany,
d it r iTiinnc r Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, Italy, ana
B. H. LATROBE, Engmeer. in of the dward and WW Weft
Februaiy 13. dtf. India Islands, the whole reduced to dollars and
cents; and t he mode of computing the exchange
with tt oie pla. es explained ; aifi?, a large flieet
table of calculations at compound interest at 6
Major Jaekfon's F.ulogitim
Dr. Smith's Oration
Mr. Morris's, do.
General Lee's do.
Judge Bayard's do.
IN THE PRESS,
And will be published nettl week,
Mr. Chaurdon's Oration 2 5
Mr. Vining's do. -5
Riv. John B. Linn's Poem on the death of
Gen. Washington, after the manner of
Oflian.
Hcvii'.y expe£Ud, Dr. Linn and the Mafor.s
Oration?, New-YoiU.
March 8
'Thirty-nine hogsheads ej Sugar
A generous credit will be allowed.
Apply to MOORE WHAR'I ON, No. in
South Water Street.
February 21
BY THE fUCSCRIBKR, A QJIAKTITY OF
Excellent RICE,
In whole and half Tierces,
GREEN COFFEE,
IN SAGS;
And a fevj boxes of Mould Candhs.
JOSEPH SHOEMAKER, Jun
No. 8;-, So. Front Street,
d i w.
March 8,
WATER-OFFICE.
WAS FOUND,
A BUNDLE OF BANK NOTES.
aawtS
<T rr B nivKFK | per cent, to which the notes for 5, 7 and 8 per
« * • 1 » cewt will apply—the tables used in banks for
By prov.ng property and pay,ng the charges determi^„ y on ofthe valse of ld aild the
01 this advertiiement, may have it again by ap- A f , , - .'1
L , . , Tv T t.j• 1 /i ° 1 r lnrerelt tor each month from one to twelve
P 'y n g at No. ,49, High street. which will make the work llill more
acceptable to persons living in the country as
well as in town ; and upon the whole, I am con
fident, that this book will be found as generally
ufelul and convenient as any matter of fa&*pcr
formance that ever entered a counting house or
store.
ad mo. 10.
A llacl Darned Ptitr, left my f«rvice on the jyth
ult : he is rather ftiort in stature, but is strong and
well formed, and is about 18 years old. The said
boy had on when he went a good black hat
with a cockade, a brown coat, corduroy panta
loons and good Iboes.
Whoever apprehend! him and returns him to
me, ftia'.l receive one dollar reward, and no char
ges paid. E. DICKENS.
Captain of veiTels and all others are warßed at
their peril against harboring him.
March 10. <jst
Three Cents Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber on the evening I JOHN ROWLETT,
of the »SSth inft. a bound Servant GIRL,' jiccomptant Bank North America.
named Elizabeth Howchel, had on and took with j Postscript.—Gentlemen who have business at
her,:three different changes of garment and money, J either of the Banks, or at the Philadelphia Li
proud, bold and impudent, a noted lyar ; any par-. brary, will have an opportunity of fubferibing
f«n apprehending her ihall he entitled to the above j there, as well as at the Taverns, &c. before
teward—bo coSs or charges will belaid. I mentioned.
N: B, She had 1 years and some months to fei ve.
Daniel fvtzpatrick.
Golhen Township, Chester County, July 19.
august 6 3awtf
Rcm-jval oj'iltdic'tuet,
A MISTAKE,
ORATION
By Fifter Ames
FOlt SALE
BY THE SUBSCRIBER
For Sale,
A RUN AWAY.
JACOB SPERRY, & Co
No. 195 Market Slrect,
Ofief for sale at realonabW prices, for approved
paper, < r in barter for Coffee,
TBI rOLLAWIKO
GOODS,
Entitled to Drawback :
I cile Ladies'Shoe 8
S cases fine Elberfe! -
Linen*
20 Cafos Creas a la-
Morlaix.
4 do. D.ovlafles
4 do. Rouans
4 do Flotillas Roy
ales.
io do CafTerillos or
white rolls of i 2 St.
half yard*.
8 do Checks and
stripes.
3 " do. Fine Elber
ffcld Checks
4 du. Coiitils and
LilUdoes
I do. Check fnirts;
16 do. Oilcloths,
io do. Tapes of all
numbers, plain, twil
led, blue and white,
aoo Travelling cafesof
different sizes
4 cases cut flint De
canters, pint & quart
3 cases gill tumblers
I cafe wine g'aftVs
i7l boxes of Window
Glass, 8 by io
a cases Scaling Wax
With an exter.five alTortment of Looking
Glass Plates of the following lues, 16-12,
17-ic-j-, 17-13, IS-14, 20-12, 22-13, 24*
14, 26-15,
goods ufualiy imported from Hamburg.
March 11. d6t— ta«4w.-
no risk:
To Merchants, Store Keepers and Trades-
men in geueral, See.
[To* nil! obligs me by reading this advuiiftmtr.t
throughout ]
Cents,
I2i
IS-r
d6t.
d 2i»
f Jt'
It if not fuflicient that an individual (cenfi
dering himfelt but one) (ball conclude, iniiead
of fubferibing, 10 purchase the took when pub
lifted, asfomt pfthe members of«the Houle of
Ueprefentatives of the United States have dons ;
for, however much I am obliged to these, the
the lofsot" many ONES' fubferiptions may lose
me the race, and the book may never be pub
lished. I repeat, that nothing is to be paid in
advance,
And am, very refpedlfully,
Gentlemen,
Your humble servant.
Copy right secured according to act of Con
gress.
Karen 6.
4 (So. Siamoifes
3 do. Sileliahankfs.
i do. Damalktalile
linen aflorted with
napkins
3 i!o. Moreas
4 do Flandtrs Bed
Ticks, 6 4, 9*4 *nfl
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From tie Suon-of Mess, Colon isf Spondee
I have jufl looked into Madura Gei:li«-
" Les Chevaliers Dn Cygne." ' 1S
neat and eafv, and remarkable lor that be
witching vivacity so cunlpicuous in French
pages. But many of the incidents and
scenes are trite and thread-bare. Descrip
tions of the feats knights of chivalry
abound. We have tilts and tournaments,
golden hshuets and nodding plumes in plen
ty! Prancing courses, Iplendidly caparifoii
ed, stand in every stable. Bright lances, fit
for immediate use, may be had by every
, fquir.-, who will alk for them
4 do Cotten Bed
Ticks
I do. Thread ftock-.
ings, Gloves & pan
taloons
i do. Kid Gloves
4 do. Kibbons
3 do. Garnets and
Pearls
i calks alTorted Iron
mongery
a do. Scythes, io
hands.
4 do. Coffee mills
3 Cables of ii.s fa
thoms each, 9 & io
inch.-
To wia her grace, whom ail commend."
In all this there is much glitter ; and brass
and gold ring very sweetly, when struck by
the fair hand of Madame Genlis. But, this
age of chivalry" may be seen in my anti
quated Don Belianis of Greece, and Felix
roarte of Hj rcania, and the legend of Sir
Tristram, and in every page of Amadii de
Gaul. It is a curious, and may be a profita
ble speculation, to refleft on the vicissitudes
of learning and taste, as they refpeft both
l he study ant l the admiration or uegle£t of
legendary lore. In the earlier annals of the
Spanish story, ye find every high minded
Caftilian studious of the exaggerated, or fa
bulous tales of Knigut errantry, and burn
ing to figlialize liiinfell", by the relief of a
datnlel, the diiTolution of an enchantment,
the breaking of a lance, a ride upon a grif
fin, or a rencounter with a giant. In th e
niidrt of this delusion Satire and Cer"
vantes* fprangtinto the lifts, and knights
and squires and dwarfs and damsels, and
caflles and burning lakes vanished like the
mornirig mists from the mountain. This
rout of the whole hod of chivalry was so to,
■ tobacco pipe is purified by being burned,
tal, that books of knight errantry either re. .. , .... „
' , ~ . . , , „ , , , perhaps if the dissenting Doftor himfelf
mained, mouldering in the dull ot neglected , ~ . .
... , . were roasted a little, his Socinianilm and
libraries, or, if opened, were read only as .
. .» i Jrmogifton would appear the brighter. All
food for spleen, or incentive to merriment. ~ . . , „, . , .
r „ , _ . , : his experiments and all his theories are fit
This is the age of revolutions. On a fud- . . • . > r r r■ .
~,,, - , . . , for nothing but to amule a fuperficial caper,
den, in the full blaze of the eighteenth cen- i . T . , '
J , , , , . , I ing Frenchman, be a maygame to democrats,
tury, Madame G. whether goaded by the re- r • ,~ „
1 , r , r . , , ', , , j and Bartholomew fair drollery to a revolu.
proaches of BurkU, or foliated by the fickle j . ri ,
r , , , v „ .. r | tionary rabble. It is wonderful how this
and depraved taste of the Paritians, composes, . . .
1 , r , i • 1 l u SS ,er ,s permitted to play his tricks here,
or rather compiles, volumes of the exploits ' . . ■ L ,
r , , ' . lin the opinion ot Kurope, a few democratic
of feudal Wroes, and the ceremonies ot ehi-, r
, , , , , . knaves, tools and philosophers excepted, hu
▼airy. We are led backward to the caverns L . . r r "r'
' . , ~ i reputation clerical, literary and political has
of rude--time. We are introduced to old j r ' r
~ ._ . , r ' long iince declined into " the limbo of van-
Courtiers, old fathioned courtely,.old preju- .
■ „ , , , ,1 j ; ity. His fuffocating periods, his baffled
dices, excellent however, and, like old da. . ' ,
, ,ji irreligiou, his political ignorance and tlie
maik and brocade though ftiff arid unyield ' r °
■' 'ntolcrable prolixity, dullnels and number of
ine, yet fervicrable and found. We hav
e ' , . e h;s leaden books have long since become the
no reason to be alharaed ot these acquaint. ! r . _ , i -tr ■ „ , .
1 1 scorn of England. "He writei on all things
ance, but we are surprized at this day, to t , ... „ „ D .
' 1 but on nothing well." By the sacred voice
find ourselves in their company. bince Cer- . ~1 , .
_ ' of a principled and fatincal bard, he has been
vantos wrote, and fir.ce the epoch ot rrench i r . . ,
, ' . , ; ad ured to flee like some evu spirit, ana
revolution, the fashion ot knighthood ha ?
T&S&eW
Xi)e duetts.
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVESING, JIARCU II
Juftuu et tenacem propofiti virum,
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
NO9 vultus inftanti* tyraum,
Mente quatit folidd.
An Author's Evjnin'gs.
" And throngs of ladies, whofe'bright eyes,
Rain influrr.ee, and judge the prize
Of wit or arms, while both contend
passed awqy- It is difficult, after the pe-
rufal of Don Quixote, to restrain merriment
at the name ct a castle #r a knight. The
objeft of Madame de Gcnlis in leading her
reader among tilts and tournaments and
" throngs of knights and barons bold" per-
haps wa= to ccntiaft more forcibly the tricks
of innovation with the dignified and regular
c oftume_uf early times, but her object migbj
have been better'accompliflied by describing
the court of Henry of Navarre, rather than
that of Charltrmagne.
Here, let ns reft. To find fault, with
books, ufeful in the main, is an odious talk.
To speak harshly of a lady, who has deserved
so well of morals and literature as Madame
tie G. is no less repugnant to gallantry and
politeness than to found cnticifm. The
principles in these books are excellent.. They
incite to deeds of valour, justice and benevo
lence. It must not by any means be omit
ted, that this lady is not of the modem
French school. She has received her educa"
tion under better matter than the Abbe
Sieyes, or the impious Le Pawx. She has
evidently been, taught according to tb c
ftraighteft sett of a fourth Henry and a four
teenth Loili?. She "has kneeled at the feet
of none of the recent Gallic Gamaliels. She
is an ancient gentlewoman, arrayed in court
ly robes, ill the gorgeous vefhne'nts of Maria
Antoinette, not in the flinizy and scanty
drapery of Tallien, or in the filthy rags of
a suburban Poiflardc. Of the revolution
mongers and philosophers of Erance, fh; ex
prt'fies her opinion either in the loud tones
ef anger, or with the hiss of contempt. It
*He, wliofeKniGHi's difliriguiflied name
Kefin'd a nation's luftef fame
Whole tilts even cow, with echoes sweet
Csftilii'i Mooi.jflj hills repeat.
;s truly honoiahlt to this'correft anJ vtr tu_
ous matron that (lie nourishes a hatred f«r
thatfalfe philofopby, the bane of the human
race, and in Fiance the grand principle of
deftruiction, the original sin of the govern■»
ment. Describing the learned converfstions
in the court of Charlemagne, she larcafllcaUy
and expn-ilively subjoins that the difcourf'es
of that' Prince were not trom the academy S
and that he had the good fortune Hot to
number a single philosopher in all his vast
dominions. Her farc;afm, Ihe continually
repeats, is levied at the pretended pbilo
ftiphers, at the profeffors of impiety, and
the reviler of morals and religion, and,
to use her. own words, literally tranf-
Uted, " (he loves and honors from the bot
tom of her foul genuine philofopiiers, real
friends to wil'dom and virtue, such' asSo
cratrs, Epi&etus ar.d Marcus,
among the ancients, and, among the mo
derns, Pafeal, Mafillon, Fenelon, Addifon,
&c. Such sentiments as these cannot be
too frequently" repeated, nor too loudly
prafed. We wish that they would ring thro*
America, and that those deluded diftri&s
abused by the mummery of Dr. Phlogiston,
and the flight Manchester fabric, the coarse
corduroy political of mailer Cooper, would
like the realms of Charlemagne be vacant of
philosophers. We want no fych tygers in
our national Menagerie. We do not like
the ftuff of which these creatures are made.
We do not give a penny to witness any of
their tricks and gambols. To use an allu
sion of the Uarned S 'lden, "they are surly and
fpiteful m. fliffs ; fa long as you feed them
and ftrokr them, and do not pinch them,
peradventure they are quiet, but if you be
not wary they will fly at your throat." The
very name of a philosopher is fufficient to
make a.iy generous blood curdle in the vein.
It is of pet rifle operation. A catholic spir
it, having the commonweal eminently at
■ heart, might wilh that the fires of Sniith
, field should be rekindled, if for no other
: purpose than to coi,fume the trumpery im
. plements, the vain toys and " idle gauds" of
■ Gallic philosophy. We could well spare
: the rocking chair of our Epicurus, andcqjild
| cheerfully behold calcined every bone of'his
; Mammoth. . Birmingham air pumps might
scorch to cinder ; and, as an old and dingy
hide himfelf in the red sea of revolution.
He obeyed. But, unfortunately took 4
wrong direftion. He forfook the road t»
Paris and her ruffians, and came to North
America
Quale Portentum neque militant
Dauoia in latis a lit efcalctit
Ncc Ju'ose tellu> generat leonum
He came, a philosophical, political monf-
■ ter, not terrible for rhe energy or fublireity
| of his powers, not " exalted," like tlie
! poet's " Satan," but " Squat like a toad
; odious for crooked cunning and conventicle
cant, for left banded politics and presump
tuous interference. How he has demeaned
himfclf here, we h.ive learned from diurnal
-liiflorv. Ah has been before observed, ie
has been eje&ed by England, and now even
his city of refuge, even Northamberknd
nauseates him. We fervently uiili that he
nnd bis piijosopbji would cross the Atlantic,.
The old lumber is burdenfonie ; and i£ may
flill be thrust away in some of the diflenters
gairets iu England. Though we very well
know that Church arid State, that Literature
ami true Philosophy would grieve at the re
i landing of f'uch poor fluff as the Doflor and
his doclrines. Yet there are doors which
would fly open to receive them. His friend
Wakefield will (hake hands with him in
gaol, and Bedpoes will greet him, with
no " factitious airs," Thelwall will waft
bis praise over Fleet diteh, and the Duke of
Bedford amuse him with the fatted calves
of Wooburn. The growling diiciples of
John Knox will pray for him extemporane
ously in many a meeting iouse, and the
whine of dissent be attuned to the hymning
praise of a renegado pricft, a turbulent fub
je«, and a mouse kilting, frog killing poli
tics! philosopher 1
Collins,
Arida nsttix.