ftate-days? Who carries the fword of state and cap of maintenance? Is he not-so far from holding the fovereignty in contempt of the people-elected periodically on account of his capacity, employed to perform certain duties, and remunerated like a clerk? Does he live for ever? Can he do no wrong? On the other hand, is he not refponfible to the loweft of the rabble for every act of his administration ? Is not the Prefident fubject to be tried before the Senate, which may turn him out of his office, and difqualify him from ever holding any place of honour, truft, or profit, and may he not afterwards be indicted and punished according to law for the very fame offence? Can he get a bill of attainder paffed, or can he by any means work a corruption of blood? Can all his influence, in or out of his mock Parlia ment, extend fo far as to protect our holy religion from Atheifts, Deifts, Pagans, Mahometans, Papifts, or Prefbyterians, by the impofition of a falutary teft? Instead of being fovereign lord of all, is he not the fervant of all? Has he a fenate compofed of members who trace their honours to the conqueft of their country, to the holy crufades, and to the bounty of ancient fovereign lords, his royal predeceffors? Has he a royal magic to communicate the same hereditary virtues to the ignoble but rich? Has he a fenate, with "eccentric privileges," to be hereditary counsellors and judges? Has he any holy men in that fenate, with long fleeves and mitres, to reprefent tithes as the fine qua non of true religion? Has he any gentleman-ufhers of the back-ftairs, lords in waiting, black-rods, and gold-fticks, deliverers of greens, and grooms of the ftole, legiflating in that fe nate? What fort of Houfe of Commons has he? Can he influence elections? Has he any close and pot-wallopping boroughs, where no property is the qualification, to to oppose to county elections, where property is requi fite? What does a feat in his Reprefentative Houfe fell for at the market?-Is it not fo defpicable, that instead of paying four thousand pounds, the members of it, as well as of the Senate, are fo beggarly as to receive daily wages from the people for drudging through the bufinefs? Are their privileges undefined, and only to be known by an intricate debate among themselves, and not to be mentioned with impunity by any other? Does that fcurvy people receive any money or preferment for their votes at elections? Is there any glory in fuch unbought votes? Did not our glorious conftitution grow from beneath the throne of William the Conqueror, except fome deviations adopted from the Saxons; and was not the clumfy pile of American republicanifin, built by the hard hands of the fanatical rabble? And is it not at the mercy of the giddy people, as often as they chufe, to alter or abolish, as they may think proper; whereas, our conftitution is not only perfect, but immortal and unperishable? Finally, is not Washington a republican, and is not America a republic? Who then is he, that will dare to compare that vile fyftem, unhallowed by the pyrimidical orders of civilized fociety, and unfanctified by time, with our firm, but mild-imple, but mixed-ancient, once perfect, but ftill improving, and now full-grown limited Monarchy ? Now, Mr. Editor, I take my leave of you for the prefent; but let me warn your infidious correfpondent (whom I plainly difcover to be a concealed Jacobin). not to vilify our King and his kingdom, under the thin veil of love for a conftitution, of which he appears grofsly ignorant, by comparing it to an unfledged Republic. After this caution, fhould he ftill perfevere, let the law take its courfe; and although there is no danger of his dying a "Martyr to Liberty," he may yet yet be convinced, to his aftonishment, that we have an Attorney-General to prosecute infidious friends, as well as declared enemies. The invention of that wicked inftrument the Telegraphe, proves, to a demonftration, that a Republican Government is not fuited to an extent of territory, above three yards broad, and fix yards long. Your's, &c. Y: [The following was one of the most popular Airs with the Soldiers of the Army of the North.] COUPLETS BACHIQUES ET GUERRIERS, OULEZ vous fuivre un bon confeil? V° Buvez avant que de combattre De fens froid je vaux mon pareil Mais quand j'ai bien bu j'en vaux quatre. Ma foi c'eft un trifte foldat Le buveur n'en voit que la gloire. Come ce Vin tourne l'Esprit, Comme il vous change une perfonne ! Tel qui tremble s'il reflechit, Fait trembler quand il deraifonne. Cet Univers, ah qu'il eft beau ! Sil n'a pas fait un element, Verfez donc mes amis, verfez, I IMITATION DR IMITATION OF THE FOREGOING VERSES. Then fill the bumper, let it pafs! He that to battle fober goes, As wine the heart of man can cheer, mellow. This world's a wond'rous work, and fine, 'Twas wife though not to bid the tide THR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. HROUGH the channel of your paper permit me to pour forth the effufions of my joy, on my happy return to my native country, after a very tedious peregrination, and woeful fufferings, the confequence of an unfortunate laxity of fpeech, which makes me inconfiderately exprefs every idea that rises in my mind. Being in Ruffia at the acceffion of the prefent prefent Czarina, I very imprudently took it into my head to investigate her title to the Imperial crown, and the means by which the afcended the throne. The Czarina hearing of it, fent an officer to me, who told me, in French, that his miftrefs, understanding that I was a traveller of great penetration, had graciously determined to fend me to Siberia, where I might make obfervations upon the foil and climate, free of expence. I remained there till towards the clofe of her first war with the Turks, when I was fent to join the army that was befieging Adrianople. Making my escape from thence, I reached the capital of the Ottoman empire, at a time when the Muffulmen were going in folemn proceffion to call down bleffings from Heaven upon their arms, and were killing a Jew and an afs at every place where they made a halt. Though I had almoft forgot the use of my tongue in Siberia, I could not help faying that the murdering of Jews was an odd way of fhewing their refpect for the great prophet Mofes, whom all Mahometans pretend to revere; and that if they thought to gain victories by killing affes, they were affes themfelves. I was overheard, and carried before the Cadi, who liftened attentively to the depofition against me :-"Allah is merciful," faid he; "give the Chriftian dog three hundred blows on the foles of his feet, and fend him to the gallies." I had not been long there, when in the only battle fought by the Pope's gallies in the prefent century, it was my good fortune to be taken by the Capitana, and carried into Civita Vecchia. From Civita Vecchia I went to Rome, where I was afked by a Signor Abbate, if it was not my intention to kifs the Pope's toe. "If," faid I," the Pope imitated him whofe Vicar he is upon earth, he ought rather to wash my feet, than expect me to kiss his." The Prieft being an informer, accufed me to the Holy Office, who *This is actually the practice of the Turks, when they meet with any fignal military misfortunes. I 2 fent |