of the revolution. If no such individuals will volunteer in this patriotic cause, subscriptions to be opened and left at the Merchants Coffee-House, and such places of public resort. A committee to be chosen by the subscribers, to employ the artist, and superintend the work. If every person in Philadelphia, who admired and reverenced the name of Washington, were to subscribe 10 cents a-piece, all the expences of the work would be defrayed; the city would be ornamented, and the stain of reproach wiped off from the American name.

“On the front of the pedestal, this emphatic motto of Washington should be engraven in golden capitals: “United we stand-divided we full;” and appropriate quotations from his excellent valedictory Address ; which would be like a beacon to preventíus from rushing on the rocks, on which every republic in the world but our own, have been shipwrecked. And would be a noble pattern for the rising generation to imitate.

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The Apotheosis of Gen. George Washington.

" Awake, my muse, the sad Columbian strain;
Oh! sing the triumph and the deathless fame
Of Washington !...the servant of his God,
The friend of man, his country's chiefest good.
For us he fought, he conquer'd and he died;
“And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side."
Long toils for us republicans he bore,
But now he's dead, his virtues charm no more.
For all his perils, his fraternal pains,
What boon's return'd by us ? what fruit remains ?
Hardships, and toils, and pain for us he bravid,
Our fathers, wives, and weeping infants sayid;
Sav'd from the hands of royal villany,
And yet our base returns those villains see.
A Macedonian king more love display'd,
And built a statue to his horse's shade!

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* A statue of Washington, with appropriate quotations from his Farewell Address, would no doubt be an antidote for popular insurrections, and a stimu. lus for patriotic actions in public emergencies. Although the ingratitude of republics has always been proverbial, yet I defy any man to show me a single instance, of any republic treating the memory of suck a patriotic general as Washington, with such merce

"Republican ingratitude" has gave
No such memorial to adorn bis grave;
Yet though no lofty monument, or bust
Adorns the sod that hides his sacred dust,
Though his own countrymen no trophy gave,
Save a cheap tear, to decorate his grave,
The plaintive muse will a memorial give,
And bid his name revive his virtues live.”.

I am happy in having it in my power to state, that my most sanguine wishes are in a fair way of being accomplished ; which will appear from the following advertise

nary neglect. A liberal individual erected a marble statue to the memory of Dr. Franklin; in the same manner. there are very rich persons in Philadelphia, who would cheerfully erect a statue to Washington, was the idea suggested to them; particularly, a very wealthy and generous merchant, not a mile from Arch and Water-streets.

However, if the great men, and wise men, and rich men, and mighty men of our city, refuse to embark in this noble and national cause, I am determined to join with a number of Plebians, and if not a brass, we will get a wooden statue erected, to the memory of our beloved and lamented chief.

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ment in The Freeman's Journal, of Nov.. 16th, 1811.

“ At an anniversary meeting of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, held at the state-house, in the city of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 4th of July, 1811, the following Resolution was unanimously adopted :

“Resolved, That a Committe of this Society be appointed, to prepare a plan for raising by subscription, such a sum of money as they shall deem sufficient, for the purpose of erecting a Monument to the memory of the late Father of his country, General George Washington. That the plan, when prepared, shall be submitted to the Standing Committee, and when approved by them, shall be carried into effect. That Major Lenox, Judge Peters, Major Jackson, Mr. Biddle, and Mr. Binney, he a Committee for the above purpose.

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TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, “ Friends, Countrymen, and Fellow Citizens,

“ Under a deep and heartfelt impression of its propriety, and as the most grateful subject that could engage in their attention, the preceding Resolution was unanimously adopted, by the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati. As a portion of the surviving military associates of the immortal Washington, they believed they should render an acceptable service to their fellow citizens, by becoming the organ of their wish to consecrate the memory of the Patriot, Hero, and Statesman, who was not only the boast and delight of our own nation, but an object of veneration to all mankind.

“ As the Committee appointed to carry the Resolution of the Society into effect, it is our pleasing duty at this time to address you. And as no argument could be adduced, to increase the influence which expands every American heart with grati