THE PHILANTROPIST.

MONDAY, MARCH 16th, 1795.

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LONDON:

Printed for and fold by DANIEL ISAAC EATON, Printer and Bookfeller to the Supreme Majefty of the People, at the Cock and SwiNE, No. 74, Newgate ftreet.

1795.

PRICE ONE PENNY.

"I would make you think well of yourself; I would raise your hope; I would fouse your ambition; I would shake off your national ENNUI; and develope the germs of genius, of virtue, and of públic glory. There is not a tenant of the meaneft hovel, in whom I do not recognize the capability, and fovereignty of his nature through all its degradation; and the veriest wretch over whom I fumble in the streets, I deplore as the remote, but well connected confequence, of an abfurd political conftitution."

DRENNAN'S Letter to EARL FITZWILLIAM.

TALENT

ALENT was conferred on mankind, undoubtedly, for the promotion of public virtue, and the enlargement of human felicity. It never could have been the divine intention that its energies should be coerced, its exertions impeded,. or that its radiance should be obfcured in darknefs, and in night. No. So fublime a bleffing muft have been bestowed on man for purposes more exalted in their object, and more confoling to human reason itself. It must have been bestowed on him, to inspire him with a fenfe of the dignity which he sustained in