I weep a flood of tears, and close the book, We there behold the conqueft Freedom gains Follows the train of battles which they fight. For what can War but endlessWar still breed, The philanthropic mind forbears to tell The carnage, death and flaughter that attend Which men, half dead, from mangled bodies fend, Again I take the writings to my hand Of Patriot EATON " Philanthropic" call'd, Continue your exertions in the PEOPLE'S CAUSE; CLERICUS. To the EDITOR of the PHILANTHROPIST. It is from suffering, and not from inflicting torments, that the true idea of them is CITIZEN, As we gained. we now live in an age perfectly replete with the sublime and true notions of Plagueing, Teazing, and Tormenting, I beg leave to usher a few words upon the occafion. KINGS KINGS are neither more or lefs, than the Tormentors General of the whole human fpecics. PRINCES, follow the fame laudable examples, and are never behind hand in the compleat fyitem of Tormenting the people to pay for all their Vices, Follies, Luxuries and Debts. NOBLES, being brought up in the fame principles, they confequently follow the fame dictates to the fullest extent. It therefore behøves all men in power to be infolent to their dependants. A large ftock of infolence is by that means always to be met with at the Treafury, Excife, and every other public Offices. MINISTERS OF STATE, improve upon the fyftem; their minds are ever upon the rack to invent and to contrive all in their power, that may poffibly torment the more industrious part of mankind, fo to reduce them to a state of subserviency, beggary, and ruin; by which means it enables them to bring forward Soldiers for their armies, and failors for their Navys; who in their turns become Plaguers, Teazers and Tormen tors. EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTES, are extraordinary heralds to Ministers, which plague the coffee-houses with nonsense-for example-From the creation of the world (according to Genefis) to the death of Adam, is not a very great distance from ten centuries; yet the space of that time is abridged within the narrow compafs of one hundred and eleven very short verses: WHEREAS, a Gazette Extraordinary, published in thefe very ordinary times, giving an account of a battle, defcribes the retreat of an army in a detail of more than twice the length of the first five chapters of the book of Genefis put together, which contains a history of nine hundred and thirty years.. OFFICERS, Military and Naval, are Tormentors, because they wish to imitate the fyftem established by their fupcriors, and to fhew that by their authority, they have the indisputable power to command fubjection and obedience, MAGISTRATES, in general, are Termentors from a principle of original ignorance; the majority of them fpringing from a fource, whence they can fearce trace the fhadow of an origin farther farther than a dung-heap; therefore as they are not in a capacity of knowing themfelves, they answer the end as public Tormentors and Teazers, to those who are fufpected of committing depredations upon individuals, or of trefpaffing against the Acts made for the general benefit of all kinds of Tormentors; which are very many, and more voluminous than the Poor Laws. GAOLERS, BAILIFS, CONSTABLES, with their long train of et ceteras, are the most cruel kind of Tormentors that we know of; being creatures bereft of all feelings, and by no means fufceptible that their fellow creatures may be better men than themselves. But their love of power intoxicate their brains, and they deliver themselves up to the full sway of Tormenting, and to the very extent thereof. It therefore becomes every Gaol keeper, in order to make himself appear perfectly amiable in the eyes of his fuperiors, to be as cruel as poffible to his prifoners, LAWYERS, of all denomination, from the Lord High Chancellor to the verieft petty-fogger, Torment all who have money; others they Torment because they have no moncy at all. The creditor Teazes the debtor, the debtor Plagues his creditor, until the lawyer is called in; when the lawyer and creditor both join iffue and Torment the debtor; and it frequently happens that the lot of Tormenting falls to the honest lawyer, who has no other alternative but, to Torment the debtor and creditor together in the fame prifon, there to view each others folly in the mirror of their own faces.' THE CLERGY, have fo much of the milk of human kindnefs in them, that they Torment every one of their Parishoners around them, for tythes, and every kind of Clerical fee; from their entrance into the world to their very departure therefrom. THE POOR are dreadful Tormentors to the rich; as their Swinifh ideas difconcert the tender and humane feelings of the Noble, the Wealthy, and moft Court-like and fashionable part of the world; therefore, they are only fit to be ftarved to death, being at beft but ineafly logs, and of no kind of use or confequence. As As for OLD MAIDS and OLD BACHELORS, they Teaze, Plague, and Torment every one about them; and in the end become Self-Tormenters. At another opportunity, I shall give another chapter, upon this noble fubject. Hog in the pound, 1st of August, 1795. OLIVER ODDFISH. THE CARMAGNOLE. THIS Song received its name from the Inhabitants of Carmagnan, in the Department D' Herault, formerly a Province. in France, who compofed and fung it on the occafion of their marching against the enemies of their country. It was then called the Carmagnanole which name was contracted to the Carmognole; and hence it is that the flavish satellites of defpotifm have taken occafion to call the gallant men, who compofe the French Army, Carmagnoles. THY cannon, France, begins to found, Let all thy warriors march around; Citizens and Soldiers In flying to the Frontiers, Dance, dance the Carmagnole, &c. In vain are millions of mankind Would lay our laurel'd Freedom low. Dance, &c. No. 24. THE PHILANTHROPIST. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1795. 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. For the PHILANTHROPIST. An ENGLISHMAN, uncorrupted by the Influence of the pre fent Defpotic Government, concludes a Publication with the following excellent Sentiment: BUT what are thefe French principles, concerning which fo much alarm has been fpread in the nation? Before we join in abufing French principles, these principles fhould be more diftinctly specified. What are called French principles appear manifeftly to have had their origin in England; and to be the fame which have been advanced by fome of the best and ablest writers. The French nation has maintained that "all men are born, and remain free and equal in rights; that focial dif tinctions cannot be founded but on common utility; that the end of all political distinctions, is the prefervation of the natural and imprescriptible Rights of Man; that thefe Rights are liberty, property, fecurity, and refiftance against oppreffion; that the principle of fovereignty refides effentially in the nation to people at large; and that no body of men, nor any individual, ean exercise an authority that does not emanate exprefsly from that |