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THE ATTRIBUTES OF LIBERTY,

A POEM,

BY W. 'H. GREEN.

Liberte fous la Loi.

HAIL Beauteous maid of Heavenly light,

Thy important truths pervade my foul;
And while I gaze with fond delight,
I fee thee fpread from pole to pole.

To thee my feeble lays I found,

Thoù only joy I wish to have;
And if on earth thou can't be found,
Why then I'll seek thee in the grave.

But yet not fo while tyrant powers,
Ufurp and chain thy generous will;
And while deftruction o'er 'em low'rs,
Unite thy votaries blood to fpill.

But these whilft juftice rules the ball,

And fheds his influence round the world,
Thefe! thefe! by heaven's behest shall fall!
And down to endless ruin hurl'd.

For now thy torch PHILOSOPHY,
Begins to light our darken'd minds,
And led by thee fweet Liberty,
Their rights the fons of Gallia finds.

No more beneath the tyrant's nod,
His killing frown, his vile deceit,
They fall before him as a God!

And kiss the dust from off his feet.

No more oppreffion's outstretch'd hand,
Can awe the gallant Frenchman's foul;
No more can fcourge! the happy land,

Where liberty infpires the whole.

Yes

Yes-Gallia her tenfold chains has broke,
And Liberty thy bleffings found,
And now reliev'd from every yoke,
She shines a ftar to Nations round.

Let history boast of ancient wars,
Of Cato's worth, of Cæfar's name ;-
Be this the great, the glorious cause,
Which truth enrolls in endless fame.

On REASON'S pole behold on high,
The flag of truth has France unfurl'd;
The glorious flag that sweeps the sky,
And reaches round a flumbering world.

See* Poland adopts the Heaven-born plan,
And Ruffia's Hydræ rage defies;

+Holland afferts the RIGHTS of MAN!
And pierc'd by truth oppression dies!

So now while France unveils the state,
Which Kings and Prieftly fraud uphold;

Let every tyrant view their fate!

And liberty thy laws behold.

Come then Eternal fame advance,
And to the lift'ning world proclaim,
That Freedom shall prefide in France,
And as the world's example reign.

New Brentford, Middlefex.

* Although fince this was wrote, the gallant Poles have been forced to yield to their more powerful enemies,—let not the friends of universal LIBERTY despair, for notwithstanding the sparks of Freedom at present appear in some degree quenched in that Country, they do but lie fmothered in each courageous break to burst forth with double fury on the heads of its oppreffors.

↑ It may now be faid, Holland enjoys.

No. 25.

THE PHILANTHROPIST.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 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.

PROCLAMATION.

Alarming reports our ears do affail,
Of grain being scarce, and no meat for sale
That many have lived upon defert air,
And many the ghoft giv'n up in despair.
Ills fuch in future we wish to prevent,
And give our dear subjects perfect content.
We have gravely enjoined those who are rich,
Not eat meat nor bread, but live upon fish.
Ourselves an example shortly will show,
To those who grope in the dark spheres below,
By making our loaves (for we wish to please)

A compound of oats, rye, hog's-beans and pease.

WOULD

OULD to heaven, the noble title of your paper was more generally practifed than what it is. I will admit, that the fubferiptions for the relief of our wounded and disabled seamen, and for the widows and orphans of those who fall vic

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I therefore adjudge the laurel to his ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, for that unparalleled heroism, for that. true magnanimity of foul, manifested in saving to his country, by refraining from the gratification of debauchery and fenfuality, the STUPENDOUS SUM OF SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS! and what adds to the obligations his country owes him, I do affure you (for it stands upon record), he conferred a fimilar benefit upon it about eight years ago; so it being a SECOND favour, it is impoffible not to feel the generofity of the act with the utmost sensibility, and with unexpreffible delight. The liberal-minded English will not, I am certain, ever forget the incomparable fact, and not fail bestowing a most ample reward for his invariable conftancy in the ob fervance of thofe virtues which embellish civilization, and adorn human kind.

BENEVOLUS.

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LINES.

IN Eastern Kingdoms oft' the weakeft man,

With Idiot council rules the grave Divan,
Nor there perhaps alone fuch wonders reft,
But reach the confines of the enlighten'd weft;
Where fome dull leader, fix'd by partial fate,
Now furns a button, now o'erturns a state ;
Now, for his boys a whiftle carves in wood;
Now figns a warrant for a Nation's blood.
The place of Kings-thus toymen's pupils take
And wield the fceptre they were born to make,
Turn cruel Pinckcy, lengthen yet the fcore,
And try thy Monarch at one corkscrew more,
Left England's fons a game like thine should play,
Nor keep the workman thou haft turn'd away.*

* George Guelph was for a confiderable time taught the trade of a Turner, by one Pinckey, but finding him too dull to become a workman, difmiffed him, faying, he was the greatest blockhead he had ever met with.

FOR

FOR THE PHILANTHROPIST.

The following Extract sets the Calamities of War in a strong light, and contains beautiful and juft Sentiments. It is taken from the Memoirs of a French Officer. This Nobleman having given a Relation of the bloody Action near PARMA, between the Imperalifts and the French, June the 29th, 1734, goes on thus:

THE king of Sardinia (then against the house of Austria),

whom the illness of the queen had called to Turin four or five days before, returned to the army the morning after the battle. Every one knows the valour of this prince; he expreffed a great regret at having come too late, and immediately visited the field, to fee the ground on which the difpofitions were made for the engagement. He was attended by several general officers, amongst whom I was. As our cavalry had not been engaged, but remained behind at some distance, during the heat of the battle, I was ignorant of what had paffed. Curiofity led me to attend his majefty, that I might hear the account given him of the affair; but the horror which reigned on all fides foon infpired me with different thoughts. I fancied I beheld at a little diftance from me, among the dead, a Captain of my acquaintance; I rode a little diftance off from the road to examine nearer, and found it was he. After paying a figh to his memory, I caft my eyes on the plain, where the enemy had left the dead. I faw 10 or 12,000 men stretched out, naked, and disfigured with wounds! Inhumanity itfelf must have melted at this fpectacle. The reflection of Xerxes presently occurred to me: Alas! thought I, all these men were living within these twenty-four hours! Why are they no more? What frenzy has thus led them to cut each other's throats? Were they enemies? No. They did not fo much as know one another.

Were glory, ambiton, or love of wealth their motives? Alas