No. 28. THE PHILANTHROPIST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 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 freet. 1795. PRICE ONE PENNY. For the PHILANTHROPIST. THE ROYAL SOLILOQUY. FREDERICK,'faid George,' come forth my darling boy, Thy mothers hope thy country's future joy! -My Son's heroic mind with ardour raise, For which one day we'll Faft, and chaunt thy praise. And I'll brave legions to his truft confide.' Thus faid, Frederick,' cried he, my boy adieu, The 1 The keys of Paris I expect you'll bring, To thee, great Sire, who fways the trident fpear, Could I with mighty thoughts his foul inspire! If York and Cobourg will their corps fubdue.' GREAT York! illuftrious youth! Hero of the eighteenth century! with what rapture do we contemplate thy noble exploits-thy gallant achievements ravish our fenfes, and fill our fouls with amazement and wonder! Had we but an hiftorian endowed with Roman energy, to tranfmit thy hallowed name to generations yet unboth! Could we but re-animate the ashes of the amired Homer, to immortalize thy valour and prownels! thou prototype of Achilles! with what extacy would futurtages fpeak of Frederick of York! Alexander, Hannibal, nor nor Cæfar, would be thought of no more, fo infignificant were. their conquests when compared with thine! How fcandalous is it that fo many reports, fhould be so induftriously propagated to the fhame and difgrace of fo exalted and distinguished a character. I blush for the calumnies of my contemporaries, to attempt to degrade a man because, unfortunately, the blood which flows through his veins, derives its fource from illuftrious ancestors; manifefts fuch bafenefs of heart and depravity of fentiment, that I declare open war against the unprincipled mifcreants. I am at iffue with his fhameless detractors: I will vindicate him from the vile afperfions, fo unjustly caft upon him; his honour is wounded by their false affertions; and if I cannot shield him from their future flander and malevolence, 'I will endeavour, at least, to heal the dark and foul ftabs, given to his reputation and fair name. I avow it in exprefs terms, that he claims no merit to himself from his high blood: he builds his fame upon a bafis, which defies the wicked attempts of all his opponents to shake; -not upon birth, riches, nor their concomitant's power, and influence, but upon practising those amiable duties, which a chafte heart inceffantly prompts its poffeffor to put into execution, in difpenfing its benign influence on objects (and, alas, they are not few!) weighed down by infirmities, poverty, and distress. In fuch beneficent acts we difcover the righteous man: in fuch humane offices is daily to be seen the adored fubject of my theme. The bounties of his country having been amply beftowed upon him, he conceives it no less than his duty to diftribute the furplus, arifing from an economical expenditure, to those unhappy mortals pining under the preffure of accumulated calamities which ever attend misfortune and mifery. As a cafe in point-suppose a man, poffeffed of all thè blesfings of this mundane state, no cares to disturb the tranquillity of his mind-his coffers replenished as foon as exhausted—in complete poffeffion of domeftic felicity-vaffals to give him meat, before he is hungry, liquids before he is thirsty: friends on every fide he turns himself; and laftl v, parents and relatives endowed endowed with every requifite to embellish the fweet converfe of a house, "Knit together "In one foft bond of amity and love," retreating from the busy scene of contending factions, to enjoy the calm difcuffion of domeftic events. Yes! the picture I will enlarge and extend; we will fuppofe the perfon immersed in all the fashionable gaities of this great city; not a day, no, nor an hour, but shall be devoted to the gratification of one of his five fenfes, at least feven's the main feven-here's confufion to all Jacobins women and wine'- Eclipfe against the field'― God fave the King,'-fuch things, and many others, being the characteristic of our prefent heroes in the polite circles. Gambling, fwearing, whoring, drinking, and horse-racing, being as neceffary to a fine gentlemen, as a powdered head, filver mounted cane, and a fpy glafs, to captivate the fair. It is tranfcendent politeness to pretend not to know your father, mother, fifter, or brother, not even if noses come in contact, till you out with your glafs, and furvey them from head to foot a few minutes, it being very convenient for certain ends to be purblind, A man I fay, that when in the full enjoyment of the luxu ries of the times, fhould nobly, and generously quit all the allurements and delicacies of the table, and disdain to live in the continual fmiles and blandishments of the most beautiful part of the creation, to take up arms against the enemies of his country, who are menacing our liberties and lives with pitylefs deftruction, and our country with total annihilation, merits the applause and efteem of all who are friends to good order, and hostile to the introduction of "Anarchy and confufion." It is well known, that his camp-table exhibited a most homely appearance; as a stimulus to his comrades he lived upon the coarfeft food. When torrents of rain inundated the tents of his wretched foldiers, and their beds of ftraw were little better adapted for repofe, than the ftraw yards of our farmers in the the depth of winter, he nobly quitted his marquee for a dunghill, that his men might not defpond and fink under the misery and hardships of a defperate campaign. When our hero entered upon the crufade, I make no doubt of his being actuated by the purest of motives-the love of his country. I am of opinion, he fet out in principles fimilar to those which influence the pretended King of France, Louis XVIII." If we should be reduced to the neceffity of couquering your country, confiding in the juftice of our caufe, and in the zeal of true Britons, we will advance to the conqueft with indefatigable perfeverance, and with undaunted courage; we will advance to the conqueft fhould it be neceffary, through the cohorts of rebels, and the poniards of affaffins." So I truft no more bitter farcafms will be heard of, tending to vilify the gallant Duke of York. No! not even for accepting of the office of Field Marshall, but let him remain quiet," with all his blufhing honors thick upon him." With refpect to our royal Admiral, little can be faid. He has prudently ftood aloof, from all the horrors of a cruel and vindictive war; he has wifely avoided the responsibility which attaches to the management of it; he has invariably reprobated it from the beginning, to the prefent time, by which conduct he has escaped that exemplary punishment which will moft certainly, ultimately fall upon the authors of fo many calamities, and fo much bloodshed. If he has remained inactive from the principles of humanity, and from an abhorrence of warfare in general, he will ever be esteemed and admired, for adhering to fuch Chriftian principles; but on the contrary, fhould his fupineness proceed from cowardice, or want of fufficient refolution to abandon, for a time, the foft comforts, gentle fympathies, and fenfual delights of focial life, he will, and juftly be held in utter contempt and deteftation, and ftigmatized with appellations to grofs and too odious for me to mention. I have no conception of the latter being the cause of his abftaining from participating |