he who might at his own door cultivate the little field his father's industry procured him; that he who might supply his own neceffities, by helping the deficiencies and wants of others; that he, who in a country bleffed with warm funs, and gentle fhowers, and with a greater good, with liberty, might eat the bread of Peace, and see his rifing offspring play about the door which they once should inherit; fhould leave the fond wife, and the prattling infant, the ease and innocence of fuch a fituation, to murder those who had not offended him or his; to cut the throats of men who poffeffed that which he could not want, merely because they poffeffed it. Distracted and unnatural!-But that at one man's beck ten thousand creatures, equal to himself in form and mind; equal, perhaps, fuperior, in virtue and in understanding, fhould be sent forth on fuch an errand, not prompted even by the promifed poffeffion of the unworthy fpot; that widows and that orphans should lament the blood spilt on the earth, not worth the accepting: and this because one whom themselves had raised to guard and to defend them, chofe it to be fo: most monftrous! It is thus my free thoughts have always looked on kings, the brambles raised to eminence, to tear and burn the foreft." A NEW SONG.. FOR THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER, THE landing of William is now an old story, Though it gave us great George with a reign full of glory; Thro' Thro' ages illumin❜d by Freedom's bright rays, And Pitt fent his fpies yet no treafon could be found; For Pitt and Dundas with their lawyers were combin❜d. For the PHILANTHROPIST. "There's neither fafety, unity, nor peace my friend, for "the foundation's loft of common good, juftice is lame as well "as blind amongst us-The laws corrupted to their ends! that "made them, ferve but for inftruments of fome new tyranny which "which every day starts up to inflave us deeper! Now could "this glorious cause but find out friends to do it right, then "O people might ye not wear these feals of poverty and woe 66 upon your faces.-The bafe corrupted government and "fenfelefs M-n-ch might be taught humanity, and learn "to value fuch fubjects as you are. New Brentford. Altered from Otway's Venice Preferved. W. H. G. THE ENGLISHMAN'S TOAST. A NEW SONG. By W. H. GREEN. 66 (Tune, O the roast beef, &.") COME fill up your glaffes, I'll give you a toaft, Of what our forefather's have long made their boast, For Freedom let's all cry huzza. For we're tax'd at our head! and we're tax'd at our feet! "O the taxation of England, From taxes when shall we go free, What with war and taxation we all fhall be starv'd "Tho' the model of Freedom is already carv'd, God fend that the great people's fortunes were halv'd; And the poor had their fhare of the comforts, For which they're now toiling in vain. There's Billy who plans all our taxes fo rare, The burdens that he shall put on us, And from taxes we ne'er fhall go free. So So now Johnny Bull he knows what is his fate, Ye Britons, when will ye be free. New Brentford, Middlefex. Mr. EDITOR, For the PHILANTHROPIST. THE following hiftorical facts are fubmitted to the perufal of your readers. The glaring abfurdity and wickedness of the fyftem they are intended to oppose will be acknowledged by all. That this view of the dreadful effects of defpotifm on the human race may excite all of us, by reafon and truth, to promote its downfall, and fhall ever be exemplified by the conduct of A Republican from Principle. WHEREVER defpotifm has swayed her iron fcepter, depopulation and wretchedness have foon fpread their terrors. Witnefs Greece, Egypt, and the Leffer Afia. The kingdom of Siam, whofe luxurious plains are annually watered by the regular inundations of the river Menam; and where Nature has variety of delicious fruits, is inhabited by a most wretched people. The government is defpotic, and the Siamites flaves. They are obliged to work for their Monarch fix months every year, without wages, and even without receiv ing any food from him. They have neither protection for their perfons, nor their property. The grandees are exposed to the rapacity of the king and his courtiers; and the lower rank, to the tyranny and extortion of the grandees. If If a man be poffeffed of a tree whose fruit is remarkably good, it is immediately feized by the creatures of the tyrant, either for him or themfelves. What a picture of flavery and wretchednefs!!! The island of Ceylon, belongs wholly to the king of it, the confequence of which is, that the people are fupinely indolent. Their huts are mean without any thing like furniture. Their food is fruit, that grows fpontaneously. We perceive not among its inhabitants energy of mind, or difinterested love of mankind;——dreadful ftupor and lifelessness univerfally. prevail. The Peruvians are a fad example of the deftructive effects of tyranny. Reduced to a state of ftupid infenfibility, no motive to action influences them. Neither riches, luxury or ambition poffefs any charms for them. The only pleasure they feel is to get drunk, in order to forget their miseries. Moldavia, Walachia, and Befferabia, with their once fertile pastures, are now reduced to be almost a defart, by the wretched policy of Turkish defpotism. A defpotic government ftifles in the birth every generous feeling, every noble fentiment, it levels man with the brute. creation, it renders the finest spot of the globe equally fterile with its barren mountains. A defpotic prince meets the eyes of his people with fufpicion; locked up in his palace, ignorant of what paffes, he indolently fuffers his people to be pillaged, without even hearing of their diftreffes. A defpotic prince accordingly whofe wants are all fupplied with profufion, and who has nothing left him either to wish for or defire, drags on a moft languid exiftence. The following fentiments of Rouffeau on this fubject are very juft. " Tout prince qui afallez toujour dinectement au fouverain; furtout s'il est tres pire au defpotifme, afpini à C'honneur de mourir d'ennui Dans tous les royanmes du monde cherchez-vous l'homme le plus ennu ye dupaps? abfolu. Veft bien la peine de faire taut de meferables neau droit-il f'ennuyer â moindres fraix." |