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;
Nor fing we of Jamie and Gunpowder Treason,
Our theme is far nobler, the triumph of Reason:
When Patriots encounter'd Corruption's wild fury,
By virtue fuftain'd, and a brave ENGLISH JURY.
Britons! ye who ftood firm in the perilous hour,
Unaw'd by the threats or the pageants of power,

Thro'

Thro' ages illumin❜d by Freedom's bright rays,
Your deeds fhall awake the last chorus of praise,
Your names live fecur'd from Corruption's wild fury,
With ERSKINE and GIBBS, and the brave ENGLISH JURY.
Tho' Scott led them wandering a dull mazy round,

And Pitt fent his fpies yet no treafon could be found;
Then he hop'd (O! how wife are our Statesmen defpotic
It would haunt their long dream under Mitford's narcotic;
Yet his arts were all vain as Corruption's wild fury,
Windham's words were but wind to the brave ENGLISH JURY.
There was Treafon indeed, not against crown or steeple,
But Treafon against all the Rights of the People,

For Pitt and Dundas with their lawyers were combin❜d.
To fetter our tongues and "enflave the free mind;"
How vain all their plots as Corruption's wild fury
For Freedom furvives with the brave ENGLISH JURY.
But hark! 'midft her triumph her fons fhe deplores,
Wrong'd Patriots who wander on defolate fhores,
Youths and virgins unborn fhall figh o'er their ftory,
And time's aged hand shall emblazon their glory;
Ah! SCOTIA! fad prey of Corruption's wild fury,
How happy-had thine been the brave ENGLISH JURY.
O! hark the glad day when the demon oppreffion,
Of Britain no more fhall have legal poffeffion,
From the East to the Weft, from the South to the North,
Where Liberty-life-giving word !-shall go forth;
The nations arise against Corruptions wild fury,
And rival the fame of the brave ENGLISH JURY.

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,
'Tis the Freedom of England, which now we have loft.
O the fair bloffoms of Freedom,

For Freedom let's all cry huzza.

For we're tax'd at our head! and we're tax'd at our feet!
We're tax'd in our tongues! and we're tax'd in our meat"
In fhort we are tax'd in whatever we eat!

"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,
At his wonderful wit makes his puppets to ftare,
He fays we are beasts, and our lot is to bear

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,
And I think he has loft all his courage of late,
Or he never would drop into this flavifh ftate,
O the fad flavery of England,

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."