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which I will not pretend to repeat, but do declare it to be my cere belief that the miferies of the people arife only from the prefent unjust and unneceffary War; and had the plan of Reform of the apoftate reformer the Duke of Richmond been adopted, the prefent diftressful War would have been avoided. If therefore the electors will take the advice of a villager (who is not rich enough to be an elector, though he has an estate in land of the yearly value of eight pounds, for which he pays land tax, occupies a house rated to the window tax at one pound fourteen fhillings and eight pence, to the commutation tax two pound fifteen fhillings, and a horse ten fhillings, but does not live in a borough or corporation town therefore has no vote; the advice mentioned is wholly this, to agree in a declaration to the following purport:

I A. B. a freeholder of the county of Bucks do hereby promife and declare that I will not give my vote to any candidate at the ensuing election, until he shall have folemnly promised to do the utmoft in his power to bring about annual parliaments, and a reform in the reprefentation of the people, on the plan of univerfal fuffrage, as it is notorious that as all people pay taxes, all people ought to have a voice in choosing reprefentatives to lay on the taxes, and to difpofe of their own money; and I also promise and declare, that I will not give or promise my vote to any candidate, who, himself or any of his relations holds a place or penfion under government, nor to any other perfon except he fhall folemnly promise not to accept of a place or penfion fo long as he fhall continue to be a representative for this county, as I confider that so many placemen and penfioners having feats in the house of commons has brought the nation to the prefent diftreffed condition through this ruinous War, as it must be evident to every reasonable man, that they confider not the intereft of their conftituents, but the pleasure of the perfon under whom they hold their places and penfions.

GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE,

A VILLAGER.

N. B.

N. B. A villager has also a mother, who is poffeffed of land which the villager rents of her at the yearly rent of ten guineas, and by custom can't have a vote, therefore it appears that many of the most independent of the community can't have any vote at an election.

HER

For the PHILANTHROPIST.

A NEW SONG.

In imitation of" Tom Bowling."

ERE a fheer hulk ftands Albion's Ifle,
The darling of the waves,

No more she'll crown her fons with a smile,
Till we ceafe to be flaves.
Truth has difcover'd Liberty's tree,

Its bloffoms kind and soft,

And Britons declare they will be free;
Or their fouls fhall foar aloft.

And when the defpots are departed,
Then Freedom all fhall hail;

The fons of men fhall be true hearted,
For friendship will prevail,

Man has bafely crouch'd to flavery,

Ah! many's the time and oft,

But now they declare they will be free,
Or their fouls shall foar aloft.

Yet fhall mankind find pleasant weather,

When Freedom all commands,

For men shall all unite together,

To tie foft natures bands.

Darkness

Darkness is gone and behold I fee,
Truth's mantle light aloft,

And the world declares they will be free;
Or their fouls fhall foar aloft

For the PHILANTHROPIST.

A DREAM.

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WHETHER it was from having read Quevedo's vifions,.

or the English newspapers, I cannot tell which, for either of them may fill a mora! mind with difguft; it fo happened that I lately had a dream of fo fingular a nature that I feel myfelf ftrongly impelled to communicate the heads of it to your (I had almost faid philofophical diary).

Methought one dark evening in October, I had ranged into the middle of a vast forest, and got fo bewildered that I found all hope of extricating myself to vanish, when a path led me into a deep valley between aged trees, where a torrent rolled on either fide, which conducted me to the entrance of a profound cave, at the mouth of which fat a venerable man, who took me by the hand and drew me on haftily through a dark path, at the bottom of which I heard the most lamentable moanings that I foon found to proceed from a fpacious cavern illuminated by a ball of fire in the center of the moft lucid brightness; the whole space was thronged with mortals of the most melancholy afpect, whofe countenances betrayed remorse, and despair in its -deepest characters.

They were fitting in groups on the bare earth, and seemed to be all in earnest conversation, with fuch forms and gefticulations as might have made a fine canvass for Michael Angelo. Astonished at the fight, I asked my guide where I was? and

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what circumstances could have been productive of fo much feeming mifery to the people before us? Mortal faid he, this is the place of retribution, and this the firft chamber of Hell, where all condemned hypocrites in religion affemble by instinct and where the only relief they find for their convicted confciences, is to relate eternally to each other the nature of the crimes which have brought them to this dismal abode, listen O man and beware. The first object that attracted my notice From his ftupid afpect, and wild demeanour, was with great voJubility relating to a grave looking lufty man, fome fingular anecdote. "I was" faid he, with a groan, a protestant sovereign over a great nation, and paffed for a very moral character among my fubjects, (who heaven knows are a good, though weak people) while I profeffed the mild religion of Chrift and thoroughly understood its true principles; I purfued war with avidity, as far as my influence could go (for I was by law reftrained from expofing my person) and while by every art of corruption I undermined the principles of the conftitution I was chofen to protect; and caufed the blood of millions of men to flow, to gratify my fingle ambition; I fuffered nothing to interrupt my individual repofe, or my daily amufements, and had the wickedness regularly to attend all the ceremonies of a mild worship, which profeffes the pureft morals, and the most refined humanity, which inculcates the forgiveness of enemies, and the contempt of wealth, which breathes that benevolence which I never felt, and condemns that avarice which had taken poffeffion of my whole foul; without the appearance of their power, I contrived to do more mifchief to mankind than the moft cruel of the Emperors of Rome; the fea has been tinged with the blood I have caufed to be fhed on it. In Europe the air has been contaminated with the effluvia of my dead carcafes; in Afia, and the woods of America, where the foil has been foaked with the vital fluid of my opponents, join with them in the accufations of my wounded fpirit, yet all the while I knew that a very few years would terminate my exiftence, that impartial pofterity would judge my actions, and

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that the Eternal faw my heart-but in fact I was not guided by a principle of wickednefs altogether, but wrought upon by the obftinacy of a vain and felfifh pride, and the indolence of habit, for had I once feen a field of battle ftrewed with my bleeding victims, or been obliged to behold famine and disease, haunting the tract of man, I fhould furely never have prolonged its devaftations or promoted them for any earthly confiderations; but alas, furrounded as I always was by hard hearted men, and blinded by prejudice, and pride, I purfued my ambitious projects in defpite of misfortunes, and warnings, and obdurated my feelings, till at laft they became habitually blunted, and I funk from folly to folly, from crime to crime, till death put an end to my hypocritical reign, and fent me to hateful abode where the light of truth by vanishing error, inflicts punishment on the guilty.

For the PHILANTHROPIST.

ON PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.

THE doctrine of abfolute paffive obedience is inconfiftent with the good nefs of God, and the love he hath for man; and is destructive of the end, intent and defign of God's laws, which is mans happiness. For God who is infinitely happy in himself, had no other motive than the happiness of man in thofe rules she has given him to walk by: and for that reafon has made it a duty in him to help the poor and miserable, relieve the oppreffed and diftreffed, and do all manner of kindness and good offices to one another. Can it then be prefumed that he requires obedience to tyrannical power, which_brings poverty, mifery and desolation on a nation? if it be a duty to relieve the poor, it must be a duty to hinder people from falling into that miferable condition, which they cannot prevent, except they have a right to oppofe arbitrary power. And if it be a duty to promote public good; which they cannot do if

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