Hamb. Then I appeal to this worthy gentleman, [Speaking of Simon.] and an honester man lives not on earth, if I have not thousands in his hands.

Simon. [Afide to Hamb.] You had better leave it to the four winds.

Hamb. [Loud and haftily.] Have I not monies of a great amount in your hands?

Simon. Did you not take an oath, a few days fince, that you had not, directly nor indirectly, five pounds on earth?

Hamb. Yes. I had not on earth; but it was then in your coffers, and you know it.

Simon. If your oath that you had no property can't be relied on, why should your word be taken, that you have?

Hamb. But I afk you, have you not my property in your hands?

Simon. Not a farthing. You are a bankrupt for thousands, and the four winds may tell of that. Hamb. O knavery!

Simon. O perjury !

Trufty. You are perfectly welcome to use the words I just now toffed out to you; and it appears to me, they are a very proper currency between you.

Hamb. O that I had the money out of that wretch's hands, to give to my honeft creditors!

Simon. O that I had the character, which I have loft by my connexion with you!

Trusty. I am forry for the depravity of you both. It has led you to deceive honest men, and to betray each other. You have now learned the value of reputation and peace of mind, by the lofs of them. Let ́your future days be days of atonement. Let them be devoted to honesty and fair dealing; and ever remember that integrity is the only road to defirable wealth, and that the path of virtue is alone the path of peace.

MR. SHERIDAN'S SPEECH AGAINST MR.

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TAYLOR.

E have this day been honored with the coun→ fels of a complete gradation of lawyers. We have received the opinion of a Judge, of an AttorneyGeneral, of an Ex-Attorney-General, and of a practifing Barrifter. I agree with the learned gentleman in his admiration of the abilities of my honorable friend, Mr. Fox. What he has faid of his quickness and of his profoundness, of his boldness and his candor, is literally just and true, which the mental accomplishment of my honorable friend is, on every occafion, calculated to extort even from his adverfaries.

The learned gentleman has, however, in this infidious eulogium, connected fuch qualities of mind with thofe he has praised and venerated, as to convert his encomiums into reproach, and his tributes of praise into cenfure and invective. The boldnefs he has defcribed is only craft, and his candor, hypocrify. Upon what grounds does the learned gentleman connect those affemblages of great qualities and of cardinal defects? Upon what principles, either of juftice or of equity, does he exult with one hand, whilft he infidioufly reprobates and destroys with the other?

If the wolf is to be feared, the learned gentleman may reft affured, it will be the wolf in theep's clothing, the masked pretender to patriotifm. It is not from the fang of the lion, but from the tooth of the ferpent, that reptile which infidiously steals upon the vitals of the constitution, and gnaws it to the heart, ere the mifchief is fufpected, that deftruction is to be feared.

With regard to the acquifition of a learned gentleman, Mr. Taylor, who has declared that he means to vote with us this day, I am forry to acknowledge, that from the declaration he has made at the beginning of his fpeech, I fee no great reafon to boaft of fuch an auxiliary. The learned gentleman, who has with pe

culiar modesty styled himself a chicken lawyer, has declared, that, thinking us in the right with respect to the fubject of this day's difcuffion, he fhall vote with us; but he has at the fame time thought it neceffary to affert, that he has never before voted differently from the minifter and his friends, and perhaps he never fhall again vote with those whom he means to fupport this day.

It is rather fingular to vote with us, profeffedly because he finds us to be in the right, and, in the very moment that he affigns fo good a reafon for changing his fide, to declare, that in all probability he never shall vote with us again. I am forry to find the chicken is a bird of ill omen, and that its augury is fo unpropitious to our future interefts. Perhaps it would have been as well, under these circumftances, that the chicken had not left the barn-door of the treasury; but continued fide by fide with the old cock, to pick thofe crumbs of comfort which would doubtlefs be dealt out in time, with a liberality proportioned to the fidelity of the feathered tribe.

PART OF CICERO'S ORATION AGAINST CATI

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T is now a long time, confcript fathers, that we have trod amidst the dangers and machinations of this confpiracy: but I know not how it comes to pass, the full maturity of all thofe crimes, and of this longripening rage and infolence, has now broken out during the period of my confulfhip. Should Catiline alone be removed from this powerful band of traitors, it may abate, perhaps, our fears and anxieties for a while; but the danger will ftill remain, and continue lurking in the veins and vitals of the republic.

For, as men, oppreffed with a fevere fit of illness, and labouring under the raging heat of a fever, are often at first foemingly relieved by a draught of cold

water; but afterwards find the disease return upon them with redoubled fury; in like manner, this diftemper, which has feized the commonwealth, eafed a little by the punishment of this traitor, will, from his furviving affociates, foon affume new force. Wherefore, confcript fathers, let the wicked retire; let them separate themselves from the honeft; let them rendezvous in one place. In fine, as I have often faid, let a wall be between them and us; let them ceafe to lay fnares for the conful in his own houfe; to befet the tribunal of the city prætor; to invest the fenate-houfe with armed ruffians, and to prepare fire-balls and torches for burning the city: in fhort, let every man's fentiments with regard to the public be infcribed on his forehead.

This I engage for, and promife, confcript fathers, that by the diligence of the confuls, the weight of your authority, the courage and firmness of the Roman knights, and the unanimity of all the honeft, Catiline being driven from the city, you fhall behold all his treafons detected, exposed, crushed, and punished.

With these omens, Catiline, of all profperity to the republic, but of destruction to thyfelf, and all thofe who have joined themselves with thee in all kinds of parricide, go thy way then to this impious and abominable war whilft thou, Jupiter, whofe religion was established with the foundation of this city, whom we truly call Stator, the stay and prop of this empire, wilt drive this man and his accomplices from thy altars and temples, from the houfes and walls of the city, from the lives and fortunes of us all; and wilt deftroy with eternal punishments, both living and dead, all the haters of good men, the enemies of their country, the plunderers of Italy, now confederated in this deteftable league and partnership of villainy.

DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS; FROM THE VISION OF COLUMBUS.

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OLUMBUS look'd; and still around them fpread, From fouth to north, th' immeasurable shade; At laft the central fhadows burst away,

And rifing regions open'd on the day.

He faw, once more, bright Del'ware's filver ftream,
And Penn's throng'd city caft a cheerful gleam;
The dome of state, that met his eager eye,
Now heav'd its arches in a loftier sky.

The bursting gates unfold: and lo, within,
A folemn train, in conscious glory, shine.
The well-known forms his eye had trac'd before,
In diff'rent realms along th' extended shore;
Here, grac'd with nobler fame, and rob'd in state,
They look'd and mov'd magnificently great.

High on the foremost seat, in living light,
Majeftic Randolph caught the hero's fight:
Fair on his head, the civic crown was plac'd,
And the first dignity his fceptre grac'd.
He opes the cause, and points in profpect far,
Through all the toils that wait th' impending war:
But, hapless fage, thy reign muft foon be o'er,
To lend thy luftre, and to fhine no more.
So the bright morning-ftar, from fhades of ev'n,
Leads up the dawn, and lights the front of heav'n,
Points to the waking world the fun's broad way,
Then veils his own, and fhines above the day.
And fee great Washington behind thee rife,
Thy following fun, to gild our morning fkies;
O'er fhadowy climes to pour the enliv'ning flame,
The charins of freedom and the fire of fame.
Th' afcending chief adorn'd his fplendid seat,
Like Randolph, enfign'd with a crown of state,
Where the green patriot bay beheld, with pride,
The hero's laurel fpringing by its fide;

His fword, hung ufelefs, on his graceful thigh,

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