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POET'S CORNER.
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On the Death of bis Excellency Gen.
MONTGOMERY.
" Death, ere thou bast kill'd another
“ Brave, and wife and good as he!
" Time Jball throw a dart at tbeeP
Sp EN.
WHAT mean tho,fe tears, that thus ef
fufive How r
Why throbs each bread with agonizing woe?
Montgomery's dead !---a name by all rever'd;
By Patriots lov'd—by dastard tyrants fear'd.
Forthis, did he embark, in Freedom's cause!
Nobly supporting our expiring laws ?
Was it for this he left his native home,
-The frozen wilds ofCanada to roam ?
For this he toil'd to execute the plan,
Which prov'd the hero—prov'd' too clear, the
man ! 1 „
Alas, too clear!---on Abraham's hapless plain,
Where brave Montcalm, and braver Wolfe were
slain.
There view the wife, the valiant and the jud;
There Roman greatness mingles with the dull. *
No more to war, the drum or life shall raise
That head, encircled with immortal bays !^
No more dull troops, with Roman courage liv'd,,
With ardent zeal and liberty, infoi/d,
Led on bv him, embattl'd hods engage ; ,
For oh ! lie's dead—the hero of the age !
When Cato fell, Rome mourn d the fatal blow;
Wolf's ' death bid streams of Britiffi tears to flow:
Why then Should freemen flop the friendly tear,
Or ever blulh to weep for bhe so dear ?
Oh! no—for him, with sighs, our bosoms heave,
And with the bay we now the cypreis weave.. ?
And oh! while valofir, virtue, wo revere,
Or unfticcefsful merit claims a tear,
To brave Montgomery we that tear rll give:*
His name with Cato's and witn Holte's ihall
live.
< —— ^-—=—o
On the Death of Cabt. JOHN MCPHERSON.
’''„ IS done—the gloomy, doleful feene is
The curtaiTs'dropt—M'Pherfo.n is 40 mere !
As when a rafe, in ever vernal bloom.
Shedding abroad a fragrant, sweet perfume,
Nipt by shilling frofts, droops its languid head,
And dies, nor longer decks the flow'ry bed.
Just so WPherfon, in youth's gayest pride,
Fell, bravely fighting, bv his Gen'ral's fide.
§ UVAN IS.
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OUT ,ofthe press, and now felling by RO
- BELL, in Third-Street,
Philadelphia,,
[PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.]
A. L S 0, B Y
WI LLI AM GREE N,
Bookseller, in Maiden-L ane, N.York ;
The SECOND EDITION or
COMMON SENSE;
ADDRESSED TO THE
INHABITANTS of NORTH-AMERICA,
On the following intereHing Subjects,
I. Of the Origin and Detign of Government
in general, with concise Remarks on the
En^liffi Constitution. '
11. Ofahwreby and Hereditary Succession.
111. Thoughts on the prefect State of Ameri
can Adairs
IV. Of the p^fent Ability of America, with
feme tiiifceh.mcous Reflections.
Written BY AN ENGLISHMAN.
Jfof^ror no Maftirfive creating Heaven,
Or d^ cubom Choice and common Geod ordain.
Thomson.
To THE' PUB LT c.
IN fevered bate Philadelphia papers, an av
th%„wittitut a nsme, hath averted ibiblute
fahhaods ; he faith, he gave directions and or
&a to the pubthher of the firft edition not to
proceed. As loan as the printer and publisher
difoavered the capricious difyohtion ot the of
ten ibte author, he declaimed all fine e connec
tion, and by the publication of a fecund edition,
which fit adremfed hi a news-paper, immedi
ately dechred bis definable independence from
the fan^inels of catch-penny ^thor-ei aft, whose
cunning wasTh exceeding great, as to attempt
to deftrny the reputation ot his own firft edition,
by advertitin g intended additions before hisear-
IwH and bed customers had time to 'read what
they had so very lately purchased. Robert
Bell, printer and publisher both of the firft and
second editions, neither heard nor received any
orders not to proceed, therefore these aflertions
must be far from truth. Said Dell farther fahh,
if he had either heard or received any fitch ci
regions or orders, he would mod certainly have
treated them immediately with that contempt
which such unreafenable, illegal, and tyrannic
usurpations over hie freedom and liberty in bu
finUs deserved.—When Mr. ANONYMOUS
conde r cendeth again to puff his pamphlet, (the
imaginary triumph cf which he hath not equa
nimity enough to bear without rendering him
felf ridiculous) and to reduce a price which
himfelf had a share in making; his brother
bookseller, who fcorneth duplicityin business or
sentiment, wifheth he may nod'ont a more eli
gible mode of proving his attachment to gene
rous principles, th.m to lay the foundations of
his generosity in the defyicaye ebullitions of
difeoneft malevolence.
N. B. Burgh's Political Disquisitions, 3 vols.
with great variety of new and old books may be
had at Ro' ert Bell's, next door to St. Paul's
church, Third-fireet, Philadelphia. Also, as
soon as pdffble, these intended additions to his °
prefect second edition of Common Scn'c, and
then the price dad be as, chea^as polhble.---
But the Public may be certab., that the new e
dition which is yet IN the press, for final Inets
of print and fcahtinefs ot paper, when compar
ed with Bell's Second Edition, which is
OUT of the ptefs, will r< femble it in figure and
utility as r much as a British Filling in size and
value icfembleth a British half crown.
To Mr. ANONYMOUS.
I SUPPOSE you took the field, without tel
ling your anxious friends where you were go
ing—weak man—they ought to forgive you.
Feebleuuthor—yourfelf did not knowdhe hum
ble Provedore to the Sentimentalitts was able so
follow.—Neither did you know, that the pub
lic could defpiiingly laugh aft the folly of the
fotter-father author, who wantonly and malici
ously, dragged the real bookseller into the un
withed for field of public altercation. Ido ac
tually fympathife with the superior secret air
thor, who had the misfortune to pitch upon so
imprudent an ollenfible author. With proper
deference (to him, as yet unknown) he bad bet
ter constituted Robert Bell, bookseller, sole god
father cf his pamphlet. I hope he thinks so
now. When he again wants an accomplished
accoucher, perhips he and I may get acquaint
ed. Exchie this start of affurwee (for the pub
lic knoweth, as a book audfionier, I am remark
able for my exceffve modesty) because it is your
ill-timed attack that constrained me to acquire
it. You law you wanted to remain unknown,
(prudence Uidated the thought in {peculation),
but, in prad^e, yourfelf telling it in every
beer-house, gives the direst LIE to the affertor
offuch a tullehood. On the fie of the pamph
let your head being whirligigged by imaginary
importance, you got your eye on PUBLIC
MONEY, and you were immediately felf-con
ftituted treasurer. It was certainly very shallow
and impolitic to give the public money so ear
ly away, without convincing them he had lone
more merit than meet noise as a claim upon it.
If the public should ever be so unfortunate as to
ele& you, the treasury will form be emptied. All
the noify,fellows in the world would then run
after you ; and totilence their noise, you would
freely give away other people's money. Perhaps
you are a pupil of Bute's (for Scotsmen have
sometimes taught Englifkmen) compailionately
come over to fuperiim^d the American treasu
ry, upon his Scottish plan of public prodigality
and extravagance, being very confident with
private parlimony and fcltilh (economy.
As to your bonded intentional gerferofity—
Poverty and pride have long been supposed to
be altogether monopolized bv a certain ilrved
nation-—Being a deteimined enemy to a'l mo
nopolies, it much rejoiceth me to fee a felt-con
ceited Englishman putting in tor a large share
of that dirty monopoly—Honedly and ipduftri
oully attempt to pay your debts, as I do, for I
would not be that unreasonable hypocrite to bid
another pradife what I did not do myfelf; that
done, you and 1 may then with proper eclat
turn generous, and call the addniffied world to
wonder and gaze at the disinterested generosity
of the Would-be^Author, and the real Bookfrl
ler—But in the mean time, between you and
me, to lid such a powerful band of brave auxili
aries, as a number ot anxious friends, and
ad the military men who wanted mittens,
with a ft:11 more formidable and unvanquifhed
looy in reserve, under the cover of litigi
ous and malevolent law suits, and to arrange
them in battle array, is certainly too many a
gainst one industrious Bookfelier, who never
asked or received any thing from the public
without giving an equivalent, a poor individual
who neither attempteth nor wifheth for more
friends, than the rectitude of his conduct in
business, and in the affairs of society, Shall both
gain and retain.
To conclude, your taking the public field
was bad,? bcaufe there was^ no foundation for
it, unlels envy be allowed a good one—-Your
management of the tight and precipitate flight
was worse— and final exit, (as you fay) wotfe
and worfc.---So ingloriouily to desert the Stand
ard, which yourfelf bad crofted, wa^cowardly---
Alnwft limilaT to a ralcally ,uppy, who, with
open month, runs fharling and barking at an
honest manly dug, whose notice is ittraaed by
the yelpings of the ilLnatured cur, and deign
eth only ©return it by a few looks and words
of Bern contempt ; with w^ich the wretched
reptile is so efficacioufly frightened, that with
ears hanging, and tail dangling, he fcamyeteth
away, from a conscious fe'ar, that if he did flay,
he woald moth certainly be kicked off the ground.
N, 8. When R. 801 l publiiheth the additions,
and gi^eth them gratis to u.ll the purchasers of
tire firft and second editions of Common Serife,
he will then with all humility and confilkncy
apologize to the refpe&able bar of the public
for his encroachments ; they ,at prefers are re
queued to remember a press-warrant was iffaed
for his attendance.
He hath jud as much Common Sense left, as
yet to fparea little to thole who are volunteers
in giving Two Shillings for the second edition.
The want ot equity inßell's bill of expences,
•exhibited to the assignees of the nameless au
thor, was, he bad only charged one penny each
for stitching one thousand pamphlets, contain
ing eleven thousand different half Leets to be
folded, gathered, pr.fed and collated, which
goeth through the artids hands five different
times before the pamphlet can be ready for the
public---A charge 6 very moderate, that several
booksellers declared the work done was worth
double the money.
However, for that very reasonable charge,
one of said assignees would not fettle the account
---And I have not yet learned the necehity of
orcing money upon those who are uot willing
to receive it.
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_ Book-binder, in Maiden-Lane,
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fible, within my power and ability ; my chief
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