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Seat of the Muses.
\ THE CONSPIRACY of KINGS.
By Joel Barlow, Esquire.
ETERNAL truth, thy trump un
daunted lend,
People, and priests, and courts, and kings,
attend,
While, borne on weftern gales from that
far fliore
Where justice reigns,and tyrants tread no
more,
Th' unwonted voice that no dissuasion
awes,
That fears no frown, and seeks no blind
applause,
Shall tell the bliss that Freedom sheds a
broad,
The rights of nature and thegift of God.
Think not ye knaves, whom meanness
Hile the great.
Drones of the Church and harpies of the
Hate —
Ye whose curft fires, for blood and plun
der fam'd,
Sultans, or kings, or ozars, or emp'rors
nam'd,
Taught the deluded world their claims to
own,
And raise the crested reptiles to a throne,
Ye, who pretend to your dark host was
given
The lamp of life, the myftick keys of hea
ven ;
Whole impious arts with magick spells
began
When shades of ign'rance veil'd the race
of man ;
Who change, from age to age, the fly de.
ceit
As Science beams, and virtue learns the
cheat ;
Tyrants of double powers, the foul that
blind,
To rob, to fcourge,and brutalize man
kind—,
Think not I come to croak with omen d
yell
The dire damnations of your future hell,
To bend a bigot or reform a knave,
By opening all the scenes beyond the
graven
I know your crofted fouls: While one
defies
In fceptic (corn the vengeance of the
ikies
The other boasts— " I ken thee, power
divine, •.
" But fear thee not; th' avenging bolt is
mine."
No! 'cis the present world that prompts
the song,
The world we fee, the world that feels
the wrong.
The world of men, whose arguments ye
know, .
Os men, long curb'd to servitude and
Men, rous'd from Both, by indignation
flung,
Their strong hands loos'd and found their
fearlefi tongue ;
Whose voice of fire,whofe deep descend
ing flee!
Shall freak to foub, and teach dull nerves
to feel ~, r
Think not, (ah no ! the weak delusion
fans t
BURKE leads vou wrong, the world is
not his own),
Indulge not once the thought, the vapou
ry dream, , ,
The fool's repaft# the madmen a thread
bare theme, ,
That nations, riling in the light of troth,
Strong with new life and pure regenerate
Wil/ffirink fromtoils so splendidly be.
Theirs abandon and their glory ffiun,
Betray the trust by heav A's own hand
confin'd.
The great concentred flake, the interest
of mankind
Ye speak of kings combin'd some league
that draws
Europe's whole force, to save your finking
cause:
Os fancy'd host by myriads that advance
To crush the untry'd power of new-born
France.
Misguided men ! These idle tales def
pile;
Let one bright ray of reason strike your
eyes ;
Show me your kings, the fceptred horde
parade—
See their pomp vanish flee your visions
fade !
IndignantMAN relumes thefhaft he gave,
Disarms the tyrants, and unbinds the
Have,
Displays the unclad Skeletons of kings,*
Spectres of powers, and serpents with
out flings.
And (hall mankind —shall France, whose
giant might
Rent the dark veil and dragg'd them
forth to light,
Heed now their threats in dying anguish
toil ?
And she who fell'd the monfler, fear
the goft ?
Bid young Alcides, in his grasp who
takes
And gripes with naked hand the twilling
snakes;
Their force exhausted, bid him poftrate
fall,
And dread their shadows trembling on
the wall.
But grant to kings and Courts their anci
ent play,
Recall their fplendour and revive their
sway;
Can all your cant and all your cries per
suade
One power to join you in your wild cru
sade ?
[n vain ye fcarch to earth's remotest end ;
No Court can aid you, and,no king de
fend.
Not the mad knave that S • fcep
tre Hole,
Nor she whose thunder (hakes the no
thern pole ;
Nor Frederick's widow'd (word that
scorns to tell
On whose weak brow his crown reluct
ant fell
Not the tri-fceptred prince, of Austrian
mould,
The ape of wisdom and the slave of gold,
Theresa's son, who, with a _feeble
grace,
just mimicks all the vices of his race ;
For him no charm can foreign ftrife af
ford.
Too Mean to spend his wealth, too wife
to trust his sword.
Peep o'er the Pyrenees—but yen'll dis.
dain
To break the dream that sooths the monk
of Spain,
He counts his beads, and spends his holy
zeal
To raise once more th' inquisitorial wheel,
Prepares the faggot & the flames renews,
To roast the French, as once the Moors
and Jews :
While able hands the busy talk divide,
His Queen to dandle, and his State to
guide.
Ye ask great Pitt to join your defp'rate
work —
See how his annual aid confounds the
Turk !
Like a war elephant his bulk he shews,
And treads down friends, when frigne
en'd by his foes.
Where then, forfaken Gillians, will ye
turn ?
Os France the outcast, and of earth the
fcorD;
What new-made charm can dissipate your
fears ?
Can Burke's mad foam, or Calonne'S
Houle of Peers?,
NOTES.
* Ofd vides regum vacuis exhaufa
meduUis, Juvenal,^. 8
f M. de Calonne,#? an immenje labour,
and by the aid of his friends in England,
has framed a Conflitution for France, after
the Englilb model ; the cbeif ornaments of
which is, that " Corinthian capital of
polfhed society, " a Houje of Peers. Dis
paid that, ofter debates and altercations
which lasted fix months, be has perjuaded
the emigrant Princes to agree to it. It only
remains now for him and them to try on
this new lever) upon the French nation
among these disadvantages attending
the live: of Princes, mufl be reckoned the
lingular difficulties which they have to
fl ru ^ e ™ acquiring a military reputation.
A Duke of Cumberland, in order to become
an Alexander, bad to ride all the way to
Culloden,and back again to London. Lou
is XIV. "was obliged to submit to the fa
tigue of being carried on board of aJplsX
did barge, and rowed across the Rhine a
bout the fame time that the French army
crofed it, and all this for the fntye pri
vilege of being placed above the Macedo
nian in the temple of Fame ; and of caujrng
this achievement to be celebrated, as more
glorious than the pafag of the Grampus ;
As ma, be seen on that modefl monument in
the Place Vendome in Paris.
fie Count d'Artois has purchased, at a
fill dearer rate the fame being filed " le
digne rejeton dugrand Henri, " and of
being defined to command all the armies
of Europe in re fabli^irg the Monarchy
of France. This champion of Chrifendem
set out, at the age of twenty-five, qua
travelled by land vitb a princely equipage
from Paris to Gibralter ; where he arrived
just in time to fee, at a convenient didance,
Elli r tsfamous bonfire of the floating bat
teries. He then returned covered with glo
ry, b, the way of Madrid and arrived at
Verjailles, amidst the carefes of the court
and the applaufa of all Europe. The ac
compli^ment of this arduous enterfrife has
defrvedly placed him, in point of military
fame, at the head of all the present branches
of the illustrious House of Bourbon.
Can Artois' fword,that erst near Calpe's
wall,
Where Crillon fought and Elliot
was to fall,
Burn'd with the fire of fame, but harm
less burn'd,
For fhrath'd the sword remain'd, and in
it (heath returned ?
[To be continued ]
mily.
THERE is now living at
Newbury, in Berkshire, a
lady who is one of sixteen chil
den by the fame father and
mother —Eight of whom were
call, and eight were Ihorc—eight
were boys and eight were girls
—eight were twins, and eight
born Tingly—eight were fair, and
eight of a very dark complexion
—eight spoke French, and eight
did not— eight were good dan
cers, and eight could not dance
at all ; —eight could sing well &
play on some instrument, while
the other eight had no musical
abilities.-
ALL persons indebted to, or
have demands against the
estate ofNEHEMIAH CRAM,
late of Hamptonfalls, yeoman,
deceased, are requested to exhi
bit them immediately to the
fubferiber, for fettfement.
Jonathan Cram, Exe'r.
Exeter, fluyuft 22, 1791.
Instance of Peculiarities in a Fa-
I^THE Members of the
Eafern difria of the Nr^haMpshirß
Medical Sqc Ihty, are hereby inform
ed that a meeting of said DifriA will be
balden at Lamion's Tavern in tbi, town
on Wednesday, the pb of September sit
10 o'clock in the forenoon.
By order of the President,
SAMUEL TENNEY, Sec'rj,
Exeter, A%uft tyh 179 Z,
B, virtue of a licence from the Hen. Judge
of Probate for the County of Rocking
ham, on Thursday the loth da, cf Sep
tember next, at \o' of the Clock in the
'forenoon,at the house oj Capt. CcLEBY,
Innholder in Sanborntown, in the coun
ty of Strafford, the following lets or
parcels of land in said Sanborntown,
late the efate of Michael Shute,
late of Newmarket, Shipwright deceaj
ed, vsz.=
ONE half of two hufe
dred acre Lot, N°° 46, in the
Second Division in common and undi
vided Alfa —
Twenty acres of land
being part of the. Lot, N®' 29, in the
Second Division.
^ Conditions to be made known at the
time and place of Sale.
JOHN S3IUTE, Executor.
Ne ^markct^gtflfrl^ga^^^
rpHE lubfcriber takes this
X method of informing all
non-resident owners of Land and
other ratable property in the
town of Exeter, that unless they
pay their refyedive Taxes to him
previous to the firft day of No
vember next, that he thall imme
diately cause to much of their
property to be advertised for sale,
aS will pay laid taxes with inci
dental charges.
Dudley Folsom, Qlledor.
Exeer, AuguJl 6, 1792.
The one half of one
hundred acre Lot, N°' §, in the First
Divifon Also—
A general assortment of
Ei)gli(h, India & Weft-
India
ALL perfoos indebted to, or
having demands of the es
tate of Jonathan Veaz^y, Ute
of Briarwood, gentleman,deceaf
ed, are requeued to fettle the
fame immediately with the sub
scriber..
Jeremiah Veasey, Ex'r,
Brint^ood, A<gft 7, '79^°
JUST PUBLISHED,
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CHRISTY
WARNING to the CHURCHES,
TO BEWAREOF
FALSE PROPHETS,
W^O COME AS
WOLVES inSHEE^ CLOTHING:
AND THE MARKS BY WHICH^HEY
ARB KNOWN-HILV TRA rED IN
TWO DSCOUB.SES
by JOSEPH LATH RO P, d.d
Pafbr of a church in Weft typing field.
THIRD EDITION, WITH AN
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AND OTHER ENLARI#E&NTS.
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the above difeourfo treat, the abintit.
of the Author—and the rapid fa/e of
tavo editions of them nebieb have been
tad, printed, must recommend them to
the "perusal of ebrifians in general —
And it is earneftl, aci/hed that everjfu
mil) may have at leaf one of the booh.
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Chea^for Cash or Tow
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FxETH^7y 26, 1792.
John Dean, jun's
STORE—
TO BE SOLD AT
Public Vendue,
AND FOR SALE AT
JUST OPENED,