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From the EAGLE, &<.
The FARRAGO.
" HE CUTS A DASH."
THIS is ret the only thing he cats
—~His father, whom the midnight moon
beholds weeping at his cottage door, he
cuts to the heart. He returns another
prodigal —he has cut his purse ftrirgs too ;
and dropped his coin, not into beggars
palms, but into tavern bars and taylors
Ihops. Tother day he would order the
landlord to serve up two filvcr eels and a
partridge ; now he is temperate enough ;
what the hired Servants can ipare he can
c at —even busts are better than hunger.—
But by all the faints in fickle Fortune'# cal
endar, whence this whimsical change ?—
He lately lined away, wore plaited dock
ings, long quartered shoes, and, even in
dog-days, twined about his neck, four
yards of muslin. He was, the dandy : The
ladies vowed he was a clever fellow ; rakes
call him a bigh buck, for he was Jpunky,
and be cut a da/b, His money's gone.—
His Ihort-waifcd coat is thread-bare, and
his lung quartered fnoes are trodden down
at the heel, Qjlte w^rn out in the ser
vice The w sos Babylon have enticed
him—they covered their beds with tapes
try and fire linen of Egypt—but they Itole
away his goodly pearls.
t% t b ^ their erv tog Ibra it l&^rm
beseech thee: —but 'twas tyhile he cat a dajb
_ fl-new the, OTniing'ly tell him, go your
way and be heated! An excessive vain la
dy, once faewed me two fair Girls who
were gliding by in a high Phaetor from
New-York. While I admired in one &
sparkling eye, that beamed lente towards
me, from a high policed forehead, her
attention was engteffrd by a Trillram
Shandy bonnet, wiih flaunting ribbons,
Ind falhionably canted on one fide. This
to be fore nuft be very dafhy. Ha, ha!
How luckv that some women's caps, and
Triftram Shandy bonnets cut a dajh —E'fe
fay dear lady Flummery, what would
become of your bead.
An effenced beau, with ear-locks well
larded and mealed, invites me to a tea
) tipping party, where Miss Tinsel pre-
Rifides. I hesitated; for I shun mixed corn
panic#, who, I know are in majquerade.—
Stefs me ! decline the company of Mil
Tinsel, who cutefuch a Wb. Why she
hour great dianaofthe Ephefians,whnm
you and all the world will worship. I went
and locked for the sensible. But alack !
ihe vas not only perfumed like a millener,
but talked like one. No matter —the la
dies—and what hardy disputant will gain
'L/hc^dies-- protested she was a smart
who cut ^uttea dash. #
' A warm-hearted youth, ignorant of the
wiles of women—-is enamored with Co
-1 quetilla. By a thousand a&ions, he
convinces her of the ardency of his passion.
She Gallione. They talk of giving the
Parson immediate employment.—But is
your fortune ample, Sir. Moderate, my
dear, but its scantiness shall be compen
sated by my affedion—Excufe me if you
pleale— l am too young to marry r —With
your pittance of property, I cannot daz
zle. Affe&ion is mighty pretty—i/ cute
no dajh.
A vile village quack fends his boy to
frurchafe elixir pro. flowers of Benzion and
tolycynth, of the apothecary. Ah ! quoth
I (who happened to be eating a fig behind
the counter) in what disease does Dr.
Carter administer these drugs ? in more
&% forty, replied the boy, and they per
form wonderful cures. My matter tides
adealj, 'counted more than Granny Nos
+*UM, oar old midwife :He gives ^a
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of mint-water in putrid fevers ; molifies
broken bones with ointment, and always
prescribes opium to make folks sleep ! ! !
I know that the mountebank cuts a da/h —
but, my dear countrymen, why will you
pay long bills to a blockhead,who drench
es you with poison, when you can be cu
red for nothing, by your ploughs, your
spades, the ox of your mountains and the
juice of your orchards. Saluta.y medi
cines these, more efficacious than bolus
and pills.
But you love to have the little drilling
table under the looking-glals, covered
with phials of liquor—like Joseph's coat
of many colours, blue, red and green—
they cut a dajh. Beef steak and wine are
familiar houlhold words, not in the leatt
da,y ; but they give vigor to the weaken
edhmb, and blood to the wan cheek—
Balsam of Tolu and Peru, #ound burly
and big they cut a dajb — —They
do more. They cut in twain the thread of
life.
You affectionately anxious grey-headed
fathers, whom I fee broking the flaxen
locks of your prattling boy—the only lon
of his m^her-.pray that he may be a horfe
jockey, and play all-Fours with butchers,
acrofi a tray* that he may become a
scoundrel swindler, and cheat by system,
that he may be firnamed Belzebub the
prince of devils, rather than a buckfb
blade, who cuts a great dafo.
Simon—" The facrilegicus tenderness
with which we treat a man like Custine,
is truly aftonilhing. When a soldier is
wanting to his duty, Custine is not fat
isfied with having him watched by a gend'
arme, but he loads him with irons. He
is accafed of having written a letter, where
in he fays, that such Decrees of the Con
vention as he does not approve, serve him
only for putting his hair en paplliots (in
curlpaper.) This, I think, will scarcely
be a motive for you to treat him very
kindly ; and, if it be true, why is he not
put under arrest ; he who is guilty offuch
an expression, as bad at a Five le Roi! I
Bazire, " The Convention mult not
allow him to appear in public places, like
bnmourier and la Fayette, to call
forth and kindle enthusiasm. I observe
that Custine is not yet under arrest.
The commitee have only caused him to be
watched by a gend' arene, who accompa
nies him wherever he goes. Even his
walks with thisgeed' arme, may be danger
ous."
IMPEACHMENT of CUSTINE.
Bazire, in n^ name of the committee
of Public Welfare, rose tom&kea mo
tion of order. " Citizens fays he,l am not
yet fufficiently informed concerning Cus
tine,to make a report for you to deliber
ate refpefting him ; but I meft inform
the Convention that his p r esence in Paris,
caul's a violent agitation in the capital,
and it appears even to me, that he favours
this agitation. He yesterday made his ap
pearance at the Palais-Royal, and was
toon surrounded by a crowd of triplers,
crying out, Five CuJiine ! Take no
tice, Citizens, that this happened on th?
very next day after the Deputies cf the
Convention had been intuited in that
place. I shall hot anticipate what may
be the judgment on Custine; but he
is accused of having distributed money
among women, in order to Ilir up commo
tions in his favour. I demand as a meas
ure of public fafcty,~that he may be put
in a Rate of arrett."
A Member.—" This is done alread
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Joretg/n, Jnt&llc^nce..
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
July 20.
WEDNESDAY, October , 16, 1793.
demand that the Commitee of Public Safe
ty be ordered to inquire into this fad,
and that, in the mean time, Custine be
confined in a prison destined for conspira-
HERBERT—A man born in an order
which brought upon the Republic its pref-|
ent misfortunes ; a man who has long fioce
thrown off the mafk—Custine has been
called upon by the Committee of Public
Safety to give an account of his conduct ;
but certainly we have no need of an ac
countofit to know him—we have only
to compare his adio-.s and his correspon
dence with Dumourier, to confider him
deferring of a decree of accusation. If
I examine the conduft of this Ex-Noble,
who has shown on the political theatre, I
'fee him. the Qonftituent Assembly defend
ing royalty and aristocracy ; and after
that, it was incredible that Custine
should ever be found at the head of the ar
mies of the Republic. Let us recoiled
the moment before the fall of Dumour
ibr; let it be remembered that I de
nounced that General, and informed the
people of this approaching defection. Hi
red writers then maintained that! wanted
to disorganize the army. During that
time Dtimourier betrayed us, and resolv
ed to give up our magazines to the ene
my. If I compare Cuttine's conduft with
that of Dumourier, I find them alike.—
Dutnourier having a rival in his opinion,
ptft himfelf at the head of the patriots to|
supplant him : Cuftine, having Dumouri-
tors."
, Breard. " IphCT^^&ffllffl^
for fufpihon against Custine, I do^ot
oppofc any measure of fafety, that may be
deemed aeceffary against him. But 1 affurel
the Convention, that as long as I have
been a Member of the Commitee of Pub-1
lie Safe& I have never seen a letters
written oy him, wherein he has used thq
expreffioti mentioned by Simon. I del
clare, tUt had I known him be to guilts
of such an expression, I should have diJ
redly moved a decree of arrest againft]
him."' l
Several members. "He did not writel
that letter to the Commitee, but to tbd
Minifter." l
Danton, —" The Convention oughl
by no means to remain in the dark in rel
gard to an objed of such importance. Wa
mull know what CusTiNe is. For want
of provisions, Conde has been forced
to furre^er. Valenciennes r beset eve
ry wher^and hard preflei.—The Noth
ern Army j r ants a General. Custinel
is fufperte&by the Nation ; he must bel
tried. J dtand that rhe Committee od
Public Safrend the Minifler at War shall
fend in thepeport with refpeft to thq
charges bright against Custine, that!
the Convention may be able to pronounce
his sentence."
Baztre—'' I also demand, that the
Minister of War inform us of the different
paroles lately given out by Custine in
his fairer We shall perhaps be fuaprifed
to hear, that this General at the very mo
ment he denounced Wimpftn to the Con
vention, idolized the Rebels of Caroedot.\
Some of his paroles were the words Con 4
dorcet, Paris, Constitution. His Aid
dc-Camps and trusty friends used to fay
to every one who chose to hear it, " You
fee what the General means by these pa
roles ; you murtjein the league of Cat've-\
dos, and march to Paris, in order to pro-l
mote the acceptance of Condorcet's/
Constitution."
" I repeat, therefore, my motion, that,
for motives of Public Safety, Custine
be put in a bate cf arrelt."
This motion was adopted, and as fev
era! Members called out, al' Abbaje!
the Convention decreed, that Custine
should be sent :o the Abbey Prison.
SITTING or the JACOBINS.
SUMDAY, JULY 21.
er for his rival, appeared to unite with th#
Patriots to overthrow the traitor.
Custine, clothed with supreme pow
er, abandoned 22,000 men in Mertz ;
''uUW 1 'head of the fi est army the
Republic ever had; of an army cempofed
of Jacobins, who only defiie to conquer.
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