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fog hi neighbor K # v^ 0:r judge and,,
trojan ,d wuh the let tek^ the cloak al
so. 1 nauied and pondered —I curiously
{peculated on this " ruling pafilon ftreng
in death” ard, hiked, for whom or what
fa this man comparing the Caih ?—Yor
fck flood by and bn.led —He wants tixty
pounds more, fays Yorick, to chaffer with
Charon, and purchase the farm of Styg
i© ferriages.—
But of al! the various ways of " com
pacing the Cash." the {peculator's way
is the muff whimsical. 'Tisof more dif
ficult solution, than the *' way of a man
with a maid,” which Augur confeffed
was too wonderful for him to explain.
Money used to be considered as of a prolific
nature ; that the clucking hen, Indef+ry,
would no^lay gold every day, without a
neg egg--° o ^ ^ Newyork (peculator derides
the antient axiom of, from nmhing nought
remains. By a rag, or rather a scrip of
paper, h* can change nothing into ten
thousand pounds. Legerdemain is an
" old wives fable” compared with the ho
cus pocus of (peculation. Speculation is
as rich as a Dutch exchequer. It will
pay old debts, it builds up, and plucks
down ; it causes chariots to roll, and
beaufets to glitter. It was refervzd for
(peculators to difeover the philosopher's
stone, which turns every thing into gold
But, hark ! 1 hear a crippled invalid
groaning at my gate, who leaning on his
crutch, tells me, when the exacerbation
ofhis wound permits, that the (peculator
would not have compgid the Case, had he
not defeated the designs of national juf
zicc. and gratitude, by purchasing for a
long, in poverty 's pinching hour, the poor
Invalid's Penfon right !
The valiant soldier, who has flood on
the edge of death for eight campaigns,
deserves a better fate, than to behold his
tgesminiftering to the infamous pleas
ures of this order of summer infers, Fcl-
lows, as Shakespeare faith, of no mark
nor liketihrd ; revolted serving men, and
decayed tapfters. Why you groveling
grubs, nature never intended that yen
Ibould foar—'Twas capricious chance,
that cracked the cfofalis, to which you
were doomed arid feffored yea to flutter
forth the butterflies of the day—l can re
member the time, whea,one of you was a
But, fay the men, who fell tape and
tamarinds ; you grac-lefs rogue! how
can <we merchants erpeT. to Compass the
caib, unless we j%e%r to the credulous
cfown, thatour currents are imported from
Zant, and cur wine; freer Malaga. 1^
the d--l could we drive a chaise ac%fs;
Bofion neck, every Sunday, wife on one 1
fide, and brat on 'tocher, if we told cur
cu&omrrs, that oar Malaga ;vas in the lat
itude cf Groton, sebe^they prefs—m.ft
excellent cyder.— Friendjhip in trade is
pot the way to compaft the Cf,.
Ata certain village,the name of which,|
as the cautious Cer/aues lauh, I don't
chafe to remember, 1 witneffod a feene,
that induced roe to read the febieof the
bees ane#, and excluded to the (hade of
Mandeville, alm.dt hra persuaded me to.
he a Mifanthropt—l ftw a man,with two
thousand pounds, on whife cadaverous
cheek death had impdfed his fijnet, bal-
Honestly, i h ope; eiQodd
my or ney be moistened by orphan's tears,
or wrung from the band cf peasants by
indirection, m^y 1, iu every rotation of
fortune's wheel, hang pendulous from it,
like a fifty fit.
No. 19. of Vol. ll.]
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'' Halt, "foall I coQafi the raff, ?"
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The FARRAAO, No. 18.
From the ^aGLE.
Columbian Informer;
Or, C HESHIR E J,O UR N A L.
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Darby.
Charles Cameleon pra&'fes law at tig
fame court with Goodman Dullard the man.
pfbe&tb. Charles bates it:e prottoi, of
a special plea apd- it is ready in mac
caroni phrase to vo'e lav j ^^u
•' a lore." But the mere attorney; rX
very dray horse of the profeifion, who ne
ver tells their honors that a witness is ao
sent without quoting, as the drinking forg
vivecioufly expresses it, Salkeld and Ven.
tries,and all their d—- entries compares the
cafo; while Charles, who talks like an
angel, is neglected— But how can Charles
expe& the fl swing fee ? He cannot tax a
bill of cost, nor talk Rapidly to the pann
el, nor quote lord Coke, for it is twenty
years since he read him. Can such a man
at the bar expe& to compass the cajh?
I leaned my head lalt moonshine even
ing, two hours out ofmy window deviling
ways and means,to compass the cajb. lat
length concluded,that it was absolutely ne
ceffiry for all men of sense & lentiment,to
import guillotines from France to cut iff
torirmdr,and to hire expert furgeon°.,to rx
traa their hearts. Having thus happily
def-roved the sources of fancy and feeling
exclaimed I, excitingly, as I drew my
head hack, they would with the labor of
gaily (lives, delve in the ditch ofdrodge
ry, and with the tenderness of a turnkey,
lock up the indigent debtor. Irubbid my
bands cheerily together and inclofed, in a
letter to the American Academy, this no
vel project by which a man of genius may
compass the case, as easily, as jf he had been
educated at the Hague.
THE Ruffian troops having evacuated
this town on the 23d inftant,gene
rak Kosciusko immediately took advantage
df the circumstance, and entered this town
at the head of his regiment in the night of
the 24th. Next morning he ordered the
gates of the town to be shut, declared him
felf commander in chief of all the Polini
forces, imposed an oath of fidelity on all
the military in the town, rendered himfelf
matter of the Public treafores, took a reg
ister of the plate of the churches, of the
IVe should be juftiy altonilhed,that men,c f.
moQiroom growth, who cannot spell the
teles of which they defraud the gallant
officer's widow, should ever compass the
Cajb."
One cannot help shedding, either a
fhewer of tears, or of maledictions, when
h^ hears, that a fpecu ator keeps a co;ch,
while wit and learning cannot pay &
hire of a hack — Cervantez, what did it
profit thee cf thy labor under the fan _
to write", with humor perched on thy
quill, of Sancho and his master.— To
moan, in pe;fon, over the frump of thy
left hand, loft at Lepanto was thy fatc_
To "cemra/s rhe Cafo" ofSpain, and to
preGdein the councils of Philip was the
lot of the Leaden Duke of Lerui4. Why
so unjud, most fickle fortune, a^ ta.&l'fv
the mailer of the Efcarial^o invite a da I
duke to his palace, and fuffer Saaveda
to Rarve ; when the 'latter was as ranch su
perior to the former, as the finely v^ur
gated zebra is to the brayjng beafa of the
isles.
^The following is the heft accounts we have
fan of the firft breaking oat of the Pohjh
commotions. It has not jet been published
here.]
“ little plough boy, that whirled o'er rhe
lea ;" and obfeurity sentenced you, Hum
phry Upttart co dress leather jar payee, in
head of draining them. Did we nc;
know, had n t Armdronz to'd us that,
• Riches arc oft by-gwk and bafemf
earn'd,„
Or dealt by chance to screen aLty
knave,
Or thrown ciuelfunfelne on a fool.
CRACOW, March z 9. -
OF POLAND.
TUESDAY, August 5, 1794.
w%^ ^fro/fra ^3 -h^„^e#P%Q„%eu^T^
• General Kofeiutko afterwards iffaed an
universal proclamation, exhorting the Po
lifn fubje&s to refpeft the dominions of the
emperor, and to give no re&foa of com
plaint to any of the fnbjffl of his Imperial
.Majesty. This proclamation has been
feet to all the Austrian commanders and
mtfftrates of the frontier territories, re
qaettec at the fame time, that if, during
the prefect troubles and revolution rn Po
land, any violence fltould be committed on
the perlons or property of any of the fob
jefis of his Imperial majesty, application
iriouia oe mana to the revolutionary go
vernment of the republic,which engages to
procure an immediate & ample fat^faction
and indemnification for such a violation.
The infurreaions in the republic become
every day more feriqus, since the entrance
o' General K^fciufk) into Cracow. The
account cf the eftsbliihment of the revo
lutionary tribunal, is but too true. It is
even reported,that the chancellor in Rim
nvffewfky has already been tried by that
tribunal, convided of a pretended trea
son against the nation, and condemned to
be hanged on a gallows erected on the
great market place : Which execution
is (aid actually to have taken place.
Lieutenant Colonel Lycaffi, who evac
uated the town of Cracow, previous to the
arrival of General Kofeiufke, for the par
pofe cf joining the rest of the Ruffian
troops who marched against the insur
gents, was on his march attacked by the
brigade Walewfky, commanded by vice
brigadier Magnet ; the former, overpow
ered by the numbers ofhis enemy, was
obliged to feck for fafety in flight, by
which his lady, his carriage, and all his
° a gg' : £ e have fallen into (A hands of the
patriots.'%
The Ruffian general Rackmanow, how
ever, afterwards advanced with several
squadrons of cavalry, and an engagement
took place, in which the brigade Walewlky
was worsted.
Accounts are received here from Litho
nia and Podalia, that the Polish troops,
who were dUbanded there had iikewife
revolted.
In confeqaence ofthe above declaration,
gen. Kofciulko, on receiving information
refpe&ing forne of ths firayed di&nded
troops who had seized a magazine in the
Austrian territories, wrote a letter to the
imperial officers crtthat place, offering an
indemnification for damage done as soon
as an account of the amount of the fame
Should be to him transmitted.
King's palace, and; in short proceeded to
-neafures of a military feqaeftration.—
The gates were kept shut ti 1 three o'clock
'in the afternoon. On the 35th the gates
.were again shut, and the general exhorted
the people to arm themfeives immediately
in support and defence of the late contti
tution. A revolutionary tribunal was ef
tablilhed on the 26th, competed of four
teen members, and a resolution was taken,
that, throughout the republic, in the town
as well as in the country,' eCery five hcuf
es or fire places, should be obliged to fur
nifti one man armed and equipped,at their
expence, for the defence of the constitution
againit the usurping powers.
On the fame day, and the day following,
an extraordinary assembly of the magist
rates and council of this town was held.—
The different corporations assembled un
dvr refpeftive banners before -the town
house from whencethe magistrates led them
on in a procession to the church of the Holy
Virgin,, where the confutation of the 3d
of May, 1791, was publicly read, with
great folemoity accepted, and an oath ta
ker-to defend it.
Yesterday we received advice, that a
Prussian brigade had actually advanced
EXECUTION OF ACHANCELLOR.
April 2.
" Citizens the palatinate cf Cracow af
fords you a single example of patriotifin.
It offers the flower of its youth, having al
ready granted pecuniary and other aflift
ance—their example is worthy of imita
ting— do not helicate to place credit in
your country, which will reward you well
—the ordinance issued by the generals cf
the palatinate, and the commanders of the
troops to furnish the necessary provisions,
will be placed to the account of impels,
and will be paid for in the Sequel. •
It is unnecessary to encourage yon before
hand, because that would appear to doubt
yourcivifm; the continued oppression prac
tifed by the Ruffian soldiers, ought foffw
ciently to convince you, that it is better o
make voluntary facrifices Co your country,
than to make facrifices by force to ?..iece
my. Whoever in theft circumflacces dare
be insensible to the urgent nece ffiries us
his country, must draw upon himleir infa
my.
Dear fellow Citizens, I expeß every
thing from your zeal—your hearts will
join that sacred union which is neither the
./ork of foreign intrigue, nor of a desire cf
domination, but is iolely the effe& of a love
for liberty.
Who does not declare for us, is against
us. He who refufes to associate with those
who have (worn to shed their last drop of
blood for their country, is cither an enemy
or one who is neuter and in filch a cate
neutrality is a crime against civifm. I
have sworn to the nation that ths powers
entrusted to me fhal! not be applied to the
oppression of the people. At the fame
time, 1 declare, that whoever a&s against
our confederacy, fnall fuffer the pu.ifh
ment eftabtifhed in'the National ad, of a
traitor and enemy to his country.
We have already finned by connivance,
which has ruined Poland. Scarce has an
offence against the people ever been p4n # .
iffied. Let us now adopt a different mats
.'' Make voluntary facrificesof your
wealth, which hitherto, intlead cf being at
your own disposal, was at the will cf a eel
pot! Furnish men capable cf dealing
arms. Do no: refufe the neceftary provi
sions cf bread, biscuit, &c. Send hoifes,
shirts, boats, cloth and canvass for tents.
The generous fabrifices made to liberty &
our country, will receive theirrecompcnee
inthe gratitude of the nation.
" The last moment is arrived, in which •
despair, in the midst o£ theme ^nd re- °
preach, puts a°rms in your hands. Our
hope is in the contempt of death, which
can only enable us ameliorate our fate, ana
thatof our posterity. Far be from ui that
terror which the enemies, conspired ; gainft
us endeavour to infufe into our minds.
" The firft step to throw off the yoke it
to dare to believe ourselves free—and the
firft step to victory is a confidence in out
strength.
to the Pol : fh territories near Zacrorzir,
about five leagues from this place ;—
and, it is believed,' that, according to
circumftances,they have orders to advance
further into the republic. ,
It is expected that the Ruffian general
Torranlow, will soon attack the* infur
geots .at Cracow ; the latter consists of
an army from fix to. ten thousand men,
and are in possession cf some artillery.
"' Having been often called to alEft in
the salvation of our common country, be
hold I obey the call—but I cannot be
ufefui to you,or break the chains of slavery,
if you do not give me fpcedy fuccour !
•Support mewith your whole force, and fly
to the flandard of your country. In this
cefamon cause, the fame zeal ought to an
imate us all..
Proclamation-of Thaddes Kosciusko, com
mander in chief of the armies of the na
tion to the citizens of Poland.
" Dear fellow Citizens,
[w HOLE No. 71.]
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POLAND
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