The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-26
SIR WILLIAM JONES.

SIR WILLIAM JONES.
Memoirs OF this great and good man have been
lately publiihed in this cry by gentleman
who had better opportunities than he has made ue of
and who, ii he had written in other time, and
der different circumstances, would Tor leaf ought)
as he was capable, have done more uisce to one OF
the mott diitiuguiihed and model men of the Ian
century. His memoirs by lord Teisnmoutb (once Mr.
John Shore, and afterwards Sir John Shore, are ne
vertheets intereing; though the caution with which
his political principles treated of merits the COM
miiiera'ion OF thinking men. In the collection of
Sir VIM. Jones's works which we have feen we
have looked in vain for one of bis eroHue7icns
which gave fpring his celebrity, which tended to
draw his offended literary talents into the glare
OF national obiervation, which alarmed the govern
ment OF England, enlvened the hopes of the friends
OF liberty, and at length under the names of honor
and promotion fent him into fpecies of exile, in
1oh where liberty has no exlence, aud where his
great talents were from neceity directed to the I'M
folding OF Aatic antiquities. nftead of enlightening
the world and promoting the emancipation of man
kind from the errors and ills of nitutons eitablihed
IN barbarous ages.
The paper alluded to- we here fubioin---it is
the celebrated DIALOGUE between Seboka, and a
Peafmf, for which after Sir W. Jones had been pro-
moted to feat on the bench of uitce, his brother
in law the Dean of ST. Aiaph DIR. Shipley) was pro-
iecuted for libel, and on which proecuton the &C.
LIBERATED EyRiae tirt confpicuouly diltinyuhed HIM
to which ALTO his iubiequent celebrity is fon,e ea-
'ure 70 De attributed <7x,0ra
Tile Principles Of Government in a Dialorne
bet7veen a Scholar and a PeaEanf.
PEASANT. Why fhould humble men, like
me, lign or iet marks to petitions of ths nature
1t is better for us peaiants to mind our huiban-
dry, and leave what we cannot comprehend to
the king and parliament.
you imagine; and, as a free uembey of a free
Rate, have higher things to mind than You NAV
conceive.
L. 1T by free you mean cat Of briIon, hope
to continue 70, as long as can pay my rent to
the 'fquire's baiff; but what is meaned by
free Rafe /?
S. Tell me firft what is meaned by club in
village. OF which know you to be member
p. 1t is an afIembly of men, who meet after
work every Saturday to be merry and happy
for few hours in the week.
5. Have you no other object but mirth
Z. Yes; we have box, into which we con-
tribute equally from our monthly or weekly
favings, and out of which any members of the
club are to be relieved in ickneis or poverty {;
for the parih officers are 70 cruel and infoIent,
that 1t were better to ftarVe than apply to them
for relief.
S. Did they, or the 'fquire, or the parton.
or altogether, compel you to form this fociety |?
T. Oh move could not be compelled
we formed it by our own choice.
5. Yon did right-but have you not fome
head or PRECEDENT of your club
p. The matter for each night is chofen by all
the company pre!ent the week before
D. Docs he make laws to bind you in cafe of
i'll temper mifbehaviour
P. He make laws he bind us! No: we
have all agreed to fet of equal rules, which
are iigned by every new conner, and were writ.
ten IN itrange hand by young Spelman, the
lawyers clerk, whole uncle is member.
S. What ihould you do, if any one member
were to Unfit on becoming perpetual mater, and
on altering your rules at his &bitrary will and
pleafure
P. We ihould expe him.
S. What if he were to bring f-rieant's
guard, when the militia are quartered in your
neighbourhood, and Unfit upon your obeyine
him?
p. We fhould refift, if we could if not the
fociety would he broken up.
s. Suppofe that, with his fergeant's guard,
he were to take the money out of the box or out
of your pockets?
P. Would not that be robbery,
S. l am ieeking information from you-how
fhoud you act on fuch an location
2. We iheuld fubmit, perhaps, at the time
but ihould afterwards try 10 apprehend the rob-
bers.
S. What if you could not apprehend them !?
IL We might kill them, | ihould think and
If the king would not pardon us, God would.
S. How could you either apprehend them,
or, if they reliited, kill them, without luffici-
ent force in yOur own hands
P. Oh! we are all good players at Jingle
flick, and each of us has Il itout cudgel or GUAR
ter ftaff in the corner of his room.
S. Suppoie, that few of the club were TO
domineer over the ref, and Unfit upon making
laws for them
p. We mutt take the fame courfe, except
that it would be ealier to refrain one man than
number but we fllould be the majority with
juifice on our fidc.
5. "A word or two on another head. Some
fyou, prefume, are no great accountants
P. Few ofus underltand accounts bnt we
truR old Lily, the fhoolmater, whom we be-
lieve to be an honef man, and he keeps the
key of our box.
S. Ifyour money ihould in time amount to a
large fun, it might not perhaps be fate, to keep
1t at his houfe, or in any private houfe.
P. Where ellie lbould we keep it!
S. You might choofe to put it into the funds,
or to lend 1t to the squire, who has LOT 70
much lately at Ne7Oh0arkef, taking his bond or
fome OF his feds as your fecurity for the paw
ment with interet.
p. We mutt in that cafe confde in young