tyranny which negroes fuffer from the Eusopeans, than he would fuffer from the tyranny which the Patagonians would, in that cafe exercife over the Europeans? "Grotius and Puffendorf derive your right over us, from our fathers having been fold to your fathers, this fophifm may perhaps fatisfy the petty princes of Italy, whom Machiavel has perverted, but will undoubtedly appear in its native weakness to a people whofe government is eftablished upon indubitable and inima table principles of freedom. "What strange frenzy could ever have led the human mind to fuppofe, that a freeman had a right to fell himfelf? What must be the price of fuch a facrifice? Could all the treasures of the mafter, though feated on the throne of Indoftan, recompenfe the flave for the furrender of the most glorious privilege of the human race? life. Liberty can no more be fold than "If a citizen cannot make a bargain and fale of his proper liberty, how can he poffefs a power of felling the liberty of his pofterity who are yet unborn? If there dwelt upon this globe a genius of evil, who could balance the power of the God of virtue, do you conceive that he could fucceed better in reducing wickednefs into a fyftem, than by making the liberty of mankind an article of traffic?-What, fhall it be faid, that becaufé about three years ago, a parcel of pirates gave fome pounds of tobacco, or fome trifling toys, to a poor ignorant African, I fhall be bound to drag on a wretched life of labour, forrow and difgrace? Because my anceftors were abfurd, muft I and all my progeny be born flaves ? "There is in Europe a Jefuit named Charlevoix, who has written in a romance which he has impofed upon the world, with the title of the Hiftory of St. Domingo, that all the negroes of Guinea were born ideots; that the greater part of them could not count beyond the number three, and that the defect of our organization legitimated your riglover our perfons. This Charlevoix calumniates our underflanding, to juftify the attacks of the Europeans upon our bodies; he ref:mbles Vafco Nunnez, who firft made his dogs tear the king of Quarepa and all his train to pieces, and then juflified himfelf at the tribunal of Charles the Vth. by charging them with the guilt of a crime against nature. "Undoubtedly thofe of our colour, who, during their whole life, breath no air but the torrid zone, find their organs fail them and their life evaporate at early period; but the fmall portion of understanding that then remains with m is fufficient to our neceffitics, and I can not fee why the men of the North Boud punifh the men of the South, becak nature has deemed the latter merely vegetate. "Befides, the negroes, whom the pi lefs Europeans condemn to flavery, a in temperate climates nearly as intelligent as their matters. When they receive eas cation they arrive at perfection foster than the whites do, and their head is of more value towards the restoration of a ruined plantation, than the heads or in duftry of all the creoles that ever exifted. It is true that the negroes do not write philofophical books, as the citizens of your islands who are in eafy circunftances do, but give them liberty, and give them for their profeflors a Locke or a Newton, and you will foon fee more than one African at the head of your are demies. "I beg pardon, I am miftaken; the first book a negroe would write, would be a manifefto in favour of liberty against his tyrants-but the importunate voice of truth would not be heard with impunity; they would burn his book in the very capital of Europe, in order to fave themfelves the trouble of anfwering it. "I fpeak with all the fire of opprefied innocence-I do fo becaufe I eflcem my auditors. Such a language does much lets honor to the unfortunate wretch who ufes it, than to the powerful man who ha courage to hear it. "The grand caufe of the negroes whom you are about to judge, is much more important than that of kings which was pleaded above a century ago, before the regicide parliament of Cromwell. It is the fecond caufe truly worthy of memory that has occurred in the annals of mankind. The firft is the caufe of the new world againft Europe, pleaded by that friend to humanity, and honour to his facred function Barthelimi de la Cafas at the tribunal of Charles-the Vth. "If the negroes gain this caufe, you will have the glory of having healed one of the greateft wounds that have yet been inflicted upon the human race; if we have the misfortune to fail, we fhall yet thank you for having permitted us to inform you. This defence is a monument which you The remarkable Speech of Henry Cuffe, Secretary to the unfortunate Earl of Effex, who was executed at Tyburn for his master's mifconduct, on Mar. 13, 1601. I plot never acted, and afting was AM' adjudged to death for plotting a never plotted. Juftice will have its courfe; accufers will be heard; greatness must have the victory; fcholars and martiallifts (tho' learning and valour fhould be privileged) yet in England muft die like dogs and be hanged. To diflike this is folly; to gainfay it but time loft; and to alter it impoffible; but to endure it is manly; and to fcorn it is magnanimity. The prince is difpleafed, the laws injuri ous, the lawyers uncharitable, and death terrible; but I afk pardon of the prince, forgive the lawyers and the world as I defire to be forgiven, and welcome death. AS Sir George Rodney has fo eminently diftinguifhed himself by his late gallant not be unacceptable to our readers, as it will verify that "fortes creantur fortibu et bonis." If you knew who lav here, And fweare you'd feen And in that drooping ftatue His fad lamentor and 'Tis RODNEY, know! whofe Noll the Regicide; (As they have done before) ΑΝ' ΕΡΙGRAM behaviour, and by his fignal victories ob- On a young Lady's Marrying a Gentle tained in the prefent war over our enemies, endeared himself alfo to his coun try; the following infcription in a country church to the memory of one of his illuftrious ancestors, WILLIAM, the fon of Sir JOHN RODNEY, of Rodney Stoke, in the county of Somerfet, may man whofe name was Paine. MOST people fhun with care both pain and ftrife, But lovely Celia to be made a wife, WE pourvu. WE are credibly informed from the Grand merci, faint homme, ma femmey a beft authority, that a noted fox has been let loofe in the House of Commons, and a few months ago by getting into the House of Lords, has been the means of doing irreparable mifchief to the most noble members of the late administration. N. B. Fox-hunting henceforth, may be accounted a noble and neceffary amufement, efpecially about Court. BOB SHORT. BON MOT.-Mr. Hill, in his SkyRocket, fays of a learned Lord, who is now figuring away as the advocate of the rights of man, that if he was worth but twenty fhillings in the world, he would give fifteen of it for his abilities; four and fix-pence for his front; but he would not part with the other tefter for his principles. Peccavi, erravi, reum, Fateor. Er raticus fervus fum; Nec reverfus fum rurfum. Cum fortuna fit mecum, in vita, Cum verfat me adverfum. Si peccus, valeas, volo; fi non vis Ubi terrarum ibo, AUTRE. En fon patois, Lucas, juroit comme at damné Qu'il fe tordroit le cou, s'il etoit attrap Car de prendre femme, bien, fachoit a galant, Et femme point pucelle, ajoutoit le nant Eft cas a fe pendre: le fot! lai & Quand j'achète vache, je veux avoir le veau. AUTRE. Un mari fe voyoit au moment d'expirer; Hélas! reprit elle, j'ai peur du revenant. Forty Hill, 10th May, 1782. SIR, I called upon a friend of mine the other day, who communicated to me a letter he had received, an extract of which I beg leave to lay before the readers of your etertaining and inftructive Magazine. Inclofed is the piece of an old iron pot, which was changed into copper, and feat me from Wales, with the following defcription: There is a mountain in Anglefea, called Paris Mountain; it abounds wit copper ore, and a water which turns cld iron into the finest copper. A number of fhips are employed in bringing all forts of old iron, which is changed in a very fhort time into the fineft and the pure?? copper. Sir Nicholas Bayley, and a curate, with a family of eight children, are the proprietors. They pay 150l. per week, befides 400l. per quarter to the hands they employ, which are in number 1200, men, women, and children. "It has not been brought to perfection above four years, and the proprietors have refufed 20,000l. a year for it, as long as it lafts." Now, Sir, I fhall be much obliged to any of your learned correfpondents to favour us in your next with a more partic lar account, and an elucidation of this curious phenomenon in natural hiftory. The |