CHORUS. Then, hail celeftial Liberty! fly round this mortal fphere, And, in thy bleft redeeming courfe, unchain thy children here. Soon o'er this fuff'ring ifland, in Freedom once fo bleft, This vital beam returning, fhall cheer the Briton's breast ; Vain is the impious arm of pow'r, or craft of tott'ring pride, To ftop the heav'n directed ray, or turn its course aside. Tho' foul Corruption's baseness hath fold our ifle to woe, Tho' deeds of dire deftruction awhile have laid us low; The hour comes on, when Britain's fon's their bleffings fhall regain, And hard Oppreffion's iron rod, be broken here again. Through each eventful æra, that founds in British song, To Roman, Saxon, Norman, Dane, whoe'er the fway belong, Still ftruggling Freedom reftlefs burn'd, unconquer'd by controul, And while the body bent to fate, more firmly rofe the foul. It matters not what fafeguard the tools of pow'r devife, Swords, edicts, chains, or bribes, on which still tyrant fway relies ; They feel their coming fate, and know, tho' force upholds their guilt, One British moment strikes to duft the works their fears have built. E'en in this deadly moment, when force and fraud combin❜d, Have Stopp'd the breath of Freedom, and-broka the British mind; The buried fpark, retouch'd by Heav'n, and piercing thro' the strife, Shall from the grave of Freedom burst, and—light us back to life! 'Tis thus, the God of Britain, in danger ever faves, Still Fate renews our Freedom, when tyrants doom us flaves. They They crush her in our vices down, but when our virtues join, John ferves her caufe on Runnymede, and James upon the Boyne. Oh! give me life, ye powers, that happy hour to meet, When ftrangled Freedom breathes again, in this her ancient feat; When, 'stead of tame degen'rate floth, the patriot flame infpires, And British bofoms glow again, with all their father's fires. Oft times I view in fancy, the bursting blaze expand, And fee the electric fpirit fly, like light'ning o'er the land; See all the jealous fervour rage; the virtuous tumult roar, And hear th' avenging Phalanx fay―Thus ftood our fires before. Then cheer'd by British story, let's meet the coming day, When Heav'n's correcting mercy fhall fcourge the fiends away; A breath can blast their tyranny, a touch unloose the chain, And when they fall, as fall they must, we live redeem'd again. Oh Liberty! from traitors, avert our country's death! Watch o'er this natal moment, that gave thy champion breath, Preferve through England's dangers, this great, this British mind, And, midft the dismal wreck of state, leave Fox to fave mankind. A JOURNAL OF EVENTS, WHICH WE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED, IF THE JACOBIN PARTY HAD SUCCEEDED IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW THB GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY FOR A WEEK. T Ift July, 1794. HIS day, citizen C *** reported to the British convention, that he had discovered a distant relation of royalty, whom the committee of public safety had negligently overlooked.-Resolved, that he be immediately delivered over to the revolutionary tribunal. Several clergymen, who had been detected in the act of preaching the gofpel, were included in the fame refolution. 2d July. Margaret White, aged 79, was guillotined with 47 others. Her crime was of the blackest nature; in having given relief to three of her grand-children, who were in a state of accufation. 3d July. The convention received the report of the ftate of the prifons; when it appearing, that no more prifoners could poffibly be contained in them, ordered, That on Wednesday next, a goal-delivery take place; to be conducted by two commiffioners, appointed by the republick, who fhall decide, whom it is proper to fpare, and whom it is proper to guillotine. Their power of mercy not to extend to fuch as are defcended from peers, or bear the family name of any fuch peers, nor to those who have any property, real or personal, in the state; and that in the mean time all criminals, who fhall be apprehended, be confined in the Temple of Liberty. 4th July. The pest-fields, (formerly Carnaby-Market) were opened to receive the bodies of fuch as had been guillotined the preceding week, the people having more occafion for burying-places than markets. The heat of the weather confpiring with the carnage to in-fect the air, great danger of a plague. 5th July.-Fifty-four perfons guillotined. A hairdreffer apprehended for an attempt to attain fovereignty; which was clearly proved, from his having been heard to fay, that he had gained a croun that day by dreffing fome of the convention. The revolutionary tribunal. enjoined to make ftrict fearch for thofe members who had confpired to advance this man to the throne. 6th July.-Loud complaints for want of provisions. An addrefs from Sh―d, praying that the convention would take fuch meafures as in their wifdom they thought beft, to annihilate all thofe who complain of want want of any kind, and that they would decree poverty a counter-revolutionary quality. A mutiny among the foldiers;-quelled by doubling their pay. 7th July. The national commiffioners proceeded to execute their office: liberated feven, ordered for execution 470, who were guillotined in the courfe of fix hours and a half. Thanks voted to the public executioner, for his zeal and difpatch. Eight thoufand more of the French landed, to take poffeffion of those towns which were granted them by treaty, for their affiftance in the revolution. The people very clamorous-Fresh rumours of plots-A riot in the city-A rifing in the North-A defcent in the Weft-Confufions, uproars, commitments, guillotinings, &c. &c.-Tom Paine appointed dictator for the prefent. Tu Jupiter, quem ftatorem hujus urbis atque imperii vere nominavimus, Hunc et Hujus focios, a tuis ari ceterifque templis, a tectis urbis, ac moenibus, a vita fortunifque civium omnium, arcebis; et omnes bonorum inimicos, hoftes patriæ, latrones Italiæ, fcelerum fœdere inter fe, ac nefarià focietate conjunctos, æternis fuppliciis vivos, mortuofque mactabis. I [St. James's Chron.] SIR, CICERO IN CATILINAM. BEAR-LEADING. KNOW not whether it hath ever happened in your lot, but I am persuaded it hath happened often in that of many of your correspondents, to fill the honourable and neceflary office of bear-leader. If you have, you will fully comprehend the expediency of the plan I am about to propose. But in cafe there fhould be any of your readers fo deplorably ignorant as not to understand what I mean by a bear-leader, give me leave to explain the meaning of the term. A bear-leader, then, is a good-natured inhabitant of London, who receives once a year, or perhaps oftener, a vifit from half a dozen country coufins; coufins; whom he is under the neceffity of accompanying to all public amufements, and to whom he must fhew all public exhibitions, between WeftminsterAbbey and Greenwich Hofpital one way, and between Vauxhall and Sadler's-Wells the other way. He muft attend them every day and night, during their stay in town, whatever other engagements of bufinefs, &c. may be preffing; and all this he muft do with the greatest pleasure and good humour imaginable; albeit, any appearance to the contrary notwithstanding, he wishes them all at the d-1, and regrets that they did not break their necks in coming to town. Such, Sir, is a bear-leader. Now, Sir, it will not require much eloquence to prove that this is, to a citizen of London particularly, a very inconvenient and troublesome office. For, Sir, not to speak of the lofs of time, and of the expence, there are very few men in London qualified for the office, from another confideration; namely, their not having feen the fights themselves. And I hold it as very found doctrine that a man who has never feen the infide of St. Paul's or the Abbey, is very ill-qualified to fhew them to ftrangers; efpecially as ftrangers are apt to afk queftions, and it appears very aukward not to be able to fatisfy the demands of curiofity, about matters with which we are prefumed, from local habitation, to have a perfect acquaintance. If to this you will add what I have already hinted, refpecting the lofs of time and bufinefs, (very ferious things to a man who knows what pounds, fhillings, and pence mean,) I hope you will agree with the plan I am about to propose. There are a great many idle gentlemen and ladies about town, who are at a great lofs to difpofe of their time, and whofe means are but fcanty, I would have a few of the most public spirited, and best informed of them, obtain a charter, incorporating them as the worshipful company of bear-leaders. All ftrangers,. who wish to fee fights, fhould have only to fend to their office, or hall, informing the clerk, that they want |