PRISON ECLOGUE. PRIESTLEY and COOPER. Priestley. AT ease reclining on thy truckle bed, I, wretched wight! have left my native plains, May'st give thy pent-up spleen its utmost scope; Cooper. (e) O gentle Doctor, were my sceptic mind (a) Tityre, tu patule recubans sub tegmine fagi. (b) Musam meditáris avená. (c) Nos dulcia linquimus arva; Nos patriam fugimus; (d) tu Tityre, (e) O Melibaa. (f) Deus nobis hæc otra fecit. Namque erit ille mihi semper Deus. Ille meas errare boves,, ut cernis, et ipsum Ludere, quae vellem, calamo permisit agresti. Alluding to a paper called The Daily Repast, published in the Philadelphia prison. That, My god he shall be, oft to him shall flow Priestley. (g) I envy not thy happiness, I own: Cooper. (7) I thought (ah! simpleton for thinking so) (g) Non tamen invideo: miror magis. (b) Spem gregis, ab! silice in nuca connixa reliquit. (i) Sæpe malum boc nobis, si meas non læva fuisset De colo tactas memini predicere quercus (Sæpe sinistra cava prædixit ab ilice cornix) (k) Sed tamen, iste Deus qui sit, da, Tityre, nebis. (1) Urbem, quam dicunt Romam-putavi Stultus, ego huic nostre similem Sic canibus catulos similes Noram * Alluding to Dr. Priestley's attack on the federal constitu tion, in his Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland, which fell almost still born. † Porcupine. I 2 Was Was like the city* where our artful song But what to Philadelphia turned thy flight? Cooper: (m) Sweet liberty," that goddess heavenly bright;" (9) Tend for six moons the flocks that wait thee there; Priestley. (r) Thrice happy man! then thou at length hast found A resting place-for thee an ample bound. What though the walls are bare, though noisome smells (m) Libertas, quæ sera tamen respexit inertem. (n)-Nec tam presentes alibi cognoscere divos. (0) Hic illum villi (p) Hic mibi responsum primus dedit ille petenti; (g) Pascite, ut ante, boves (r) Fortunate senex ? Non insueta graves tentabunt pabula fætas. * Manchester. + Cooper, while at Manchester, invented a mode of BLEACHING COTTON by the help of INFLAMMABLE AIR. He burnt the cottons, became a bankrupt, turned patriot, and emigrated to America.-A very natural progress towards perfectability. No No mead untry'd thy cumber'd flock invites, (s) Here 'neath the lowly shed, with murmur hoarse, Deep on the ear shall pond'rous hammers come, Cooper. (t) Sooner shall guilty Jacobins forgive, (s) Hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator— He pretended *TENCH COXE, a most furious Jacobin. great attachment to the royal cause, during the rebellion, and actually went out to meet Sir William Howe, when that general approached Philadelphia; but he has since been remarkable for his enmity to Great Britain, and his devotedness to France. † M-Kean, the present governor of Pennsylvania. JEFFERSON (now a candidate for the Presidency), who wrote a foolish account of a monster, which he called MAMMOTH, is one of those who have long owed vast sums to the British merchants.-His father-in-law, Mr. Wales, was an Englishman, who owed his fortune to the triendship of Messrs. Farrel and Jones, of Bristol. Mr. Wales ordered in his will, that previous to any division of his property amongst his sonsin-law, the debt due by him to the heirs of his benefactors should first be discharged; but these pious sons-in-law, instead of obeying the will, retained the amount of the debt, till, in consequence of an iniquitous confiscation law passed in Virginia, they were enabled to pay it into the treasury of that state, in depreciated paper money-Jefferson was one of those sons-in-law. Such is the man who is now VICE PRESIDent, and who will probably be PRESIDENT of the free, enlightened, and happy Republic of America.-And will they yet have the impudence to tell us about the VIRTUES of a Republic? Priestley. But I unhappy! whither shall I flee? Cooper. Yet here with me beguile the night, and share REPUBLICAN MORALITY, Published in the London Porcupine, of November 10th, 1800. We shall here begin the necessary undertaking of detecting the artful and malicious insinuations of the Morning Chronicle, respecting the conduct of his MAJESTY's ships of war in the Atlantic Seas. (v) -Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos. (u) Pauperis et tuguri congestum cespite culmen (w) Impius bac-miles babebit? Barbarus bas segetes? (x) Ite me, quondam felix pecus, ite capelle. (y) -Sunt nobis mitia ponia (x) Et jam summa procul culmina fumant Majoresque cadunt. Το |