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PETliK's PETITION.
To ilc Or’ph of Taria'iis, whcr
. fh ■ rll y I hop#
Vor ir.y f * rice on canh, to he great **
« P' pe ;
With hope, juflly founded for fuch h
bicll meeting,
J fciid my pcti'iou to B.'lcbuS greeting :
I
} Jail ! potent di»e£tnr of Demons 1 e'o .v,
Prasy come to my aid, or i'vc Hru k my
la It h ovv *
One aiomcn , . , i delay, truy deftroy ali
nnr g one*, •
For Hell hi 10 pay upon earth with
the Toriee.
' You need not be told how with plcaftire
qtiue frantic,
To el cape from a halter I cr offed the
. ' Atlantic ;
,■ * Nor nf d I rc .ca fe, hoar by you kindiy
aided, /
The rights of the people, I fhortly In
faded ;
How bieft were rtf d »ys I how en
chaming my d'csriis,
governtueos, 00, feem’d to rclifh
• my K hem b I
I fcnbblrt, I buillcJ, I cring'd ai d I
bowed, ' .
And was highly cerclT.d by the torified
croud.
My dearcll .friend Bf t-e, 1 then U* 1
* in clovtr,
But, alas I I am afraid we are nearly
done over \
II you, my dear Mentor, this once can
relieve me,
I*ll frt out a icfh and there's nothing
fhall gti vc me ;
Your voyage to Orcai Britain, you well
may rcmem, c,
1 think it took pace oo the firft cf
be preraber,
When you from friend BBy had filch
‘ a loud oil, and
Concerted the plan at to taking of
Holbnd ;
* i'was then in your abfcncc my forrows
began.
„4ud with farrow 1 found 1 o;uft give
up my plan.
Your abl cnee, a moment, I found
upon trying,
FfTcnrally Uffru'd my talents for lying ;
For, what think you, Bclzce, my d*rl
ing GaiilCv,
Which fo long the applaufc of the
Tones had met,
Began to lole ground ; and its dcpreciv
tion,
Prot’d a prefage too true of i’l fudden
da moat ion.
I drove like a Hc6tor, but found it in
fain,
*1 wrote to Bill Pitt, but oo ar.fwcr
could gain,
(fl o’ p-obably ? Rilly was buff a 1 work
Defeating the French wth the biavc
Duke of |Vke/
length I determined to pull the
firing,
So fluak up my quilll, and LuiiaM for
the kmg.
) foor hound a fuhj £t fuffic»«otly mean,
And * r up niy pipes to the tunc of
M‘lCcid,
Bu; fome bow or o:hcr, I found very foon
My pipesol perd ton were f«t to a lu; c,
Which though not a pupil of ihiuc
_ could play neater,
If followV, w u d foon cod the neck
of poor Pc er.
D-fcouragcd, I then (hon’d hate yield
id to fate,
If you had not com: and replcnifh'd
my p*tc.
giv o dirttt’onfl to kick up a brufh,
a r.o ed phjfk’.au Lamed lien*
jamm Ru.Ti
how fkall wc ever make up the
defat’,
Ifuppofc you have heard of my fuddeu
rctf'-ac ;
Gainlt Kufh and the Dcmoi I could
not prevail,
Fod they p uckrd every quill from my
head to my tail.
1 now with impatience am waiting at
Fork,
Jtlop ng ioo« you’ll hire Icifutc to fet
me ai wwk (
H, -rtly sb nr B. I.;r» and p ey do
not llurnber,
For i !a»e'y h.vc p heed my very lalt
numb; r,
And in it, O matchlcls ! all candor dc*
With cry ufual ailurar.ee, and pntncl*
at iy ng,
f o plealc you J ar friend j this effartioo
I made,
That 1 all Ilits time had b-en A ( J a m'< aid,
But Adams, I told Ultra, began to
grow fit it t u'h
And refufed to lurrender tlefc tiates to
(he Briiifli \
So I for hie leaf jo (which'could be no
It onger)
Dctirmin d at Once to afliil him no
longer.
Say Btlzcr, what think you, this can*
not demean us,
Thu* the wbol; was my own /'ll devidc
it between us. , # -
As people w li judge an aflerl irn fo civil,
Muil come from great Pcttr, or elfa
from the Dev I.
And now my dear rosftcr, for oucc
hear my pray’r,
And prom fc lulfil, and make Peter thy
'. are }
/n Fork pray afHH me to k ck up r riot,
(For y-u know J'm ur.happy when
pcop e arc quit )
Save my neck it you can , but what
dear, much mo on, \
Aru cd our imaiulatc fiicods the old
To. us.
And grant chat they long may in mif
«h tf c,\cel,
Till ihcy meet their deferts iu the re*
gions oi h il>
The Democrats, who have eccomplifhed
my . uin
/bifeech thee to hurry their final uo
doing ;
Cuifc them all, men and boys, young
miflcs aud madams ■
Lait of all, curie that lumabou! fellow
John \dams.
And fhuu'd ycO, great potentate, tb ek
it expedient,
Bi y Pitt, rhy for ever obedicat j
/utp re him with puns, to keep peace
from the nation,
j/nd to comfort the poor with new bill*
of taxatiou.
Mij the king, by opprr£Qon, bis
treafures enhance,
l o enable h m awhile to bold out
tgamll Fuucc ;
That ihy teep re, and his, earth and
heaven may fway.
Thy humble petitioner ever will pr»y.
AN EPIGRAM
The winter monthg our con
grefs.Gtf
Some millions for to raife,
And ali that time employ their
wits
In finding means and ways ;
The other months <?ur heroes
fpend—
In doing what ? you'll fay,
Why Taiih in finding ways and
means,
To fquander it away.
W-M»y mirnm I
A Highlander who fold
brooms went into a barber’s
Ihop in Glafgow to get fhaved
I he b nber bought one ot his
br oms, after he had fhavedhim
a*ked him the price ? “ Two
pence,” laid the Highlander,
No, no/' faid the barber,
“ IM give you a penny ; If that
does not letisfy you take your
broom again, we’li not make a
bargain.” The Highlander took
if, and alked what he had to pay,
“ A penny” fays flrap. “ No,
no, by faith,” fays Duncan,
“ T1 give you 3 iialf penny, if
that does not fatbfy you, put on
my beard as it was before, and
well not make a bargain/'
C O N G R E S S
OP TUI
UNITED S T AXES.
House or Representatives,
Mejfage of ike Prefiden ’ relative to
Thomas NaQi
ALIAS
Jonathan Robbins#
Houfc in Committee*—Mr. £&mOio
in the Chair.
Tharjday t February 27,
Mr. JONES ( From Georgia)
faid that finding himfclf, from
the vote he was about to give
implicated in the charge made
by the gentleman from Delaware
(Mr. Bayard) that gentleman
who wcic yefterday afhamed to
vote for the proposition to dif
charge the committee from far
ther consideration of the fubjed
in general and exp refs terms,
becaufc it would imply a diftruft
of the Sufficient ground to Sup
port the principles of the rofolu
tions, were now difpofed to ef
fctl the Same objed by a dccifton
which would in fad go to cved
mg the queftion during the pre
lent feflion, he felt himSclf im
pelled by a refped for his own
condud, to explain the motives
which would govern his vote on
the preSent queftion. He con
lidcied the cafe which had been
called into view by the propofi
tion of the gentleman from
Ncw-York (Mr. Livingfton) as
one that involved in it the dear
eft inteiefts and deepcftconcerns
of the people of the United
States. She gentleman from
Delaware (Mr. B.; and the gen
tleman from Connecticut (Mr.
Dana) had indulged themfelves
in the mod violent invedives,
and unneeflary ahuie againft
the unfortunate, theoblcurc and
infignificant charadernow dead,
who wos the fubjed of this pro
position, on this topic they had
cxerciled all their powers of
paliionato declamation, if this
was a grateful theme for the
employment of th<yr talents he
did not envy them the enjoy
ment of it. How that kind ol
argument couhi apply to the
queftion he .left the houfc to de
termine.
For his part he deemed it to
tally immaterial whether the
man wis as they had declared,
an Irifhman or not, whether he
was a Turk, a Hottentot, ora
native born American, if he
claimed to be an American ciri
zen and produced a certificate
in due form, under the fijnature
' O
of a proper officer, of his cit»zen
fhip, and that claim was ft ght
cd *by the Judge, or declared
immaterial, and the fad not en
quited into of his being a citi
zen, then he conceived the lafc
ty of the citizens of America, to
be equally put in jeopardy, as if
the man had been born and
railed in Charlcllon, in the cir
cle of the j adze's own acqruia*
CA u * he tfkcd, B d
a.mcc at my bread by a n
fin in the dark, {hould by 2
take or .mpetuoCty pir / e ,£
no on lbe of^r ano'he0 ' her * *O«S
not the difeorery 0 f f uc i,
; an attempt awaken alarm, and
demand a precaution f O , my flt
ture fafety ? Certainly it would
So , n ihi* cafe, if this man
claimed to be a citizen and bore
about him the legal voucher 0 f
that claim, and if he was told irj
the prefence of American dti.
zens, *• it is of no importance
whether .you arc, or are not a
citizen, that is a point of no con
cern in the cafe," notwithftand*
*ng it may aftcrwaids be found
he was no citizen, yet would it
involve the lafety of every true
citizen who might fall into find,
hr circumflanccs. We may
congratulate ourfclves that it has
not fal cn on a fellow citizen,
but we ought Hill to improve the
refion this cafe has prefented
Mr. Jones hoped that ir would
be improved, and that at leaft,
legifl uive provifion would be
made to prevent this decifion
from operating on a citizen if
fuch a cafe (hould occur in fj.
ture ; this min was a citizen to
ail intents and purpofes, fo far
- s refpefts the precedent. If he
claimed that light and produced
a voucher to teflify u, and was
entitled to all the privileges, of
a citizen till his claim and certi
ficate had been formally proven
to be falfc. Mr. |.faid to as
certain with certainty whether
this claim was put in, and how
it was treated it certainly
necctfaiy to procure authentic
copies of the record and pro*
cceding* in the cafe from the
the court, and every ray of evi
dence that could be obtained ; •
nothing could be more effential
in deciding on the conduct of
the judge than to have an au
thentic account of the proceed
ings. Gentlemen Teemed ex
tremely anxious to have the
quedion decided early, on ac
count of the cenfurc hanging
over tha executive by continu
ing the bulioefs on the tabic.
It is true Mr (. faid the pa
pers now called for were not ne
celiary to determine on that part
of the lefioiution which charges
the executive with interfering
withthe judiciary, on this point
no further evident c was wanted,
that was an abftrad quetbon
and might be fo decided, bat
there was a probability that the
evidence to be obtainedfrom the
court in Charlcllon might be
material to another charge of
implication againll the preh*
dent. If it (bould by any means
be proved, that the prtfidentj
was informed of, or knew tha
man had claimed to be acitizcp,»
when he was finely as much tq
blame in not making the diliinc
tion as the judge; it was polli*
blc this might appear from tome
of the proceedings or papers
before the court.
Gentlemen were (enfibly af
fected for the pretident's fcchpg*