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This globe of the world, he maintains,

Made itself like our Gallic Convention:

So, to prove ourselves creatures of chance,
We determine, and none shall gainsay us,
By disorganization of France

To establish the empire of Chaos :

What guerdon shall CARRA reward

Whose fame self-acknowledg'd we dwell on ?
Who, for burglary doom'd to the cord
A true philosophical felon,

Now prescribes to reformers a plan
Of morality new and uncommon;

La Nature et la Raison, voilà les dieux de l'homme ! voilà mes dieux! admirez la nature, cultivez la raison, si vous voulez que le peuple Français soit heureux, hatez vous de propager ces principes, de les faire enseigner dans vos écoles primaires. Je l'avouerai de bonne foi à la Convention, je suis Athée." J. Dupont, Moniteur, 16 Decembre. What! are thrones and sceptres demolished! is royalty expiring? and are the Altars of the Gods yet standing!

Nature and Reason are the proper divinities of mankind!— These are my gods! admire Nature, cultivate Reason, if you will consult the happiness of Frenchmen. Accelerate the propagation of these principles; make them the subjects of instruction in your schools and seminaries of education.

For my part I shall avow to the Convention, in good earnest, that I am an Atheist.

And the rights imprescriptive of man

Ascertains by the pillage of woman.

EGALITE'S retrogade worth
Surpasses all praise or rehearsal,

* A favourite term with French philosophers-" Droits imprescriptibles." Rights against which the antiquated prejudices respecting probity, property, honour, &c. are of no validity.

M. Carra is so strenuous an assertor of these imprescriptive rights of man, that he long ago ventured his neck in support of them, by an act of burglary in the shop of a milliner. The most notorious depredations of our philosophical plunderer were committed on the property of females. When publicly reminded of the honourable transaction above-mentioned, he acknowleged the truth of the charge, but asserted, as a sufficient apology for the fact, that he was only sixteen years old when he achieved this his first Civic Enterprize. He has, however, since demonstrated his unabated attachment to these imprescriptive rights, by recent exploits of equal celebrity. In delivering his sentiments to the Convention, he introduces the regeneration of morality in the rear of those inestimable benefits which mankind are to reap from the revolution accomplished by his enlightened compatriots. The Additional Notes will furnish the reader with a short trait of these sentiments, and shew more particularly the happy method which French philosophers adopt of recommending the ingenuity of their speculations by the purity of their practice. See No. III. Additional Notes at the end.

+ M. Egalité ci-devant Duc d'Orleans, first prince of the blood royal of France.

I know no touch of consanguinity.

Troilus and Cressida.

By scoundrels of ocean and earth
Unrivall❜d-poltroon universal!

All jacobin murderers own

His precedence, and hail him "Tu Brute!"
While nearness in blood* to the throne
Makes regicide relative duty.

Thus you see in how striking a light
True merit we strive to exhibit,

The gallantry displayed by this illustrious patriot, when Duc de Chartres, and commanding the third division of the fleet with which d'Orvilliers engaged Admiral Keppel in July, 1779, procured him the ironical appellation of L'Heros d'Ouessant." The most experienced calculators of his numerous negative merits, soon after he had attempted an aerial adventure in a balloon, with his usual intrepidity and success, commonly characterized him in the following terms:

"Poltron par l'air, poltron par terre, poltron par mer, escroc par tout."

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Uniquement occupé de mon devoir, &c. Je vote pour la mort" (du roi.) EGALITE.-Moniteur. Intent solely on discharging my duty, &c. I give my vote for the death (of the king.)

The near in bood,

The nearer bloody.

Macbeth.

All murders past do stand excus'd in THIS,

And this, so sole and so unmatchable,
Shall prove all deadly bloodshed but a jest
Exampled by this heinous spectacle.

K. John.

When our Senators sage we invite

From the gallies, the forge, and the gibbet:
And of equal desert we can boast

Legislators, some hundreds or more,

Who with reason, you'll own, rule the roast;
They were, half of 'em, turnspits before.

At your folly mankind will exclaim
If you share not the fruit of our labours,

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* M. Isnard, for example, the son of a cook; and M. Ruelle, a leading member of the Convention, the quondam administrator of roast and boiled in an obscure eating-house near London, in whose hands there is reason to expect that the regenerated constitution of France, which they have kept so long in hot water, must at length go to pot.

A spice of the science of Cookery appears to be an indispensable ingredient in the composition of illustrious characters, both ancient and modern.

Homer, if we search his books,

Will shew us that his heroes all were cooks, &c.

King's Art of Cookery, &c.

Caliburn, the sword of King Arthur, and the Sword of the renowned Pendragon, were as serviceable in the kitchen as in the field, if we may credit their poetical historian, John Grub, heretofore of Christ's church, Oxford, who says of the last of these worthies:

"His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if you please; 'When it had slain a Cheshire man 'twould toast a Cheshire cheese."

The Reformation-Dagger of Hudibras seems to have been

With the sparks of our patriot-flame

While we freely enlighten our neighbours.

From these sparks you may kindle a blaze,
If fann'd by some notable fellows,

And a grand conflagration you'll raise

Let but PRIESTLEY and PAINE blow the bellows.

equally adroit and accommodating with the swords of these Cambro-Britons, though of a far less sanguinary temper than the daggers of French reformers.

It was a serviceable dudgeon

Either for fighting or for drudging;

When it had stabb'd, or broke a head,
It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread;
Toast cheese or bacon; tho' it were

To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care.

All will allow the valiant champion, Guy of Warwick, to have been æquè laureâ Culinæ ac Martis insignitus, who have contemplated his stupendous porridge-pot in Warwick castle; and Colbrand, his gigantic antagonist, must have been little inferior to him in the former respect, since he is described by the above cited Poet, Grub, as advancing to the combat

"Brim-full of wrath and cabbage,"

undoubtedly of his own cooking.

Nor, in an enumeration of heroes and legislators, will impartiality permit me to pass over in silence the late BAMBER GASCOIGNE, (egregii gustûs Senator) indisputably the first broiler of sprats in Christendom.

Yet it is evident, from the recent samples of state cookery which they have given us, that all must yield the palm to the Conventional cooks; nay, I am confident that even our own VOL. II.

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