Le plus saint devoir de l'homme est L'INSURRECTION. This shews how perfectly the Rump And Commonwealth together jump; For as a fly that goes to bed La Fayelle. Rests with his tail above his head : Butler. TOPSY TURVY. Man is but a topsy-turvy animal, his head where his heels should be. Swift. OLD England is ill at her ease, "Ah! what Panacéa so grand "Can my old constitution repair ?— Why, dame! on your head you must stand, And kick up your heels in the air: * Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked. Deut. xxxii. 15. Then your health will be equal and good, Our counsel you never can say 'tis Since you find that we offer you gratis So 'tis plain that it never miscarries ; Behold our Republican State To perfection advancing apace, Ever since, where the Head stood of late, *It is said, in the last quackish address of the National Assembly to the people of France, that they have not formed their arrangements upon vulgar practice, but on a theory which cannot fail, &c. Burke's Lett. to a Member of the Nat. Assemb. Note on p. 10. All distinctions we nobly despise,* Yet who views our Convention must own us A groupe who all merits comprize, And each member" rex et sutor bonus." + There's PETHION first on the lists Of Levellers stands with good reason: His logic will make it out plain That allegiance and duty a farce is; And dignity none can retain But rogues without rags to their * Nil ibi Majorum respectus, gratia nulla Umbrarum. + Hor. Sat. lib. i. S. 3. Le plus vil citoyen, dans sa bassesse extrême, Juv. Sat. 8. Voltaire. Brutus, Act. I. Sc. iv. M. Pethion.-When the mob of Sans Culottes, Poissardes, Marseillois, &c. (Anglicè, tag, rag, and bob-tail) had perpetrated the infamous outrages of the 20th of June, 1792, had violated the interior apartments of the Thuilleries, treated the royal family with the grossest indignities for five hours, without intermission, and even attempted the life of their sovereign, Monsieur Pethion at length condescended to give them their dismission in the following address: 66 Citizens, men and women! You began the day with dig |