1 Without committing treafon. There let the trufty Heffians fteer, Away the dear bought cut-throats go Without much forrow we fhall read How + Sclatzen-Knotzen, Blatzchun bleed, But friends demand the plaintive lay, And by the difpenfing power of admiralty and treasury licences; and (it is faid) that Lord Howe has obtained a patent for the commiffioners to hold an annual fair each fall, and to fell peace, groceries, and haberdashery, to all the Americans who will fubmit and lay down their arms. * General H-R V-Y prevailed on him to fail, without the fecond divifion, by giving him a dose of aurum putabile in his hock. The names of officers in the Brunfwic guards. And felt a foldier's pride; TO CONWAY tune no venal lyre, He loves his country-loves her laws; Germans will ftand th' electric shock, Did you the glorious treaty fign? Who but G-RM-NE could e'er divine, Thefe lineal defcendants of Hengift, have laid in a large flock of old hock, and refused (tho' transports are scarce) to fail without their coaches, as they have fome thoughts of fet tling in America. Lord MANSFIELD fays, their claims by hereditary right are unquestionable. The argument flands thus-England being the mother country, Heffe is the grandmother; as the English (I appeal to Mr. MACPHER SON) can only be confidered as colonifed Heffians. Of algebraic head, That as nine taylors make a man, Old || ISRAEL fhook his new-ground spear, While + GRANT, with fear and shame, Is this the way, moft valorous Lord, "To deftine rebels to the cord." Or conquer at Quebec ? In spite of every § witty boaft, HowE fwings along a barren coaft, -He cou'd n't fave his neck! Thefe "By the Heffian treaty, three wounded men fhall be reckoned as one killed, and paid for accordingly." ISRAEL PUTNAM. See the Parliamentary Register. GEORGE WASHINGTON, + General GRANT. Vincit Amor patriæ. In one of General How E's letters, his excellency makes a desperate attempt to be witty ;---but neck-or-nothing seems to be his military maxim for wit as well as war. "The rebels, (fays he) are hors du danger, if their necks are as fafe as mine," viz. Bofton Neck.---But as this is his first bon-mot, perhaps he will improve in the courfe of the cam Thefe glorious triumphs you may tell, * Unfit to wield the martial blade, -As copper, tho' no warlike mettle, Mr. BURKE's humane bill was thrown out by the country gentlemen (thofe great fupporters of the American war) who were determined to preferve their tenants rights ---to all deo-dands. OF statesmens wiles I fcorn to fing; Can fcarce deferve my praise. Nor let Parnaffian maids be coy, To act-like lords and commons ! Her fprightly fair ones laugh and fing; |