And of his soul's fine essence grant a And bear me off, unvanquish'd from the

his eye over the political face of his country,and fancies himself wandering in a church yard, where he pauses to weep over the tomb of departed principle. It is indeed true, that instead of the charities that endear at home, ennobling in the hall of state, we here find men not with the virtues of the fire-side, but the vices of the circus. They act as if brought together on pur

of the Commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen." Pray Mr. Wanderer, how many then among us, mind their business? How many are there, that bring dispositions lovely in private life into the service and conduct of our Commonwealth? To how many gentlemen patriots can we lay claim? I have been sitting on a watch-tower; far above the vulgar level; eagerly look-pose to call names, to fight, and to ing out among the partizans of the wrangle, and the scene of contenland for the politician, with front tion is much the more hideous, like Jove; who walks erect in the since from want of skill they are image of his Maker; "caput inter unable to do this, secundum artem. nubila condit;" for whose magna- In lieu of dispositions lovely in nimity in the cabinet, we had a private life, candor, urbanity, suavpledge that could never be forfeited, ity of manner and firmness of mind, amiableness at home. I espied we find in most of our partizans the nakedness of the land. Fran- virulent prejudice, uncouthness at tic at their political orgies, the which rusticity would blush, gross fiends like our primitive progeni- scurrility of language, unmanly and tors, but from an opposite cause, indecisive duplicity of conduct. We were without sense of shame to have few men of liberality among know their nakedness. Our poli- our statesmen,few adherents to printicians are the reverse of BURKE's ciple, few characters of consistent compatriots. It seems to be their correctness. The gentleman patbusiness to bring the dispositions riot is a personage equally rare with that are hateful in private life, into the patriot king. We have those the service and conduct of the Com- who are every where received as monwealth. Domestic demons are gentlemen. They become politiour public deities. Mr. Wanderer, cians, and forfeit all claim to the "these things ought not so to be." character. The instant they atFor the sake of our common coun- tempt to toil up the steep of fame try, in your "wanderings through and party, every thing that is fair, a world of care," take frequent oc- dignified, and honorable drops as casion to admonish of this; that an incumbrance from their shoulwhen the destruction of that coun- ders and rolls down the hill. They try cometh on, you may hold up give a loose to every thing vile in your head and hands to heaven and conception, and scurrilous in exclaim, "These are free from the pression. They indulge in gross guilt of it." personalities, and in all those pitiful meannesses of conduct, of the least of which were any other person to be guilty in their own private abodes, the servants would be instantly ordered to hurl them headlong out of doors. "Oh, this offence is rank !" It degrades the urbanity of the country. The work

With solicitude for the success of you and your labors, remains

WILL WATCHFUL.

His friend Watchful has the thanks of the Wanderer. The subject suggested has caused him regret equally deep. He throws

and industry indispensably requisite to be exerted for its attainment, are thrown away as so much time employed to no purpose. Ambition acts in the twofold capacity of the horse and the owner; the sole stimulant to action being merely to distance all competitors, then to leave the bet, which according to the laws of the turf is fairly won, in the hands of the stakeground, this courser is sure to be the first upon the turf. The character we speak of is Mr. JOHN HORNE TOOKE. After the usual honours of an aca

of civilization is not yet complete. We have not yet cleared the land, We have indeed felled the trees of the forest; but the savage still remains without his noblenesss but with all his wildness. The tomahawk and the scalping knife, had better decide at once, questions in the legislature and the fate of the public, than the faggots of party persecution be thus suffered to burn, while the people stand bound hand and foot, gradually consuming a-demic education, he entered upon holy

round the slow fire.

For the Emerald.

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BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF

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orders; but the seclusion and retirement of a secular life did not well befit his stirring and enterprising genius. An opportunity soon occurred more suitable to the natural bent of his talents. Patriot Wilkes in pursuit of an office, opposed himself to the English ministry with so much success, and set JOHN HORNE TOOK. the representatives and constituents at BIOGRAPHICK sketches of eminent such variance with each other, that the men are usually better received by the kingdom was brought to the very eve public than those actions which the pen of a revolution.-Horne embarked in of the historian records: It is not e- the same cause with Wilkes and was nough that Aboukir and Trafalgar have soon taken to his bosom, and his confiimmortalized the memory of the British dence. This friendship, formed in a hero; public curiosity pries into the re-whirlwind, expired as soon as its cause cesses of private life, and claims an in- had abated. Horne, who had formerly spection of every action even the most tried the strength of his pen for the proinsignificant. The truth is, after a man motion of Wilke's popularity; has by some action rendered his name made an experiment of its accuteness iHustrious, he attaches a degree of his in its demolishment. In this he was own importance to every trifle of his not so successful; for his hostility to life. This propensity so inherent in our Wilkes, drew on him the resentment of nature, ought to operate on the mind the scalping Junius. The reader has of a great man as a salutary caution, already anticipated the Parson's suc not to forfeit that character acquired by so much toil and jeopardy, by a sub. cess; but now that the effervecence, of sequent life. Having made himself party is over, it is presumed will agree the property of the public; he should with us in thinking, that Horne as far transcends his antagonist in argument, be prepared and confirmed for the rigid as he falls below him in satire and inscrutiny that hard task-master imposes. vective. From this time, he appears The present sketch of a character to have lain dormant, and we hear nothwell known in the literary world does ing of him, save an action of defamanot aspire to the dignity of biography. tion instituted against him by Lord It was conceived that some anecdotes Onslow for words spoken by Mr. Horne, found in the course of desultory read-in his opposition to the election of his ing, such as served to mark the distin- lordship, as a member of the House of guishing trait in the mind of man, who is the object of them, might not be unacceptable, although not arranged in chronological order. This trait is conceived to be, an understanding wonder-al fully acute, led by a wild ambition that is altogether indifferent what may be the object of pursuit. That object when obtained, is abandoned, and all the labour

Commons.

It was some time subsequent to this, that Mr. Horne acquired the additionname of Tooke. An old relation of that name left him an estate on condition that he would take his name. Mr. Horne complied with the condition and took the estate.

accordingly wrote a volume entitled "The Diversions of Purley," where those difficult parts of grammar known by the name of prepositions which seemed before to have eluded all definition, have their boundariies fixed and ascertained with a precision and accuracy truly surprising. Lord Mansfield, and his two prepositions "of and concerning," are treated with all the severity of abuse. Nay the giant of ortho

for a double share of invective. This curious and original treatise is a mirror that reflects to every reader, the whimsical mind of its author. We observe the flaming revolutionist; the opponent of the English ministry, in almost every page of a work, professedly written on

The difference between Great-Britain and her colonies now occupied the attention of Europe, and the world. In this controversy, Horne embarked with his accustomed energy; and was the author of a publication which, whatever, as Americans we may think of its justice and propriety, was undoubtedly a libel for an Englishman to write. For this he was informed against before the Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, and Thurlow, then Attorney-General, after-graphy, Dr Johnson, himself, comes in wards Lord Chancellor, was counsel for the crown. Horne, in his argument for his defence, seemed to have thought that he had exchanged stations with the Judge, for he certainly treated his lordship with all the respect due to a culprit. The Attorney General on the other part was no mean hand at invec-grammar. Horne, was thueindebted to tive, and such a bout of altercation ensued that it would be difficult to determine which party gained the most honThe issue of which was to Horne fine and imprisonment, and to Lord Mansfield a libel-Having thus balanced accounts with the Judge. We are next presented with the view of a Parson metamorphosed, into a Lawyer. From the variety of reported cases cited at his trial, and his dexterity and address in their application, we are led to form an high opinion of his knowledge of jurisprudence, which are the only instances left upon record.

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Lord Mansfield for the rescue of his name from the oblivion which awaited the other political writers of the day. A wish to catch so eelebrated a character, as that of his lordship, tripping on any point, even if it was only a grammatical one, was incentive enough to set the malicious ingenuity of Hurne on inquiry and research. In the first transport of his revenge, he published a letter addressed to serjeant Dunning, where the grammatical legality of liis lordship is severely called in question. Afterwards, as leisure and inclination expanded the dimensions of his subject, he followed the train of his reflections, and found himself the author of a volume; trifies in themselves have thus often stamped the characters of men, with immortality. Cowper never knew the overflowing treasures of his own genius until a subject, so insignificant as a sofa, threw it open. Whatever may be thought of the revolutionist, and the fiery zealot of political innovation, the grammarian, will long command reverence and admiration,

This trial in all probability put the subject of the present memoirs on a tract of investigation, to which his ins was beyond any other man of his time competent. An exception was taken to his information and the court of King's bench were moved to reverse their judgment, on the ground that his offence was not specifically stated. He was charged with having published “a libel of and concerning his Majesty's government, and the employment of his troops." The objection to the indict- Unfortunately the birth of the French ment turned on the meaning of the two Revolution awoke him from his dreams prepositions "of and concerning." This of literary repose. His pen once more led to a discussion more resembling the teemed with libels against the governdebate of two grammarians on a ques- ment of his country. He remonstrated, tion of grammar, than such as occupy he herded with Paine, he proposed to the attention of a court of Justice. Not the people every species of ruin in the withstanding Horne was unsuccessful shape of a parliamentary reform. He in his attempt to reverse the informa-"nosed parliament in the very seat of tion, he was still strong on this point, and did not conceive that the sentence of a court of King's bench settled a grammatical question beyond dispute. He

its authority" by one of the most insufferable libels, in the form of a petition, ever addressed to that body. If a disorganizing society was formed, John