prefer France to America; he was preffed to go there, which he never was to come here; there he would have done no harm, here he may. If he had gone to his adopted country, and accompanied his colleague, Paine, in his legislative career, he might have had an opportunity of anfwering him by word of mouth. The bottom of a dungeon would have been a very fit place for them to debate, like Milton's fallen Angels, on the fureft means of fowing difcord among mankind, and feducing them from their Maker.

One obfervation more on this Answer to Paine, and I difmifs it for ever,

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The zealous Anfwerer boafts of his freedom as an American, at the fame time that he calls himself citizen of France and a fellow of the Royal Society of London! This is being, literally, "all things to all men." With the English he is a royalift, with the Americans a republican, and with the French a carmagnole. Thus the triple Goddess (under whofe influence, Doctor Harrington fwears, he acts) is called Luna in Heaven, Diana on Earth, and Hecate in Hell.

Before I bid the Doctor adieu, I fhould be glad to ask him how he finds himself in his "aflum." It is faid, he has declared that the duplicity of our land-jobbers is more to be feared than the outrages of a Birmingham mob; and indeed, if all his complaints had had the fame appearance of being wellfounded, the public would never have been troubled with thefe Obfervations; for there is little doubt of his having been moft cruelly fleeced. This honeft profeffion, vulgarly called land-jobbing, a member of Congrefs very juftly ftyled "fwindling upon a broad fcale;" it is, in fact, a South-Sea bubble upon terra firma, as hundreds and thousands of ruined foreigners, befides Doctor Priestley, can testify.

It is to be hoped that the Doctor's anger against his country is by this time nearly affuaged; dearbought experience has at laft taught him, that an Utopia never exifted any where but in a delirious brain. He thought, like too many others, to find America a terreftrial Paradife; a Land of Canaan, where he would have nothing to do, but to open his mouth to fwallow the milk and honey: but, alas! he is now convinced, I believe, that those who cultivate the fertile Leafowes of Warwickshire, "Where all around the gentleft breezes play, "Where gentle mufic melts on every spray," have little reason to envy his rocks and his swamps, the mufic of his bull-frogs and the ftings of his mufquitoes.

In the preface, fo often mentioned, the Doctor expreffes a defire of one day returning to "the land "that gave him birth;" and, no offence to the New-York addreffers, I think we ought to with that this defire may be very foon accomplished.He is a bird of paffage, that has vifited us, only to avoid the rigour of an inclement feafon : when the reanimating sunshine of revolution fhall burst forth on his native clime, we may hope to fee him prune his wings, aud take his flight from the dreary banks of the Sufquehannah to thofe of the Thames or the Avon.

THE SHORT

BUT COMPREHENSIVE STORY

OF A

FARMER'S BULL.

A CERTAIN troublesome fellow, who turned his back upon the church, having occafion to pafs through a large farm-yard in his way to a meetinghouse, met with a fine majeftic venerable old Bull lying down at his ease, and bafking in the sunshine. This Bull was at times the tameft creature in the world; he would fuffer the curs to yelp at him, the flies to teafe him, and even some of the mischievous fellows to pull him by the horns. He was at this very moment in one of his gentleft humours ruminating upon paft and present scenes of delight; contemplating the neighbouring dairy and the farm-yard, where the milch cows had all their bags diftended till they were nearly running over; the calves, and the pigs, and the poultry, were frifking, and grunting, and crowing on every dunghill; the granaries were full, and the barns ready to burft; there was, befides, many a goodly rick of wheat, and barley, and oats, and peas, and beans, and hay, and ryegrafs and clover. The dairy was full of curds, and cream, and butter, and cheese of every kind. To be fure, there was plenty for the mafter and his fa

mily, and all the fervants, and every body belonging to the farm. Nay, thofe that were poor and needy, and idle, and lazy, and fick, and proud, and faucy, and old, and infirm, and filly, were freely fupplied; and even this trouble fome fellow himself, notwithstanding he had long fince quarrelled with the head farmer and all his beft friends, and an old grudge was ftill fubfifting betwixt them, yet, upon making at any time a folemn promise to do no mifchief, had free ingrefs, egrefs, and regrefs, in part of the farm and the dairy, and was at liberty to help himself wherever he liked. In fhort, he was allowed to do any thing but skim the cream, and fet his own mark upon the butter.

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Now, because the Bull had happened to place himself across his favourite foot-path, although there was plenty of room to the right and to the left, nothing would fatisfy this impudent fellow but he muft kick Old John, for that was the Bull's name, out of his way and all the world agrees that John fuffered him to kick a long while, before he fhowed the leaft inclination to rife and resent the affront. At last, however, he got upon his legs, and began to look round him, but ftill it was a look of contempt. only, which the foolish fellow miftook for the marks of fear; and now, growing bolder and bolder, and halloping the curs, and calling all his comrades to prick and goad him in the tendereft parts of his body, the Bull began to threaten and roar; this was on the 14th of July, one of the hottest days in the fummer, when fomebody threw a fiery fick under his tail, at the very moment that a parcel of impudent half-witted fellows were trying to flourish a French flambeau (lighted and blazing at both ends) full in his face. No wonder that the Bull fhould fet off with a vengeance in the ftreet :-down went the gingerbreadftalls, and the hardware-fhops, buckle-menders, and the razor-grinders, and the dagger-makers: he even

got

got into private houses, and in one place threw down whole baskets full of bottles and chemical glaffes, crucibles and gun-barrels ; fmafh went all the jars of inflammable air, which inftantly took fire, and fpread all over the place; every thing went to rack and ruin; nothing was fafe; even the religious houses themselves, where nothing had ever been heard but the moft pious exhortations (like thofe of Doctor Vicefimus Knox) to peace and harmony, and obedience to the governing powers. In fhort, nothing could pacify or put a stop to the fury of this poor enraged animal, till his honeft mafter the farmer, as quiet and as good a kind of church-going man as ever lived in the world, father of a large family, hearing of the rumpus, fent a number of his beft and fleadieft old fervants to muzzle the beaft, which had already toffed the fellow with the fiery ftick over the tops of the houses, and gored him in fifty different places. It was next to a miracle that he efcaped with his life; and every body thought he had reason to be thankful that he got off fo well as he did; but no fooner did he find himself fafe in a hackney-coach, than, to the astonishment of all the world, he began to preach up his innocence, and to lodge a complaint against poor Old John, who, in the end, fuffered a great deal more than himself. Some filly people pitied him, fome laughed at him; others again were wicked enough to with him at the devil: even his best friends were afhamed of him: and although they, one and all, defended him as much as they could in public, there was a confounded deal of muttering and grumbling in private. "I thought what it "would come to," faid one; "a pretty method of driving a mad Bull through the church pales," faid another.

But to go on with my story; no fooner was the Bull fairly muzzled, and properly confined, than the friends and neighbours on both fides were called