THE RETORT. The life has gone; the breath has fled; HENRY NEELE. (1798-1828.) T, n., manual art. , ud., gladly. CON-CEIVE', v. t., to form in the mind. Nɛ day, a rich man, flushed with pride and wine, To crack a joke upon his secretary. Young man," said he, "by what art, craft, or trade, Did your good father earn his livelihood?" -- He was a saddler, sir," the young man said; A saddler, eh? and had you stuffed with Greek, At this each flatterer, as in duty bound, The joke applauded, and the laugh went round. At length, the secretary, bowing low, Said (craving pardon, if too free he made), Your father's trade." My father's trade? Why, sir, but that's too bad! My father's trade? Why, blockhead, art thou mad? My father, sir, was never brought so low: He was a gentleman, I'd have you know!" Indeed! excuse the liberty I take ; But, if your story 's true, How hannened it your father did i make Marco Bozzaris fell, in a night attack on the Turkish camp, at Laspi, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory. Pronounce the a in Boz-za'ris like a in far. Ar midnight, in his guarded tent, When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, At midnight, in the forest shades, * Bozzaris ranged his Su'liote band, True, as the steel of their tried blades, - There had the Persian thousands stood, And now these breathed that haunted air- An hour passed on - the Turk awoke; He woke to hear his sentry's shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!" He woke to die midst flame and smoke, And shout, and groan, and saber stroke, Strike - for till the last armed foe expires; ON RECONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. They fought, like brave men, long and well; His few surviving comrades saw His smile, when rang their proud "hurrah," Then saw in death his eyelids close, Like flowers at set of sun. Bozzaris! with the storied brave, Greece nurtured in her glory's time, We tell thy doom without a sigh ; That were not born to die. HALLECK. 105 XXXVIII. — ON RECONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. RE-PEAL', v. t., to make void. RE-TRACT', v. t., to take back. AL-LAY', v. t., to repress; to check. RE-MOVAL, n., act of removing. COM-PLI-CA'TION, n., an entanglement. DES'POT-ISM, n., absolute power. In acts, subjects, &c., sound the t. Do not say civl for civil. 1. AMERICA can not be reconciled-she ought not to be reconciled-till the troops of Britain are withdrawn. How can she trust you, with the bayonet at her breast? How can she suppose that you mean less than bondage or death? It is not repealing this or that act of Parliament, it is not repealing a piece of parchment, - that can restore America to our bosom. 2. You must repeal her fears and her res and you may then hope for her love and But now, insulted with an armed force post ton, irritated with a hostile array before her concessions, if you could force them, would cious and insecure, - the dictates of fear, ar tortions of force! 3. But it is more than evident that, princi united as they are, you can not force the A to your unworthy terms of submission. Repe fore, my lords, I say! But bare repeal will n this enlightened and spirited people. You through the work. You must declare you right to tax. Then they may trust you. 4. There is no time to be lost. Every m big with dangers. While I am speaking, the blow may be struck, and millions involved in sequence. The very first drop of blood shed i and unnatural war will make a wound whic perhaps ages, may not heal. 5. When your lordships look at the paper mitted to us from America, — when you consid decency, firmness, and wisdom, you can no spect their cause, and wish to make it your must declare and avow, that, in the master s the world, I know not the people nor the sena under such a complication of difficult circum can stand in preference to the delegates of A Assembled in General Congress at Philadelphi genuine sagacity, for singular moderation, fo wisdom, manly spirit, sublime sentiments, an plicity of language, for every thing respectal honorable, they stand unrivaled. 6. I trust it is obvious to your lordships t ON RECONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. 107 st be vain, must be fatal. This wise people speak They do not hold the language of slaves. They you what they mean. l your laws as a favor. They do not ask you to re They claim it as a right; y demand it. They tell you they will not submit them. And I tell you the acts must be repealed. › shall be forced ultimately to retract. 7. Let us retract while we can, not when we must. ay we must necessarily undo these violent, opprese acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal m. I pledge myself for it, that you will, in the end, peal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will cont to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally reled.* Avoid, then, this humiliating, this disgraceful cessity. 8. Every motive of justice and of policy, of dignity 1 of prudence, urges you to allay the ferment in erica, by a removal of your troops from Boston,— a repeal of your acts of Parliament. On the other ad, every danger and every hazard impend, to deter from perseverance in your present ruinous meases: foreign war hanging over your heads by a slight brittle thread; France and Spain watching your duct, and waiting the maturity of your errors! 9. To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus perwere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will say that they can alienate the affections of his subts from the crown, but I will affirm that they will ke his crown not worth his wearing. I will not say at the king is betrayed, but I will pronounce that - kingdom is undone ! LORD CHATHAM. (1708-1778.) This prediction was verified. After a three years' fruitless war, the re |