your guinea or more a-week when you like it, while your poor brother and my poor fifter have each large families to maintain in a country where firing is dear, and bread not cheap, and your brother and my brother-in-law find it hard to earn seven thillings a-week, and yet thank God, they are contented. 'Tis true, when they are fick, the parifh is good to them; but when we are all equal, they will do away the Poor's Rates; there will be no Hofpitals to take in the poor when they are lamed; and no Difpenfary to give us phyfic when we are fick. Ah! Will am, let us be thankful and fatisfied with ou fituation; the Curate has fhewn no Equality can benefit us.

I have taken her and the good. Curate's advice-I will go no more to the Club, and I write this in hopes men in my station will fee when they are well off.

SONG.

To the Tune of" Hearts of Oak."

E Britons, fo brave, fo bold and fo free,

I'll fhew you moft clearly the plots that are laid,
To fteal all your comforts, your bleflings invade.
But to join in the cause

Of King, Liberty, Laws,
Ye always are ready,

And fteady, boys-steady,

To defend our Old England, Huzza, boys, huzza!

II.

The French moft perfidious, we ever have found,

Old England they hate, and would fain pull her down;
Our glory they envy, our happiness too,

And would change our old gold, for their tinfel so new.
But we'll fhew in the cause

Of King, Liberty, Laws,

We always are steady,

And ready, boys--ready,

To defend our Old England, Huzza, boys, huzza!

III.

Afraid that the Lion of England should wake,
They try to steal that, they dare not try to take;
They pay wicked men, to feduce you with lies,
And to rob you fecurely, throw duft in your eyes.

But

Then firm in the cause,
Of King, Liberty, Laws,
Ye always are steady,

And ready, boys-ready,

To defend our Old England, Huzza, boys, huzza 1

IX.

Our foldiers are loyal, brave, honest, and true,

Our failors unmatch'd, fhould you fearch the world through ; Our poor, when induftrious, have plenty, and ease,

And Charity holds out her alms to disease.

Then firm in the caufe

Of King, Liberty, Laws,
Ye always are fteady,
And ready, boys-ready.

To defend our Old England, Huzza, boys, huzza!

X.

The King is our father, protector, and friend,
And firmly our rights, and his own, will defend :
Then our hearts and our voices uniting, we'll fing,
And pray for long life, and long reign, to our King.
And ftaunch in the cause

Of King, Liberty, Laws,
We'll ever be steady,
And ready, boys-ready,

To fight for Old England, Huzza, boys, huzza!

LIBERTY AND PROPERTY

PRESERVED AGAINST

REPUBLICANS AND LEVELLERS.

A COLLECTION OF TRACTS.

NUMBER II.

CONTAINING

One Penny worth of Answer from John Bull to his Brother Thomas.-John Bull's Second Anfwer to his Brother Thomas.A Letter from John Bull to his Countrymen.-The Mayor of Paris's Speech on the Murders of the 2d and 3d September.

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ONE PENNY-WORTH OF ANSWER

FROM

JOHN BULL TO HIS BROTHER THOMAS,

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Look e're you leap, and cautious fly from Pain,

Or you will find—Old Chaos come again.

DEAR BROTHER,

London, Dec. 3, 1792.

Thank you for your kind letter. But you need not fear me. -I am neither fo falfe or inattentive to our common interefts, as to believe in, or truft to, "Thofe Revolutionifts and Republicans," as you call them ;-They have, it is true, Brother Thomas, attempted and tried by all their arts and tricks, to turn me; ecod, I think to turn me topfy turvy;-But says I to myfelf;-Who be ye?-What be ye? Where d'ye come from?What d'ye want?-Says Reafon directly," Beware "of wolves in fheeps' cloathing-Hypocrites-Robbers, Murderers, Fellows void of Principle.--Incendiaries who would fet "fire to a house, that they might plunder the property in the

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"confufion; beggars, who are undone in their own fortunes, "and aiming at thy deftruction, John.--Thy barn is well "filled and they want to threth thy corn. John take heed ! !"

Good Nature has (you know, Thomas) always been the character of our family; but don't think me fuch a fool, as to throw away present and certain happiness for the chance of future, when that future alfo is to be fought for and obtained through guilt, and the manifold horrors of murdering innocents, from party prejudice! Sacrificing parental and fraternal affections, and overthrowing thofe HIGH DUTIES which are jufly due, to OUR GOD and to OUR KING!—No Thomas! Never!! Honeft John Bull, I have long been called; honefly fignifies fidelity, perfeverance, and integrity. I poffefs them ALL; and the thrice valuable diftinction of honeft, ihall go down to my children, as the well merited addition to my Name.

We have been holders for many generations of this goodly eftate; and there has not yet been one of the family faithless to his Liege Lord. Shall I then be the first to throw off fealty, because a neft of Rafcally Levellers, from their mouths of envy, cry aloud," we poffefs true Freedom, we are fubject to no "controul; we are the free tenants of the world," not I; I fay with you, Thomas, " its falfe," They have not; they do not poffefs pure freedom; are they not fettered and chained to the car of anarchy; and are they not toiling through the dark paffages of violence, rapacity, famine and death? While we, housed in our comfortable cabins, can hear the wind blow and the rain beat. Our cattle are fafe in the ftall, our corn untrampled by the foe; and if we fhould through the mouldring of time, want a little repair; we have but to afk, AND LANDLORD WILL GRANT THEM. Then again if we have a complaint to make, or are complained against, are we not left to judge for ourfelves, as a body may fay-that is-Don't we jufly determine one neighbour for the other. Here we have pure and true Equaity of British Government!-THAT we'll preferve and continue thankful for to Time's end.

As for High and Low, Rich and Poor, Learned and Ignorant, being Equals all, all of one degree-This is nonfenfe--impoffible. Where is Right and Wrong-where Science and the Arts? Suppofe now, Thomas, chance fhould place you and I in a fhip at fea, where we never were before, thould we fcoff at the failors, for managing the fhip fo well as to bring us fafe back again, when if we were left to ourselves, we fhould be loft, because we did not know how to manage it; fhould we at fuch a time call the failors our equals? It is nonfenfe. Did not their judgment and fkill fave the fhip? Now, Thomas, it is

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juft the fame in the Arts of Government; are not you and I, and ail mankind, benefited by the labours of those that are gone hence, and alfo by the difcernment and fuperior talents of the living, who are higher gifted than ourselves?-Piha! it won't bear talking about-The return of equality must prove the return of mifery; but no more of this foolish stuff.

Let us grant, Thomas, that we do labour a little for the ease we enjoy; don't Landlord work in his turn too; and did not he buy the manor, as one may fay, at least his fathers did for him, and gave a good price too?

As to their "Ca ira," what is it?-In order to get at the real sense of it, I asked our good old Parfon Orthodox, who fays, I am fure Thomas he is right, because it agrees with all their actions. He fays, " Ca Ira," means, "As I'm ruined—as "I'm unhappy-as I am a wretch;—I'll endeavour to render mý neighbour jo too, and bring the happy down to my own mifera"ble forlorn condition; and when I have done that, we shall be all “alike; and then that's EQUALITY.-Perhaps, if I can make "him diffatsified with his fituation, fortitude may for fake him in "an unguarded moment, and, I fupplanting, may rife upon his downfall."

There's "Ca Ira" for you! But is it not fo?—Whoever attempts to disprove it, Thomas, bid him ask of the numberlefs thousands who are now in tears in France, who are crying for the lofs, fome of their fathers-fome of their brothers-fome of their husbands-The old, of the comfortable and only prop of declining life-The young, of their natural protection-babes deprived of their mothers mother's of their offspring-What will he fay then? But let us turn from the dreadful scene; let us unite against the hour " of lamentation, and weeping, "and great mourning, when Rachel may be weeping for her children, and will not be comforted because they are not. To be fure, Thomas, the Lewis's have been bad neighbours for ages. Yet, I bear them no grudge: No, God help them, they are in trouble enough now; let us be warned by their example, and guard against like evils fallen upon them. We should remember, Thomas, we have got no Baftille in England.

As to the cabal overturning religion, it was a branch wanting to the Great Tree of Evil they were about to plant. Not that they are difbelievers, or think RELIGION ufelefs in their hearts. No! They well know-it holds mankind together in the grand chain of univerfal benevolence; That chain, which they wished to divide, to fever Man from his God, and reduce him to a level with the brutes.-Their general re

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