SUPPLEMENT to the Cape-Fear MERCURY, No. 52
THE BRUNETTE AND THE POOR BOY.
(See Suppt, No. 51.^
To ^ipetre trickling Tears, that dew the Cheek
Of pallid Woe; to fmonth Grief’s wrinkled Biow;
To give the placid Saiile to deep Defpair,
And Joy to Angui{h....Pieirurcs fuch as thefe
All courteous Charity creates. —
M—-p.
much more to my Satisfadion, than if I hi4
fat down with my Head mil of fesquipedalian
Speeches; and told the World that, in thii
ty which I then tclr, but this philofophic, illumined Age, “ tucSun is noc
more regretted when he is eclipled than when
he fets, and that Mete >rs play their Corufea-
or Prcdic-
AD I pafPrd tills Brunetts
without at her, f
^ IT ^ ^
,, ctlZ would have avoided the anxie
ty ^ H Jp
B -
is a Kind of prudential Forc-
k.0©0/5^ feldom attend to,
and I very little regard what 1 foffer (provid
ed my Sufferings relpeCt myielf lolely) v/hen
I know my intentivins are (as then) pure •
bcfides, the Pangs of Tendernels amply com-
penfate any little l^ilquictudes they occa-
ion us ; and (although this may appear arrant
Nonfenlc to fome,) I have found jc lo in
genera! ; and a Confederacy ot ail t!ie Inlen-
fi.bles in the Univerfe, whether gartered.
tions without PrognofticationS
tions.”
or mured, Iha!! never make mi chaii' c
my Sei.tirritPits.....That would be high Trea-
{on againit kxpcrimce, and every Body knows
how abloiute a Monarch She is ; She deeiHs
her'elf the in'^allible Rule of Right in all
C.ilrs, and never liftens to the petitions or
Remoi.ftrances ol her Subjects aga.nft her
fovereign Fiat, and there is foine Realon for
it They may ^rr hut She r.st'cr can.
How happy would it be for Millions of
poor honeft F/ebeians, if all Princes &
Potentates, and all the Miniilers, Deputies
and the Deputies ol Depiiiics, ot Princes and
potentates, from the honorable Groom of tl^.e
Stole to rhe right honorable Groom of the
Tides, v./ho affume or wifh to alTume the
Reins of ablolute Sway, and turn a t-eaf Ear,
or give degrading Anlwers to the Petitions
and Remonftraaces of the injured and the dil-
treffed......Happy, thrice happy (I repeat it
with Pleafurc; would it be for Millions, if all
thefe great Perlonages before-mentioiaed,
would afilime ablolute Reins (or not attempt
to affume tlieiii at all) from the fame good
Principles and falutary Motives that Princefs
Experience docs, and govern, like her, with
Prudence and Equity ; & ipr run a head.long
courfe, confu.ming, Phaetonj like, in their wild
Career, what they ought tej chcrilli and pre-
ferve. J
Mock-Graviiy, with a lojng Train of other
Mocks that are no better (to lay no worfc of
them) than a Pack of vile Hypocritts all to
gether, may call this an idle Wafbc of pre
cious Moments, and fo flioold I too were
my Heart made of infenfible Stuff, but as it
is not, I think my Time has been employed
to as good Purpoles, and I am very lure
Thc*Bombaf!:-Family (of late very nume
rous) might be pleas’d with this, and think
me falfely alarmed indeed Ihould I drop the
leall: Hint, that 1 apprehended a return of Ba-
bylonilh Jargon ; yet what cife can we expedt
il the pompous Style of Pedantry is to pals
current as Sterling Englilh ? And crpecially
if it lliould be received, like F at Levees,
and penfioned, like V or patronized, like
B..... and C , at Courts; for, lomc how
or other, we are, in general, ib very fond of
Courtiers that we ape them in every Thing,
even to the adoption of their Follies and their
Vices.
Many a Time and oft hath it aftonilhcd, Sc
full loreJy doth it grieve Me, r‘*at (o free*
brave and generous a People Ihouki betray
fuch a lervility of Dilpofrion •, yet even this,
perhaps, is owing to their Virtue.-(And when
a good Apology can be made, where an
Apology is ncceffiry, *tis rhalevoJent to re
ject it.-)Thcy are told Error is excluded the
Courr, and, being loo generous to be fufpi-
cious, they credit the Report, believing Things
really are as they fhould and are reprefented
to be*
Whether this is the Cale or not; vet right
glad would I be to find this Rabies imitandi j
whkh corrupts the Mind, outlawed, in
capacitated and forever expelled not only ch«
Bourn Medici-Collegc ♦ (lately ertfted) but
all the Dominions of Liberty, left it ftiould,
one Day or other, fubvert the Conltitutionj
and rivet upoa her free-born fubjeds tiie
Chains of Slavery.
But whether Freedom or Slavery is to
be their Fate.- -whether the Diftempers
of the Body politic or the Diftempers of.
the Caxle lhall be deemed moft worthy of a
Nation’s ferious Attention....(capricious Peo
ple to be offended with your Minifter for en
deavoring to prelervejt) You your Sirloins
♦ Ccw-Doflors. Aut. Ned'Flowm*