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LUCUBRATIONS OF TIMOTHY HAIRBAIRN. 

 For the Bee. 



■ Cod prosper well our noble king. 

 Our lives and safeties.all ; 

 I think the people are gone mad — 



The devil take th«na all. Old haUa,i. 



The prosperity of this countrj is at present greater 

 than it ever was at any former period : Her agricul- 

 ture improving, her manufactures advancing with a 

 rapidity formerly unknown, her , trade extending 

 more and more every day : The persons and pro- 

 perty of her subjects protected at home and abroad, 

 beyond those of any other nation that now is, or ever 

 was upon the globe. Yet there are a set of people 

 who complain loudly, and seem seriously to believe 

 that the government of this country is opprefsive ; 

 that the people are enthralled; that their property is 

 unjustly taken from them ; and that it is necefsary, 

 "by arms, to force a total revolution in government, 

 and put this people into a state entirely different 

 from that in which they now are placed ! Ego video 

 atultos : stulti vident me ! Where Ihall we find tay- 

 lors to make fools caps enow for such a multitude ? 



A hair brained senator, whose upper works have been 

 a little deranged for some time past, publiflied, a while 

 ago, a book containing some hundred pages of prose run 

 mad, in praise of kings and queens, ladies and squires, 

 and feats of ancient chivalry. The people ran to look 

 at this strange production, as they would have flocked 

 to see a rhinoceros or a mermaid ; and, to indulge 

 iheir curiosity, parted with their superfluous fhillings 



