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Chorns, N. 7. Esther 
10th Concerto from Corelli’s Soles 
Concerto Flauto 
Concerto Violincello ' 
Chorus, N. 8. Esther 
Overture, Pastor Fido 
Concerto Violino 
Chorus, N. 9. Esther 
Thursday, May 1 6th, 1793, 
Overture, Otho 
Concerto Oboe 
Chorus, N, 1. Gideon 
11th Concerto from Corelli’s Solo* 
Concerto Flauto 
Concerto, French Horn 
Chorus, N. 2. Gideon 
Overture Muzio Scmvola 
Concerto Violino 
Chorus, N. 3. Gideon 
Tuesday , May 21 st t 1793. 
Overture Floridante 
Concerto Oboe 
Chorus,No. 4. Gideon 
12th Concerto from Corelli’s Solos 
Concerto Flauto 
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Concerto Violino 
Chorus, N. 6. Gideon. 
We have judged it interesting to 
give fac simile engravings of part of 
these documents. 
Written by Sir V. burdett, and af¬ 
fixed to JOHN HORN* TOOKE’S BUST, 
in his parlour. 
Behold the man, who, touch’d with human 
woe. 
Stood, tho’ alone, Oppression’s constant foe. 
With Reason’s light revived the patriot 
flame, 
And dragg’d forth public guilt to public 
shame, 
Fell Vengeance arm’4 Corruption’s harpy 
tribe, 
And strove to murder* what she could not 
bribe. 
Dauntless he brav’d the storm, still undis¬ 
may’d, 
Proclaimed the people and their rights 
betrayed. 
Made Nero tremble on his blood-stain’d 
throne. 
And Truth and Freedom mark’d him for 
their own. 
MAXIMS from VOLTAIRE. 
In war we ought to do that which 
the enemy most dreads. 
The balance of power, whether well 
or ill understood, has been the favour¬ 
ite passion of the English. 
The Swiss cantons sell soldiers to all 
parties, and defend their countiy 
against all: although the government 
js pacific, the people are all warriors. 
Sea fights are generally indecisive. 
Above 120 battles have been fought 
in Europe, ‘ since the year 1600, and 
amongst them all ten only were deci¬ 
sive. " 
History is only a detail of the same 
events, repeated with some variation. 
In ancient times a battle consisted 
of a multitude of single combats, in 
which there was less noise, but more 
slaughter than at present. 
At the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the 
Marquis de St. Severin, said 44 that he 
came to fulfil the words of his master, 
and that he would make peace, not as a 
merchant but as a king.” 
In all important state affairs there is 
an avowed pretext, and a concealed 
reason. 
HR. franklin and his SON. 
In the month of February, 1801, I 
dined with Governor F. at the house of 
a relation, and w as highly entertained. 
I heard the quondam governor describe 
the much vaunted and trifling process 
by which his father proved that light¬ 
ning was electricity. He entered into 
the particulars of making the kite, an 
operation at which he himself assisted ; 
the mode of letting it fly during a 
thunder-storm, at a little farm belong¬ 
ing to his father, about two miles from 
Philadelphia. His father had retired, 
in consequence of the rain, to a shed in 
the neighbourhood, but emerged from 
time to time, to survey and state the 
phenomena. At length the critical 
moment occurred, but no metallic 
thread was twined round the string, 
but being wet, it became a conductor. 
Undue importance is attached to this 
experiment—no person in Europe ever 
doubted that lightning and electricity 
were identical. 
SOCIETY. 
Many great authorities, from whose 
opinion I shall not venture to deviate, 
have been strenuous in maintaining 
that the happiest state of society, 
though not the most refined, is where 
the members are equally distant from 
that opulence which corrupts, and 
that misery which debases the human 
mind. America lays before us a sample 
to judge of the accuracy of this position. 
MR. PITT. 
Though confessedly a great orator, 
and of superior understanding as a fi¬ 
nancier, did not possess, as I apprehend, 
an animated, natural, and consistent 
taste for literature. I do not recollect 
any man of letters w T hom he patronised 
as such, or without some reference to 
the. tame and graceless purposes of his 
ambition 
