Hamb. Then I appeal to this worthy gentleman, [Speaking of Simon] and an honester man lives not on earth, if I have not thousands in his hands. Simon. [Aside to Hamb.] to the four winds. You had better leave it Hamb. [Loud and hastily.] Have I not monies of a great amount in your hands? Simon. Did you not take an oath, a few days since, that you had not, directly nor indirectly, five pounds on earth? Hamb. Yes. I had not on earth; but it was then in your coffers, and you know it. Simon. If your oath that you had no property can't be relied on, why should your word be taken, that you have? in Hamb. But I ask you, have you not my property your hands? Simon. Not a farthing. You are a bankrupt for thousands, and the four winds may tell of that. Hamb. O knavery! Simon. O perjury! Trusty. You are perfectly welcome to use the words I just now tossed out to you; and it appears to me, they are a very proper currency between you. Hamb. O that I had the money out of that wretch's hands, to give to my honest creditors! Simon. O that I had the character, which I have lost by my connection with you! Trusty. I am sorry for the depravity of you both. It has led you to deceive honest men, and to betray each other. You have now learned the value of reputation and peace of mind, by the loss of them. Let your future days be days of atonement. Let them be. devoted to honesty and fair dealing; and ever remember that integrity is the only road to desirable wealth, and that the path of virtue is alone the path of peace. MR. MR. SHERIDAN'S SPEECH AGAINST MR. WE E have this day been honored with the coun sels of a complete gradation of lawyers. We have received the opinion of a Judge, of an AttorneyGeneral, of an Ex-Attorney-General, and of a practising Barrister. I agree with the learned gentleman in his admiration of the abilities of my honorable friend, Mr. Fox. What he has said of his quickness . and of his profoundness, of his boldness and his candor, is literally just and true, which the mental accomplishment of my honorable friend is, on every occasion, calculated to extort even from his adversaries. The learned gentleman has, however, in this insidi ous eulogium, connected such qualities of mind with those he has praised and venerated, as to convert his encomiums into reproach, and his tributes of praise into censure and invective. The boldness he has described is only craft, and his candor, hypocrisy. Upon what grounds does the learned gentleman connect those assemblages of great qualities and of cardinal defects? Upon what principles, either of justice or of equity, does he exult with one hand, whilst he insidiously reprobates and destroys with the other? If the wolf is to be feared, the learned gentleman may rest assured, it will be the wolf in sheep's clothing, the masked pretender to patriotism. It is not from the fang of the lion, but from the tooth of the serpent, that reptile which insidiously steals upon the vitals of the constitution, and gnaws it to the heart, ere the mischief is suspected, that destruction is to be feared. With regard to the acquisition of a learned gentleman, Mr. Taylor, who has declared that he means to vote with us this day, I am sorry to acknowledge, that from the declaration he has made at the beginning of his speech, I see no great reason to boast of such an auxiliary. The learned gentleman, who has with De culiar modesty styled himself a chicken lawyer, has declared, that, thinking us in the right with respect to the subject of this day's discussion, he shall vote with us; but he has at the same time thought it necessary to assert, that he has never before voted differently from the minister and his friends, and perhaps he never shall again vote with those whom he means to support this day. It is rather singular to vote with us, professedly because he finds us to be in the right, and, in the very moment that he assigns so good a reason for changing his side, to declare, that in all probability he never shall vote with us again. I am sorry to find the chicken is a bird of ill omen, and that its augury is so unpropitious to our future interests. Perhaps it would have been as well, under these circumstances, that the chicken had not left the barn-door of the treasury; but continued side by side with the old cock, to pick those crumbs of comfort which would doubtless be dealt out in time, with a liberality proportioned to the fidelity of the feathered tribe. PART OF CICERO'S ORATION AGAINST CAT IT ILINE. T is now a long time, conscript fathers, that we have trod amidst the dangers and machinations of this conspiracy: but I know not how it comes to pass, the full maturity of all those crimes, and of this longripening rage and insolence, has now broken out during the period of my consulship. Should Catiline alone be removed from this powerful band of traitors, it may abate, perhaps, our fears and anxieties for a while; but the danger will still remain, and continue lurking in the veins and vitals of the republic. For, as men, oppressed with a severe fit of illness, and labouring under the raging heat of a fever, are often at first seemingly relieved by a draught of cold water; water; but afterwards find the disease return upon them with redoubled fury; in like manner, this distemper, which has seized the commonwealth, eased a little by the punishment of this traitor, will, from his surviving associates, soon assume new force. Wherefore, conscript fathers, let the wicked retire; let them separate themselves from the honest; let them rendezvous in one place, In fine, as I have often said, let a wall be between them and us; let them cease to lay snares for the consul in his own house; to beset the tribunal of the city prætor; to invest the senate-house with armed ruffians, and to prepare fire-balls and torches for burning the city in short, let every man's sentiments with regard to the public be inscribed on his forehead. : This I engage for, and promise, conscript fathers, that by the diligence of the consuls, the weight of your authority, the courage and firmness of the Roman knights, and the unanimity of all the honest, Catiline being driven from the city, you shall behold all his treasons detected, exposed, crushed, and punished. With these omens, Catiline, of all prosperity to the republic, but of destruction to thyself, and all those who have joined themselves with thee in all kinds of parricide, go thy way then to this impious and abominable war whilst thou, Jupiter, whose religion was established with the foundation of this city, whom we truly call Stator, the stay and prop of this empire, wilt drive this man and his accomplices from thy altars and temples, from the houses and walls of the city, from the lives and fortunes of us all; and wilt destroy with eternal punishments, both living and dead, all the haters of good men, the enemies of their country, the plunderers of Italy, now confederated in this detestable league and partnership of villany. DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION C CONGRESS; FROM THE VISION OF COLUMBUS. OLUMBUS look'd; and still around them spread, At last, the central shadows burst away, And rising regions open'd on the day. He saw, once more, bright Del'ware's silver stream, High on the foremost seat, in living light, He opes the cause, and points in prospects far, M |