The Cape Fear Mercury

              ♦ apg'ite cow dosors aut ned fiowtri supplement to the cape-fear mercury no 52 the brunette and the poor boy to wipe the trickling tears that dew the cheek of pallid woe to fmoo:h grief's wrinkled biow to give the placid smile to deep defpair and joy to anguifh....pieifurcs iuch as thefe all courteous charity creates jt^gggjg a t i paflkd this brunette tfr^i^ssss m9 without gating ar her i 4?s i_r would have avoided the an&ie /| fi xs ty which i then felt buc this i i^i.cs is a kind of prudential forc k®<@s>§2 lc r ' ut * ft|w f m au-nd to pnd i very litrie regard what f fuflfrr provid ed my sufferings reipedfc tnyielf loldy v/hen i know my intentions are as then pure • hcii.res the pangs of tendfernefs amply com pcnfjte any hide iviiquietudes thry occa ioii us •, and alttiouuh this may appear arrant nonien-c to fome 1 ha fr e founj it o in genera ; and a confederacy of ai the inien fibijfs in the unrvcrfe whether gartered or mitred fliall never make nrte change my sentiments that would be high tira ton againll ilxperiefxe and every bojy knows how abiolike a monarch she s ; she deems herfelf the in^ahibie rule of right in all c.ilrs and never liftcns to the petitions or rcmonflrjncts ot her subjects aga.nft her bvcreign fiat and there is i inr llealon for it they may err but she nttocr can how happy would it be for millions of poor honcft p/ebeians it all princes & potentates a.vi all the minifters deputies and the deputies o deputies ot princes and potentates trom the honorable groom of the stoic to the right honorable groom of the tides who a ill me or wifh to a fume the reins of abfolute sway and turn a r j eaf ear or give degrading aniwers to the petitions and remonflrasces of the injured and thedii treflfed......happy thrice happy i repeat it with pleafurej wouid it be for millions if all thefe great perfonages befr.re-mentioaed would aflame abioiute reins or not attempt to aiftimc tlitm at all from the fame good principles and iahuafy motives that princefs experience docs and govern like her with prudence and equity •, & njor run a headlong courfe con fuming phaetor like in their wild career whac they ought tc cherifh and pre ierve mock-gravity with a iqng train of other mocks that are no better to fay no worfe of them than a pack of vile hypocrites all to gether may call this an idle wailc of pre cious moments and 6 mould i too were my heart made of infenfible stuff but as it is not i think my time has been employed to as good purpoies and i am very lure m — p much more to my satisfaaion than if i had fat down with my head mil of csquipedalian speeches and told the world thaf in thit philofophic illumined age " t.,esun is noc more reg retted when he is eclipled than when he ft ts and that mrteors play their corufca tions without prognoftications or predic tions the~bombaft-family of late very numff rous might be pleas'd with this and think me faffety alarmed indeed ihould i drop the leaf hinr that i apprehended a return of ba bylonifh jargon ; yet what eife can we expect it the pompous style of pedantry is to pals current as sterling engliih ? an'd efpecially it it fliould be receives like f at levees and penfioned like v or patromz d like b and c , at courts ; for tome how or other we are in general fo 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 afteniflicd & full iorejy cloth it grieve me t at fb tree brave and generous a people fliouhi betray fuch a fervility of dilpofrion j yet even this perhaps is owing to their virtue.-(and when a good apology cau be made where an apology is ncceffiry tis rrulevojent to re jpd it.-)they 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 repreienttd to be whether this i3 the cafe or not ; vet right glad would i be to find this rabies imiundi $ which corrupt the mind outlawed in capacitated and forever expelled no only tht bourn medici-college * lately ertfted but all the dominions of liberty left it mould one day or other fubvert the conftitution s and rivet upo her free-born fubjects the 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 hall be deemed moft worthy of a nation's ferious attention capricious peo ple to be offended with your minifter for en deavoring to prelerve to you your sirloins see suppt no 51j