O, fling your fpells, ye fylphid train! O'er the land and o'er the main ! Concord, on your Halcyon car,

Go, and meet the coming war,
Ere yon rude Æolian band
Smite my harp with frantic hand;
Or rudely wake the defcant loud
That calls to arms the madding crowd!"
In vain the Queen her pray'rs addrest :-
Howling o'er the ftar lefs wafte,

The winged tempeft, charg'd with fate,
Wafts along its gloomy feight,
And round the roof, with awful fweep,
Sends its voice, in cadence deep.
Yelling thro' the rocking dome,
Faction's fiend, on dragon wing,
Strikes the high-fufpended firing,
The fignal to her fifter GNOME:
Her fifter GNOME the fignal beard,
And foon the flag of mifchief rear'd;
While Stygian lips the pipe infpir'd
Which the rude infurgents fir'd:
Around, in gloomy ambuscade,
Peopling thick the difmal fhade,
They plot the dark intended wrong;
Or fweep the plain, in hideous throng.
The frighted moon their march beholds,
And in deep clouds her car enfolds.
To Tamor's hall, with muft'ring force,
The rebels point their midnight course.
The Queen behoids (with terror pale)
Their enfign flutt'ring in the gale;
And hears them, round the leaguer'd wall,
With menace loud, for entrance call.--
"Oh! reach yon harp!" (the fov'reign dame
Gave the command)" its magic frame
Muft echo that imperial ftrain,
At whofe deep charm the rebel train
Shall drop their arms, and fpeed away,
Like night before the fhafts of day.-
Touch the foul-commanding ftring,
Ye fairies! form a radiant ring,
And chaunt thofe names, whofe potent fpell
The deep contagion can difpel;
Can rescue the infuited laws;
And bid the march of horror pause:
Whofe worth may guard the threat'ned
land,

And the defcending bolt withstand.
ELIZA first!--for her, alone,

The ARTS their lov'd protectress own,
Which humaniz'd, on Hebrus' shore,
The favage tribes, in days of yore,
When Orpheus tun'd the facred wire,
And the wild Paffions own'd the lyre.
Her name perfumes the northern air,
Where, fav'd from want and chill despair
By the bounteous plans defign'd
In her bright, expanfive mind,
The crowdf, that mourn'd its abject lot,
New tracks of industry were taught.

preme

In might! omnific! high enthron'd and fole
In peerless state! all human ken beyond!
Beyond where ev'n the intellectual eye
Shoots its most daring and conject❜ral glance!
Nor thought can compafs, nor the mind con-
ceive

The fullness of thy glory; th' amplitude
Of thy divine beneficence to man
Unmeriting! Thou, from thy throne sublime,
Array'd in majefty, and circled round
With myriads of celeftial fpirits, giv'st
'lo earth thine ear, in condefcenfiou mild,
Ev'n to the humbleft man: each fon of woe,
And of misfortune, thou adopteft thine :
When mifery's cup o'erflows, and evil men
Pour injuries upon the naked head
Of friendless, unprotected poverty;
When sickness and affliction pierce the foul;
And death, array'd in all his terrors, throws
Selected arrows from his horrid hand;
Or when the form corporcal, thro' each pore,
Th' envenom'd fhafts of varied pain receives;
And when the too, too fympathetic foul,
With exquifite fenfation, feels each pang;
Yet, all amidst these complicated ills
Of perfecution, agony, and grief,

The wretch in Thee a certain refuge finds :
Though fublunary fortune's outcast, he
Acquires thy favour, thy approvance gains
Before, perhaps, the fage, full-fwoln with
ftate

Epifcopal, and pharifaical pride;
Or victory's enfanguin'd, fervid son,
Exulting high on triumph's blazing car,
The meteor of a moment! to expire
A common foul; or, if diftinguish'd from
The vulgar herd of fpirits, by his crimes
Of deeper dye, fuperior flagrancy,
By fouler ftains on his polluted foul;
For to thine eye impartial, purity

of

Of mind is the diftinction fole; and Thou
To the unerring, or the erring man
Repentant, art the fountain of his ftrength.
Upheld by Thee, he on a rock, more firm
Than adamant, reclines; more durable

han tinie, extended beyond space. Altho'
This fphere fublunar, from its orbit whirl'd,
Should into atoms crumble; fhould this fcheme,
From Saturn's orb, remote, to Mercury
Be loft in folar biaze; nay ev'n if all
The lucid ftars, thofe animating fuus
Of other fyftems, fhooting far away
From their allotted flations, with their worlds
Wage elemental war, commixture dire,
And, on his throne anarchial, place again
Old Chaos, horrid tyrant of mifiule,
As erft he reign'd, to ever nature's ties,
And, thro' the wilds of undetermined space,
To fpread difmay and tumult; to confound
Commixing oppofites; and the mad ftrife
Of fighting elements more to embroil :
Superior to this univerfal crufh,

This wreck terrific of conflicting worlds, Stands, undisturb'd, the good man's fount of ftrength,

His rock uufhook, immov'd his tow'r remains,
His fhield invincible, and cover'd o'er
With panoply cœleftial, he defies

The rage and overthrow of worlds: for Thou, Thou art the fountain of his ftrength, his rock,

His tow'r and fhield, his panoply divine!
By thine high favour man exalted reigns
The fov'reign lord of this terrestrial sphere,
Participator of divinity---

Thine image, tational, of pow'r to trace
The wonders of thy reign, and take his stand
Ev'n in the blazing centre of the fun,
A mental fituation; thence furvey,
Or, through their varied orbits, lead along
The planetary train; or fwift pursue,
In far excurfive eccentricity,

The flaming comets, and thefe ftrangers hail!
Or, darting thence to other worlds, explore,
With reafon's wond'ring eye, unnumber'd
worlds.

How paffing computation, then! how vaft!
How far beyond the poflibility

Of retribution are the favours Thou
Perpetually befloweit upon man!
But, of all others, that fuperior boon
Of his redemption !---Love unparallel'd!
Superlative! to give thine only Son,
(In glory, thy compeer; in potency,
Thine equal) to an ignominious death,
And human fufferings, to fave mankind !---
All Gracious Pow'r! fhall I then filent fit,
And thankleis, with thefe faculties endued?
With all thy favours crowding round my
head?

Shall I be mute, while nature, in thy praife,
Profufe of gratitude, the ceafelefs fong
Harmonious pours, in mute exprefliveness,
Or vocal gratulation? When the fun,
With rayey pencils ting'd in his own dyes,
On nature's full, illimitable page

May 1793.

And meditation in the depth of night.
Not the viciffitudes of place or time,
Nor black adverfity's all-chilling glooms,
Nor the oblivious, the Circaan draughts,
Syrenic potions of profperity,
Sha'l, even for a momentary lapfe,
Obliterate thy favours from my mind,
For in my foul the recordation deep
Imprinted lies---and there it will remain,
Impreffion unobfcur'd! to endless time;
And urge to praife eternal, in this state
Probationary; or in the next, when Thou
Shalt to the heav'n of heav'ns this form ter-

PARI S.

New Plan of a Conftitution for France.

TITLE IX..

OF NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.

(Concluded from p. 317.)

XIII. If it be rejected, the national convention fhall be fully diffolved; and the legislative body fall imine bately confult the primary affemblies, to know whether it be neceffary to call a new convention.

XIV. The members of the convention can

neither be attached, accufed, nor tried, at any time, for any thing they may have faid or written, in the exercife of their functions; nor can they be put upon their trial in any cafe, except by a decifion of the convention itself.

XV. Immediately after its affembling, the convention may regulate the order and progreffier of its labours, as it fhall think convenient; but its fittings fhall always be held in public.

pede nor fufpend, the execution of the laws; they fhall have no power over the functions of administration, nor cite adminiftrators before them on affairs that relate to their functions.

VII. Judges fhall be deprived of their offices only in confequence of forfeiture legally pronounced; nor shall they be fufpended, except for an accufation that has been admitted.

SECTION II.

OF CIVIL JUSTICE.

1. The right of citizens, to terminate definitively their difputes by the means of volunby the acts of the legislative power. tary arbitration, can receive no infringement

II. There fhall be in every commune one judge of the peace.

III. The judges of peace fpecially charged to conciliate the parties; and in cafe they thall not fucceed, to pronounce definitively, and without expence, on their difputes; they fhail be renewed every year, but they may be reelected.

IV. The number and competency of the judges of peace thall be determined by the legiflative body- Nevertheless judges of peace cannot take cognizance of property and criminal matters, nor exercife any function of police, or of administration.

V. The justice rendered by a judge of peace, can never be considered as a part of litigated juftice (juftice contentieufe).

VI. In all difputes (other than fuch as are

II. Juftice fhail be admmiftered in public, by jurors and jud es.

III. The judges fhall be periodically elected, and paid by the republic.

IV. They fhall be renewed at no periods except at thofe regulated by the conftitutional

act.

V. Judicial functions cannot in any cafe, or under any pretext, he exercised by the legiflative body, nor by the executive council; nor by the adminiftrative and municipal bo

dies.

VI. Courts of law and judges fhall not interfere in the exercife of the legiflative power; they shall neither interpret nor extend, im

the citizens fhall be bound to fubmit in the fint place to arbitrators chofen by them.

VII. In case of an appeal against the decifions rendered by the arbitrators, in virtue of the preceding article, the citizens thall profecute their fuit before the civil jury.

VIII. There shall be, in cach department, ont civil jury only: it fhall be composed of a director of the jury, of a public reporter, of a national. commiffioner, and of jurymen.The number of thefe officers of jury may be augmented by the legislative body, according to the wants of the departments.,

IX. The table of the civil jury of each department fhall be formed in the following manner ;. ift. The

X. All the refident citizens in each departinent shall be eligible by each primary affembly.

XI. Each primary affembly fhall fend to the administration of the departa ent, the aft of the citizens who have obtained the greateft number of votes for the double fet of jurymen that they have to nominate; and the adminiftration, after having formed the table of jurors, fhall be bound to tranfinit them, without delay, to the director of the jury.

XII. Every citizen who fhall have been infcribed twice on the table of jurymen, fhall not be bound to exercife anew the functions.

XIII. The choice of jurymen fhall be made from the gentral roll of the department, by the parties. In cafe of refufal, this choice fhall be made by the director of the jury, for the parties who refufe.- -In cafe of abfence, this choice fhall be made by the national commiffioners, for the parties abfent and not reprefented.

XIV. The director, the reporter, the national commiffioner, and their fuppleans, fhall be immediately named by the primary affemblies of the department, in the forms, and according to the mode, prefcribed for nominations. They fhall be nominated for two years, and they may be reelected.

XV. The principal functions of the director of the jury fhall be to direct the procedure; that of the reporter, to make an expofition of the matter at iffue before the jury; and that of the national commiffioners thall be---1. To require and to fuperintend the due obfervance of the forms of the laws in the judgments to be rendered, and to caufe thefe judgments to be executed ---2. To defend ideots, interdicted perfons, abfent perfons, wards, paupers, minors,

and widows.

SECTION Пi.

OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

I. The punishment of death is abolished for all private offences.

II. The right of granting pardon would be no other than the right of violating the law; it cannot exist in a free government where the law is equal for all.

III. In criminal matters, no citizen can be judged but by juries, and the punishment fhall be applied by the criminal tribunals.

IV. A firft jury fhall declare if the accufation ought to be admitted or rejected. The fact fhall be tried and declared by the fecond jury.

V. The perfon accufed fhall have the power to reject, without affigning his motives, the number of jurymen that shall be determined by the law.

VI. The jurymen who declare on the fact, cannot in any cafe be more in number than twelve.

VII. The perfon accufed may chufe a council; if he does not chufe one, the tribunal fhall nominate one for him.

VIII. No perfon acquitted by a legal jury can be again apprehended, or accufed on account of the fime fact.

IX. There shall be in each criminal tribunal a president, two judges, and a public accufer, elected by the people for two years. They may be re-cle&ed.

X. The functions of the public accufer hall be, to denounce to the director of the jury, either officially, or in confequence of orders given them by the legislative council, or by the legislative body

1. Attacks on the perfonal liberties of citizens.

2. Attacks on the rights of nations.

3. Refistance to the execution of judgments, and of all the executive acts iffuing from the conftituted authorities.

4. Troubles occafioned, and violences com. mitted, to interrupt the collection of the revenues, and the free circulation of provifions and other merchandize.

5. To require, during the courfe of trial, due regularity of forms, and, before the paffing of judgment, the duc application of the law.

6. To purfue the oncrders on the acts of accufation admitted by the firft juries.

7. To watch over all the o2 cers of police in the department, which he thall be bound to admonith in cafe of negligence; and to denounce, in cafes of a graver nature, to the criminal tribunal.

SECTION IV.

OF JUDICIAL CENSORS.

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III. They