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A BONE TO GNAW,

FOR THE

DEMOCRATS.

PART II.

PREFACE.

THE people of Philadelphia cannot have forgotten the violent movement that the first part of the Bone to Gnaw occafioned in the democratic fociety. They happened to be affembled for the purpose of taking into their confideration the alarming progrefs of Aristocracy in this" once happy" country; and it is faid that citizen B F F— B, the reporter, was reading the project of a decree on the fubject. "Ariftocracy" fays he, may "be confidered under two general heads,

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phyfical and moral, as my grandfather used "to fay. Of phyfical Ariftocracy, there is an "ariftocracy of the belly; for often we see our

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neighbours dining upon a firloin of beef, "while we (which is very unfair) have nothing 66 to gnaw but upon a fhin bo" Bone, he was going to fay, when one of my pamphlets," from an unleen hand, came, flap! against his lantern jaws. Reader, do you know

any thing about hunting? If you do, imagine yourself in at the death of a hare; behold the hungry pack rushing in all at once on their devoted prey, growling, fnarling, yelping and howling, and you have a pretty accurate idea of the democratic club over the Bone to Gnaw.

Violent paffion may be called the thunder of the foul, and, like the elemental thunder, it ge nerally produces ferenity. So it happened in the prefent inftance; for, after the first furious howl was over, the Democrats fell into a ftate, which if it does not merit the name of ferenity, was, at least, attended with all its propitious fymptoms. Moft folks began to hope that their tongues were locked up in eternal filence, and many were the congratulations P received on the fuccefs of my endeavours; but, appearances, it feems, were deceitful: fome imaginary triumphs have awakened them from their torpitude; again they lift their Cerberian heads, again they rufh forth, like the hell-hounds of Guido Cavalcanti,

"Pursue their prey, and feek their wonted food."

But though rather difappointed I am not difheartened. Hercules did not deftroy the Hydra at a single blow.

Perhaps the reader may expect from me, on this occafion, an anfwer to citizen Scrub; but in this, I must forewarn him that he will be difappointed. I hate controverfy more, if poffible, than I do fans-culottifm. The parties concerned in a paper war, ufually bear an infinite resemblance to a gang of sharpers: a couple of authors knock up a fham fight to draw the public about them, while the bookfellers pick their pockets. However, there is one paffage in mafter Scrub's epiftle that I can not pass over in filence. He accufes me of rudenefs and malice towards Mrs. Rowfon, of the new theatre! this is amazingly cruel. To ac cufe me of malice towards an authorefs, when I am the only person who has ever condefcended to take the leaft notice of her works, and when my only motive in fo doing was to drag her unfortunate play, the Slaves in Algiers," from its difmal obfcurity! I must confefs that I have been fevere on the romances that bear this lady's name; but then, it must be remembered that any cenfure paffed on them, must be understood as dividing itself among all the writers from whom Mrs. Rowfon has thought proper to borrow (mind, I only fay borrow) and, consequently, that a very fmall portion of it will fall to her fhare.

"I do not furmife," fays brother Scrub, "but " I proclaim abfolutely, that you are as base a

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