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The bow'd with age, the infant | in the smiles
And beauty of its innocent age cut off,a |
Shall one by one be gather'd to thy side, |
By those who, in their turn, shall follow them. |

So live, that when thy summons comes, to join
The innumerable caravan | that moves

To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death, |
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night', I
Scourg'd to his dungeon, | but, sustain'd, and sooth'd |
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. I

SPEECH OF CICERO AGAINST VERRES.

The time is come, fathers, when that which has long been wished for, towards allaying the envy your order has been subject to, and removing the imputations against trials, is effectually put into your power. | An opinion has long prevailed, not only here at home, | but likewise in foreign countries, both dangerous to you, and pernicious to the state', that, in prosecu- | tions, men of wealth are always safe', however clearly convicted. I

There is now to be brought upon his trial, before you, to the confusion, I hope, I of the propagators of this slanderous imputation, one whose life, and actions condemn him in the opinion of all impartial persons; but who, according to his own reckoning, and declared dependence upon his riches, is already acquitted: I mean Caius Verres. I

I demand justice of you, Fathers, upon the robber of the public treasury, the oppressor of Asia Minor, and Pamphylia, the invader of the rights, and privileges of Ro'mans, the scourge, and curse of Sicily. |

a Cut off; not cut-toff'. b About him; not abow'tim.

C c For'rin.

If that sentence is passed upon him, which his crimes deserve, your authority, Fathers, will be venerable, and sacred in the eyes of the public; but, if his great riches should bias you in his favour, I shall still gain one point, to make it apparent to all the world, | that what was wanting in this case, was not a criminal, nor a prosecutor; but justice, and adequate punishment. I

To pass over the shameful irregularities of his youth, | what does his quæs'torship, the first public employment he held, what does it exhibit, but one continued scene of villanies? | Cneius Carbo, plundered of the public money by his own treasurer, a consul stripped, and betrayed', an army, deserted, and reduced to want, a province, robbed', the civil, and religious rights of a people violated. |

The employment he held in Asia Minor, and Pamphyl'ia, what did it produce but the ruin of those countries, in which houses, cities, and temples were robbed by him? | What was his conduct in his prætorship here at home? Let the plundered temples, and public works neglected, that he might embezzle the money intended for carrying them on, bear witness. How did he discharge the office of a judge? | Let those who suffered by his injus'tice, answer.

But his prætorship in Sicily, | crowns all' his works of wickedness, and finishes a lasting monument to his infamy. The mischiefs, done by him in that unhappy country, during the three years of his iniquitous administration, are such, that many years', under the wisest, and best' of prætors, I will not be sufficient to restore things to the condition in which he found them; for it is notorious, that, during the time of his tyranny, the Sicilians neither enjoyed the protection of their own original laws; of the regulations made for their benefit by the Roman senate, upon their coming under the protection of the commonwealth ; | nor of the natural, and unalienable rights of men.

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His nod has decided all causes in Sicily for these three years. And his decisions | have broken all law', { all precedent, all right. The sums he has, by arbitrary taxes, and unheard-of impositions, extorted from the industrious poor, are not to be computed. | The most faithful allies of the commonwealth, | have been treated as enemies. | Roman citizens, like slaves', | have been put to death with tortures. The most atrocious crim'inals | have been exempted, for money, | from deserved punishments; and men, of the most unexceptionable char'acters, | condemned, and banished, unheard. I

The harbours, though sufficiently fortified, and the gates of strong towns', have been opened to pirates, and ravagers. The soldiery, and sailors, | belonging to a province under the protection of the commonwealth, have been starved to death; whole fleets, to the great detriment of the prov'ince, | suffered to perish. | The ancient monuments of either Sicilian, or Ro'man greatness, the statues of heroes, and princes, have been carried off'; and the temples stripped of the images. I

Having, by his iniquitous sentences, filled the prisons with the most industrious, and deserving of the people, he then proceeded to order numbers of Roman citizens to be strangled in the jails; so that the exclamation, "I am a citizen of Rome !" | which has often, in the most distant regions, and among the most barbarous people, been a protection, was of no service to them; but, on the contrary, I brought a speedier, and more severe pun'ishment upon them.

I ask now, Verres, what thou hast to advance against this charge? | Wilt thou pretend to deny' it? | Wilt thou pretend that any thing false, ❘ that even any thing aggravated, has been urged against thee? | Had any prince, or any state', committed the same outrage against the privilege of Roman citizens, | should we not think we had sufficient ground for demanding satisfaction? |

What punishment ought, then, to be inflicted upon a tyrannical, and wicked prætor, who dared, at no greater distance than Sicily, within sight of the Italian coast', to put to the infamous death of crucifixion, | that unfortunate, and innocent citizen, | Publius Gavius Cosa'nus, only for his having asserted his privilege of citizenship, and declared his intention of appealing to the justice of his country, against the cruel oppressor | who had unjustly confined him in prison at Syr'acuse, | whence he had just made his escape? |

The unhappy man, arrested as he was going to embark for his native country, is brought before the wicked prætor. With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods' to be brought accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, | of having come to Sicily as a spy. It was in vain that the unhappy man cried out, "I am a Roman citizen - I have served under Lucius Pre'tius who is now at Panor1mus, and will attest my innocence."

The blood-thirsty prætor, deaf to all he could urge in his own defence, ordered the infamous punishment to be inflicted. Thus, Fathers, was an innocent Roman citizen | publicly mangled with scourging; | while the only words he uttered, amidst his cruel sufferings, were, "I am a Roman citizen!" | With these he hoped to defend himself from violence, and infamy. | But of so little service was this privilege to him, that, while he was thus asserting his citizenship, the order was given for his execution, - | for his execution upon

the cross. !|

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O liberty! O sound once delightful to every Roman ear! O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship! once' sacred! I now trampled upon! I But what then! | Is it come to this'? | Shall an inferior magistrate, a governor, | who holds his whole power of the Roman people, in a Roman province, |

within sight of Italy, | bind, scourge, torture with fire, and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen? | Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman com'monwealth, nor the fear of the justice of his country, restrain the licentious, and wanton cruelty of a monster, who, in confidence of his riches, | strikes at the root of liberty, and sets mankind at defiance?

I conclude with expressing my hopes, that your wisdom, and justice, Fathers, will not, by suffering the atrocious, and unexampled insolence of Caius Verres to escape due punishment, leave room to apprehend the danger of a total subversion of authority, and the introduction of general anarchy, and confusion. |

CATO'S SOLILOQUY.
(ADDISON.)

SCENE-CATO sitting in a thoughtful posture, with Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand; and a drawn sword on the table by him.

It must be so — | Plato, thou reasonest well! J
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire', |
This longing after immortality? |

Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, |
Of falling into nought.? why shrinks the soul |
Back on herself, and star'tles at destruction? |
"T is the divinity that stirs within us; |

"T is heaven itself that points out an hereafter, |
And intimates eternity to man. |

Eternity! thou pleas'ing, dread ful thought!|
Through what variety of untried being, |

Through what new scenes, and changes must we pass ! |
The wide', the unbounded prospect lies before me; |
But shadows, clouds', and darkness rest、 upon it. Į

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