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PGCJ.778.021
22 Aug 1778:22 (764)
Philadelphia, July 28. To Governor Johnstone, one of the
British commissioners, on his late letters, and offers to
bribe certain eminent characters in America, and threatening
afterwards to appeal to the public.
When Satan first from heaven's bright region fell,
And fix'd the gloomy monarchy of hell,
Sin then was honest: pride led on the tribe,
No devil receiv'd--no devil propos'd a bribe:
. . . [30 lines]
When the sad echo of St. Pulchre's bell
Tolls to the carted wretch a last farewell,*
. . . [8 more lines, signed] Common Sense. Philadelphia,
July 27, 1778.
*A bell near Newgate in London, which is always tolled when
the criminals pass by for execution.
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