Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

CITIZEN FENNO

THE prowess of the American Lion is preserved in deathless song, is eloquence less deserving of applause? The sweet breath of the tuneful choir shall render it also immortal!

Emulous of paying tribute to civic merit, the Revolutionary Tribunal of Parnaus has decreed, that the celebrated orations of this far famed Democrat, which have been lately roared and encored throughout the continent, shall be rendered into the language of the Muses.

Considerable progress has already been made in this work, the patronage of our worthy co-patriots must determine the time of its completion.

That paragon of eloquence, his apologetic oration, pronounced soon after the celebrated battle, on account of its extreme length, is reserved for a nobler destiny, it forms the X. book of the Leonad, an Epic Poem, second in merit to the Iliad alone, and which the learned world may soon expect to receive from the hands of the Great Scriblerius!

Thus it is Citizen, that Republicans reward civic merit, how much more estimable than Stars and Garters the gew gaws, with which our ancient tyrants adorned their slaves!

Come then, Citizen Fenno, and with the fraternal embrace, the dear pledge of our affection, receive this peerless document of Genius, impress it on that page ever dear to Freemen and terrible to Tyrants.—In doing this, you will deserve well of the Republic, your name shall be inserted in the Bulletin of Parnaus, where nothing finds a place unworthy of honourable mention.

Health and Fraternity,

Nono-ronG PaW.