The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal

To the Printer of the Public Advertiser.

THE EARS OF HIS FRIENDS ARE MUCH

SIR,

but perhaps they will be less surprised at this circumstance

when they are informed, that his greatest admirers on the

continent agree in entertaining the same idea of him.

As an evidence of this, I send you a copy of a poetical

stanza, which is engraved under his portrait prefixed to the

late French translation of his work, in two volumes, quarto.

I shall also send you an attempt of a translation of them,

that the English reader may be able to judge of the simi-

larity between the idea of Mr. Wedderburne, and that of

the French Philosopher, with whom all the Philosophers in

Europe entirely concur. It will even be seen that Foreign-

ers represent him as much more impudent and audacious

in his thefts than the English Orator (though he was under

no restraint from a regard to truth) has ventured to in-

sinuate.

I am, Sir, your humble servant,

HOMO TRIUM LITERARUM.

IL a ravi le feu des cieux,

Il fait fleurir les arts en des climats sauvages.

L'Amerique le place a la tete des sages,

La Grece l'auroit mis au nombre de ses Dieux.

In English.

To steal from Heaven its sacred fire he taught,

The Arts to thrive in savage climes he brought :

In the new World the first of Men esteem'd ;

Among the Greeks a God he had been deem'd.