“The _Governor_ (Mifflin) attended at a civic festival, when the following toasts were drunk, which were published in most of the newspapers.[331] “‘Those _illustrious citizens_ sent to Botany Bay. May they be _speedily recalled_ by their country in _the day of her regeneration_.’ “‘May the spirit of parliamentary reform in Britain and Ireland _burst the bonds of corruption, and overwhelm the foes of liberty_.’ “‘The _sans-culottes_ of France. May the robes of _all_ the _Emperors_, _Kings_, _Princes_, and _Potentates_ [not excepting the _King of Spain_] now employed in suppressing the flame of liberty, be cut up to make breeches.’ “This is pretty ‘_decent_’ in a _Governor_; but without stopping to remark on the peculiar _decency_ of his toasting a gang of _convicts_, let us come to another instance of his conduct, full as ‘_decent_’ as this. “At the civic festival, held in this city in 1794, to celebrate the dethronement of ‘our great and good ally, Louis XVI.’ there were ‘assembled,’ according to the ‘_procès verbal_’ which was sent to the Paris convention, ‘the CHIEFS, _civil and military_’. This _procès verbal_ contains a letter to the convention, in which the following honourable mention is made of the governor. ‘The Governor of Pennsylvania, that _ardent friend of the French republic_, was present, and partook of _all our enthusiasm_ and _all our sentiments_.’[332] “I believe they spoke truth; for the cannons of the State were fired, and military companies, with drums beating and colours flying, attended the execrable fête, one of the ceremonies of which was _burning the English flag_; and as to the sentiments contained in the _oaths_ and _speeches_ (for there were both) they abounded in insults towards almost all the princes of the earth, but particularly the King of Great Britain. “A Judge of Pennsylvania, REDMAN, was, in November, 1795, caught thieving in the shop of MR. FOLWELL, the dry-goods merchant in Front Street. MR. FOLWELL detected him, took the money ($300) from him, and kicked him into the street. His _friends_, among the most intimate of whom was His Excellency the Governor, advised him to _retire_; and he is still living at his ease about 20 miles from the city. No justice was ever done to him; he was never censured, not even in the newspapers! Such is the cowardly, base, and worthless press of America. Such are _republican judges_, and such is republican morality! But this is not the worst. I know a Judge who _committed murder_! wilful murder, and that, too, previous to his appointment by this our republican Governor! “I only give a sort of hint here. One day or other if it pleases God to spare my life, I will publish such a collection of facts as will shock the universe.