Thale p127n, report from spy Metcalfe of LCS Div 11 on 1.4.1794 (Nat Arch TS 11/956/3501) enclosed 'A New Song by J_ M_' which starts 'Come my Sons of true Liberty, let us agree/ To form an Alliance firm honest and free/ Lets join hand in hand, as Reason upholds/ Her bright Torch to Friendship. Ah! let us be bold.' Thale added that the author may be Matthews, a bookseller who published a volume of songs. Thale p144 report from spy Nodder at LCS meeting Shire Lane 21.4.1794, chairman Scofield "mention was made of a Vol: of Songs published by a Man whose name N-dd-r thinks is Mathews and for which he abscounded but 10 minutes before the Officers came to take him & to search his house".."At the time they entd. they found his wife just delivd. of a Child"..."it was then said this Bookseller was now fighting the Duke of York"
Presumably not James Mathews bookseller of 18 Strand and Methodist lay preacher, his will proved PCC 1804 and father of comedian Charles Mathews (DNB 1776-1835)