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dit will still remain, nor will the prejudice be theirs: their advice is rational; its rejection only may fatal. Perhaps the present state-physicians are able to calculate to a nicety upon the strength and extent of the virus previously imbibed by that body, which the former are endeavouring to cure. If so, they may laugh at the attempts of their opponent. They may ride in the whirlwind,. enjoy the storm, and, in fact, brave every thing beneath The punishment of Divine justice ;, for it is practical Atheism alone which indulges the notion, that "God in his providence inter-feres not with the management of human affairs ?"` Nevertheless, it is fixed in the immutable order: of things," that extremes shall always inevitably destroy themselves;" the line of mediocrity.therefore being once broken, no safety remains but in a return within the proper bounds..

For the political health of the people, they, as well as their friends, should ask for "the Con-stitution, and the Constitution only,"

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With respect to the late deliberations and resolutions of the public, the advice of Mr. Montague Burgoyne, one of the members for Essex, may. be worth attention;. He says, "Do not believe those persons who tell you that it is improper to consider and deliberate. They, who wish to keep you in darkness and ignorance, are afraid of your understanding the true situation of your.

country. I fare my ay, vith trid of tan, “They lose darinnen setter tim digit, because their deeds are end." But as the gmert practice of sensuality is to enviope if in the thick folds of security, and vile veral with power to disregard every idea of a pudorina, so nothing but the strong language of hospirilica will probably reach the cis cled gud, and good evil; it may, therefore, aut be as to remind the haughty seanss of noter, times, of a short parable delivered by the lenevoient author of the Christian religion.

See Matt. xxiv. 45.

"Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in dae season?

"Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

"Verily I say unto you, he shall make him ruler over all his house.

"But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, my Lord delayeth his coming;

“And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

“The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

"And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him

his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The propriety of applying this parable to the rulers of kingdoms and empires, which are only households on a larger scale, may be seen in the present degraded state of the Continent of Europe, and in the overthrow of so many pre-enslaved and pre-oppressed countries; the extinction of so many brilliant courts and weak cabinets under the influence of women, favourites, and princely profligates.

It may, also, be seen in too many of their over-taxed subjects checking their own sovereigns in the resistance of their declared enemy, as lately in Sweden; and in deserting them in their greatest extremities: in their sufferance of the realization of such threats as the conqueror made use of against the Prussian nobility, partisans in the late war, viz. "that he would make those noble courtiers beg their bread." And it may be seen in the continuing spread of an all-subjugating torrent, unwisely diverted by a succession of coalitions beyond its ancient and proper limits.

These are indeed lessons and applications that ought to rouse any enervated or sleeping nation, not merely to the exertion of a brute force, but to the exercise of all the moral virtues and energies, in aid of the physical means with which providence has entrusted them. Accordingly the rea

der will find several allusions to the continent, in the proceedings narrated in the present interesting volume, and which are there considered as examples to Great Britain.

But, certainly, the habits and dispositions of the mass have undergone a considerable change within the last fifteen years, and particularly so since the imposition of the income-tax. From that time, whatever may have been the burdens laid on by the State, the monied and landed interests have sought and found their indemnification among the people at large with a vengeance. The traders and speculators, and, in fact, who are not traders and speculators now? have pushed themselves into all businesses and professions with their mighty overwhelming capitals, and nearly extinguished all fair and honoura➡ ble competition. Every one, who would oppose this new system, must become a sharper, or a sheep to be devoured by these wolves. Is it then surprising, that, in such a state as this, "every man should be supposed to have his price?"

But have the people done this; or has it been the act of the State? Of the State most assuredly; who have furnished one class of people with facilities merely for its own sake. Why were the statutes against forestalling repealed within the period of Mr. Pitt's administration? However, these statutes, Lord Kenyon observed, a short

time before his death, were repealed “in an evil hour;" and he still thought "that something of legal restraint was demanded, as an act of general justice.” .

That the new system of trade has an infallible tendency to impoverish a number of tradesmen, and place an honest independence quite out of their reach, while but few only can possibly be enriched, take the following example:-Here is a large manufactory of iron, &c. in a poor, but populous, parish in the metropolis: it has evidently ruined all the little masters; because, hav. ing a large capital, it can purchase the materials at the best market, and consequently sell them cheaper than they could, when manufactured. The proprietor, it is beyond a doubt, realizes a large fortune. A dozen poor tradesmen are, perhaps, ruined, or they become his journeymen. It is not to be supposed, but that some of these men, for want of good conduct, might have at length become paupers; but, on the other hand, it cannot be denied, that a certain proportion, perhaps half the number, might have enjoyed a handsome competence all their lives; and, if not rich enough to have retired from business altogether, might have passed very well for independent men : whereas, becoming journeymen or servants to the great manufacturer, his system makes one rich man, and at least half a dozen poor.-Yet, this is the