Satan himself) could wish fuch mifery, not to fay to his own native country, but to any country or people on the face of the earth? It will not anfwer the purpofe to cry out (as thefe blufterers do) that Parliament must be reformed, because it is prostitute and corrupt.-Nothing is eafier than to give foul names, and it is eafieft to those who have dealt longeft in the practice. But where is the proof of the charge? Has not the nation profpered under this Parliament, and through all ranks and orders of the people, beyond example? Where is there a country fo thriving, and so happy, fo powerful, and fo much admired by other nations? Has not the money of all Europe been flowing into our public funds? Are not the diftreffed and perfecuted from all quarters, at this moment, flying to it for refuge? Know the tree, I fay, from the produce: It cannot be a poifonous and rotten stock that produces fuch abundance of excellent and whole fome fruit. I afk, too, Where are the cruel and unjuft or arbitrary laws which this corrupted Parliament has paffed against the liberty of the people? That there are none fuch, the very proceedings of these Reformers prove: for if Parliament were unjust, they would be jealous too; and to restrain the liberty of fpeech and prefs, would be the firft they would think of: No one would be allowed to wag his tongue against them, as was lately done every where, not in holes and corners, but in public ftreets, and in the face of day. Another reason, it feems, why you are not free, is, that fome have great eftates, and fome have none at all. But let thofe Levellers answer this: How were great eftates at firft made, but by induftry and good fortune? and who will be induftrious and active, if he and his are not to enjoy his gains? Would they have a law made to hinder a poor man from getting rich, as numbers among you are now darty, and happily, doing? Obferve too how far this will go. If a duke or an earl has not a right to his great eftate, what right has the fmall land-owner to his freehold?What right has the fhopkeeper to his fhop, the tenant to his farm, the corporation to its privileges and freedom, the mafter trade fman to the work of his apprentices and fervants, or any working man to his comfortable meal, while there is a beggar in the ftreet that wants it? All and each of thefe rights depend on the established law of the land, protecting property as it happens to ftand: Deftroy it as to the great properties, and the small will not be long of following. Obferve Obferve too the confequence-For who but the rich take off the rare and coftly manufactures, fo various that it would take a day to tell them? And what then is to be ome of the many thousands who find their bread in the making of thefe articles? I have feen another reafon given to convince you that you are not free, namely, That there is a law for quelling mobs by military force. But what their meaning in this can be, it is difficult to conceive. Do they mean to fay, that a mob is a right and lawful thing, or not a thing to be afraid of, or that they should be fuffered to take their course, burning, plundering and deftroying at their pleafure? To complain of this, then, is to complain of being protected against the moft dreadful calamities, and that the orderly and quiet are not given up to the profligate and abandoned. It is to complain of the law, and civil magiftrate: for when the military does act, it is not of itself, or by its own authority, but by order of the civil magiftrate, in whofe hands it is a mere inftrument, juft as his officers and constables are on any common occafion. Thefe men, however, affure you, that they are alfo the friends of order, and enemies to all mobbing and difturbance. But how does their diflike of them appear? In their labouring to fill your minds with discontent, jealousy, and rage; with an opinion that you are wronged, fleeced, and oppreffed; with every feeling, in fhort, to make you defperate and impatient, and to move you to excess. 'Tis juft as if a man fhould tofs a match into a barrel of gunpowder in his neighbour's house, and affure him that he meant no harm, and that if any fire fhould happen there, he might depend on his affiftance. : I inuft confefs I have been heartily grieved to hear that any who are attached to the King and the Constitution, fhould have been concerned in riots, tumults, or any outrageous proceedings whatever. Let me tell all fuch, that they are totally and entirely wrong. It is an infult to that King and Conftitution whofe caufe they pretend to maintain To the King, whofe province it is to punish; and to the Constitution, the noblest privilege of which is a fair trial by Jury. But men who are concerned in fuch doings are themfelves judge and jury, witnefs and executioners, at one and the fame time. It is too like the Mob Defpotifm of the French. They when they have murdered a man and plundered his goods, becaufe perhaps he was loyal to his King, call it Civifme or Patriotifm, or fome fuch fine name. The people at Marfeilles too put eighty poor Priests, bound hand and foot, into a leaky fhip, and carrying them out to fea, left them in this most dismal con dition dition to perish, and which humane conduct their virtuous Representatives applauded. No! my friends, if any man is fo ungrateful as to vilify and infult that King and Conftitution under which he lives fo happily, give him over to the law, and let that teach him more gratitude, or at least more prudence, but never think you can be juftified in taking that law into your own hands. And now, my honeft friends, I come to a point of the utmost importance to you. You have heard a great deal about Equality, and I will tell you where only it will be Sound: IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD AT THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. There, the Prince and the Peafant, who have done their duty, are regarded with the fame benignant attention. There, not the fituation in life, but the manner in which it is discharged, is only confidered. A reflection that should teach the great humility, and the poor content. You have this cordial to reconcile you to all the diftreffes of life-That nothing but your own folly or neglect can deprive you of your future reward. I entreat you, therefore, by all that is dear to men, not to liften to thofe Atheists and Infidels, who everywhere abound---who would lead you by fneering and mocking at every thing ferious, to neglect your duty to God, and to defpife the mercies of your bleffed Redeemer. If a man robs you of your little property, the lofs may be repaired; BUT WHO OR WHAT CAN REPAIR THE LOSS OF YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL? Tremendous must be the account these men will one day have to give; for it must needs be that offences come, "but woe unto them by "whom they come." Think not that this folemn adjuration is unconnected with the present fubject. It was the rejecting Christianity, and the hopes and fears of a future ftate, that led the way to those more than favage ·barbarities that have been committed in France. Their leaders have endeavoured, and but too fuccessfully, to root out the very sense of religion from the minds of the people. There, the Saviour of the world, the Redeemer of Mankind, the Author of the moft gracious difpenfation that could be vouchfafed to blind and erring creatures, is treated with the moft shocking levity and profanenefs. It is fcarcely credible to what horrid impieties their mad prefumption has carried them. And are not the Freethinkers and Deifts in this country aiming at exactly the fame point? Have they not the cruelty to wish to destroy thofe confolatory hopes. which religion affords, and which are the only fubftantial support fupport that in their diftreffes poor, frail, dependent mortals have to trust to? No! my friends and countrymen, liften not to those who would rob you of your religion or your loyalty. TheScriptures tell us to "fear God and honour the King:" yet these men would lead you to defpife the one and infult the other. But to furn up in a few words the advice I mean to give you, and which advice I folemnly declare to be, in my opinion at leaft, moft conducive to your temporal and eternal inte refts---Be firm and immoveable in doing your duty to God; be true and refolute in your attachment to your King and Country; be honeft, induftrious, and contented, in your callings; be kind and peaceable in your demeanor ; be virtuous and religious in your practice; and then how low foever your ftation in life may be, depend upon it, YOU WILL BE HAPPY. j NINETY-THREE: A NEW SONG. BY MR. DIBDIN. A LL true honeft BRITONS, I pray you draw near; Join the mode of the times, and with Heart and Voice fing To Time's end; for fo long loyal Britons fhall fing, See with two diff'rent faces old Janus appear, With one Voice and one Heart in a chorus to fing, Some praise a new Freedom imported from France: They teach Freedom to Britons!-our own Right divine! We'll convince them we're Free! Free from every Licentioufnefs Faction can bring; Free with Heart and with Voice to fing." God fave the King." Thus here tho' French Fashions may please for their day, In a Nation like England they never do hurt; Britons all fhall agree, While with one Heart and Voice in loud chorus they fing, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY PRESERVED AGAINST REPUBLICANS AND LEVELLERS. A COLLECTION OF TRACTS. NUMBER XI. The Thirty-eight Hours Agony of M. fourgniac Saint Méard. -Address of the Burghers of Frankfort to General Cuftine. Farewell Addrefs of the French Emigrants on their embarking for Canada. LONDON: Printed and Sold by J. DOWNES, No. 240, Strand, near TempleBar; where the Bookfellers in Town and Country may be ferved with any quantity. PRICE ONE PENNY, At this period, when it is fuppofed that the greateft confufion reigns at Paris, and throughout France, when it is known that the prifons are crowded with victims to the fufpicions of the infernal banditti who have ufurped the Government of that unhappy country, and daily reports are circulated of maffacres that make humanity fhudder at their recital, it may not be thought unfeasonable to select a fhort extract from a pamphlet published fome months ago, entitled, "The Thirty-eight Hours Agony of M. Jourgniac Saint Meard,' which, by one fingle example out of thousands, will convey to the people of this country fome idea of the horrors of the late tranfactions in France, and give a fpecimen of the blessings of the Revolution, or Reform (as fome are pleafed to term it), that has taken place in that once gay and flourishing kingdon, but now (beu! quantum mutatus ab illo !) that wretched and miferable dif jointed Republic (as they feem ambitious of calling themselves), if indeed a title fo refpeétable may be allowed to the tyranny that now rules there with more than defpotic fway. The whole of the pamphlet contains the hiftory of St. Meard's arrest and imprison. ment from the 22d of Auguft. The most interesting part is his account of the tranfactions of the 2d and 3d of September, which he entitles His Thirty-eight Hours Agony, and is as follows. THE THIRTY-EIGHT HOURS AGONY OF M. JOURGNIAC SAINT MEARD. SUND UNDAY, the 2d of September. 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