FROM

'ROM his very childhood he grew up in filence and in folitude; neither feduced, nor diverted from his purpofe; in a quiet independance; not embarraffed by difficulty, or depreffed by neglect; conftant in thought; waiting patiently for his hour; of the world not unknowing, though unknown. Much and often would he mufe on other times; and dwell with the bards and fages, whole names are written in the books of fame and eternity. His ftudies and his meditations were an habitual try. To thofe who obferved the mantle he would fometimes wear in his youth, it feemed

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But he never blamed his fate. Moft of all, he reverenced the lyre; and fought out those who could trike the frings moft cunningly and fweetly. One fuch he found. He looked abroad through all the realms of Nature; through her scenes of majesty, of foftnefs, or of terror; the wilds of folitude, the stormy promontory, the cultivated profpect, the expanfe of forests, the living lake, the tor rent, or the cataract. By the fhores of the interminable ocean, on the cliffs, and on the ragged rocks, he found and felt the power of infpira. tion. But ftill his fancy wandered chiefly in the mild retreats of the elder poetry, the banks of Mæander, and the Mincio. The fcenes of ancient Greece and Latium were the hermit haunts of his imagination. In the valley of Tempe, by the hill of Hymettus, and the grove of Plato, he first heard, and learned

The fecret power

Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice, or hand; and various meatur'd verse,

olian charms, and Dorian lyric odes, And His, who gave them breath, but higher fung.

Sometimes reclined on the verge of Caftalia, he would drink of the ori ginal fountain, whofe murmurs were familiar to him. Laft of all, in the moments of divine and of fercne delight, he would afcend the chariot of the Mufes, and fix his eye, but not without fuperior guidance, upon the central heaven. Such, indeed, is the right of Poets, whofe intereft is that of their country; whofe gain is not lucre, but the hope of an honourable acceptance.

Whoever indeed ftands forward at fuch a perilous period as the present, with boldnefs, confidence, and an honeft intention in the public fervice, with a name or without a name, known or unknown, is furely worthy of fome regard, and I should think, of kindness. But when a gentleman (without any intereft, but that of eve ry other fubject in the country,) has devoted his time, fortune, and abili ty in the hope of being useful, it is but a common caufe to rescue his me mory from the gripe of injustice, and the fangs of malignity. When he has defended THE TRIPLE FORTRESS of Religion, Morality, and Literature, from its foundation to the topmoft battlements, muft he be left on the field without the common honours of a common foldier? Because a few trumpery Poetafters, half critics, jugglers in fcience, or indecent Commentators, are held forth and configned to ridicule or contempt, as they have refpectively deserved, must

this work on the Purfuits of Literature be degraded and depreciated? I truft not. The public will never fuffer fuch impotence and dulnefs, fuch Under-conjurors and Journey men Aftrologers, the Sidrophels and Whacums of the day, to read backwards for them the great page of Literature, and declare the interpre tation of it. When the Sun is high in the heaven who asks for fubfidiary light?

Literature, indeed, at this hour, can hardly be divided from the principles of political fafety. Satire alfo has a character, which fhe was never before called upon to affume. Senfum cælefti demiffumtraxit ab arce! She muft now co-operate with the other guar

Each fac

feaft. Blood muft flow. tion has delivered over its predeceffors to death. The Priefts of Reason hold their rites in the field of Mars. Firft, indeed, they foothe awhile their favagenefs with fong and feftival. But these are the preludes of fanguinary cruelty; the ftops and paufes of their war fymphonies. With their laurel and cyprefs branches bound together and dipped in blood, they' advance to the altar, and perform their abhorred luftration. The manes of all that is brave, and all that is ferocious, are invoked in their democratic incantations to Reafon and her Republic.

Sævis opus eft, et fortibus umbris;

ftate in her degree.

Such AN UNION is now demanded of the minds, the talents, and fortunes, of the fouls and bodies, of all the inhabitants of Great Britain, as I never before entered into the hearts of Englishmen to conceive. We muft be preserved from the tyranny and power of France; from all her principles, and from all her arms, open or concealed, mental, moral, or political. I have pride and fatisfaction in feeing, and feeling that we are all fo convinced. We know we muft die, or defend ourselves from THE MONSTROUS REPUBLIC.

Inflat terribilis vivis; morientibus hæres; Nulla quies: oritur præda ceffante libido;

Divitibufque dies, et nox motuenda maritis;

Emicat ad nutum ftricto mucrone minif

ter!

If we confider it from the commencement, it has threatened, devoted, and given over all its victims to defolation, wretchednefs, plunder, and final death. BLOOD is the cement of the Republic of France.

Some victims have bled for principle, others for example, fome for funeral pomp, and fome for a civic

NIS IN USU ÉST.

On the blood of

On the blood of their murdered monarch they have fworn hatred to tyranny; and they have established a Directory. On the blood of innocence and virginity they have fworn to reftore, and to protect the female dignity; and they have annulled the bond of marriage, and the charities of confanguinity. their generals ftreaming on the scaffold, and on the blood of armies partially devoted by other generals in the day of battle, they have fworn to give honour, and encouragement to the defenders of the republic. Such are their decrees; fuch are their oaths registered in blood. All is contradiction with them, yet all is in action. Principles of the moment, principles of reflection, principles of defolation, principles of fafety, all have had their hour; all have rifen and fallen. Banifhment and deportation have now fuperfeded the axe of the guillotine, and the fabre of ruffian maffaere. How long?-All changes with them all, but the fix-' ed luft of plunder, and aggrandifement, and the rooted hatred to Chriftian religion. To every government, and to every establishment in Europe,

they

they apply but one axiom, "WHAT

EVER IS, IS WRONG!"

Whoever ftrives to refift fuch an adverfary, upon principle and reflec tion, with eloquence, or wisdom, or learning, in the robes of ftate, or in the veitments of religion or law, with arms in his grafp, or with well-directed opulence, by counfel, by precept, or by example, muft be numbered among THE FRIENDS OF MAN.

I am moft ferious in my words, and earnest in my thoughts. I have been inftructed by these great events, to confider all actions as of fome' weight, and that nothing is now to be neglected, as wholly unimportant. If the efforts of the united genius, learning, poetry, and eloquence of a country can be directed with ftrength and discretion, in their proper and natural courses, we may yet have confidence. Enterprifes of great pith and moment will fucceed, and a righteous fecurity may be eftablished. Confider for a moment what is the hope of bad men. The orator of Athens has declared, "Their hope of safety is placed IN THE EXCESS OF THEIR WICKEDNESS, AND INIQUITY The haunts, and caves, and tenements, and skulking huts of fophiftry, anarchy, rebellion, democracy, and Jacobinifm, will at length be fully revealed, and finally levelled and ruined. When the fountains of hallowed fire are once opened, and flowing with liquid purity in the filence of the night, the objects which darknefs would conceal, are not only difcovered, but deftroyed.

ALONE."

government could perish but by its own hand, and by its own consent to die. The Government of Great Britain has given no fuch confent. Her king, her nobles, her commons, her fenators, her ftatesmen, her lawyers, her artists, her merchants, her citizens, her peasants, all maintain and declare with one voice, and with arms in their hands, "GREAT BRITAIN HAS GIVEN NO SUCH CONSENT."

She has not lifted up her arms against herself she is willing and defircus to live. She has humbled herself before God the judge of all, through the Great Mediator of humanity. She knows her ftrength, and has felt her infirmity; fhe is earneft for her prefervation from her foes within and without; and having done all, and ftill committing herself, and her cause, TO HIM who judgeth righteously, She hopes yet to ftand.

Whether the end of all things may be at hand; and what the decrees of eternal power, wifdom, juftice, and goodness may intend in the last refort, we acknowledge to be inferutable. But we truft, it cannot be deemed an unwarrantable prefumption, to suggest or to affirm, that, if the attributes of God are true; if man is his creature, and governed by his laws; the oppofers of this over. bearing, defolating, impious, and univerfal tyranny mult be juflified before him. As to us, the inhabitants of Great Britain, if we would exift at all, we must be preferved as we are. Our conflitution is not loft; and the ramparts we have raised around it will maintain it entire. Our liberties are fupported equally against arbitrary power, and against the engines of licentioufnefs and democracy pon us the deftiny of Europe, and perhaps of the whole civilized world, ultimately depends. It feems placed in our hands: a fearful and an awful charge.

U

Omnia

Omnia Fata laborant,

tion, I will confider myself in fome

ICTU

STAT GENUS HUMANUM!

I am fure words on this fubject cannot be thought out of feafon, or out of place, while terrors are yet gathering around us. Circumstances have inftructed us all, not to regard any thing as common, which is defigned for the public fervice.

The time is now arrived, in which all perfons fhould fully understand whatever is of importance facred or civil. There should be no ambiguity; all,fhould be laid open, and juftly comprehended. Though without authority, and in a very private ka

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