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'' That there Jhould be idle, vicious peo
ple in the community is owing to bad
institutions."
THERE is a certain indolence of
investigation in the mind, that
makes us apt to attribute the evils
that prevail in society, to some radi
cal defers in human nature. It is
incredible how prone we are to con
trast an habit of aligning such causes
for every appearance, as will give us
the least trouble of thinking. The
zealous patriot charges all public e
vils to the mismanagement of public
inen. He is fatisfied that is the true
k.tfo rf±±arnitmtL _j=X3mttammnmmtß.mm.miflmmmMi
A rational and steady belief of the immortality
of the foul, is of universal and infinite importance.
And on this fobjeft, more perhaps than any other,
we are tempted to extend our enquiries beyond
the limits wifely prescribed to them. But let us
remember that—" even that Gospel which is said
to have brought life and immortality to light,
allows us to fee oral, through a glass darkly. It doth
sot appear yet what we Jhall be. Our knowledge
of a future world is very imperfect, our ideas of it
are faint and confufed." The author and finifher
of our faith is described in the Old Testament as
biding bimfelf. Clouds and darkness are said to fur
ftound him. His way is in the feet, and his path in
the great waters : His footfleps are not known.
" What future bliss he gives not thee to know.
But gives thee Hope to be thy blessing now :
well on £i oa year as on £iooo: what if we
should fettle £2OO a-year on our generous patron,
for life, for I hear his friends have forgot him,
and he is in danger of periihing for hunger and
want." Joseph's wife heartily consented to the
proposal, and a year's salary was remitted to the
Duke. Astonished at this second act of kindness,
his Grace wrote a particular detail of it to a
Nobleman at Court, who, though a zealous par
tizan of another faction had ever maintained a ftri&
and inviolate friendfhip with him. By his interest,
Joseph was preferred to a lecond living worth
£SOO per annum ; but before his promotion took
place, the brave Duke of Ormond died in exile ;
so that Joseph could no longer relieve the wots,
nor alleviate the misfortunes of his noble patron :
for he was gone down to that land of silence and
rest, where the oppressor and the oppressed meet
together—and his foul had winged its way to those
pure regions, where wealth and riches are accounted
contemptible trifles, where titles and dignities are
trampled on with scorn, and where virtue alone is
exalted and ennobled with diftinguilhed and eternal
days. , -
IT is a common, and with some a very favourite
opinion, that at the General Refurredion, every
one will appear in the very fame body he inhabited
on earth. Without intending to engage in any
thing like a controversy, on this, to me, unimpor
tant point, I would just date an objeaion to the
abovementioned opinion, drawn from afaa too
notorious to be denied;
It is well known that the bodies of living animals
are continually changing, and that the very fame
particles of matter successively constitute different
animated substances ; so that no man is the identical
corporeal being to day that he was yesterday : And
those particles of matter which once entered into
the composition of our firft patents, may since have
made a part of many of their offspring; not to
mention the possibility of their having also been
converted into various kinds of fifh, fowl, infers,
and brute animals; to fay nothing of the various
forms of vegetation, the blossom, the flowers, and
the fruit they may have passed through. Now if
the very fame body rife again, while some men,
who have been cor.ftituted of original particles only,
assume gigantick forms, by the aggregation of all
the particles of which they have been successively
composed ; others will be divided and Subdivided
almost ad infinitum, if the prior claim of the firft
occupier be not admited to the annihilation of his
successors. r
Hope humbly then, with trembling pinions soar,
Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore.>'
'" Imperial C<efar, dead and turn'd to clay.
Ma, flop a hole to keep the vjind a<way."
FROM A NEW-YORK PAPER.
From the Columbian Centlnel.
MONITOR, NO. 328.
solution of the difficulty,and searches
for no cause that is more deep or ra
tional. The recluse theologian ac
counts for vice and misery in a differ
ent manner still. To the original
depravity of the human heart, all the
evil, that appears in the moral world,
must, in his view, be ascribed. From
such a fountain he traces all the dis
orders that torment and disgrace so
ciety. lam not however, dilcuffing
this question on theological grounds,
and Ihall therefore venture to assert
that the effeds of the most of the e
vils that cover the face of the moral
world may be mitigated or destroyed
by judicious inffitutions.
Perhaps my principles can no way
be better illustrated, than by an ap
peal to the circumstances of this city.
Every person who has redded here
for fix years past, must have been a
witness with how much rapidity the
number of abandoned characters has
diminished. This reformation must
be attributed in some degree to the
good regulations that have been a
dopted for employing all classes of
citizens. The means of subsistence
are rendered so easy, that the tempta-
tion to commit enormous crimes may
eaftly be resisted. And when an ha
bit of industry is formed, men learn
to prefer an honest living to the tricks
of cunning, or the depredations of
fraud.-
Those men who govern the affairs
of the community, and are honored
with the appellation of fathers of the
people, lay themselves under the
strongest obligationsto wacth over the
happiness and morals of the society
to which they belong. States may
be deemed civil families, over which
those who a& as head, should ex
ercise parental care and vigilance.—■
Are the inhabitants indolent or vici
ous, a patriotic legislator will coun
teract such a propensity, by regulati
ons which produce industry and vir
tue. He will discern that indolence
is so radically interwoven in human
nature, as to require very vigorous
motives to overcome it. Forthis rea
son, his laws will be calculated to
suggest the highest incentive to active .
occupations. This can be best accom
plished, by a spirit of emulation that 1
may be excited by a general diffufion
of knowledge. Science spread thro'
the community, creates a relish for
the works of art, and this stimulates
industry, which gives wealth and
strength to the government. An in-;
duftrious people will be orderly and,
refpe&ful. They will have few temp
tations to vice, either of a public or a
private nature. A careless or an ig
norant legislator only looks to the re
moval of evils after they have hap
pened ; but a wife and virtuous one,
takes a more comprehensive view, and
fees the propriety of making good
men, as well as good fubjeas, or ci
tizens, He removes as muchas pof
\MPLE credit is given Mr. Burke, that he
it a friend to the church—a friend to the
king—a friend to the constitution of France. But
the church of France is Popery—the King a tyrant
—•and the Constitution a system of cruelty and deG
potifm.
I am now alluding to that constitution which Mr.
Burke admires—and the subversion of which fie
so feelingly, so pathetically laments !!! '
Immortal God ! that the earth should fopporh,
a man, a man of fach comprehensive powers of in- *
telled—capable of weeping over the ruins of ar
bitrary power—of lamenting, that millions of hie
fellow men, who lately lived on the smiles ofa^
tyrant, and perished at his 'frown, are reftofed tdb ~
the (acred, eternal and inviolable rights of na
ture ! -J
! am file?, I fay, with an holy indignation,
that the earth should afford nourishment to a mind
so mean, so abjeft, so depraved. I weep when I
recoiled that my old and once refpeXable friends
Edmund Burke, is the man !
Is this the sum of his social virtues— the refuft
of his laborious researches—that Kings are born to
be tyrants, and fubjeXs to be slaves?
In the opinion of my friend—but I renounce hie
friendihip—a kingis a demigod, and the wretch
who dares affirm that his life, his property, his sen
timents are his own, ought, if this mortal deity
pltafe, to be either immured in a dungeon, or
chained to the oar!
The revolution in France—which patriots bed
bold with admiration and angels with applaufa
is vilified and traduced by Mr. Burke ! "It it
bloody, ferocious, and tyrannical." What falfe
hood ! It is a revoltuion unstained with blood, and
conduced on principles of unexampled dignity
and moderation.
And what ought to cover his face with confufi*•
on, and embitter reflexions to the left moment of
i his life is, that on the very day in which the evil
+ genius of Mr. Burke prompted him to unmafle.
and stand confeft the advocate of despotism and
idolatry, news was received that the king of•
France, unsolicited, unexpeXed, went to the Na,•
tional Assembly, and recorded his fall, free
and cordial approbation of their" wife and patri
otick efforts; for the publick good." @ere was 3
no popular tumult to render the measure expedi
ent, nothing in the afpeX of affairs to terrify his
majesty; as it^was a voluntary offering at the
(brine of freedom ; and the inference is most obvi- 1
ous—either the king of France, aanally, bona Jid,
approves of the.fyffem of civil policy, adopted by‘
the National Assembly—and under that hypothec
4# the bmettatibus of my quondam friend aresr
' t^ f ~ofr "Whm m ^^ —^-^-^^ri^^^ —^
fible the causes of vice, by encreafing
the motives to a steady and virtuous
line of conduct. ^4
^rt °f purify™^ Tallow to make Candles.
TAKE I of tallow, | of mutton-fait, melt them
in /copper caldron, with half a pound of
hot grease. As soon as they are melted, mix eight
ounces of brandy, one of salt of. tartar, one o£.
cream of tartar, one of salt ammonick, and two of
pure and dry pot-ash. Throw the mixture in the
caldron,and make the ingredients boil a quarter of
an hour : Then let the whole cool. The next day'
the tallow will be found on the furface of the water
in a pure cake# Take it out and expose it to the.
action of the air on canvas, for some days. It will'
become white and almost as hard as wax. The
dew is very favourable to its bleaching. Mako
your wicks of fine and even cotton, give them a
coat of melted wax ; then cast your mould candles.
They will have much the appearance of wax, and
one, 6 to the pound will burn 14 hours, and never
run.#
'™T'' $ 'l'"'''''', the deeding part ; [hear#
The world's fubdu'd, & heav'n has all m,
Earth's gaudy thews, and pomp of courts adieu.
Forever now I turn my eyes from you !
Pleasure wou'd court in vain, and beauty smile.
Glory in vain ray wiffies wou'd beguile.
The persecutor's rage, I wou'd not fear!
Let Death in ev'ry horrid form appear.
Arid with his keenest darts my bread affait,
When breach, and ev 7 y vital Spring Ihall fail ,
This sacred fl?me on brighter wings shall rife,
And unextinguilh'd reach its native Ikies.
A NEW CHARACTER OF THE GR£AT
MR. BURKE,
On account of bis sentiments in regard to the FRENCH
REVOLUTION.
AY Dr. withers.
7HE MORLD SUBDUED.
USEFUL ARTS.