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the mere dignity, 33 every object it
magnified by '%gy interpositions.
While the menaces of virtue, perfon
#tei by Mr. Buries, hung over the head
o' Hayings a confidential friend and as
sociate ora or carried a Waite Hag to
the agent of the offender ; but whether
from all 'he enemies to Indian oppressi
on, whom he here calls " good men"—
whether to avert the impending storm, or
gcnerondy to enable the fufferer to pre
pare for it—we can only conjedure —
the a,enr, '(being naturally a Marplot)
having fully aofwered the main question,
when a previous hint hud only been given.
Charity, however, will incline us to
suppose, that the generosity, aimod fu
pernatoral, which crated from the au
thor's mind, all the refitment, rage,
and abhorrence, excited by the conduct
es Lord North ; and in reduced the gen
tle passions of rorgivenefs and friendship;
weald not have been, and will not yet
be, abfolutelv and eernilly implacable
to Mr. Hidings ; though, in inte cour
fesof chicane ,nd corruption with Be
gum#, Nabobs, ind Rajahs, he may have
fo.gotten the laws of hi# country, or vi
oH-d the vnirerfal maxims of viitue.
In refpe& to France, a similar dtfpafi
tion :b placability is d fcoverabie even
in the highett pyroxylin of the author's
rage. For after warming his imagina
tion into frenzy on the royal Offerings ;
and execrating the National A.feMb'y,the
philofooherb, the Jacobins, and all the.
real and imaginary cauies of the facrjle
gious dishonour ; he admits a possibility
that royalty mignt devise or commit ads
that would require examination and in
quiry. Here is a fair opening for recon
ciliation between the offending people
of France and this great orator. Let
the National Assembly vote an Impeach
meat : and if they give Mr. Buke the
management, they may be allured, not
only ofhis forgivenefs and friendship,
but that the King and Qren will be
disposed of for lite. W^t a glorious
fate! What a charaderiftic appoint
ment ! All Europe would be occupiedon
his orations, and filled with his fame :
and when Providence calls hintitis
hoped very late— from the trophies 0
his virtues and duty here, his future
reward, to give effed to <hh cultivation
of his present talents, we may humbly
fez pofe, will be—7o Impeach the Devil
to all eternity !
The " good" man proceeds—" They
Come from one, who desires honours, de
flinaions, and emoluments, but little ;
and mho expects them not at all.
The advantage of religion is great,
|n veiling fectet infirmirivts or crimes.
It is true, the eye of God is foppofed to
penetrate all disguise and darkneh ; bar
fri ministers are placable, and every
thing has its price. Mr. Bwke was the
•nh partisan who ftipulared with the
Pall Mail Cabal, previous to anoration
on the Regenev which uaneceff&ily p e
cipitated you, Royal Highneis into un
popularity. How many of the Burkes
were to be provided for ; and how in#
d : an peculation might be reconciled to
virtue and humanity in that holy fami
ly, " I will not tell it in Gath or pub
bfh it in the streets of 4ft<lon, left the
ungodly should blaspheme." Dr. Pari
would have been endued with the facul
ty of consecrating the traofadio% and
guarding it fron the feoffs of" athe-
Iftic" patrioifm or of profligate imper
tinence.
It must be expelled, an orator " has
no contempt" of fame ; "but Mr.
Burke," never facrificed his inrereft
to it; and "be has no fear of obloquy,"
tho' he has profiteered newspaper, r and
expressed apprehension, and alarm at
paragraphifts, in a manner that would
be deemed pusillanimous in an Abbeft
of King's Place. But it is to be obser
ved. Mr. Burke trembles only for the
cause of liberty apd humanity, for the
sacred and aaguft fabric of government,
which is to be forcibly entered only by
bis party, and then to be eternally pre.
served from profanation and ruin.
The Speaker of the House of Com
mons will attest, that "be shuns con
tention," though he will " hazard an
opinion."— That " he wishes to pre
fave conliftency," the world is difoofed
to doubt ; not knowing that " he would
preserve consistency, by varying his
foans to f cure the unity of his rend,
>nd that when the equipeife of the vessel,
in which he fails,may be endangered by
overloading it upon one fide, he 11 de
firous of carrying the final! weight of
his reasons, to itil which may prefer ve
to cquipote."
Your Royal Highnefe will regret
with me, that even so beautiful a len
teace Ihoeld conclude the account the
great orator condescends to give of h4m
taf. It alludes to the condition o' a
passenger on the fiver Thames une,e
the difference in the various conten sos
his pockety obliges hibi to flute and
change petitions; avd it fura ; {her an
cxaa image of Mr. Burke's b'e.
The modefly of the author Would not
permit him to hint at the exertion of
mind, w^ich produced this great work.
His mighty brain teemed vih it, near
ly twelve months I with I could tui,
ly devote as° man* oavs, 10 render your
Royal Highnch fenfibic of ail its me
rits.
That any man, not educated an inqui
liidr, and not lon accuHomed to oe-
Tive his picafure fro# tortwe i,d uni
fier,, (hot )Id be able to turn hseves w f h
a malignant averfiori on tour and <~cuy
milioas of his fello^crearorite;, suddenly
emancipated from oppteihre ^muy,
and auxibufly fecking chew' future feci-'
rity in th? delibeiMion* of rvafon aad
the ptovifioas o' prudent humanity—
word be improbable -n theory. It woJd„
be incredible, that a civilized citizen;
participating the bit ffings of freedom
under a mild government —cultivating
letters, and pretending .0 phii6foph,=
thould, without diftratbon and frenzy,
harbour a whole year in ins mind, ides'
so horrible, wishes so diabolical, as are
expressed in al'roH every care of this
work. Bat the operation, of 'elf-iatered,
lublime by religion, 'produce miracles.
Mr. Bailee wro^e his " wonderful"
Letter immediately on receiving the
unction of the Minitter to his fenri
ments in Parliament. A, event, fluc
tuated in France, the pro<fch°n «is
corrected, and 'h author has. aeon ahvr
naril, * ;i;s ed and torture! by hope
aid despondence, " that the cels of the
revolnti.i might er might not inrtify nis
opinions." At lift, the Anaruaric,
Oracle gave the fi,naL Calonae a•-
flounced tie pit* of a cnunter-reyolati
oa. Burke pat on bis magic fpeaables,
Jiftincly saw the Austrians msrening
through Flanders, the Spaicards in the
?yrenee,<hc Savoyards and S^ifs it the
Alps, and German and Eng'di officer#
fneakiag off fin,l, and relunaantfr
from poveriv io England, to atiirt in the
orojeArd mpffhc'e and devai?acion°
Burke grew frantic with joy : he Glut
ted the murky air, loaded with the ex-
•The reader is to observe, the author
afes the word religion, as lignifying the
varied juperflition, which governments
employ to impovtrilh and enslave the
people.
f Common minds fold cautiously
pronounce concerning ministers who are
born statesmen, or Heaven-born : but it
is certain Mr. Pitt's approbation of Mr.
Burk's speech on the French Revolution
occasioned all those measures of France,
which embar affed his Spanish negocia
ti°ne
The National Assembly had been in
ftruded from England, to difliwgoilh the
withes of the English administration
from those of the nation : the measures of
France would otherwise have been more
decisive, and a war met hava tad.
The geniocs of England, in pc itica!
design, had been io long the theme of
panegyric, (h^t it was not im^gieed,
the French would presume to attempt
any thing beyond an humble images i
on of the Englith government. Yoer
royal bighnef# will judge of the feelings
of “ mere Englifhmee," by those which
aauste Mr, Burke, when it was under
flood, they properd a new conflirution,
and meant to claim the merit of origi
nality. 1
salariors ot twenty milions of atheiibc
and patriotic carafes. •' The inseufe
is divine !" exclaimed the '' holy"
man—-" Me prophecies a#d revelations
(half he honoured ;" andrio !~the Souk
was publithed.
When your Royal flighnefs is thus in
Dofreffian of the an hor'v cStrafter.and
no r ves, you may eafil, j^dge of hi#
work.
f have intimated, in a previous lef
on, the pr nciple ciote, of the French
Revolution. When the fortrefs of def
>otitm was carried, :he viclors were not
content with ft<pulsions to prevent fu
ture annoyance incy razed it 10 the
ground, and projected a nsw and uteful
druaurc."
Bu if it fhoald not rouze that Nati
onal Hatred, which political fraud and
pious arthee huve .ti.duc-tly generated
ad prefrfved —the dan/trs of the ex
ample, furnished by France, are ex
tremely numerous and alarining to
thole who occupy, (difiot^relledly with
out doubt) the various departments of
our " wonderful conilit&cion" who, is
peculiarly " excellent" in its faults,
bra^xon quality by the common and ne:f
jury < c u oof infabtt, ^d confers bene
fits ana bf/for^ ifyuj„?i:e and injury.
(QUEBEC. BILL.
THE Ho^ie resolved itfelf into a
Committee o'q the bill for regv
1a ing the governmen of the Province
of Canua. Mr. Ho??rt in the chair.
'MR.BU'^/Ti
„'Said, that on a former day fame
members had expreTa their feari, left,
on ine discussion of the qulibn before
the noose. Ic.r.e members would deviate
into farj-as mat hud no connection with
the buineil in debate. In order to
kHo cleJ of every kind of aberration,
Fritch thole gentlemen fear so much, and
which, r with; said Mr.Bjrke, to avoid
asmuch a, any man, I think it highly na
ceffarv,before we enter upon this fo!emn
act of legislation, to inquire (in an age in
which every thing is difyuted) ^h&:h§r
we have a right o legislate for ,hit pro
vince or not ? If ^e have norright, to
make la <s for the province of . aoed# it
will lignify nothing to fay, that we have
endeavoured to give the Canadians the
bell poflityle co eof laws ; that we have
Audit'd above all, the happiness and fafe
ty of the inhabitants of that colony ; it
will b? of no avail, I fay, to plead our
good intentions, or even the happy fuc
cefi of our endeavors, since, if w- hava
not a right to leg'llate for Canada, we
(hall urra+oidibiy be expand to the
charge of dfurparion. The French (a
nation not to ba detpifed either for r&eir
poivrr, their number, or their ability )
have lately hjd up to tha world a Wei
nating noveltv, to which they have ^i-
Ven the appella ion of the Rights of min.
If we adopt into our political creed
this oejeft of French ideliery, we have
no bufiaefs #hztever with the province
Os Canada, except perhaps to cell the
iuhebicaro together in order to desire
fie A to form a conftirorion for them
febes. But there is another kind of ri,it
(so very old fa hioned, that fam almotl
ashamed to mention it) I mean the Lazy
of Nations, by which, in m, opinion,
this qulhon ought to be. decided, and
not by the Rights of Man, the novel
invention of a foolilh and fanatic demo
fraty. According co the Law of Nati
ons. a law weH underwood, and p r z&ifed
by ell the powers of Europe,the province
of Canada belongs beyond all possi
ble dispute to this countrf. Ca
nada is rJrs by conquest—it is ours
b, the ceflio# of those who bad a right to
cede it ; it is ours also by preemption.
Here then our competency to make la s
for die province of Canada is established
on the mort firm basis. I (hall therefore
let slide the Rights of Man, which were
never preached in any country without
producing the greatest mifchjef; & and^l
ihalladopt the Law of Nations, which has
been for so many centuries a falotary
guide to all the governments of Europe.
„Having thus eflablifhed the competen
cy of the British Parliament to make
laws for the inhabitants of Ceeada, it
becomes us next to inquire, what fort of
a system of government it would be pro
per to form for the province. We are
certainly bound to give them as good a
legislation as they are capable of, under
she double relation in which th, fiend;
that is, their internal relation with re
fpea to the hsppirefs ofthe inhabitants,
and their external relation as fubjetu of
this Kingdom. In considering this
quefiion, I (hall take no notice whatever
of ancient governments; firft because
they do not apply to the prefcar case ;
and, secondly becaofe in this l.m^s age,
all ancient wifiom is utterly despised. A
I are light ta file# ape* the Monm of
it " the Revelations" of the author;;
your Ye, al H.gaoefs may be irdi.utted,
to conucer tb T s presumption a> a " na
tional infu!t," and a cause ot war as
jullihable as any that has determined
our cabinets.
~ENGLAND.•
/ Eouje of Co Arnons, May 6, 1791.
1 URE|GWNEWS.
; France ; the French Aca^nra rf:;^
with En^lijb Clubs, have difervere;4
new Mine of Wifrinm which dor /<>.•?-
fathers dreamed not of; thev have ex
ceed the blaze of liberty with the torch cf
Sedition, and have dlffifed the)) 1 of
breidom by the help of the Lanterns.
la considering the iortof conttir tioa
that uould be bell adapted 10 the pro
vince of Canada, we Ought; I 'hi^k to
confine ocricircs :o ~n ezaminaion of
these three fyltems of government —the
American, the Crete and the R^ti/; —
The American government certainly •
ought to be coafidcred with, much atten
tion, since with that government the
Canadians will no doaht compare the
constitution which th^y receive from
this country. But wi h ref,cd to his
New Species cf I fomr, , which has late
ly made its appearance'in France, and
which a Rebellious Fanatitk . and Mui
Cerons Demccrarj-have dignified with the
name <f Government, I hold it utterly
unworthy the afrn.i.n oj any Legifator
wharrver. This jefendted, ma and
jooohto National Affembl, haveiniagiu
cd that they could term a Republic in a
coLwry the mol ec'v-rfe of all coun
tries on the face el the earth to every
principle cf democracy —The prejudi
ces, the h'b'ts of life; the tempter, the
nature! volatility of Frenchmen—every
thing, he ;%id; in flor, in that country
militates agiinft tne rffablifhmcnt ofg
Republic —ln eppofirion, however, to
hat just maxim of ;bc Latin poe-,
' Non mihi ret, sud re rebu:, lubmit
te e corer.' the mad d<rcrerats of
France base endeavoured 10 plant a re?
publican, government in a Country, in
which it is impotable it can ever take
root. The Americans, on the other
hand, ucre c.rairJv well adaoted for
the reception of a democratic form of
government. The ch^ra&er of the A
merictns is remarkable for a certain
teeming ep^ly, which excites the ad
mir^ inn even of the cold Englilhmin
)infe f ; fa are possessed of a wonder
ful degree of phlegm—a quality well
Suited to the principle; of republican
ism In the next place, we ought to
recoiled, ihet the American republic
had the advantage of being preceded by
e long v?fi r , in which the people were
inured to <bote virtues which alone can
form 'he bans cf a good government.
In thit m<btary ichoo! they learned the
greed principles ofeivil order ;in the
eetg-mipt of arms they acquired a
liability of mind, a firm sobriety of cqd
£,et —a ove of concord and harmony ;
for on thoi> virtues depended their fafe
t,. Hew 1# Ihorl, they learned that
g^rioje i,£h of the Lacedemonian re
public. Fo csmmenl and to obey.- In
the praaice or ibefe noble virtues, the
American were trained to the prin
ciple of good government, and not in
horrid and infamous crimes of affafiina-^
tion alO murder —the only eftions which
have fee diftinguifoed the mad demo
cracy 0; France. We ought also to re
member, that the Americans had no
me erialsto form a monarchy or aristo
cracy ; but the, have brought their
government, st near ar peffibie to the
Brit'fh core Hicution—which is the belt
fore, of government that human uiidom
has yet been able to reduce to pract
ice; they have imitated as near
us ;ko could, deprived as they were of
the tel lbefit of good geve^n.ent (I
mean Monarchy,) they have imitated,!
lay, as near as they could, the princi
ples of the British ccnlti'uticn. The,
have parded their constitution b,
reciprocal, checks ; they have established,
in imitation of the Boufe of Lords, and
Foufe of Commons, in this country, -#
House of Representatives, and a Senate.
It revet came into their heads to adopt
those atfurd Rights cf Man, or that mad
maxim cf the French democrats, who
tell you, th^t the Nation rules the Na
lion—that is to fay, that Prince Prettj.
man grctrns Prtdrt PrettjmaL
[fi be <6&tin&ea,]
The King of Great-fritaift, being COM
verfaticn with some of his Court, was
told that bv &Law of the National Jfira^
bl, of France, the power of the crown
was aftoniffiingly circurnfcribed,aiid that
the King w, reduced to a mere cypher.
—This account surprised the Monarchy
who in his rapid way, said, '' Wbat»
What ! if th people go •* ^ this rate, in
Shirt,, ears the, will art foe a King i<
Europe I*!
PREDICTION.