The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-11 00:00:00

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sity ; the works-. of Ole imp:ous are -a dis-.
graee, and their way is des:traction. Already. he
_is meeting his destruction :.his measure of. iniquity
is ful: the burning temples,- and reeking blood
of the innocent have-turned the' long-suffering of ,
God into wrath. Neaten vn :tilt-sides, our cue-
niy no longer-intimidates us with his once-menac-
ing,now eNhausted, famished, and expiririg forces,
but by his acts of Malice and cruelty. Plunged-in
an abyss of despair„ ,seeing_ kis destruction before
his eyes. he vomits the whole reaminsof his venom-
ous gall, in (niter once more to bite, and go off with
an act of splendid mischief. Heim lon gee attempts to
• delude our people:by his deceitful asSuntrices of their:
safety in remaining under his protection-in Mos-
-cow,—he no,loner wants to conceal the infamy
of his actions by shameless protestatiOns, that . it
is not he but the Russians themselves Who are the
-incendiaries, and who- rob and murder. He has
done with al,l these calumiies and' lies ; and hav-
ing-met on the field of battle with signal -defeats,
and seeing himself driven out of Moscow, he gives
himself up to the fullness'of his fury,- and vaunts it
in a last effort, 'by blowing up the Kremlin, and
the places of divine lvorShip there. Such has the
head and leader of our foes strewn himself to be!
But have the.executors of his will; and his slaves,
and the- slaves of their own passions, shewn them-
selves less ferocious than himself ? Could he have'
breathed his spirit of fury and impiety into a-mil-
lion OfheartS, if these heart; Were themselves not
already perverted and, filled with Wickedness
'Although there certainly may be some Monsters
in every well-ordered nation, • yet when every in-
dividual of whole armies is a monster, robber, in-
cendiary, Murderer, violator, insulter and defiler
of; the sanctuary itself, it is impossible thatino--
rality, should exist in such a nation. The Mind-
Of man does not become wicked and ungodly all
at once ; but it becomes 'so, little by little,— by
exampke,—by seduction, from' the general and
slowly-instilled poison of infidelity and corruption.
The French writers themselves have described the
character of their nation as a mixture' of the tiger-
and the ape; and when was it not Where,
and in what country else,
.115. s ever a whole reign-
ing family been executitd-on a scaffold ehera,
and in what country, have religion and God himself
been so blasphemed ? Where,/ and in what-coun-
try; have the most detestable crimes and' vices
been sanctioned by the customs and Let us
cast an eye on the infamous and false reasonings
in their writings,--orrthe dissoluteness of their life
and manners,--on the horrors of the Revolution,
—on the blood spilt in their own and other COUII-
- ;—has it ever been heard of elsewhere, of old
men-a hundred years old, and- unborn infants,
ing, cOndennied to punishMent and torture ? Where
is hUmanity ? Where are the least-traees
rality and virtue? This is the sort of nation with
whom we haVe •to do ! From hence we may be -
able to judge whether an end can ever.be put to.
the enmity between irreligion'and,piety, between
vice and virtue. Long'. time have sve been in an
'error, in looking upon this nation as worthy of
our esteem, oar friendship, and even our imita-
tion.We have been cherishing and pressing to,
oUr hos Oms • a serpent, . which at the same. time:
that it has been tearing its own entrails, has been
pouring out its poison on us ; and in:retrivn for
our attachment and love, has been wounding us
with its envenomed -sting. Let -us not be asham-
ed of acknowledging our weakness; it is more
praiseworthy, and more secure, to fall and to rise -
again, than to see one's error, and to remain in ,
it-, The friendship and seductive manners of a
corrupted people are snore dangerous to' us than
their enmity and their arms. Let us render thanks
to God—hce :is our father even in his wrath, and
watches for our gorid.---Trovidence, in sending
calamities upon us, still shews us his loving kind-
ness. The loss of wealth may be made on by mo-
deration in our luxuries, and be compensated by
industry, • and our subStmee may increase with
time hundred fold ; hut the perversion of. our
morals, and the infectious tendency of infidelity
and, impiety, would plunge us in irrevocable
struction. A most signal example which has hap-
pened under our eyes, replete with enormities,
made flagrant by the conflagration of Moscow,
and which we have, as it were, sealed by our blood
and -wounds, ought at last to open our eyes, and
to convince us that we have but one of two alter-
nativesi- to choose-either by continuing to che-
rish our partiality for this impious 'people, to be
their no less impious
,hondmen ; or' by breaking •
with them all moral connection, to return to the
purity and, innocence of our own manners, and be
in name, and in mind, and sonl,hraVe and true
Russians. We -must, fin once, determine to: fix-.
a bulwark betwee9. good and evil, that evil may
not come unto "iis. It is then; that having gaiped
experience by our blood and our calamities, we
shall again arisew'e- shall purchase‘to Ourselves
true glory—we shall procure peare and tranqui
Pty to our posterity, and the Grace of God will
be with

Lord HEATHFiwi lies dangerously ill at
-house in Hill-street; Berkeley-square. His Lord-
Ship's life is despaired of,
Accident Extraordinary few days- ago, as
two gentlemen 'of Newcastle, were tta,,:elling on
the North road, in a very high gig, when within
two' miles of Morpeth, ()Wing to the darkness
of . the night, they were precipitated over a
bridge, about fifteen feet high, but the, horse
and gig were prevented folloWirig them, by a
srong.rail... Except a good ducking, little injury
.was sustained by the travellers, who soon after
purSued their journey, and arrived at home
,in
safety..
Friday John Roche, an active and irtelligent
Constable of Connie!, upon information'he de-
rived from a woman, seized in the-Main-street, a
person concerned in ayery ,Atrocious-murder which
was committed sonic time ago ida.cerrain county.
This person, having been brotight before Sir
Richard Jones and the High Sheriff, made a full
disclosure of the facts. He says that since tile
murder, he always imagined' the pre-
sent, accusing him of- the- deed=and he appeared
,no longer desirous of evading justice. The wo-
man has been lodged in a place of security. . Mo-
tives .of prudence prevent us at present from stat-
more particulars.--Clonmel Herald.