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WELSH MAGAZINE.

Yr Haul (the Sun) for August, 1835. Liverpool, J.
Pughe, No. 6, Marybone.
We strongly recommend this very valuable and inter-
esting publication to the notice of our Welsh friends : it
is decidedly the best periOdical published in the Welsh
language. We recollect reading in the Welsh Triads—
" Tri pheth y dylai pob Cymro eu cofio yn ddidbr rhag
eu hanmharehu o hono--ei Dad, 'el W lad, a'i erica o
Gymro." (Three things ought every Welshman to
.re-
member without fail, so as not to be disgraced from it-his father,' his country, and his name of Welshman.")
But we say three. things ought every Welshman to re-
member without fail—to patronize, to read, and support
Yr haul, its motto and matter is "welradapted to its
name, which is, " Yn ngwyneb Haul a llygad
(Ln the face of the Sun and in the eye of the light.) The
following extract will enable our readers to form an
opinion of its utility :
• SCRIPTURAL HISTORY OF THE RADICALS.
Radicalism is not a new thing, as some blockheads have
imagined, but, on the contrary, it is an old doctrine, which has
been preached, and has,succeeded wonderfully in the primitive
ages of the world; •andt.as it is considered at present an indis-
pensable requisite for the national salvation of Great Britain, it'
would not be unprofitable to trace it through the scriptures;
and who knows but what we may receive the acknowledgment
of our radical friends in the shape of a handsome silver cup.
The first radical was the Nachash, in Eden, who in our Bi-
bles is called the serpent, and the first radical sermon was
preached in the earthly paradise; and such was the success of
radicalism at the time of its first exhibition, that all people
on earth at that time were proselvted to believe this important
doctrine. The God of Heaven had given a parliament of con-
servatives in the bosoms of the happy pair in the garden for
maintaining inviolate the principles of the constitution, and for
upholding the church of divine establishment. But the chief
radical, Lord Serpent O'Nachash, came into the garden, and
made a motion that the original constitution should be laid
aside, and the church changed in all its principles, which he
maintained would immediately conduce to the unspeakable hap-
piness of all the human family. The conservatives argued that
death would be the consequence of passing the bill, and that it
would be wiser to throw it out; but Lord O'Nachash protested
" Ye shall not surely die," and the result was the reception of
the radical reform bill in all its clauses. And what next? A
flood of misery over all the earth, that brought eternal destruc-
tion to numberless millions.
The next radicals that shall now be mentioned were Lords
O'Korah, O'Dathan, and O'Abiram, of whom we read in
Numbers, chap. xvi. The tribes of Israel were at this time
under a theocratical government—the church connected with
the state, the priesthood appointed, and the whole carried on
under the immediate superintendence of the Deity. But the
radicals began to muster, and, after forming a party, they chose
the Lords O'Korah, O'Dathan, and O'Abiram to be their
leaders; consequently a bill was introduced into the sanhedrim.
As the speech which was delivered on that occasion bears so
close a resemblance to the radical speeches of the present age,
we shall transcribe it for the perusal of our readers:—" And
they (the lords) gathered themselves together against Moses
and against Aaron, and said unto their, take too mach upon
y.m, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them,
and the Lord is among them;_ wherefore lift ye up yourselves
above the congregation of the Lord?" We need not point out
the relationship between the reasoning of the modern radicals
and that of the radicals of whom we are speaking, because the
similarity is as plain as the sun. The overthrow of the said
radicals is related thus in the holy scriptures :—" And the earth
opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and
all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
They, and all that appertained to thew, went down alive into
the pit, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from
among the congregation." The said radicals are now in Tar-
tara along with Lord Serpent O'Nachash, the arch-radical.
The next radicals that shall be named at present. are Abi-
melech and the men of Shechem, whose history is recorded in
Judges, chapter ix. These had imbibed radicalism, and were
determined to change the constitution, be the consequences
what they would. They resolved to renounce God, and set
Abimelech O'Gideon to be king osier them, who was hiMself a
notorious radical 'at that time, and whom the conservative
Jonathan compared unto a bramble among the trees of the
forest. The first tiling recorded of this radical is, that he slew-
seventy of his bretheren upon one stone; the next, that an evil ,
spirit was sent between him and the men of Shechern ; and, the
next, that a woman broke his skull with a piece of a millstone.
And here, so endeth his chapter. He commenced his political
career like a true radical; he wielded the sceptre of his despot-
ism like a true radical, and he ended his sanguinary life in a
true radical style.
The next, after Abimelech, in the radical chronicle is Prince
Absalom ben David ben Jesse. This prince turned a radical at
once, and nothing was heard from his mouth but the grievances
of the people, roaring continually ; and, indeed, of all the radi-
cals recorded in history not one displayed his radical part better
than this prince. His radical speeches are thus reported in 2d
Samuel, c. xv. 27-5.---" And Absalom rose:up early, and stood
beside the way of the gate: and was so, that when any man
that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then
Absalom called unto him, and said, of what city art thou ? And
he said, thy servant is of One of the tribes of Israel. And Ab-
salom said unto him, see, thy matters are good and right; but
there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. Absalom
said moreover, 0 that I were made judge in the land, that every
man which bath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I
would do him justice! And it was so, that when any man
came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand
and took him and kissed him." This proves Absalom to be a
refined radical ; and after seducing the people to join in a re-
bellion. he pursued his radical system so far that he went in
unto his father's concubines, in the sight of the sun, and all
Israel ; and at last he ended his life, as every radical should, by
hanging on a tree in the wood of Epbraitn.
The last radical that• shall be named now is Jeroboam ben
Nenat; who made Israel to sin. This man ought to be held in
everlasting esteem by all the radicals . ofahe earth, because no
one ever gave them an example more worthy ofiznitation. Be-
hold a reformer going forward throdgh thick and thin.:; and
here is a person fit to make changes iii church and state. He
made two calves of gold for ISrael to worship. (Well done.!)
,He set rine in Bethel and the other in Dau. (Brave,), And
this thing became a sin. (EXcellent.) And he,made a hquse,
of high places. (Very right.) And made priests of the lowest
of the people. (Just the thing with the present radicals.) He
altered the feasts. (Very much wanted.) He offered upon the
altar. (Who could blame him ?) Sacrificing unto the calves
that he had made. (Why should 'he not ?) He placed in'
Bethel the priest s,Of the high places that he had made, (It was
right he should do so.)
So it is evident that radicalism is not a new thing;—it is an
old doctrine, rind an old system, leading, people astray it differ-
ent ages of the world, and, at the end, securing them io fetters'
of bondage. The spirit that now worketh
.has been working,,
amid, he it believed or not, the same are the consequences Of
radicalism now-a-days as was to the radicalism of past ages.