Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-09-30

tue, than throne can enhooie critnc.-
In condemning me unheafd 70 death,
you have acted the part OF . ttrant; In
submitting with resignation ! have per.
formed the dsty Of christian. My age
and in6rmities could not promise q much
longer existence-by your cruelty you
have merely shortened the agony, the
last painful scene, Itrust, OF well-spent
inoffensive life. Can you suppose death
an unwelcome visitor to a man who 40
years ago dug his grave with his own
hands, and who ever since has endea.
vered to prepare himself for that awful
moment when he shall appear before
his Celestial Creator, before the Supreme
Judge of the Universe, terrible to guilt,
terrible to assassins however elevated
kind to innocence however obscure
Unfortunate man! you haveymy prayers!
Oh repent before the door of mercy is
shut against you forever Your corrupt
Hatterers, your debased slaves call you
I" all powerfuI''--a sinful man. all pow.
erful la weak, a wicked man all pow.
erful What profanity wha; inpiety !
what blaspheEy! Yoa aNhowerfu! you
Gho haze NOT the hozuer to create a blade
of grass, or the ui.g Of an insect! You
who cannot arres, drop Of rain from
the smallest cloud, or produce the least
ray of the sun through an overcast tr-
mament!
Blush, Oh! sinner, for the meanness
of your accompiices, and acknowledge
prostrated in the dust, your ozun hfHe'
mess, your own ,insisaJfcance before
God .soho alone is all Powerful /; who in
an instant can reduce YOU and your
usurpeG dominilns 10 atoms, and from
a piti,ess scourge transform you to a
bleeding sacrifice. &.
Listen to a dying maa who has no.
thing more 10 hope or fear in this wretch
ed WORLDWIDE addresses you with no
other view but to prevent you, if posi-
bic, from increasing the mass of your
enormities, from provoking the impre-
cations OF more innocent blood on your
already TOO culpable head !!
Educated in Christianity by the boun-
ty of that family whose throne you have
usurpcd, your peryerse disposition, or
yoar unnatural ambition caused You TO
proclaim yourself ain in6del, before you
had attained the age of manhood. You
enlisted, while yet youth, in the ranks
of the prosecutors, of the robbers, the
murderers of the Ministers Of Christ
You assisted this sacriligious horde to
overthrow his temples, to level his al
tars, but you surpassed them In wick
edness by adding to your outrages "a
gainst Christianity an apostacy TO Ma
homet to delude those whom you had
shocked by your armies, you from base
and selfish motives pretended to return
to the God of your childhood, to the
Church of your forefathcrs but no
sooner had the Holy Father administer
ed bis absolution, and Condescended to
conseera.e you raler, thai, you plotted
to cehfound the sacred authority oil the.
Pontiff with the arrogated right OF the.
Emperor, and TO dictate a doctrine to
the Church, as well as a code to the
State. Tothe admohitions of Plus VII
you replied by the seizure of the Papal
territory, by innovations in Religion, BY
threats to exlirpate the very foundations
of Christianity! The recommendation
necessarily pronounced, dissolved the
allegiance Of all your oppressed subjects
made you in the Christian world an
outlaw for whose conversion Charity
might induce us secretly to pray, but
whose temporal prosperity 1t would
have been sinful to desire. We bad no
choice but 10 obey, or. wound our con-
sciences. Instead of Furnishing us who
remained firm in our duty, you ought
rather to have esteemed Us as honest
men, and trusted US as conscientious
christians those who are not intlmldat-
ed By Poverty, by prisons, by racks ard
execulioners, must be above all earthly
considerations, and are more worthy OF
confidence than those to whom perjury
is familiar those who fear their God,
will never forsake, OF betray their right.
ful Prince. In the day Of Calamity, (that
day which wsrketh repentance you Will
be sure to find their aims stretched out
to protect you, and their lips ready to
speak consolation to your distracted boz
som; while perjurers, inhdels, atheists,
will not only desert you, but struggle
it'll each other in casting the first stone.
Snare, therefore those venerable Chris.
tan Priests who, like myself, behold in
you until the day of your repentance, not
their legitimate sovereign, but an ex-
communicated sinner; the wiiful enemy
of his God, as well as OF his fellow be-
ings.
Hear voice from the grave Repent
if you will be saved! Tepuise those fiat.
.anare .rho only re mind ynn of Y0ur