CONSPIRACY is carrying on her dark and infernal project of undermining the Constitution, for the unfettlement of all established order, at the bottom and lowest stage; REBELLION, completely "organized" and armed, is endeavouring to make a breach in the middle; and ASSASSINATION, at the top, under cover, overlooking the walls, is picking off, by her Riflemen, the most vigilant and forward and therefore the most obnoxious-Patriots and Defenders of the Conftitution:-at this present writing (June, 1798.) And fince, Gallic Invafion and War! to crown the picture—(December.)

All the paft and prefent mischiefs-HEAVEN avert the future!-have been effected here, by the magical influence of a few cabalistical words,

LIBERTAS & NATALE SOLUM.

-" bewitching and bewildering the whole world"-ever fince their introduction; which that confummate statesman, SWIFT, called

"FINE WORDS"

now rendered-EMANCIPATION and INDEPENDENCEand by mournful experience, verifying the laconic adage of French Philofophifm and Illuminism, speaking by Mirabeau:

WORDS ARE THINGS

and in the language of Voltaire, as we have seen

FINE THINGS.

But

But which the ftupid and befotted inhabitants of Holland, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and alas! poor Switzerland, would, if they durft-tranflate :

SLAVERY & DEGRADATION,

Now bowing under the Iron yoke, of their Ruthless Deliverers. That Political monfter, the French Republic, or rather Quintumvirate,-which, (in the masterly description of that profound American Statesman, HARPER) -Treading in the fteps of "The Romans, those ferocious and fyftematic deftroyers of mankind-has refolved to make ALL EUROPE, and finally THE WHOLE WORLD, bend beneath her yoke! a refolution, in the accomplishment of which, the pursues the Roman policy-of dividing to de* ftroy-of bribing one Nation with the spoils of another; of enticing the ftronger to inaction; reducing the weak to fubmiffion; and by the refources of the one, and the connivance of the other, breaking the ftrength of those whose power the dreads, and whofe policy fhe cannot deceive:"

GREAT BRITAIN

-GREAT indeed, while VIRTUOUS and GOOD.
But where there is no alternative, will any

TRUE BORN IRISHMAN

exchange British connexion for French fraternity?

Forbid it, PRIDE! Forbid it, GRATITUDE! Forbid it,

HEAVEN!

Who,

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Who, in his fober fenfes, would barter ENGLISH LIBERTY and PROPERTY for FRENCH LIBERTY and EQUALITY? -Liften to the prefent aged, venerable, plundered and depofed PONTIFF's meek yet dignified reply to General Berthier's infulting offer of a NATIONAL COCKADE and a PENSION !!

"I acknowledge no uniform, except that with which THE CHURCH has adorned me. My life is at your difpofal, but my foul is out of your power. I cannot be ignorant of THE HAND whence the fcourge proceeds, which chastises the sheep, and afflicts the Paftor, for the crimes of his flock.-I submit to THE DIVINE WILL.

"Your Penfion, I did not want; a faff and a fcrip are fufficient for a man who must spend the remainder of his days in fackcloth and ashes. Rob, pillage, burn as you please; destroy the monuments of antiquity; but RELIGION you cannot deftray. It will fubfift in defiance of your efforts, till the end of Time."

And this last, but not leaft worthy, of the fucceffors of PAUL (certainly, and of PETER, poffibly) merits canonization, infinitely more than Gregory the Great, for the following declaration-which deserves to be recorded in letters of gold, by all of his Communion; and with which, were I (though a reputed Heretic) to be retained as his counsel, I would undertake "to muzzle" the Devil's advocate, refifting his claim.It occurs in this Letter to Abbate Martini, twenty years ago

Optime

"Optime fentis, fi CHRISTI fideles ad lectionem DIVINARUM LITERARUM magnopere excitandos exiftimes; (Illi enim funt fontes uberrimi, qui CUIQUE PATERE DEBENT) ad hauriendam & Morum et Doctrinæ fanctitatem"

"You judge most rightly in thinking that CHRIST'S faithful fhould be earnestly exhorted to the reading of THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; (For they are fources the most copious, which OUGHT TO BE OPEN TO EVERY ONE) in order to derive thence both purity of Morals and Doctrine."

May this Evangelical exhortation be liftened to and obeyed by every member of his HIBERNIAN flock, clergy and laity, high and low, rich and poor, one with another! So fhall our wounds and fchifms be healed in this miferably divided land! So fhall we indeed become one fold, under one Shepherd, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS, without" any visible head of the church" all with one heart, and with one foul, fearing GOD and honouring THE KING and rendering to all their dues: Tribute to whom tribute is due; Custom to whom custom; Fear to whom fear; Honour to whom honour; fubmitting ourselves to THE SOVEREIGN POWERS IN BEING and to EVERY HUMAN INSTITUTION, not only for wrath's fake (or fear of civil punishment, from the magistrates,-GOD's appointed Officers of Juftice) but also for confcience fake, and for THE LORD's fake. Compare in the Original, Rom. 13,

17. and I Pet. 2, 14. But amidst all the prefent, «unfettlements,

fettlement of Principles, and unfettlement of Inftitutions"(the language of Oratory, unintentionally expounding awful prophecy) denouncing the most tremendous of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES: (anatacacias unfettlements.” 21, 9.)*

Luke

"What THE SPIRIT faith unto the (Christian) Churches.”

Bleffed be THE GOD OF ORDER-amidst the reigning Apoftacy; in this depreffing Period, a "chofen few," are ftill "faithful" found, of every establishment, fect, and perfuafion,

* It is a curious fact, that the French ball-cartridges, at the battle of Ballynamuck, Septemb. 8, 1798, were lapped in the leaves of the ROMISH MISSAL, or Folio "Mafs Book!”— One of these fell into my poffeffion; p. xi. intitled Commune Plurimorum Martyrum, or, "the service of several of the martyrs"-containing among other remarkable texts, that most awful one of Luke, 21, 9.-" Cum audieritis pralia & feditiones, &c. How ftrange, that this moft fignal prophecy, was (unintentionally) meant to be discharged against IRELAND, from the mouth of a French mufquet ! !- -But Heaven averted the omen, and made it recoil on the facrilegious Infidels themselves. May IRELAND never be "unfettled" by FRANCE, but in heart, and in conflitution "UNITED" to GREAT BRITAIN ! So prays a cordial friend to both, not unacquainted with their political interefts-Vis UNITA FORTIOR- -So well rendered on the French crown-pieces-" UNION ET FORCE"-and interpreted by her artful and fyftematic scheme of Universal Conqueft.