gilant, and perfevering inspection. The price of every neceffary of life is, beyond all example, exorbitant; an unfeeling, systematic scarcity and fupply is tolerated, connived at, encouraged. Oppreffion has driven our neighbours into madness. May our governors, inspired with the wisdom which is from above, foresee and prevent the contagion at home; and fix their empire in the hearts of a loyal, an affectionate, and a grateful nation! But all this refers only to temporal and transitory interefts. As Chriftians we have infinitely higher and more important concerns at stake. Change, decay, mortality, are neceffarily attached to ours, as to the other empires of this world. "See then that ye re"fuse not him that speaketh from heaven :' whofe voice is now dreadfully fhaking the earth, and who hath promifed, faying, "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but alfo heaven. And this word, Yet once "more fignifieth the removing of those things "that are shaken, as of things that are made, that thofe things which cannot be fhaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a "kingdom which cannot be moved, let us "have grace, whereby we may ferve God "acceptably C "acceptably with reverence and godly fear." -Seeing "that all these things fhall be dif "folved, what manner of perfons ought ye "to be in all holy converfation and godliness, looking for and haftening unto the com 66 66 ing of the day of God?" Let the inferior character of Briton be ever under the animation and control of the higher character of Chriftian, and the duties of the man and the citizen be directed by the love of the Redeemer of mankind. Let every one feel the obligation of affifting the counfels, and the arms, of his country, by his fervent prayers to the great Difpofer of all events, who is evidently furthering his wife and gracious purposes, through the midst of all this bustle and confusion, and, without the knowledge or concurrence of fenators and cabinets, is maturing the affairs of the world for their grand confummation. And when the second glorious Creation fhall be finished, it fhall be celebrated like the first, "When the morning "ftars fang together, and all the fons of God "fhouted for joy :" and God himfelf, having furveyed the extended plan of his Providence, from firft to laft, fhall pronounce "all" to be " very good." ADDITIONS ADDITIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. WHAT Mortality of the Potentates of the earth! Page 2. 1. 10.-Leopold II. Emperor of Germany, was fuddenly carried off, as is fuspected, by poison, March 1, 1792. Guftavus III. King of Sweden, was mortally wounded by an affäffin, in the height of a public feftivity, on the 16th of the fame month; and Louis XVI. of France, fell by the hand of the executioner, Jan. 21, 1793. All within the compass of a few months. An awful leffon to princes! A caufe which affects to defpife principles hitherto refpected among men, &c. Page 6. 1. 14. -A declaration of atheism was lately made in the National Convention of France, by one of its members, and received with loud applaufe. The obfervance of the Chriftian Sabbath has long been neglected and derided in that country, and the fittings of their Affemblies and Convention pay no regard to the "the day of facred rest." This accounts, in part, for many of their enormities in conC 2 duct. L duct. Men who have caft off all "fear" of "God" will be little difpofed to έσ honour "the king" and of those who dare to blafpheme the God of heaven," there is little hope that they will repent of their "deeds." 66 " The reafons affigned for dooming the devoted victim to death, &c. Page 11. 1. 26.—I take the liberty of tranfcribing fome of them, as an admonition to my countrymen to be grateful, and to rejoice that their lives and property are maintained and secured on far better principles, and at the disposal of more equitable judges. 66 66 Louvet. Reprefentatives, the fafety of "the Republic is in your hands. Pay homage to the national fovereignty. Should you fall by the daggers of tyrants, you will "enjoy the enviable confolation of having "done your duty. My opinion is unchange"able, death, according to the conftitution." Leonard Bourdon. "Death, for two rea"fons: general safety, and the crime; and, "from humanity, let the execution be within "twenty-four hours." fean Bon St. Andrè. "This is a combat of liberty against tyranny, and this com bat is death. The punishment is indeed. "terrible, but in this cafe it becomes a duty. "To give an example to all nations who "wish to be free, to annihilate tyranny, I "am compelled to pronounce the punishment " of death." Pons de Verdun. "Louis has gone beyond "the bounds of his conftitutional inviolabi"lity. I fee the fame difference between. "thofe crimes provided for by that conftitu"tion which he first annihilated, and those "of which he has rendered himself guilty, as "between poisoning and affaffination. By ex"ceeding the measure of the crime, the pu"nishment incurred ought to be the greater. "The King as an individual has placed him"felf, with regard to punishment, on a foot ing with unprivileged confpirators, for "with regard to criminality he has been always privileged. He is more criminal than "they. Should this be a reafon for treating him with lefs feverity? The rights of 66 66 66 man loudly exclaim against such injustice. "They would reproach me with difguifing "it under the name of policy; with cover"ing it under the pufillanimous pretence of "falfe incompetence; and weakly fhould I "" fuffer C 3 |