PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 4., BROAD-STREET, NEAR THE £AX7//L\G£,NLW G.l^ [No. 37, c/Vol. II. J FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UHITtD STATES. DISCOURSES ON DAVILA.— ■— No.XVIII. L'un ft l'autr* parti cruel egalement, Ainli que d»'i» le crime, elk dans l'aveuglement. IN the airembly, convention, caucus, or confpi racy, at Atdres, call it by which name yoi will, the Prince de Conde, the Vidame de Char tres, Dandelot and others, of a character mon irritable and violent, were of opinion, that with out leaving to the Guises the time to auginen their crcdit and their forces, they should fly t< arms as the remedy the molt expeditious and tin most efficacious. " In vain," faidthey, " fkall wc wait for thi King of his own motion to determine, to rellori us the rank which is our right. This Prince incapable of deciding for himielf.will never conn out of that lethargy, in which he has been ftupi fied from his infancy. Governed by his mothei and the Guises, he will never dare to re demaiu the power which he has so blindly abandoned ti them. How can the just complaints of thi Princes otf the blood, and the nobles, the belt at feftioned to the welfare of the Hate, ever read the ear of a monarch, who, even in the fervict of hi# person, is couftantly surrounded with spies llationed by his minilters and fold to their tyran ny ' What dependance can we have, on the re foUuions of a Prince, to whom they will rep. e sent our requiiitions under the blackeit and the odious appellations of revolts, confpira cies, and plots ? Can we hope that the Qae-ei mother and the Guises will dismiss them I elves, in favor of their enemies and rivals, from a pan of that power which has colt them so much laboi and so manv artifices t This expectation wouU be more chimerical than the former. Men *1. not weakly abandon an authority, which the} have once usurped with so much bolclucls. Who «ver arrives, by flow and secret intrigues, to un lawful power, enjoys it haughtily, and prelervc? it at all hazards. ihe power und authority of the laws, may iinpofe 011 private peHom ; but they <nve way to force, which alone decides the ri E ht?and ii.tei ells of Princes, So much reserve and timidity on our part, will only serve to ang ment the confidence andtemerity of our enemies. To be "'in by complaining, would be to lound an alarm before an attack, and to advert.le our com petitors to put themselves on their guard. The promptitude of execution, alone decides the suc cess of great enterpi izes. Sloth and irrefolut.on debases the courage, enervates the forces, and lofesthe opportunity which flies so rapidly away. Let us lraften then to take arms, and overwhelm our enemies before they have time to themselves ; and let us not ruin our own hopes and projects, by cowardly precautions, and un -ICTheKing of Navarre,theAdmiral, the Prince■ of Portien and the Secretary ot theConftable 111 the name of his master, rejected with horror, coun ts so extreme, and proposed remed.es leU vio lent. - Whatever pi oteltations we may make thev replied, " that we take arms only to deliver the King from the tyranny of strangers and that wc afpii e not to his authority, our condud: will be ill interpreted. All g e oufly attached to the pcrlonof the King, will fee our etuerpfize with indignation. Is it permit 1 m futiievfls to lay violence or constraint 011 'ft z our pretentions, "'o^rned^nly 011 decency, propriety and f.mplt equity, had better be urged with delicacy and moderation than by wavs so violent as those of arms By S,„4 s ,L T ». - ni h " l l ; t iimngon inclinations of the Queen mother, gaining on iu our part y )We y ol ! Lr„i„ have tod, hi.b«,o .Mv and til* outrascs With wnicn incj ?i i; not bettc?to be fatisfied with readable con- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 18, 179° ditions, than to expose all to the inconstancy ol fortune, and the hazardous decision of arms Have we in Fiance, forces tooppofe to our law ful sovereign f What succour can we expect from foreign powers, who have lately renewed then alliances with the King ? To take arms at pie fent, would be to precipitate the house ot Bour bon into the deepelt misfortunes, rather than to open to us, an honorable reception into the go vernment." This last fewument prevailed, and it was rcfolved that-th*- of Navaric, as the chief of the house, and the firft Prince of the blood, fliould repair to Court, and negotiate with the Queen mother, and endeavor to obtain some partTn the administration of government, for himfelf, and for his brothers and partisans, the governments and dignities of which they had been deprived, or others equivalent. (To bt continued. J PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION'S ON THE LATE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND THE CONDUCT OF THE IN EXGIAXD ; IN A I.ITTU TO THE REV. DR. PRIESTLEY Sv J. COU RT t N Ay, ts*. v. r. S CO, QlO ICELESTI *UIT IS ? Ho* Lmiov, printed 179" CONTINUATION A CENTURY ago, an attempt to violate the shred of a prielt's garment would have been deemed the highest impiety but that happy period is long pall. A new fed of philofopliers has brought all the present calamities 011 France, by insidiously varying and adapting their wri tings to the talle, and conaprehenfion, of all ranks of fuciety. They have perverted their under (landings and corrupted their morals, by fatal y perfu»-cfiiig them that jufltice and benevolence were the etfential duties ol*irfan, and that -with out bewildering t hemic! ve* in the tr. zing pei plexities and inextrkable mysteries of theology they fbould "look through nature up u> nature . God." Tliey have rent the facrcd veil asunder md falfely and prefuinptuouily taught, that al jower originates from the people ; —that King: ire only the firft magiflrates ot the ltate, and in lebted to the meaneit peasant for the splendour iiagnificence, and majesty that surrounded them md that the greatett and tneaneft fubjedt rtioulc >e equally bound, and equally protected by the aws. Under the specious pretext of checking md exposing superstition and bigotry, they have jrofanely maintained, that the ordination of the jrielt does not alter the nature of the man ; and hat the I'ole utility of his function consists in in truding the people in the moral and social du ies ol'life. They havecalumniated the ambafla lors of Heaven, by charging them with having nonopolifed a third of the landed revenue of the kingdom, by artfully working on the confcien es of the weak and credulous, and extorting rom them on the bed ot sickness, and even at he hour of death, a share of their property, as a propitiation of their fins. Their avowed princi jles, fay these apoltles of impiety, their uniform >rattice, the very spirit of their profeflion, mark hem as implacable enemies to science, philolo gy, and intelleeftual liberty. A constellation ol renius teemed united in propagating these dan rerous atheiitical tenets. I hey were diffuled in ■very species of writing, and the dulcet poilon vas greedily imbibed in every part of Europe The 1110 ft poignant ru'ieule, the fmeft tallies o! vit the most brilliant traits of imagination, hrew a falfe lultre over this deceptious system The pernicious dogmas of their schools, captiva ed i he attention, and were conveyed to the hear n the enchanting page of a novel, amidtt tb< 'eipned adventures and paflionate endearment.! f lovers. An article of faith was exposed in ai epigram ; scepticism allured proselytes by a.bo, not- and creeds were confuted in a song. Ih< um'inous fcnitinifing genius of Montefotueu he splendid levity of Voltaire ; the nnpaffionec ind fafcinating eloquence ot Iloufleau ; the pre ■ifion and depth of d'Alembert ; the bold ant icute investigations of Boulanger ; the daunj ,aradoxical spirit of Helveuus ; the majefti, "übliniity ofthe systematic BufFon ; the profound liti onomical researches of Bailly ; the capt.vat- n tr elegance of Marmontel ; thei impressive con tented thoughts of Diderot ;-all these with com 561 bined force aflailed and u..fettled the cm.fecr.t ed opinions of ages. The venerable Gothic ftrudlui e was shaken from US very foundation , the sacred edifice is now laid low, and the mac ■ ness of democracy has vainly dedicated a tempiS to liberty on its ruins. And arc we not at this instant menaced vrith similar calamities, by a dangerous con.binatioa of fanatical literati ? Have not our prophetical Elijahs observed a cloud m the east pregnant with inflammatory particles, and ju>* »eady to bur ft on this devoted land .'-rfut to drop the metaphor. Has not a cautbif*. gone forth ing us, that churches are houses built of wood and stone, which do not change their nature, chough rendered holy by those fantftimomous ce remonies wl.kh the hierarchy have ordained. Are we not likewise told, that neither ep.fcopacy nor tythc-s are of apostolic intfitution ; that bi (hops arc notchofen by the people, but appointed by the mockery of a royal conge d etir r.—Aie wc not told in this catechism, that the primitive church con filled solely of the people, their lead, era, and the minifter-t or de*u»Ki f Can you, Sir, then, have the effrontery to deny that the pair ed character of the lords spiritual ,s depreciated, and their sacred authority contemptuously treat ed, in this abominable catechism ? 1s it not re. commended by a plotting and dangerous synod, consisting of four or five hundred turbulent he retical non-conforn.ifts, who proudly denominate themselves the Eastern AflocLatioii . * eir . Cl .\ tlifiartic zeal makes them truly formidable ; their fame has gene forth intoall lands. 1 heii nuili onaries have excited tumults and infurrechons at Tibet and Constantinople ; for they deteit every mode of ecclesiastical junction and equally hate the Mufti, the grand Lama, and the Arclibi fhop of Canterbury. Have not these catecliume nical letftures been tranllated into all languages Has not the present emperor of China illued an ediJl to have them seized and burnt, with every mark of iinominv, as containing fediuous and irreligious dotSrines, highly injurious to the rational and moral precepts ol Comucius i Ihe great inquifjtorial council of Japan have pro ceeded with their usual vindictive impetuofuy, and have actually impaled fix of those lnifcluev ouszealots, who were dispatched by the Kaltern Aflociation, at an enormous expence, to difperte this alarming tradf through every nation and country under Heaven ! Nay, so inveterate is the malignancy of this synod, that they have lately made up this catechism into a l'pecific, which, agreeable to their accustomed cant, they call spiritual regenerating pills. These are pre ferred to be taken by nurses, and women during pregnancy ; that children may fuck in these curled dotftrines with their n.ilk, the enibrio ideas of infants be contaminated before they are born, and a new (limulative be added to ori ginal fin. By this diabolical invention, faction, rebellion, and anarchy, may be difleininated oyer the globe, and the flourifliing empires of China and Japan be overturned by a future generation of Arians, Socinians, Pelagians, Necellarians, Antinomians, and Materialilts ! " The babe ett ytt he draws his vital breath, " Receives the lurking principles of death ; " The young difeife, that mud subdue at length, " Grows with his growth,and ftrcngthcns with his {Ircnstb." If some vigorous and coercive meafuresarenot adopted to check tliefe audacious proceedings, I would not give the nIPof a flra for our conlli tution, in church andflate. From the firft ages of Christianity, celibacy in both (exes has been esteemed the sublimity of virtue : its merit is derived from the difficulty we feel, in this frail slate of mortality, in re filling the inftindlive impulse of animal sensati on. Hence, the monastic life became early the divine test of corporeal purity, celestial fervor* and fpritual devotion. But these new reform ers have rashly absolved both monks and nunt from the solemn vows by which they had devoted themselves to heaven, and impiously encouraged them to abandon their peaceful and landlimonioua retreats, and expose themselves to the " pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and the finful lusts of the fle(h." However,it were well indeed if the mifchief ended here ; —but alas ! this fatal step will eventually prove the ruin of England, as it is calculated on the molt moderate computa tion, that the fleets and armies of France may soon be manned and recruited from this new source of population. Their manufactures and agriculture will no longer be diftrefledby a war, [Whole No- 141.]
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