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If spirit, as deep mystics state,*

To body may coagulate;

If Lords may dwindle into Jews,

Jack-boots degenerate to shoes,

As Henley taught.-Can it surprise ye
Should spruce Incumbent (versâ vice)
A blunderbuss already, ánon
Be metamorphos'd to a Canon:

length enlisted in the service of a cleaner of shoes, and makes its exit in the capacity of Harbinger to the blacking-brush.

"To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may "not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he "find it stopping a bung-hole."—Hamlet.

Sic transit Gloria Mundi!

* Mr. William Law, the illuminated disciple of Jacob Behmen, whom Mosheim styles Sutor Gorlicencis.

+ Exempli gratiâ : Lord G. G****n, a noble and notorious instigator of mob fanaticism and fury in the year 1780: whose sun arose in riot and conflagration, and set in a synagogue.

John Henley, better known by the name of Orator Henley, a public declaimer, and author of a weekly paper, calied, "The Hyp Doctor." The audience that attended his oratory near Lincoln's Inn Fields, was generally composed of the lowest ranks, and he is well known to have once collected an infinite number of shoe-makers, by announcing that he could teach them a most expeditious method of making shoes, which proved to be no other than cutting off the tops of ready-made boots.

Since the transition is no more

Than from a less t' a greater bore.

But straight-hair'd Sectaries uncivil,
And whigs mendacious, who speak evil
Of dignities and Dignitaries,

(No favour sure to find in their eyes,
If we admit Saint Jude's opinion,)
Go farther and despise dominion.*
Loud murmurers, complainers these are,
Intolerant of Church and Cæsar:
At Shakspeare dinners fearless feeders
With parliamentary seceders:

Predicted mockers of the last time,
Who of authority make pastime,

And preach to Democratic herds

Resistance, with great swelling words:

* Likewise also these filthy dreamers despise dominion,

and speak evil of dignities.

These are murmurers, complainers,

feeding themselves without fear.

The Apostles told you there should be mockers in
the last time-

and their mouth speaketh great swelling words.

Gen. Epist. of Jude.

*

"System of terror Robespierreal,

"Freedom's sad exile, death and burial—
"Despotic bills to quell sedition
"Abhor'd by virtuous Opposition,-
"The Sov'reign People-Age of Reason→
"Pure Guilt +-and Patriotic Treason,"
Bid them take State and Church by storm,
Then: Hey, for RADICAL REFORM!!!—

As, when "Revenge, Timotheus cried,"‡ And maudlin Greeks electrified,

* The system of terror now attempted to be established by ministers in this country, nearly approached to despotism.

Duke of Bedford's Speech, Whig Club, June 5, 1798. I have no difficulty in saying that the present system of the government of England is a system of terror-the system of Robespierre.

The principles of Liberty seem exiled from mankind.

Mr. Fox's Speech at the Whig Club.

Courier, May 2, 1798.

† He (the minister) had not scrupled to attack the very vitals of public liberty; and by ill-founded charges of high treason, to attack the lives of innocent men.

Mr. Fox's Speech in Palace Yard, April, 1797.

Revenge! Timotheus cries

The princes applaud, with a furious joy,

And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy.

Dryden, Alex. Feast.

His strains inspir'd ferocious joy,
And zeal to level and destroy:
Such furious joy the Factious feel,
Such transports of destructive zeal
Inflame the disaffected swarm,

At sound of RADICAL REFORM.-
To Radical Reform ye Whigs
Carouse till ye get drunk as pigs!
Applaud it with accordant throats
Ye Corresponding Sans Culottes!
With acclamations, three times three,
Toast it ye Lords of high degree

*

With whom no sense of shame prevails!-
Ye H*w*rds, R*ss*ls, L**d**d*les !
Whose wisdom it may well beseem
To lave your honours in the stream
Of foul sedition,-and, with those
Who eulogize their country's foes,
(Those patriot-ranters, and true Trojans,
O'Connor's bosom friends and Grogan's,)

* Unsafe the while, that we

Must lave our honours in these flattering streams.

Macbeth, Act III. Scene ii.

Conjoin'd, like birds of the same feather,
Swear that you'll live and die together.*-

Who shall presume to analyse
What patriot peers so highly prize,
Of Radical Reform make known
The blessed operation ?-STONE.

Didst thou not, Stone: the doctrine hear +
Promulg'd by Purley's holy Seer,

Pants not thy breast, with transport thrill'd,

To see his prophecy fulfill'd;

When Jacobin reform uncheck'd

Shall take its radical effect!

List! each Whig-commoner and peer!
Whig-churchmen, Whig-dissenters, hear!
Whig-bards your patriotic fiction

Forego for Parson H**ne's prediction!

* For his own part, he felt it his highest pride and gratification to avow, that to the last moment of his life by that man (Mr. Fox) he would stand or fall.

Duke of Bedford's Speech at the Whig Club.
Courier, June 6.

+ See a letter from J. H. Stone to John Horne Tooke made public on the trial of the Rev. Mr. Jackson, at Dublin, for hightreason, from which letter an extract is given in a subsequent note, page 100.

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