assembly calling itself national.  Each will keep its own portion of the spoil of the Church to itself; and it will not suffer either that spoil, or the more just fruits of their industry, or the natural produce of their soil, to be sent to swell the insolence or pamper the luxury of the mechanics of Paris.  In this they will see none of the equality, under the pretence of which they have been tempted to throw off their allegiance to their sovereign, as well as the ancient constitution of their country.  There can be no capital city in such a constitution as they have lately made.  They have forgot, that, when they framed democratic governments, they had virtually dismembered their country.  The person whom they persevere in calling king has not power left to him by the hundredth part sufficient to hold together this collection of republics.  The republic of Paris will endeavor, indeed, to complete the debauchery of the army, and illegally to perpetuate the Assembly, without resort to its constituents, as the means of continuing its despotism.  It will make efforts, by becoming the heart of a boundless paper circulation, to draw everything to itself:  but in vain.  All this policy in the end will appear as feeble as it is now violent.

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If this be your actual situation, compared to the situation to which you were called, as it were by the voice of God and man, I cannot find it in my heart to congratulate you on the choice you have made, or the success which has attended your endeavors.  I can as little recommend to any other nation a conduct grounded on such principles and productive of such effects.  That I must leave to those who can see further into your affairs than I am able to do, and who best know how far your actions are favorable to their designs.  The gentlemen of the Revolution Society, who were so early in their congratulations, appear to be strongly of opinion that there is some scheme of politics relative to this country, in which your proceedings may in some way be useful.  For your Dr. Price, who seems to have speculated himself into no small degree of fervor upon this subject, addresses his auditors in the following very remarkable words:—­“I cannot conclude without recalling particularly to your recollection a consideration which I have more than once alluded to, and which probably your thoughts have been all along anticipating; a consideration with which my mind is impressed more than can express:  I mean the consideration of the favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty.”

It is plain that the mind of this political preacher was at the time big with some extraordinary design; and it is very probable that the thoughts of his audience, who understood him better than I do, did all along run before him in his reflection, and in the whole train of consequences to which it led.