in all things elfe, difdained to preserve the prerogative of mercy.That" calling evil good, and good evil, putting darkness for light, and light for darknefs," has " thought to change times and laws," for the exprefs purpose of deftroying every veftige of true religion, and has deified Human Reason ", after having degraded it to madness; — That has fettered its vaffals in the chains of requifition —a tyranny before unheard of,—that changed the artizans and peasants into a mass of banditti, deluged the country with torrents of their

At the time when the most fanguinary laws were paffed in France, laws which it was well known were executed with the most unfeeling severity by the remorfelefs Robefpierre; there did not exift a forgiving power in any part of the executive government. Persons whose names were inferted in lifts of profcription were condemned after a mock trial by jury; and every application for mercy was rejected with the declaration, that they had no power to pardon or to fave.

"Paris, Nov. 12, 1793. " A grand feftival dedicated to "A Reafon and Truth was yesterday celebrated in the ci-devant cathedral of Paris. In the middle of this church was erected a mount, and on it a very plain temple, the façade of which bore the following infcription: A la Pbilofophie.

Before the gate of this temple were placed the bufts of the most celebrated Philofophers. The torch of Truth was in the fummit of the mount upon the altar of Reason, fpreading light. The Convention and all the constituted authorities affifted at the ceremony." Sun Paper. Robifon, P. 252.

blood,

blood, and marked the frontiers with the vast piles of their bodies *.-That, throwing away the fword of juftice, made the guillotine keep pace with the flaughter of the field of battle, and crowded the prifons with numbers greater than the captives of war - -That, mingling priests and nobles, women, children, and peafants, with indifcriminating brutality, made them the wretched victims of its fury, tortured their feelings with the most exquifite and sportive cruelty, and made them drink the cup of mifery to its dregs-That pillaging

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alike

* See the account of the fucceffive flaughters made by the allies in Hift. Epochs, p. 78.

y All the goals of Paris had been found infufficient for the increased number of prisoners under the new reign of liberty. An. Register, 1792, p. 1II. In Paris, April 4, 1794, the prisoners amounted to 7351. In all the departments to 653,000. Hift. Epochs, p. 92. After the death of Robespierre 500,000 perfons were released from confinement.

z Hift. Epochs, p. 32. Lanjuinais, speaking against the murders of the fecond of September, fays, that the number of victims affaffinated that day, amounted to 8,000; others fay 12,000; and the deputy Louvet ftates them at 28,000. Hift. Epochs, p. 41. "The victory of the 10th of August was foiled by the atrocious crimes of the firft days of September." Dumourier's Letter to the Convention, Ann. Reg. 1793, p. 154. Moore, vol. ii. p. 306, 308.

a For the most affecting and eloquent representation of their conduct to the Queen, fee Rennel's Sermon on Oct.

alike the church, the palace, and the cottage, banishing thousands of the inhabitants from their country, destroying villages, towns, and cities, feizing every monument of art, and drying up every fource of commerce, SETS UP

THE STANDARD OF DESOLATION IN ITS OWN

DOMINIONS-This is the power, which, concealing the dagger of terror under the olivebranch-of peace, and pretending to plant the tree of liberty in every country conquered by its arms, or deluded by its profeffions, invariably profanes their altars, exiles or murders their priests, abolishes their most useful and moft facred laws and inftitutions, and avails itfelf of their riches and refources, to increase

26, 1793. The Queen during her confinement was feparated from her fon, the head of the Princefs de Lamballe was carried in proceffion by her murderers under the windows of the Temple, that the Queen might fee this most affecting relic of her flaughtered friend. See Moore's Journal, vol. i. p. 317. The Princess Elizabeth was guillotined the laft of twenty-fix victims. The heroic and the loyal Charette, the brave leader of the Vendeans, was, after he was made prifoner, carried to his native citythere, in the midst of his relations, to be hot. Life of Charette, p. 58. See Clery's Journal of Occurrences in the Temple.

b There was foon after, by the Edict of the Conftituent Affembly, Sept. 14, 1791, a general fale of Ecclefiaftical property; and every kind of property connected with churches or charities was fold.

the

the inftruments of its own domination “.This is the power, which, not content with hurling defiance at every Sovereign on earth,

Can

< See Briffot's Account of the conduct of the French Conquerors in Belgium, whom he represents to have acted like a horde of favages. Briffot's Addrefs to his Conftituents, p. 75. See likewife the unhappy change produced by the introduction of their revolutionary system in Neuweid, in Robifon's Proofs of a Confpiracy, p. 145. For the requifitions made in Holland and Belgium, fee Hift. Epochs, p. 113. "You talked of nothing but liberty, but every one of your actions ftrove to enflave us. you deny it? All your words were orders; all your counfels were the mandates of a defpot. We were never thus commanded, when, according to your falfe affertion, we were flaves; fuch blind, implicit obedience was never demanded from us, as is now exercised, when, by your affertion, we are free-We were promised, at least verbally, by the agents of the Great Nation, that no French troops should enter our Canton; that not a fous fhould be demanded of us: yet the very reverfe happened-they had the impudence to exact from us three millions of livres--they had the cruelty to march troops into our Canton, without the leaft previous application, to exhaust our poor innocent country. In other words, they forced upon us the liberty of fuffering ourselves to be stripped of all rational freedomNever can you find an excufe for your favage atrocityyou who are never at a lofs for an ingenious turn to throw the delufive cloak of virtue around the horrors of tyranny, and ftamp the most enormous defpotifm with the name of freedom-Open thine eyes, Great Nation, and deliver us from this liberty of hell." Lavater's Letter to the Executive Directory of the French Republic, dated the first year of Helvetic Slavery, Zurich, May 10, 1798, p. 13, 26, 30. See alfo Mallet du Pan's British Mercury.

has

has raifed his voiced against the Majefty of

heaven-has reviled the Saviour of the world -destroyed his churches, perfecuted his minifters, forbidden his worship; and, to complete the measure of guilt, has declared, in terms furpaffing the boldness of all former impiety, that there is no God.

Let

Danton faid, that the National Convention of France fhould be a Committee of Infurrection against all the kings in the universe. Moore's Journal, vol. i. p. 61. In the fitting of the Jacobins, August 27, 1792, Manuel caused an oath to be taken, that every exertion fhould be used to purge the earth of the peft of royalty. Hift. Epochs:

"During the French Revolution a comedian, dressed as a priest of the Illuminati, publicly appeared, perfonally attacking Almighty God, faying, "No! thou doft not exift. If thou haft power over the thunder-bolts, grafp them, aim them at the man who dares fet thee at defiance in the face of thy altars. But no, I blafpheme thee, and I ftill live; no, thou doft not exift." Barruel, vol. iii. p. 217. Nov. 20, 1793. A deputation from the department of Cantal being introduced to the bar, Hebrard, their speaker, obferved that one thing was wanting to the Revolution; our department, faid he, has been eager to give an example of Philofophy; we have fuppreffed priests and their worship."-Nov. 23, 1793. Chaumette praised the people of Paris, who have renounced Idolatry, and only adore the Supreme Being He moved the Council of Paris to declare, that, if any commotion is stirred up in favour of fanaticifm, all the clergy should be imprisoned.-And, confidering that the people of Paris had declared, that they acknowledge no other worship than that of Reason and Truth-the council refolved, Nov. 23, 1793, that all the

churches