a man is compelled to have his labour for the year foreftalled at five-pence a day, for a piece of ground barely fufficient to fupply his family with potatoes, and held at will? And are not our poor in town much more to be pitied? Take them out of the hands of men, who are leading them to refiftance, and do good to them yourfelyes, they will foon become your fubjects, instead of theirs; what their leaders impotently promifed, do you actually perform for them; what they held out to them to be purfued through blood, and defolation, and the def truction of moral, and religious principles, and of the very property they propofed to divide; do you give them without lofs to any, with every profpect of encrease of moral, and religious principles. Depend upon it, this country is not fo loft to feeling, or virtue, but that you will foon find, that you have acquired confidence, and fupport, by fuch conduct. Your friends will be cheered, and rendered active; your enemies disappointed. But am I not speaking to Chriftians? do you or do you not believe, that the affairs of this world are regulated by a fuperintending Providence? If you think that the measures I fpeak of are among thofe which are likely to gain its favour; away with the apprehenfion of their being too flow for your prefervation. What danger is fo imminent from which the Supreme Being cannot fnatch you? He can difperfe in a moment, the most powerful host that can approach your fhores, He can disclose in a moment the deepest defigns of your enemies. I ra ther ther fear a different difpofition of your minds. I rather fear you may fuppofe, from the many nar row escapes you have experienced, that you are already the object of God's favour and protection. To combat this dangerous opinion, would lead me into ground I wish to avoid. To point out to the Loyal the faults of which they fhould repent, is to give triumph, and exafperation to the disloyal; but lay the matter to your hearts, confider calmly the whole of your public, and private conduct; and then say, are you fure that you have deferved the favour and protection of the God of mercy and forgivenefs? You will fay, more than your adverfaries; but you cannot rely on this. Many nations have been deftroyed by others more wicked, and fo may you. It may be, the protections you have hitherto received, were rather the effects of God's long-fuffering, than his favour. It may be, He chofe to try by repeated, and encreafing dangers, whether you could be brought to effectual repentance, before he destroyed you utterly! Look to this, lose not a moment, omit no means to fecure his favour. If you cannot do fo, how can you hope, with fuch peculiar fources of danger, to efcape the fate which seems to hang over Europe? Whatever you think in your confciences is likely to attain his protection should be done inftantly! If you cannot attain it, you are loft! If you can, you are fafe. If God be with us, who shall be against us! FINIS. On Wednesday, the 16th inftant, Mr. Juftice Swan, accompanied by a number of English militia, paid a domiciliary visit to Kilmainham Prison, at day break, as we fuppofe, on information that Arthur O'Connor was writing a statement of Lord Caftlereagh's conduct. Mr. Swan, after a moft minute examination of Arthur O'Connor's moft private concerns, took away the following letter to Lord Caftlereagh-orders were immediately iffued for ftraitening his imprisonment to the clofeft poffible confinement -fome of the prifoners have been loaded with bolts and irons, but whether Arthur O'Connor be ironed or not, we cannot determine, as he has been feparated from his fellow-prisoners, and as he is not let out of the cell in which he is imprifoned, even to take a moment's air or exercise, fince this letter has come into his Lordship's poffeffion. |