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HUMANITY.-What-to attribute the facred fanction of GOD and NATURE to the maffacres of the Indian scalping knife!-to the cannibal favage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating,-literally, my lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles!-Such horrible notions fhock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity : and, my lords, they fhock every fentiment of honour; -they fhock me, as a lover of honourable war, and a detefter of murderous barbarity. These abominable principles, and this more abominable and fhameful avowal of them, demand the mott decifive indignation. -I call upon that right reverend bench, thofe holy minifters of the gospel and pious paftors of our church :I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God!-I appeal to the wisdom of this learned bench to defend and fupport the juftice of their country-I call upon the bishops to interpofe the unfullied fanctity of their lawn :-upon the reverend judges to interpofe the purity of their ermine, to fave us from this pollution.-I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own:-I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national cha

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racter:-I invoke the genius of the conftitution, from the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal anceftor* of this noble lord, who frowns with indignation at the disgraces of his country.-In vain he led your victorious fleets against the boasted Armadas of Spain; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Proteftant religion of this coun-. try against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquifition; if these more than Popifh cruelties and inquifitorial practices are let loose among us.-To turn forth into our fettlements, among our ancient connections, friends, and relations, the merciless cannibal thirsting for the blood of man, woman, and child !— To fend forth the infidel favage-against whom?Against your Protestant brethren !-To lay waste their country; to defolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with their hell-hounds of favage war 1. Hell-hounds I fay of favage war. Spain armed herself with blood-hounds to extirpate the wretched nations of America:—and we improve on the inhuman example even of Spanish cruelty. We turn loose these favage hell-hounds against our brethren and countrymen in

* Lord EFFINGHAM HOWARD, Queen ELIZABETH's Lord High Admiral.

VOL. IV.

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America,

America, of the fame language, laws, liberties, and religion:-endeared to us by every tie that should fanctify humanity.

My lords, this awful subject, so important to our honour, our conftitution, and our religion, demands the most folemn and effectual enquiry: and I again call upon your lordships, and the united powers of the state, to examine it thoroughly and decifively, and to ftamp upon it an indelible ftigma of public abhorrence and I again implore those holy prelates of our religion to do away these iniquities from among us. Let them purify this house, and this country, from fo great a fin.

My lords, I am old, and weak; and at prefent UNABLE to Jay more but my feelings and my indignation were too strong to have faid less. I could not have flept this night in my bed, nor repofed my head upon my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of fuch prepofterous and enormous principles.

SECT.

SECT. LXXVIII.

OF PERMANENT EXHAUSTION.

Curæ leves loquunter, ingentes ftupent.

TAC.

NOTWITHSTANDING a negative had been put upon every propofition and motion made by Lord CHATHAM concerning America, yet he refolved to perfevere in the fame line of conduct. To his zeal in this caufe he facrificed his life. He had not strength of frame sufficient to bear the exertions he made. He was now advanced in the feventieth year of his age, and suffered the feverest attacks of gout; but although debilitated by infirmity, and enervated by anguish of body and mind, still he refufed to yield to the calls of his diforder, or to mitigate his pains by the indulgence of a bed-while his country was bleeding, he felt for her and not for himself. Her honour and splendour had been his glory and his prideher debasement and adverfity were now the only subjects of his concern and anxiety.

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On the 7th day of April, 1778, the Duke of RICHMOND having moved to present an addrefs to the king on the subject of the state of the nation, in which the 5 H 2 neceffity

neceffity of admitting the full INDEPENDENCE of America was hinted, Lord CHATHAM, for the last time, rose to speak in the House of Lords.

My lords, he faid, I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and moft noble monarchy! Preffed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, I am little able to affist my country in this moft perilous conjuncture; but, my lords, while I have fenfe and memory, I will never confent to deprive the royal offspring of the houfe of BRUNSWICK of their faireft inheritance. Where is the man that will dare to advife fuch a measure? My lords, his Majesty fucceeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unfullied. Shall we tarnish the luftre of this nation by an ignominious furrender of its rights and faireft poffeffions? Shall this great kingdom truckle to the house of BOURBON? Shall a people, that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now ftoop fo low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, "Take all we "have, only allow us peace ?" Is it poffible !--I wage war with no man, or set of men.-I wifh for none of their employments;-nor would I co-operate with men (alluding to the Duke of Richmond) who instead of

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