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perous, and, as if enabled with power, hatred and rage, to storm, beat down, trample and grind to powder this peft of fociety, and have raised every exertion that rage, vengeance and power had placed in their hands, yet to no purpofe, until this Epoch or æra of this our new philofophy of this our enlightened age and northern hemisphere, when our great and magnificent luminary fhines as the fun in his meridional luftre, proved and established by the joint and everlafting concordance of celeftial and terrestrial union, ftupendous miracle difplayed in and about your Imperial Holiness's Royal Treasury, of a romantic perfume, Venus's bed of love, and Cupid's arfenal, from whence iffue showers of inchanting darts, captivating the beholders. O bleffed, thrice bleffed Phenomenon, grand Link of the two Reformed Churches, whofe imperial union establishes univerfal Hierarchy, your great Sovereign will bring all things to your fubjection. Where will your adverfaries find a refting hole to hide their guilty heads? where will Peter reign when you are poffeffed of the Univerfe? Taylor, make your peace now you have lenity and pardon at option. Down on your knees and receive forgiveness from your Lord, and with duty beg his acceptance of these things he has vouchfated you the honour to execute.

Mofes. My friend take this advice: make no league with Satan, act on the principles of juftice, and confide in your God; as far as you think me useful, I am ready to fupport you on just grounds; as to you, Gentlemen of the Reformation,

formation, your fun is now fetting; your penal laws are now eclipsed by laws of an omnipotent and ecclefiaftical nature; the decree of heaven to favour injured innocence is now arrived. Look twenty, even ten years back, and compare your then Proteftant Empire with its prefent wreck. You abfolutely fee rapidly tumbling this mighty Coloffus headlong into oblivion: this a grating truth. The Almighty Law of the Creator must be obeyed. Ten years fince, the Proteftant knew no controul; his brow awed; his frown made the powers of the world tremble; the four quarters of the globe with fear brought their offerings; the Indies enflaved; the empire of the fea none dare contend or claim, but with biting lips drop their flag, and with tears of anguish cry, "Neptune is your own." But, alas! the day of her nuptials is paft, and fhe now fits a forrowful widow, howling and bewailing. To what fhall I liken this once great Empire; it is like a woman who through exceffive fondnefs for drefs has difordered her intellects; fuch perfon remaining wholly occupied in dreffing and undreffing herself, and will effect it extremely pat and clever; fhe will take much time, and with great care and compofure put pin by pin until the is compleatly dreffed; and then with as much care take out the pins, one by one, and tofs them away as she takes them out, until the has entirely undreffed and ftripped herself naked, when he becomes angry, violent, and. being embarraffed for want of a due fupply with thefe darling implements, becomes melancholy, and presently puts an end to her existence. This

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unhappy woman you will find to be a faithful fimile, or picture of the Proteftant Empire.

Club. In the beginning of the fixteenth century fhe first appeared, and continued, with great application, to decorate and dress herself with every earthly grandeur, fo that her found reached the extremities of the earth. This we perceive to be the folution of your chimera. About the year 1760, a space of two centuries and a half, in Pitt's adminiftration, fhe arrived at the fummit of her glory. The funshine of her grandeur remained little more than ten years, when the, in North's miniftry, being tired with the exceeding great reftleffness her folly had arrived at, began to releafe and difengage herself from a formula no wife fuitable. This disentanglement began with England and America, next England and Holland, fo on, that the general conciliatory refolve is now determined (according to your chimera) and in afpect feems ulcerous, and in a putrid, hufky, fpungy, and mortified state, and as if it wore the peaceful afpect of Janus, who looks two ways, having two faces, fmiles and courts the friendship and protection of Peter, whilft he frowns and browbeats Luther and Calvin. The King of France, who heretofore bore the title Perfidious French King, is now, at this prefen, our great and good Ally. The moft Chriftian King is in the mouths, and we much fear hearts of thofe very proteftants, that a few years fince execrated him and every individual who bore the name Papift. Bofton, in America, a few years back, noted for proteftant zeal, who, as

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a fpecimen, buried a Friar in a pit, (in imitation of the fons of Jacob, their brother Jofeph) fave only his head, that his death might be lingering, ramming him in, to prevent his efcape; these very Boftonites we find the ringleaders in the union of the United States with the Papifts, and even courted an army of those idolators to remain with them, in order to difperfe the proteftant brotherhood. We fee the Congrefs alfo praying the Pope for the favour of a popish Bifhop and Priefts. The whole country vie, with the fpirit of enthusiasm, for his moft Chriftian Majefty's Religion to be inculcated throughout their dominions. We fee, alfo Ireland, you will fay, a Catholic Independent Province or State. Holland, the place of our nativity, the fecond Bulwark of the Proteftant Empire, has deftroyed the league with England. The other great Bulwark of Protestantism, and has called in the French King to aid and affift her against her Sifter Bulwark of the Proteftant Religion; alfo, against old Frederick and his relation, our Prince of Orange, whofe power and authority is reduced to a fhadow or phantom, being only nominal. Your chimera will advance farther and fay, that the Papifts have extended their charity to the cry of this once Bulwark of the Proteftant Religion and accepted the keys of the Seven United Provinces, as we now fee General Maillebois Commander in Chief of the military forces of the United States, a subject of, and appointed by, the most Christian King, a Papift, who has made great innovations, fince

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the conclufion of the peace, by establishing the regular troops in all towns and citadels, and depriving the Burgeffes of all trufts hitherto committed to their care. You will fertilize

your chimera, that the king of Sweden, another heretofore ftrong fortrefs of the Proteftant Empire, made his court to the Roman Pontiff, in perfon, and, on his return, built fifty popifh churches, at his own expence, in different parts of his dominions. No State retains laws againft Papifts but England. Where fhould we end, you will fay, to enumerate the encomiums, careffes, good faith, and proteftations fubftantially exemplified from the proteftant Hierarchy to that of the Roman Catholies, even the Hemloc of Geneva not excepted, the Empire of Ruffia opening her arms to the re-union, China iffuing her Imperial decree, declaring freedom to the Roman Catholic Religion throughout her vaft dominions. The adjacent countries to that extenfive nation will, no doubt, embrace what the most wary empire in the world have univerfally established. The Dutch Settlements will be at liberty, &c. fo that upon the whole you will fay, truly this can be no other than the work of the Almighty. The arm of the Lord is ftretched over the four quarters of the world, we fee furprising things effected, and all the world seem not only anxious but giving daily proofs of the most unfeigned conviction, a univerfal teftimony, that the infamy, hatred, perfidy, and every base flander and injury, which their forefathers committed or fet forth against Christ and His Church, proX ceeded

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