otherwise respecting them. The case was similar with the ancient priests of Egypt, and for this reason they shut themselves up in their temples, and there composed their mysteries out of the reach of the eye of the people.' And forgetting what he had just before said, he adds, For had the people been in the secret, they might have been offended at the deception played upon them. In the mean time how is it possible to conduct one's self otherwise with the people, so long as they are the people? For my own part, to myself I shall always be a philosopher, but in dealing with the mass of mankind I shall be a priest.'

"A little jargon,' says Gregory Nazianzem to St Jerome, (Hieron. ad Neph.) is all that is necessary to impose on the people. The less they comprehend, the more they admire. Our forefathers and doctors of the church have often said, not what they thought, but what circumstances and necessity dictated to them.'

"We endeavour,' says Sanconiathan, to excite admiration by means of the marvellous.' (Prep. Evang. lib. 3.) "Such was the conduct of all the priests of antiquity, and is still that of the Bramins and Lamas, who are the exact counterpart of the Egyptian priests. Such was the practice of the Jesuites, who marched with hasty strides in the same career. It is useless to point out the whole depravity of such a doctrine. In general, every association which has mystery for its basis, or an oath of secresy, is a league of robbers against society, a league divided in its very bosom into knaves and dupes; or, in other words, agents and instruments. It is thus we ought to judge of those modern clubs, which under the name of Illuminists, Martinists, Cagliostronists, Freemasons, and Mesmerites, infest Europe. These societies ape the follies and deceptions of the ancient Cabalists, Magicians, Orphics, &c. who, says Pluarch, led into errors of considerable magnitude not only individuals, but kings and nations.

"What is a Magician, in the sense in which the people understand the word? A man who by words and gestures acts on supernatural beings, and compels them to descend at his call and obey his orders. Such was the conduct of the ancient priests, and such is still the state of all priests in idolatrous nations; for which reason we have given them the denomination of Magicians.

"And when a Christian priest pretends to make God descend from heaven, to fix him to a morsel of leaven, and to render, by means of this talisman, souls pure and in a state of grace, what is all this but a trick of magic? And where

is the difference between a Chaman of Tartary, who invokes the genii, or an Indian Bramin, who makes his Vichenoa descend in a vessel of water to drive away evil spirits? yes, the indentity of the spirit of priests in every age and country is fully established! Every where is the assumption of an exclusive privilege, the pretended faculty of moving at will the powers of nature; and this assumption is so direct a violation of the right of equality, that whenever the people shall regain their importance, they will for ever abolish this sacrilegious kind of nobility, which has been the type and parent stock of the other species of nobility.'

IMPUDENT AND IGNORANT ASSERTIONS AT THE MOCK-LOYAL MEETINGS, &c.

From the Manchester Observer.

Cursed be the mau that defileth the Constitution, and let all the people say, Amen! Thus saith one of our noble spirited cotemporaries, and here we echo the patriotic sentiment. Radical Reform is our cry! Radical Reform is the universal cry of the land! Radical Reform is our right; therefore Radical Reform we Demand! Hear this, Sidmouth! Hear this, Castlereagh; Hear this, ye Parliament assembled !--Never heed your cock and bull story of " trampling down Magistrates," and "waggon loads of stones:" these are lies from beginning to end, similar only to what any paltry felon at our New Bailey would advance to exculpate himself, from the charges against him; yet who but his own associates and companions in guilt would believe him?

The man who says that the doctrine of Radical Reform is new, wild, and visionary, must either be a knave or a fool, If we are mistaken in our opinions, it will be seen by the following extracts, that the most enlightened and intelligent men have held those sentiments, even when the necessity of Radical Reform, was not one thousandth part so imperiously required as at the present moment.

"Who should be the Electors? ALL, who are not upon the Parish.”SIR WILLIAM JONES.

"It is the right of every commoner of this realm, (infants, persons of insane mind, and criminals incapacitated by law, only excepted) to have a vote in the election of the representative, who is to give his consent to the making of laws, by which he is to be bound.”—RICHMOND, WILLIAM PITT, HORNE TOOKE, &C.

"When Annual Parliaments end, Slavery begins."-ESSAY ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.

"Parliaments were annual originally."-POSTLETHWAITE, "In times past it was our annual right.”—MILTON.

"Shortest Parliaments are the best, and annual was the constitutioual period."-LORD TREVOR.

"It is the interest, as well as the intention of the people, to have a fair and EQUAL Representative: whoever brings it nearest to that, is an undoubted friend to, and establisher of, the Government.-LOCKE.

"Every man that is not a friend of Universal Suffrage, and Annual Par liaments, unless he believes that the nation is too slavish to bear so much good, is a fool, or knave."-ANONYMOUS.

Is it not disgusting then, to witness the attacks, which the creeping, cringing creatures, that crawl after place and pension, make on a cause that Milton in his grandeur avowed; and Sir William Jones in his greatness maintained. A fellow of the name of Peers, at one of their mock-loyal meetings, at. Oxford, declares, that "with respect to Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, Election by Ballot,---that mad and sweeping system, no man in his senses---no man in the slightest degree acquainted with political subjects, would for a moment suppose, that society could exist under the operation of such principles! or that they were at all practicable in this or any other country. What higher degree of madness can take possession of the human mind." We cordially agree in the sentiment of a writer on this subject, that this is impudence unrivalled---ignorance unmatched. Was the Duke of Richmond mad? Was Horn Tooke mad? Was Pitt the Apostate mad? Was Sheridan mad? Was Locke mad? Was Sir William Jones mad? Was Lord Trevor mad? Was Raymond mad? Was George Saville mad? Was Milton mad? Were the one hundred and thirteen se nators, who voted for Annual Parliaments in 1744, mad? This puerile pattern of sycophants declares, that no man in the slightest degree acquainted with political subjects, could for a moment suppose that society could exist under the operation of such principles; and this vile, insulting, crazy trash, is applauded by some of the Oxford Freeholders! Are they not fit for Bedlam? Where can be found pothouse politicians, more brutally ignorant of the works and speeches of statesmen, than this fellow, who we dare venture to say, thinks himself one of the "Higher Orders." The sight of those creatures of such narrow minds is truly disgusting, deciding on the effects of measures which they can neither fathom nor conceive. A parcel of ordinary every-day animals, the work of nature's journeymen, a thousand of whom would not make one truly great man, in the holiday of ignorance, decrying such giants in intellect as Jones and Milton as madmen. Like a group of idle schoolboys, declaring that the earth did not move round the sun, because these urehins fancy they see the sun moving round

the earth; and laughing at Copernicus and Newton as madmen. The philosopher would mingle pity with this light censure of the children's folly, whilst on the men-grown babes, he would pour unmeasured, ineffable, and unmixed hatred and contempt.

A noble Lord, amongst the Loyal Addressers, has boldly said, "that some thousands came from a distance of thirty or forty miles, on the fatal morning, with large sticks, ferocious countenances! and some of them with aprons full of paving stones!" They came-with sticks!-most miraculous! With sticks!-how wonderful! With sticks!how terrible! Has the Linnean Society determined on the place in the animal world, which these hideous, threelegged, non-descript monsters, the terror of the old women of Manchester, must fill in the volume of the naturalist? But a mere description of the stick-monsters would not suffice. They came, says the witty writer, with ferocious countenances! This, one would conceive, is a charge against the Deity, and not against the horrible creatures that walked with sticks! but not a word about the ferocious countenances of the gentle Magistrates, and the still more gentle Cavalry, who were as humble as poverty suing for charity. But the stick-story and the ferocious-countenance tale would not do alone; at the end we have an account, that some of them came to the scene with aprons full of paving stones! How many?-That is not told! Who were they? It would not be right to say! Who saw them?He must not confess! Who believes it? Ask not the People! But even this delectable narration must yield to the still more beautiful description given by an officer of the Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry. He does not stand in need of the traveller's privilege-his is a faithful narration. writes, "that he can say decidedly, and without hesitation, (well done!) that if no opposition had been made in the day, there MUST have been (why ?) a horrid scene of plunder and pillage at night!! And he adds, that "though the ground, early in the morning, was cleared of stones, when he returned it was covered with them! He forgot to add, that there were enough to raise a monument to the sufferers, as high as St. Paul's! Now this little spot, so clear in the morning, so covered in a few hours, could contain an hundred thousand persons, and forty carts would not draw away the stones necessary to cover it! There is no fable in the details-all is as true as the Gospel. re The Radicals admire their success. A new edition is wanting of ean chausen's Travels; but Munchausen is no match for we juońce

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Some miscreant has, it seems, fired at the redoubtable Mt. Nadin, and passed a bullet through his hat. Mark, reader! for this-that is, for putting a bullet through his hat, wickedly intended, no doubt, for his head-Five Hundred Pounds are offered, as a reward, for the discovery of the offenders!-but not One Farthing for the discovery of the mutilators on the 16th of August. To make a hole through a hat, with a bullet, is an enormous crime; but to cut, or trample down, men, women, and children, by scores, is a pretty piece of gallant conduct, deserving commendation! and to wind up the tale, Mr. Meagher, the trumpetter, who wounded two of the King's subjects, in his wrath, is actually discharged by the Magistrate!

Is the time arrived, when the avowal may be made that death and mutilation are to be sanctioned, if authorised by persons in power---but the unlicensed users of deadly weapons, for deadly purposes, are alone to swing on the gallows. Is the time arrived, when loyalty must be written in letters of blood? Is the time arrived, when crime ceases to be crime in the Rich, and is crime only in the Poor? Is the time arrived when the liberties of the People, (to use the phrase of the Earl of Bath,) are at the mercy of two or three Justices of the Peace, and a Serjeant's guard? Is the time arrived, when despotism must triumph, and liberty die? If the persons guilty of the horrid offence, whoever they may be, escape with impunity-if they are not brought before a Jury of their Country, not merely for the purpose of trial, but to demonstrate that the British Constitution is founded on equal law and equal justice, and that while it protects the oppressed it punishes the oppressor, Englishmen are not longer free-the Constitution no longer exists. True it is, that whilst our feelings as freemen ought to impel us to express our abhorrence of the crime, justice, whilst the mystery remains, forbids us to condemn particular individuals as the offenders. We fear the Courts of Law are barred' against Justice. The Lancashire Grand Jury threw out the Bills-the Lancashire Magistrates refused to hear the complaint the Coroners' Inquests finds verdicts of accidental death, and in one case that the victim died of suffocation from three bits of mutton!—whilst the Coroner on the Oldham inquiry, to add to the outrage, delays, at his will, the Verdict of the Jury, for reasons evident as the sun at noonStay-and the Grand Inquest of England is rightly informed ho they cannot receive the Bills presented to them: and Jone mockery we are desired to leave the accused to the boys, tribunals! Oh! Shame! where is thy blush.

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