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 The fwelling democratic tide ; 
 To watch the ftate's uncertain frame ; 
 To baffle Faction's partial aim ; 
 But chiefly with determin'd zeal 
 To quell the fervile Band that kneel 
 To Freedom's jealous foes ; 
 And la(h that Monfter, who is daily found 
 Expert and bold our country's peace to wound, 
 Yet dreads to handle arms, nor manly counfel knows. 
 
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 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 
 1 HEY, who in these days of jealousy and 
 Party rage dare publicly explain the Principles of Free- 
 dom, must expect to have their Intentions misrepresented^ 
 and to be entitled like the Apostles of Jesus^ " stirrers up 
 4t of the People, and men accused of Sedition" The 
 following LeUure is therefore printed as it was delivered, 
 the^ Author choosing that it should be published with all 
 the . inaccuracies and inelegant colloquialisms of an hasty 
 Composition^ rather than that he should be the Object of 
 possible Calumny as one who had rashly uttered sentiments 
 which he afterwards timidly qualified* 
 
 A a A MORAL 
 
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A 
 
 MORAL & POLITICAL 
 
 L E C T U RE. 
 
 Y^THEN the Wind is fair and the Planks of the 
 * * VefTel found, we may fafely truft every thing 
 to the management of profeffional Mariners ; but in a 
 Tempeft and on board a crazy Bark, all muft contri- 
 bute their Quota of Exertion. The Stripling is not 
 exempted from it by his Youth, nor the PafTenger by 
 his Inexperience. Even fo in the prefent agitations of 
 the public mind, every one ought to confider his intel- 
 lectual faculties as in a ftate of immediate requifition. 
 All may benefit Society in fome degree. The exigences 
 of the Times do not permit us to ftay for the matured 
 years, left the opportunity be loft, while we are waiting 
 for an increafe of power. Omitting therefore the dif- 
 gufting Egotifms of an affecled Humility, we mall briefly 
 explain the defign, and poffible benefit, of the propofed 
 political difquifitions. 
 
 Compane 
 
 263861 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 Companies refembling the prefent will from a variety 
 of circumftances confix chiefly of the zealous Advocates 
 for Freedom. It will be therefore our endeavour, not 
 fo much to excite the torpid, as to regulate the feelings 
 of the ardent: and above all, to evince the neceflity of 
 bottoming on fixed Principles, that fo we may not be the 
 unliable Patriots of Paflion or Accident, or hurried 
 away by names of which we have not lifted the meaning, 
 and by tenets of which we have not examined the confe- 
 quences. The Times are trying : and in order to be 
 prepared againft their difficulties, we mould have ac- 
 quired a prompt facility of adverting in all our doubts to 
 fome grand and comprehenfive Truth. In a deep and 
 ftrong Soil muft that Bleffing fix its Roots, the height of 
 which, like that of the Tree in Daniel, is to " reach to 
 Heaven, and the Sight of it to the ends of all the Earth." 
 
 The Example of France is indeed a " Warning to 
 Britain." A nation wading to their Rights through 
 Blood, and marking the track of Freedom by Devaf« 
 tation! Yet let us not embattle our Feelings againft our 
 Reafon. Let us not indulge our malignant Paflions 
 under the maflc of Humanity. Inftead of railing with 
 infuriate declamation againft thefe excefles, we fhall be 
 more profitably employed in developing the fources of' 
 them. French Freedom is the Beacon, that while it 
 guides us to Equality ihould {hew us the Dangers, that 
 throng the road. 
 
 The annals of the French Revolution have recorded 
 in Letters of Blood, that the Knowledge of the Few 
 
 cannot 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 cannot counteract the Ignorance of the Many ; that the 
 Light of Philofophy, when it is confined to a fmall Mi- 
 nority, points out the Pofleflbrs as the Victims, rather 
 than the Illuminators, of the Multitude. The Patriots 
 of France either haftened into the dangerous and gigantic 
 Error of making certain Evil the means of contingent 
 Good, or were facrificed by the Mob, with whofe pre- 
 judices and ferocity their unbending Virtue forbade them 
 to affimilate. Like Sampfon, the People were ftrong — 
 like Sampfon, the People were blind. Thofe two maiTy 
 Pillars of Oppreflion's Temple, Monarchy and Arif- 
 tocracy 
 
 " With horrible cpnvulfion to and fro" 
 
 •' They tugg'd, they fhook — -till down they came 
 * 6 and drew" 
 
 Ci The whole Roof after them with burft ofThun- 
 " der" 
 
 6t Upon the heads of all who fat beneath," 
 
 " Lords, Ladies, Captains, Counfellors, and 
 « Priefts," 
 
 " Their choice Nobility !" 
 
 Milton. Sam. Agon. 
 
 There was not a Tyrant in Europe, that did not 
 
 tremble on his Throne. Freedom herfelf heard the 
 
 Crafh aghaft — yet mall fhe not have heard it unbenefited, 
 
 if haply the Horrors of that Day mail have made other 
 
 nations timely wife — if a great people fhall from hence 
 
 become adequately illuminated for a Revolution blood- 
 
 lefs, like Poland's, but not, like Poland's affaffinated 
 
 by the foul Treafon of Tyrants againft Liberty. 
 
 Revolutions 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 Revolutions are fudden to the unthinking only. Po- 
 litical Difturbances happen not without their warning 
 Harbingers. Strange Rumblings and confufed Noifes 
 ftill precede thefe earthquakes and hurricanes of the 
 moral World. In the eventful years previous to a Re- 
 volution, the Philofopher as he panes up and down the 
 walks of Life, examines with an anxious eye the motives 
 and manners, that chara&erife thofe who feem deftined 
 to be the A&ors in it. To delineate with a free hand 
 the different Gaffes of our prefent Oppofitionifts to 
 fC Things as they are," — may be a'delicate, but it is a ne- 
 ceffary Tafk -=in order that we may enlighten, oratleaft 
 beware of, the mifguided men who have enlifted them- 
 felves under the banners of Freedom from no Principles 
 or from bad ones — whether they be thofe, " Who extol 
 
 things vulgar" — and 
 
 " admire they know not what, 
 
 cc And know not whom, but as one leads the other" — 
 
 or whether thofe, 
 
 c< Whofe end is private Hate, not help to Freedom, 
 
 " In her way to Virtue adverfe and turbulent." 
 
 The firft Clafs among the profeffed Friends of Liberty 
 is compofed of Men, who unaccuftomed to the labor of 
 thorough Inveftigation and not particularly oppreffed by 
 the Burthen of Sate, are yet impelled by their feelings 
 to difapproveof its groffer depravities, and prepared to 
 give an indolent Vote in favor of Reform. Their fen- 
 fibilities unbraced by the co-operation of fixed princi- 
 ples, they offer no facrifkes to the divinity of active 
 
 Virtue. Their. political Opinions depend with weather- 
 cock 
 
( 9 ) 
 
 cock uncertainty on the winds of Rumor, that blow 
 from France. On the report of French Viciories they 
 blaze into Republicanifm, at a tale of French Excefles 
 they darken into Ariftocrats; and feek for fhelter among 
 thofe defpicable adherents to Fraud and Tyranny, who 
 ironically ftyle themfelves Conftitutionalifts. Thefe 
 dough-baked Patriots may not however be without their 
 ufe. This Ofcillation of political Opinion, while it 
 retards the Day of Revolution, may operate as a pre- 
 ventative to its Excefles. Indecifion of Character, 
 though the efFeQ: of Timidity, is almoii always affociated 
 with benevolence. 
 
 Wilder Features characterize the fecond Clafs. Suf- 
 ficiently poflefled of natural Senfe to defpife the Prieft* 
 and of natural Feeling to hate the Oppreflor, they 
 iiften only to the inflammatory harangues of fome mad" 
 headed Enthufiaft, and imbibe from them Poifon, not 
 Food, Rage not Liberty. Unillumined by Philofophy 
 and flimulated to a luft of Revenge by aggravated 
 wrongs, they would make the Altar of Freedom dream 
 with blood, while the grafs grew in the defolated Halls 
 of Juftice. Thefe men are the rude Materials from 
 which a deteftable Minifter manufactures Confpiracies. 
 Among thefe men he fends a brood of fly political 
 Monfters, in the character of fanguinary Demagogues, 
 and like Satan of Old, " The Tempter ere the Accufer'' 
 enfnares a few into Trealon, that he may alarm thewhole 
 into Slavery. He, who has dark purpofes to ferve, muft 
 ufe dark means — Light would difcover, reafon would 
 expofe him : He muft endeavour to fhut out both — 
 
 B or 
 
( "> ) 
 
 or if this prove impracticable, make them appear fright- 
 ful by giving them frightful Names : For farther than 
 Names the Vulgar enquire not. Religion and Reafon 
 are but poor Subftitutes for " Church and Conftitution ;" 
 and the fable-vefted Inftigators of the Birmingham Riots 
 well knew, that a Syllogifm could not difarm a drunken 
 Incendiary of his Firebrand, or a demonftration helmet 
 a Philofopher's Head againft a Brickbat. But in the 
 principles, which this Apoftate has, by his emiflaries, 
 fown among a few blind zealots for Freedom, he has 
 digged a pit into which he himfelf may perhaps be 
 doomed to fall. We contemplate thofe principles with 
 horror. Yet they poflefs a kind of wild Juftice well cal- 
 culated to fpread them among the grofly ignorant. To 
 uninlightened minds, there are terrible charms in the 
 idea of Retribution, however favagely it be inculcated. 
 The Groans of the Oppreflbrs make fearful yet pleafant 
 mufic to the ear of him, whofe mind is darknefs, and 
 into whofe foul the iron has entered. 
 
 This clafs, at prefent, is comparatively fmall — Yet 
 foon to form an overwhelming majority, unlefs great 
 and immediate efforts are ufed to lefTen the intolerable 
 grievances of our poorer brethren, and infufe into their 
 forely wounded hearts the healing qualities of know- 
 ledge. For can we wonder that men mould want hu- 
 manity, who want all the circumftances of life that hu- 
 manize ? Can we wonder that with the ignorance of 
 Brutes they mould unite their ferocity ? peace and 
 comfort be with thefe ! But let us fhudder to hear from 
 
 men of diffimilar opportunities fentiments of fimilar re- 
 
 vengefulnefs 
 
( *« ) 
 
 vengefulnefs. The purifying alchemy of Education may 
 tranfmute the ere enefs of an ignorant man into virtuous 
 energy — but what remedy mall we apply to him, whom 
 Plenty has not foftened, whom Knowledge has not taught 
 Benevolence ? This is one among the many fatal effects 
 which refult from the want of fixed principles. Con- 
 vinced that vice is error, we fhall entertain fentiments 
 of Pity for the vicious, not of Indignation — and even 
 with refpect. to that bad man, to whom we have before 
 alluded, altho' we are now groaning beneath the bur- 
 then of his mifconduci., we fhall harbour no fentiments 
 of revenge ; but rather condole with him that his chaotic 
 Iniquities have exhibited fuch a complication of Extra- 
 vagance, Inconfiftency, and rafnnefs, as may alarm 
 him with apprehenfions of approaching lunacy ! 
 
 There are a third clafs among the friends of Freedom 
 
 who poffefs not the wavering character of the firft de- 
 
 fcription, nor the ferocity laft delineated. They pur- 
 
 fue the interefts of Freedom fteadily, but with narrow 
 
 and felf- centering views : they anticipate with exultation 
 
 the abolition of priviledged orders, and of afts that 
 
 perfecute by exclufion from the right of citizenfhip : 
 
 they are prepared to join in digging up the rubbifh of 
 
 mouldering eftablifhments and (tripping off the taudry 
 
 pageantry of Governments. Whatever is above them 
 
 they are mod willing to drag down ; but alas ! they ufe 
 
 not the pulley ! Whatever tends to improve and elevate 
 
 the ranks of our poorer brethren, they, regard with fuf- 
 
 picious jealoufy, as the dreams of the vifionary ; as if 
 
 there were any thing in the fuperiority of Lord to Gentle- 
 
 B 2 man 
 
( 12 ) 
 
 man, fo mortifying in the barrier, fo fatal to happinefs 
 in the confequences, as the more real diftin&ion of 
 mafter and fervant, of rich man and of poor. Wherein 
 am I made worfe by my ennobled neighbour ? do the 
 childifh titles of ariflocracy detrad from my domeftic 
 comforts, or prevent my intellectual acquifitions ? but 
 thofe inftitutions of fociety which fhould condemn me 
 to the neceffity of twelve hours daily toil, would make 
 my foul a flave, and fink the rational being in the mere 
 animal. It is a mockery of our fellow creatures* wrongs 
 to call them equal in rights, when by the bitter cora- 
 jpulfion of their wants we make them inferior to us in all 
 that can foften the heart, or dignify the underftanding. 
 Let us not fay that this is the work of time — that it is 
 impracticable atpre fent, unlefs we. each in our indivi- 
 tdual capacities do ftrenuoufly and perfeveringly endea. 
 your to diffufe among our domeftics thofe comforts 
 and that illumination which far beyond all political ordi- 
 nances are the true equalizers of men. Butof the pro- 
 priety and utility of holding up the diftant mark of at- 
 tainable perfe&ion, we mail enter more fully towards 
 the clofe of this addrefs j we turn with pleafure to the 
 contemplation of that fmall but glorious band, whom we 
 may truly diftinguifti by the name of thinking and dif- 
 interefted Patriots, thefe are the men who have en- 
 couraged the fympathetic paffions till they have become 
 irrefi liable habits, and made their duty a neceflary part 
 of their felfintereft, by the long continued cultivation 
 of that moral tafte which derives our moft exquifite plea- 
 fares from the contemplation of poffible perfection, and 
 
 proportionate 
 
( 13 ) 
 
 proportionate pain from the perception of exifting de~ 
 fravation. Accuftomed to regard all the affairs of man 
 as a procefs, they never hurry and they never paufe ; 
 theirs is not that twilight of political knowledge which 
 gives usjuft light enough to place one foot before the 
 other; as they advance, the fceneftill opens upon them, 
 and they prefs right onward with a vaft and various 
 landfcape of existence around them. Calmnefs and 
 energy mark all their actions, benevolence is the filken 
 thread that runs through the pearl chain of all their vir- 
 tues. Believing that vice originates not in the man, but 
 in the furrounding circumftances; not in the heart, but 
 in the underftanding; he is hopelefs concerning no one — 
 to correct a vice or generate a virtuous conduclhe pol- 
 lutes not his hands with the fcourge of coercion ; but by 
 endeavouring to alter the circumftances removes, or by 
 ftrengthening the intellect difarms, the temptation. The 
 unhappy children of vice and folly, whofe tempers are 
 adverfe to their own happinefsaswell as to the happinefs 
 of others, will at times awaken a natural pang ; but he 
 looks forward with gladdened heart to that glorious period 
 when Juftice fhall have eftablifhed the univerfal frater- 
 nity of Love. Thefe foul ennobling views beftow the 
 virtues which they anticipate. He whofe mind is habi- 
 tually impreft with them foars above the prefent ftate 
 of humanity, and may be juflly faid to dwell in the 
 prefence of the molt high. Regarding every event 
 even as he that ordains it, evil vanilhes from before 
 him, and he views with naked eye the eternal form of 
 univerfal beauty. 
 
 Say 
 
( H J 
 
 Say why was Man fo eminently raifed 
 
 Amid the vaft creation — why ordain'd 
 
 Thro' life and death to dart his piercing eye, 
 
 With thoughts beyond the limits of his frame, 
 
 But that the Omnipotent might fend him forth 
 
 In fight of mortal and immortal powers, 
 
 As on a boundlefs theatre, to run 
 The great career of Jullice — to exalt 
 
 His generous aim to all diviner deeds, 
 
 To chafe each partial purpofe from his breafb 
 
 And thro' the tolling tide of chance and pain 
 
 To hold his courfe unfaltering ? elfe why burns 
 
 In mortal bofoms this unquenched hopv. 
 
 That breathes from day to day fublimer things 
 
 And moc^s pofieffion ? 
 
 •■ — ; would the forms 
 
 Of fervile cuftom cramp the patriots power, 
 
 Would fordid policies, the barbarous growth 
 
 Of ignorance and rapine bow him down 
 
 To tame purfiiits, to Indolence and Fear? 
 
 Lo he appeals to Nature, to the winds 
 
 And rolling waves, the funs unwearied courfe, 
 
 The elements and feafons — all declare 
 
 For what the Eternal Maker has ordain'd 
 
 The powers of Man : we feel within ourfelves 
 
 His energy divine: he tells the heart 
 
 He meant, he made us to behold and love 
 
 What he beholds and loves, the general orb 
 
 Qf Life and Being— to be great like him, 
 
 Beneficent and active, 
 
 Akenside'. 
 
 On 
 
( »5 ) 
 
 On fiich a plan has a Gerald formed his intelle£ 
 Witheri? i; V.^iy and tainted gales of a prifbn, his 
 fcealthfui foiti xooKs down from the citadel of his inte- 
 grity on his impotent perfecutors. I faw him in the foul 
 and naked room of a jail- — his cheek was fallow with 
 confinement — his body was emaciated, yet his eye fpoke 
 the invincible purpc r s of his foul, and his voice ftill 
 founded with rapture the fuccelfes of freemen, forgetful 
 of his own lingering mirtyrdom ! Such too were theilluf- 
 trous Triumvirate* whom as a Greek Poet expreffesit, its 
 not lawful for bad men even to praife. I will not fay that 1 
 have abufed your patience in thus indulging my feelings 
 inthefe drains of unheard gratitude to men, who may 
 feem to juftify God in the creation of man. It is with 
 pleafure that I am permitted to recite a yet unpublifhed 
 tribute to their merit, the produ&ion of a man who has 
 facrificed all the energies of his heart andhead — a fplen- 
 did offering on the altar of Liberty. 
 
 To the Exiled Patriots* 
 
 Martyrs of Freedom — ye who firmly good 
 
 Stept forth the champions in her glorious caufe, 
 
 Ye who again ft Corruption nobly flood 
 For Jultice, Liberty, and equal Laws. 
 
 Ye who have urged the caufe of man fo well 
 
 Whilft proud Oppreflion's torrent fwept along, 
 
 Ye who* fo firmly flood, fo nobly fell, 
 
 Accept one ardent Briton's grateful fong. 
 
 For 
 
 * Muir, Palmer, and Margarot. 
 
( >6 ) 
 
 For fhall Oppreffion vainly think by Fear 
 To quench the fearlefs energy of r m 3 ? 
 
 And glorying in your fall, exult it here 
 As tho' no honeft heart were left behind ? 
 
 Thinks the proud tyrant by the pliant law 
 
 The timid jury and the judge unjuft, 
 To ftrike the foul of Liberty with awe, 
 
 And fcare the friends of Freedom from their truft ? 
 
 As eafy might the Defpots' empty pride 
 The onward courfe of rufhing ocean ftay; 
 
 As eafy might his jealous caution hide 
 From mortal eyes the orb of general day. 
 
 For like that general orb's eternal flame 
 
 Glows the mild force of Virtue's conftant light ; 
 
 Tho' clouded by Misfortune, flill the fame, 
 For ever conftant and for ever bright. 
 
 "Not till eternal chaos (hall that light 
 
 Before Oppreffion's fury fade away ; 
 Not till the fun himfelf be loft in night ; 
 
 Not till the frame of Nature fhall decay. 
 
 Go then fecure, in fteady virtue go, 
 Nor heed the peril of the ftormy feas — 
 
 Nor heed the felon's name, the outcaft's woe; 
 Contempt and pain, and forrow and difeafe. 
 
 Tho' cankering cares corrode the finking frame, 
 
 Tho' ficknefs rankle in the fallow breaft ; 
 
 Tho' Death were quenching fall the vital flame, 
 
 Think but for what ye fufFer, and be blcft. 
 
 So 
 
( '7 ) 
 
 So fhall your great examples fire each foul, 
 So in each free-born breaftfor ever dwell, 
 
 Till Man fhall rife above the unjuft controul— - 
 Stand where ye Hood, and triumph where ye fell. 
 
 To accomplifli the great objeft in which we are 
 anxioufly engaged to place Liberty on her feat with 
 bloodlefs hands, we have fhewn the neceffity of form- 
 ing fome fixed and. determinate principles of action to 
 which the familiarized mind may at all times advert. 
 We now proceed to that raoft important point, namely, 
 to fhew what thofe principles rauft be. In times of tu* 
 mult firmnefs and confiftency are peculiary needful, 
 becaufe the pafsions and prejudice of mankind are 
 then more powerfully excited : we have fhewn in the 
 example of France that to its want of general informa- 
 tion, its miferies and its horrors may be attributed. 
 We have reafon to believe that a revolution in other 
 parts of Europe is not far diftant. Opprefsion is grie- 
 vous — the oppreffed feel and complain. Let us profit 
 by the example of others ; devaluation has marked the 
 courfe of molt revolutions, and the timid affertors of 
 Freedom equally with its clamorous enemies, have.fo 
 clofely affociated the ideas, that they are unable to con- 
 template the one, difunited from the other. The evil 
 is great, but it may be averted — it has been a general, 
 but it is not therefore a necessary confequence. In 
 order to avert it, we fhould teach ourfelves and others 
 liabitually to confider, that truth wields no weapon, but 
 
 that 
 
( i8 ) 
 
 that of inveftigation, we fhould be cautious how we in- 
 dulge even the feelings of virtuous indignation. Indig- 
 natio is the handfome brother of Anger and Hatreds 
 Benevolence alone befeems the Philofopher. Let us 
 not grafp even Defpotifm with too abrupt a hand, left 
 like the envenomed infect of Peru,* it infeft with its 
 poifon, the hand that removes it harfhly. Let us be 
 ware that we continue not the evils of tyranny, when 
 the monfter fhall be driven from the earth. Its temple 
 is founded on the ruins of mankind. Like the fane of 
 Tefcalipoca the Mexican Deity; it is ere8ted with hu- 
 man fkulls and cemented with human blood, — let us 
 beware that we be not transported into revenge while 
 we are levelling the loathfome pile with the ground, 
 left when we ered the temple of Freedom we but vary 
 the ftile of architecture, not change the materials. Our 
 objecl is to deftroy pernicious fyftems not their mifgui- 
 ded adherents. Philofophy imputes not the great evil to 
 the corrupted but to the fyftem which prefents the 
 temptation to corruption. The evil muft ceafe when 
 the caufe is removed, and the courtier who is enabled 
 by State Machinations to embroil or enflave a nation 
 when levelled to the ftandard of men will be impotent 
 of evil, as he is now unconfcious of good. Humane 
 from principle, not fear, the difciple of liberty 
 fhrinks not from his duty. He will not court perfe- 
 ction by the ill-timed obtrufion of Truth, ftill lefs will 
 he feek to avoid it by concealment or dereliction. 
 
 J. H. Tooke 
 
 * The Coy a, an infeft of fo thin a fkin, that on being incau- 
 tioufly touched, it burfts, and of fo fubtle a poifon that it is 
 immediately abforbed into the body, and proves fatal. 
 
( 19 ) 
 
 J. H. Tooke on the morning of his trial wrote to a 
 fellow fuffererirfthefe words " Nothing will fo much ferve 
 the caufe of freedom as our acquittal, except our exe- 
 cution" He meant I prefume to imply that Whatever 
 contributes tc increafe difcuflion muft accelerate the 
 progrefs of liberty. Let activity and perfeverance and 
 moderation fupply the want 'of numbers. Convinced 
 of thejuftice of ou. principles, let neither fcorn nor op- 
 p reffion prevent us from difleminating them. By the 
 gradual depofition of time, error has been piled upon 
 error and prejudice on prejudice, till few men are tall 
 enough to look over them, and thsjfa whofe intellects 
 furpafs the common ftature, and who defcribe the green 
 vales and pleafant profpe&s beyond them, will be thought 
 to havec reated images in vacancy and be honoured with 
 the name of madman ; but 
 
 It is the motive ftrong the confcience pure 
 That bids us firmly act or meek endure: 
 Tis this will fliield us when the ftorm beats hard 
 Content tho* poor had we no other guard ! 
 
 Bowles. 
 
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