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 any longer of grappling with denials and sophistications of all sorts, but is, in open appearance, and even ostentation, the unprincipled and perjured creature, which it was before thought illiberal to charge as her character.

A government of Christianity and conscience might have had the honour of preserving the country from its present disgrace and calamity. But it seems to have been the just, though partially mysterious, design of the Most High, after due chastisement and consequent purification of the British Church, to bestow upon her the honour, of which her natural protector adjudged itself unworthy, independently and single-handed, to vanquish and put to rout her insolent assailant, and to shew the world, that the arm on which she relies can give her the desired triumph, not only in the absence of all human help, but in spite of it, and to its permanent infamy.

Rome will find, that she has to descend into a new field. In the secular one she met with a resistance paralysed by treachery and heartlessness to a truly alarming degree, and gained an easy triumph. She will now, as she has begun to feel, have to fight the battle on a ground, and with men