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 ¬ment, or rather how many thousands, and tens and hundreds of thousands would be starving* if the machinery they attack were overthrown ? In the present condition of your country you could not send a single bale of your manufac- tures into a foreign market, if they were to be worked up only by manual labour, and then not only the turbulent destroyers, but the most diligent of your people must perish. Having been blessed with religious parents, my mind was directed, from my earliest youth, to contem- plate the benevolent dispensations of an offended God ; and in nothing have they inspired a more constant and grateful admiration than that when the first and greatest of his works had been cast down for disobedience into the most forlorn and helpless condition, he should not only be gifted to subdue to his use and dominion all inferior things, but that, fashioned after the image of Heaven, he should be enabled to scan its most distant worlds, and to augment his own strength in mitigation of his appointed labour, by engines so tremendously powerful as would crush, with ¬a sin- ¬