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 But even these means have proved insufficient; and the poor wretches, whom hunger had driven or artifice seduced into the deeds of death, have fallen so fast, that Crimping has been found necessary. has been established into a trade, and accompanied with such an apparatus of horrors, as would arm with the thunderbolt. The Irish Regiment, recently landed at Pill near this City is a melancholy instance—By long confinement and by filth they have almost ceased to resemble men. My Brethren! they who authorize or connive at such enormities, retain still less resemblance!

Lastly, in this inventory of guilt as the immediate and peculiar effect of the present War, and justly attributable to our Ministry, we matt place the, their massacres and blasphemies, all their crimes and all their distresses. This effect the War produced by a two-fold operation of terror:—First, on the people of France, secondly, on their Rulers.