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of circulation. No avaricious farmer will hoard this; nor even will stockholders venture to fell out of the funds, because all descriptions of men know that the Bank paper is merely a link in the chain of general credit, of which the funds are the support. He trusts, indeed, that he shall be joined by the partizans of a Hamilton Rowan, or a Thomas Muir. What their power is, the late events at the Nore plainly showed. Then was the time for bloody action to rear its head; but she fell astounded before the Genius of Britain;—or rather, that kind Providence, which lias showered blessings on this country, unknown to any other nation, ancient or modern, interposed its protecting shield, and showed the athiestical world that Britain is not to be enslaved, even when a prey to civil commotions *. But

confidence in the resources of this country, if he thought the sentiments of a certain class of writers were in any degree those of the bulk of this nation. As an instance among the rest:
 * It would very greatly indeed diminish the Writer's

“ There are three capital scarecrows juft set up so

“ protect religion, and social order.—Church and King,

“ French Principles, and Radical Reform."

Morn. Chron. Sth jfdn. 1798.

We may be told indeed, that it is net religion, but the form of our ecclesiastical government, that is here ridicul- ed; it should, however, be remembered, that the pretended philosophers in France set out from that point, and for the lengths they have gone, refer, among others, to the follow- ing fact, which has lately appeared in the public papers:— “ General Danican (a republican general) tells us, that “ a felon, who had assumed the name of Brutus, chief of a " revolutionary tribunal at Rennes, said to his colleagues “ on Good Friday:—‘ Brothers, we must put to death this “ day, at the same hour the counter revolutionist Christ died, . “ that young devotee who was lately arrested.' And this “young lady was guillotined accordingly, and her corpse “ treated with every possible species of indecent insult, to « the infinite amusement of a vast multitude off spectators."