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or even half of that sum , had been raised by a vigorous and popular administration for the reduction of tlie national debt . Fancy can hardly forbear to indulge in such a renovating scene of prosperity ; a scene which , unhappily , it is now her exclusive and melancholy privilege to resort to . ' We should have seen a moral , ingenious , and industrious people , consenting to an increase of burden to repair the errors of their fathers , and to ward off their from crushing their posteritybut enjoying
consequences ; under the pressure of them the virtuous consolation , that they were laying the foundation of a long career of national happiness ; seeing every relaxed and wearied sinew of the government coming back to its vigour ; not by sudden rest , which is an enemy to convalescence , but by the gradual diminution of the weight which over-pressed them . Observing new sources of trade and manufacture bursting forth like the buds of the spring as the frosts of winter are gradually chased away , and seeing with pride and satisfaction , in the
hands of a wise and frugal government , a large , and growing capital for the" refreshment of all its dependencies . To encourage and to extend marine establishments , our only real security against the hour when ambition might disturb the repose of nations ' . To give vigour to arts and manufactures , by large rewards and bounties . To feed and to employ the poor , by grand and extensive plans of national improvement . To remove by degrees the of licated revenueand with it the complicated and galling
pressure comp , penalties inseparable from its collection . To form a fund , to bring justice within the reach and to the very doors of the poor , and , by a large public revenue at the command of the magistracy , to ward off the miseries , the reflection of which , under the best system of laws in , the world , and under their purest administration , have wrung with frequent sorrow the heart of the writer of these pages . And , finally , to enable this great , benevolent , and enlightened country , with a more liberal and exhaustless hand , to
advance in her glorious career of humanising the world , and spreading the lights of the gospel to the uttermost corners of the earth . All these animating visions are , I am afraid , fled for ever . It will be happy now if Great Britain , amidst the sufferings and distresses of her inhabitants , can maintain her present trade , and preserve , even with all its defeats , her present -ines- . timable constitution . ' We leave our readers to indulge their own reflections , and form their own con elusions , on contemplating-these two pictures ; but we think every Englishman must see that that they are not more forcibly drawn , or more highly coloured , than the subject requires .
An Appeal lo the Moral Feelings of Samuel Thornton , Rowland Burden , Hawkins Brown , Esqrs . ancl the several Members of the House of Commons , -oho conscientiousl y support She present Administration . In a Letter to "W . Wilberforce , Esq . Zvo . Price is . Johnson . This pamphlet is a very fine appeal to the conscience and the feelings of our . countrymen , upon two subjects—Parliamentary Reform , and the manner in which the war has been conducted against France . It is grounded upon this assumed truth , that morality is essential to the well being of society ,
and may not be dispensed with , though s . fancied necessity require it . - In the outset the author declares himself unconnected with any party , unprejudiced in favour of any political characters , but attached to the . firm and inviolable principles , on which was reared the noble fabric of the British constitution . But he fears the vessel hath of late changed her steerage , and that her faithless pilot , is now guiding her headlong amidst rocks and quicksands . The practices at elections—the evasion and the breach of the most sacred of obligations , the obligations of an oath , he deems subversive of all moral aud religious principle -. and iu its consequences , therefore , destructive of the
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or even half of that sum , had been raised by a vigorous and popular administration for the reduction of tlie national debt . Fancy can hardly forbear to indulge in such a renovating scene of prosperity ; a scene which , unhappily , it is now her exclusive and melancholy privilege to resort to . ' We should have seen a moral , ingenious , and industrious people , consenting to an increase of burden to repair the errors of their fathers , and to ward off their from crushing their posteritybut enjoying
consequences ; under the pressure of them the virtuous consolation , that they were laying the foundation of a long career of national happiness ; seeing every relaxed and wearied sinew of the government coming back to its vigour ; not by sudden rest , which is an enemy to convalescence , but by the gradual diminution of the weight which over-pressed them . Observing new sources of trade and manufacture bursting forth like the buds of the spring as the frosts of winter are gradually chased away , and seeing with pride and satisfaction , in the
hands of a wise and frugal government , a large , and growing capital for the" refreshment of all its dependencies . To encourage and to extend marine establishments , our only real security against the hour when ambition might disturb the repose of nations ' . To give vigour to arts and manufactures , by large rewards and bounties . To feed and to employ the poor , by grand and extensive plans of national improvement . To remove by degrees the of licated revenueand with it the complicated and galling
pressure comp , penalties inseparable from its collection . To form a fund , to bring justice within the reach and to the very doors of the poor , and , by a large public revenue at the command of the magistracy , to ward off the miseries , the reflection of which , under the best system of laws in , the world , and under their purest administration , have wrung with frequent sorrow the heart of the writer of these pages . And , finally , to enable this great , benevolent , and enlightened country , with a more liberal and exhaustless hand , to
advance in her glorious career of humanising the world , and spreading the lights of the gospel to the uttermost corners of the earth . All these animating visions are , I am afraid , fled for ever . It will be happy now if Great Britain , amidst the sufferings and distresses of her inhabitants , can maintain her present trade , and preserve , even with all its defeats , her present -ines- . timable constitution . ' We leave our readers to indulge their own reflections , and form their own con elusions , on contemplating-these two pictures ; but we think every Englishman must see that that they are not more forcibly drawn , or more highly coloured , than the subject requires .
An Appeal lo the Moral Feelings of Samuel Thornton , Rowland Burden , Hawkins Brown , Esqrs . ancl the several Members of the House of Commons , -oho conscientiousl y support She present Administration . In a Letter to "W . Wilberforce , Esq . Zvo . Price is . Johnson . This pamphlet is a very fine appeal to the conscience and the feelings of our . countrymen , upon two subjects—Parliamentary Reform , and the manner in which the war has been conducted against France . It is grounded upon this assumed truth , that morality is essential to the well being of society ,
and may not be dispensed with , though s . fancied necessity require it . - In the outset the author declares himself unconnected with any party , unprejudiced in favour of any political characters , but attached to the . firm and inviolable principles , on which was reared the noble fabric of the British constitution . But he fears the vessel hath of late changed her steerage , and that her faithless pilot , is now guiding her headlong amidst rocks and quicksands . The practices at elections—the evasion and the breach of the most sacred of obligations , the obligations of an oath , he deems subversive of all moral aud religious principle -. and iu its consequences , therefore , destructive of the