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Having tried to excite the indignation of the populace by the view of present or intended evil , he next addresses himself to their hopes : he encourages the disaffected with an expectation of the approaching overthrow of the establishment . ' If this is not sufficient to open your eyes , the last trump alone can awaken you . If this is not sufficient to rouse you to fresh v i gilance , fresh exertion , closer intercourse , and intrepid unanimity , ye are dead—ye are lost , not onl y « in the oblivious pool , ' but

" In bottomless perdition ;' there todivet ! " In adamantine chains . " Think , I conjure you : — -what is the prospect held out to you ? For yourselves—unqualified submission , or the prompt and destroying vengeance of some new mode of legalized massacre , or military execution : —for your children—the tombstones of progenitors , who , though bom to a degree of freedom , which they were bound to improveand had no riht to alienateyet

, g , relinquished the patrimony , with criminal supineness , and left to them , for their inheritance , beggary , and accumulating chains ! ' Compare what ye are with what ye have a right to be . Compare your powers and your faculties with your condition : the bounty of nature with your scanty enjoyments , and unsatisfied wants ; the wealth resulting from your productive labour , and the abject wretchedness of your general state . — Compare these things , and consider well the causes . Trace " them to their

sources , in the nature of some , and the corruptions of other , of those- very institutions of the old Germanic , or Gothic costumary , at the prospect of whose approaching overthrow , the volcanic imagination of Burke points out such deluges , of flame and smoke - Contrast the gloomy intricacy of these oppressive systems—these antique temples of fraud and violence , with the simple plans of reason , and of nature ; and learn , what to avoid , and what to pursue . ' The means , proposed for effecting the desired overthrow , he details in

another part of the pamphlet ; and concisely generalizes to be unanimity and intrepidity in speaking in such an authoritative tone as . shall overawe Government and its Head . ' Next to the abuse of Government , Irreligion and Blasphemy is the chief constituent of this work . Joseph Gerald , transported from Edinburgh to Botany Bay , is compared , in his merits and sufferings , to the Founder of our Religion and Author of our Salvation . Mr . Thelwall ' s impious , as well as

other revolutionary doctrines , are second-hand from Thomas Taine . Among the lower classes of Jacobins , Paine has bred numbers both of democrat ! cat and deistical parrots : —Paine , bad as he is , is an original thinker , not a mere funnel of the noxious doctrines of others . If the design of Thelwall ' s pamphlet be Tragedy , the execution is frequentl y Farce . He draws a modest parallel between himself and Socrates . Socrates , as hesays , was the first Democratieal Lecturer : an assertion from which the

Classical Reader will probably suppose him to be as much acquainted with Socrates ' s lectures , as he afterwards shews himself to be with his history . Socrates ( be says ) was put to death by a conspiracy of Lawyers acting for an Oligarchy . Had Mr . Thelwall read the history of that time , he would have seen that the Oligarchy ( which , by the bye , arose from Democratic folly ) had then ceased to exist ; and that one of the first acts of the restored Democracy was the condemnation of Socrates ; that his accusers were two lecturing Demagogues , and his judges five huudred . of the populace . This was his opinion ; this is the account given b y Xenophon and Plato , his eotemporary Biogra-

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LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE, Article 4
ON COURTSHIP AND COQUETRY. Article 7
COPY OF THE INSCRPITION ON THE FOUNDATION STONE OF WEARMOUTH BRIDGE. Article 9
A SERMON, Article 10
ON DEATH. Article 14
PREDILECTION OF THE TURKS FOR THE GAME OF CHESS. Article 17
ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HISTORY AND CLASSICAL LEARNING. Article 18
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF EDWARD KELLY, THE ALCHEMIST. Article 24
ON THE MUSIC OF THE ANCIENTS. Article 26
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 29
ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF PROMISSORY NOTES AND PAPER CREDIT. Article 31
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. Article 34
FATAL PESTILENCE IN THE AIR, IN THE REIGN OF HENRY III. Article 35
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 38
POETRY. Article 48
WINTER, AN ODE. Article 49
SONNET, ON SEEING JULIA GATHERING ROSES IN THE DEW. Article 50
EPITAPH, ON AN OLD FAVOURITE DOG. Article 50
A SONG. Article 51
A SONG. Article 51
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 52
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 52
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 58
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 59
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 60
INTELLIGENCE OF IMPORTANCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Article 60
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Article 64
OBITUARY. Article 69
L1ST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 73
INDEX TO THE SEVENTH VOLUME. Article 74
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Having tried to excite the indignation of the populace by the view of present or intended evil , he next addresses himself to their hopes : he encourages the disaffected with an expectation of the approaching overthrow of the establishment . ' If this is not sufficient to open your eyes , the last trump alone can awaken you . If this is not sufficient to rouse you to fresh v i gilance , fresh exertion , closer intercourse , and intrepid unanimity , ye are dead—ye are lost , not onl y « in the oblivious pool , ' but

" In bottomless perdition ;' there todivet ! " In adamantine chains . " Think , I conjure you : — -what is the prospect held out to you ? For yourselves—unqualified submission , or the prompt and destroying vengeance of some new mode of legalized massacre , or military execution : —for your children—the tombstones of progenitors , who , though bom to a degree of freedom , which they were bound to improveand had no riht to alienateyet

, g , relinquished the patrimony , with criminal supineness , and left to them , for their inheritance , beggary , and accumulating chains ! ' Compare what ye are with what ye have a right to be . Compare your powers and your faculties with your condition : the bounty of nature with your scanty enjoyments , and unsatisfied wants ; the wealth resulting from your productive labour , and the abject wretchedness of your general state . — Compare these things , and consider well the causes . Trace " them to their

sources , in the nature of some , and the corruptions of other , of those- very institutions of the old Germanic , or Gothic costumary , at the prospect of whose approaching overthrow , the volcanic imagination of Burke points out such deluges , of flame and smoke - Contrast the gloomy intricacy of these oppressive systems—these antique temples of fraud and violence , with the simple plans of reason , and of nature ; and learn , what to avoid , and what to pursue . ' The means , proposed for effecting the desired overthrow , he details in

another part of the pamphlet ; and concisely generalizes to be unanimity and intrepidity in speaking in such an authoritative tone as . shall overawe Government and its Head . ' Next to the abuse of Government , Irreligion and Blasphemy is the chief constituent of this work . Joseph Gerald , transported from Edinburgh to Botany Bay , is compared , in his merits and sufferings , to the Founder of our Religion and Author of our Salvation . Mr . Thelwall ' s impious , as well as

other revolutionary doctrines , are second-hand from Thomas Taine . Among the lower classes of Jacobins , Paine has bred numbers both of democrat ! cat and deistical parrots : —Paine , bad as he is , is an original thinker , not a mere funnel of the noxious doctrines of others . If the design of Thelwall ' s pamphlet be Tragedy , the execution is frequentl y Farce . He draws a modest parallel between himself and Socrates . Socrates , as hesays , was the first Democratieal Lecturer : an assertion from which the

Classical Reader will probably suppose him to be as much acquainted with Socrates ' s lectures , as he afterwards shews himself to be with his history . Socrates ( be says ) was put to death by a conspiracy of Lawyers acting for an Oligarchy . Had Mr . Thelwall read the history of that time , he would have seen that the Oligarchy ( which , by the bye , arose from Democratic folly ) had then ceased to exist ; and that one of the first acts of the restored Democracy was the condemnation of Socrates ; that his accusers were two lecturing Demagogues , and his judges five huudred . of the populace . This was his opinion ; this is the account given b y Xenophon and Plato , his eotemporary Biogra-

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