--it is not
possible that the downhill should not be slid into, recommended by
everything which has opposed it. Let it be remembered that no young man
can go to any part of Europe without taking this place of pestilential
contagion in his way; and whilst the less active part of the community
will be debauched by this travel, whilst children are poisoned at these
schools, our trade will put the finishing hand to our ruin. No factory
will be settled in France, that will not become a club of complete
French Jacobins. The minds of young men of that description will receive
a taint in their religion, their morals, and their politics, which they
will in a short time communicate to the whole kingdom.

Whilst everything prepares the body to debauch and the mind to crime, a
regular church of avowed atheism, established by law, with a direct and
sanguinary persecution of Christianity, is formed to prevent all
amendment and remorse. Conscience is formally deposed from its dominion
over the mind. What fills the measure of horror is, that schools of
atheism are set up at the public charge in every part of the country.
That some English parents will be wicked enough to send their children
to such schools there is no doubt. Better this island should be sunk to
the bottom of the sea than that (so far as human infirmity admits) it
should not be a country of religion and morals!

With all these causes of corruption, we may well judge what the general
fashion of mind will be through both sexes and all conditions. Such
spectacles and such examples will overbear all the laws that ever
blackened the cumbrous volumes of our statutes. When royalty shall have
disavowed itself,--when it shall have relaxed all the principles of its
own support,--when it has rendered the system of Regicide fashionable,
and received it as triumphant, in the very persons who have consolidated
that system by the perpetration, of every crime, who have not only
massacred the prince, but the very laws and magistrates which were the
support of royalty, and slaughtered with an indiscriminate proscription,
without regard to either sex or age, every person that was suspected of
an inclination to king, law, or magistracy,--I say, will any one dare to
be loyal? Will any one presume, against both authority and opinion, to
hold up this unfashionable, antiquated, exploded Constitution?

The Jacobin faction in England must grow in strength and audacity; it
will be supported by