al consequences, which he states have threatened to
demolish a system of civilization under which his country enjoys a
prosperity unparalleled in the history of man. We had emerged from our
first terrors, but here we sink into them again,--however, only to shake
them off upon the credit of his being a man of very sanguine hopes.

Against the moral terrors of this successful empire of barbarism, though
he has given us no consolation here, in another place he has formed
other securities,--securities, indeed, which will make even the enormity
of the crimes and atrocities of France a benefit to the world. We are to
be cured by her diseases. We are to grow proud of our Constitution upon,
the distempers of theirs. Governments throughout all Europe are to
become much stronger by this event. This, too, comes in the favorite
mode of _doubt_ and _perhaps_. "To those," he says, "who meditate on
the workings of the human mind, a doubt may perhaps arise, whether the
effects which I have described," (namely, the change he supposes to be
wrought on the public mind with regard to the French doctrines,) "though
_at present_ a salutary check to the dangerous spirit of innovation, may
not prove favorable to abuses of power, by creating a timidity in the
just cause of liberty." Here the current of our apprehensions takes a
contrary course. Instead of trembling for the existence of our
government from the spirit of licentiousness and anarchy, the author
would make us believe we are to tremble for our liberties from the great
accession of power which is to accrue to government.

I believe I have read in some author who criticized the productions of
the famous Jurieu, that it is not very wise in people who dash away in
prophecy, to fix the time of accomplishment at too short a period. Mr.
Brothers may meditate upon this at his leisure. He was a melancholy
prognosticator, and has had the fate of melancholy men. But they who
prophesy pleasant things get great present applause; and in days of
calamity people have something else to think of: they lose, in their
feeling of their distress, all memory of those who flattered them in
their prosperity. But merely for the credit of the prediction, nothing
could have happened more unluckily for the noble lord's sanguine
expectations of the amendment of the public mind, and the consequent
greater security to government, from the examples in France, than what
happened in the week after the publication of h