oo far, a giant's strength awakes,
And gyves and bonds at one fierce effort breaks.
O hear yet more! There is a GOD, whose eye
Pierces your counsels' darkest mystery;
Whose blessing England owns for countless years,
Whose vengeance now she deprecates with tears.
To HIM your Queen appeals, and at HIS bar,
Your names must mark the awful calendar;
There must the witness CONSCIENCE naked plead,
And guilty kings receive the culprit's meed.
O think on this! e'en now that witness own,
And save YOURSELVES, your COUNTRY, and your THRONE!"--
The vision ceas'd, and in a radiant cloud
Withdrew--The breathless senate rev'rent bow'd.
New vigour throbb'd in every patriot breast,
And nerveless horror sicken'd all the rest.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] See the Earl of Chatham's animated speech against the employment
of Indian warriors to assist in the subjugation of America.
[B] In this, as I conceive, seasonable reproof of certain "_Lords
Spiritual_" I would not be understood to involve the whole of that
reverend body. Some of them, I firmly believe, have remained at a
distance from the combat, aged and infirm, like ELI, sitting by the
wayside of Shiloh, and watching with trembling heart, lest the ark (I
will not say of GOD, but of THE CONSTITUTION) should fall in the
unhallowed conflict. Others, perhaps, have not cared to meddle in what
they may have considered a doubtful matter: but it must not be
concealed, that when TRUTH and JUSTICE are at stake, _neutrality_ is
no honourable sanctuary for the avowed servants of the TEMPLE. Let the
Bishops beware of discovering their nakedness upon the very steps of
the altar.--The eye of an enlightened people is upon them; and _with
their character for real consistent PIETY, and fidelity to sound
PROTESTANT PRINCIPLES, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND will stand or fall_.
J. M'Creery, Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane, London.
JUST PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HONE, 45, LUDGATE-HILL.
_Price Two Shillings._
THE PREROGATIVES OF A QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND; particularly of her
ability to make and receive Gifts, to sue and be sued, and to hold
Courts without the King; of its being Treason to plot against her
Life; of the modes of trying her for Offences; and of her ancient
Revenue of Queen-Gold.
"The King's wife is participant of many Prerogatives
above other Women."--_Finch._
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