operations, and their determined opposition to liberalism. This bitter and iniquitous pill, which the quack politicians wish to force down their throats, trying to persuade them, against the evidence of their own senses, that they are ill, in a dangerous way, and require purging. Hold! gentlemen quacks; they are determined to bleed first, and then purge the realm of you and your infernal medicines. Depend upon it, there are very many such partizan chiefs, defenders of the Church and King, as Pater Merino, who are valiant as their swords; and, being well acquainted with the geographical outlines of a country of mountains and vallies, intersected by numerous rivers, and, in many parts, covered with forests, they will war only on the uneven ground, where their enemies can bring neither artillery nor cavalry to act against them. I have been myself in Spain, am somewhat acquainted with the Spanish character, and have learned many curious details of the courage, skill, and horsemanship, of the partizan cavaliers. The mountaineers, either on foot or on horseback, surpass all other nations for activity, intrepidity, the most daring exploits, and perilous adventures. They will attack and beat double their force, and often perform, in their predatory warfare, such difficult feats of horsemanship, as are almost beyond belief. When we reflect, that the cause of the Church and King is supported by men such as I have just described, and with a devotion of the most heroic and enthusiastic kind, my readers will agree with me in thinking it will be extremely difficult to subdue them. If the foreign protected Queen does not raise an overwhelming armed force, and numerous enough to enable her to send divisions all over the kingdom, her

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success is very uncertain; because her enemies are dispersed everywhere, and she no sooner beats them in one quarter, than they burst forth with new vigour in another. These, which at first were small, insignificant parties, have augmented like a rolling ball of snow. One thing is certain, that the liberals' scheme of forcing a constitution upon these people is not only very illiberal, but very unwise and impolitic. I am firmly and decidedly of opinion that all the changes and alterations which may be thought necessary to make in the institutions of any country, require mature consideration and reflection, and to be slowly and regularly brought about, according to time, place, and circumstances, in conformity with the religion, laws, morals, manners and customs-as law and prudent correction are always better than sudden and violent measures, which tend often to subvert, without remedying, and giving a shock to the principles and opinions of a party or parties, and are productive only of tumults, discord and civil war. Besides, there is nothing in the form of government, however solid, that can bear an attack of this sort, without being weakened immediately, and overturned. It would certainly seem highly ridiculous if the tower or steeple of some fine old Gothic building should require repairs to pull it down and build it up anew. First, we should endanger the rest of the structure; secondly, we should probably fail to erect another of the same correct style and beauty; and, thirdly, it would prove much more troublesome and expensive. When the foundations are good and solid, we should be cautious in doing any thing to shake or endanger them. However, this is just what the levellers would wish to do; for, by pulling everything down to their own

level, they, who have nothing to lose, may fairly entertain a hope of gaining something. Those people, however, are not so criminal as some men of substance who, from ambitious motives, lead them on to perdition. Within the last thirty-five years, perhaps the most changeful and eventful period in the history of man, I have visited almost all the countries of the east and west; I have lived some time in them, have had an opportunity of studying and examining their religions, laws, manners, customs, and forms of government, and have found, invariably, that the nations living under monarchies were the happiest and the most prosperous. The more energetic, the more contented the people; especially those who were brought up in good religious and moral habits. Those governments the liberals call despotisms, without knowing anything of their institutions and internal administration. No real Christian can doubt that kings were ordained for our government, any more than he can doubt the Scriptures, and the coming of Jesus Christ, by which we have received the commands of God, and which form the pillars of Christian faith, and such as they have been preached and proved by the apostles of Jesus Christ. Now, if a man is so led astray by the weakness of his judgment and reasoning powers, as to disbelieve those divine truths which are evident and incontestible, in whom, or in what, is he to believe? One of the French atheists, a sprig of the revolutionary impiety of the times, published a work, called "The Catechism of Nature," in which he puts the word "Nature" instead of God. Ridiculous logician! to place

By the atheist, Volney, celebrated for his Anti-Christian writings.

the cause before the effect-Presumptuous fool! to attempt to separate the works of God from God himself, and to infer from thence, that Nature was the cause-as if God and Nature are not collectively the same. And this is one of the many stupid attempts to prove, that man is independent of his Maker! This will afford my readers an idea of the sophistical absurdities of the new school, which are too vile to merit anything but the reprobation and execration of everyone who calls himself a Christian. It is worse than paganism. But let us, for the sake of argument, adopt his words, and say, that we shall look to Nature intirely for our guide; but let him not pervert her; and then, "Oh! thou of little faith," where would'st thou lead thy votaries? To a cause thou can'st not fathom; for nature, truth, and wisdom, are attributes of the Divinity. It is only through Moses, and by the coming of Jesus Christ, that thou can'st know God's commandments. But let us permit thee not to believe in them. What dost thou learn from Nature? Perfect order, the sublimest wisdom, obedience to fixed and invariable laws, regular and successive seasons, time and unerring perpetual motion for ages, without having suffered the slightest diminution or deterioration. What, then, do these peculiar attributes of Nature, from whence, you say, we sprung, teach us to do?-To love disorder, irregularity, disobedience; to despise the perfection we behold, the source that gave us existence? Arrogant, blind, and impious philosophy! at which the most ignorant savage would turn from with disgust and horror. You see now, reader, that these men employ their deceitful dogmas to make others forget their duty to God, and, by rendering them impious, to lead them more

easily, and profit of their credulity, to serve their ambitious schemes. They are callous, and have no belief whatever; for how can they believe in anything that has not its foundation in Nature and wisdom? If we would inherit the kingdom of heaven, we must have faith; we must believe in God, and in his only Son, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. If, then, we believe in God and Jesus Christ, we must also believe in, and receive, his ordinances and commandments. These teach us to be satisfied in the sphere where he has placed us, to be obedient to our superiors, to honour the King, and respect our parents, and submit to all those who are placed over us for our good government. This is religion, wisdom, truth, and Nature-the due performance of which is necessary to our contentment and prosperity in this world, and our happiness in the next.