tained-REVOLUTION TORIES. The leaders of this party alleged, with too much reafon, that the Whigs, engroffing, as was notorious, the executive offices of the State with little intermiffion fince the Revolution, and without any interval whatever fince the acceffion of the House of Hanover, had introduced maxims of government totally inconfiftent with the true interefts of the nation. They had involved Great Britain as a principal in all the contentions, and quarrels, of the Continent; they had pretended a neceffity for supporting a political balance of power, which was never proved to be in danger; and under this pretext they had made England fubfervient to schemes of Hanoverian, of Auftrian, of Pruffian aggrandizement. In the profecution of their wild and pernicious plans they had contracted an immense debt, the intereft of which was difcharged by taxes the most odious and oppreffive. This debt had rapidly and alarmingly accumulated; and ás no ferious or permanent measures had been adopted for its eventual liquidation, the nation was me→ naced with the hideous profpect of a general bankruptcy. In addition to the enormous fums raifed upon the public, and mortgaged for the payment of the national creditors, the remaining branches of the revenue were appropriated to the maintaining a formidable army under the fole command of the Crown, by which the liberty of the

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Country and the very existence of the Conftitution were exposed to imminent and habitual danger. They affirmed, that a fyftem of corruption had been established in confequence of the vast increase of Ministerial and Regal influence-that a very large proportion of the King's fubjects had been long expofed to a ftate of political profcription, though chargeable with no difaffection to the prefent Government excepting what unavoidably arose from this injurious treatment. The Prince of Wales had deeply imbibed these ideas, and was laudably folicitous to extend the protection of Government to all who had not by culpable mifconduct forfeited their claim to it, without any diftinction of party; convinced that those who fulfilled the duties were entitled to the privileges of good citizens and fubjects. It may however be juftly queftioned, whether the most eminent and refpectable individuals of the Tory or Country Partya Wyndham-a Shippen-or a Carew, ever attained to those clear conceptions of government, and to the perfect and cordial adoption of those wife and beneficent maxims of policy, which characterized the moft virtuous and enlightened of the Whigs. The grand defect in the general theory of these patriots, who in many respects deferved fo highly the esteem and gratitude of their country, was their erroneous and imperfect ideas of the nature of toleration. Devotedly attached

to the ESTABLISHED CHURCH, they confidered a diffent from it as a fpecies of dangerous delinquency, or at least of culpable contumacy, permitted indeed by the indulgence of the law, but by no means founded on any immutable claim of equity or juftice. And they were unhappily of an opinion recently revived, and enforced with all the art of fophiftical malignity, that a Sectary is a Citizen partially dif affected to the Conftitution, including the twofold diftinction of Church and State; not confidering that the Church, as a civil inftitution, is the mere creation of the State, and exifts only by its fovereign will-that a voluntary option therefore of affent or diffent is allowed, and under a free Conftitution cannot but be allowed, to every citizen pleading the inviolable claims of confcience. In diffenting from the Church, a right is exercised which is recognized by the Conftitution, and which it must therefore be a complication of folly and injustice to brand as a proof of difaffection to the Conftitution. It does not however appear that the Prince of Wales was himself in any degree tainted with thefe miferable prejudices; and during the lifetime of the Prince, there is good reason to believe that great and inceffant pains were taken to infufe into the minds of his rifing offspring, and more particularly into that of his eldeft-born, "the fecond hope of Britain," juft and elevated fentiments of government, and of liberty civil and religious,

religious*. But from the period of the untimely and lamented death of the Prince, the fyftem of education adopted by the Princess Dowager of Wales, to whom the guardianship of the royal iffue was entrusted, appeared to be impreffed with a bias entirely new; and the ominous refignation of Lord Harcourt and the Bishop of Norwich, with the reasons affigned in vindication of their conduct, was the fubject of much anxious apprehenfion-efpecially as it was but too well known that the Earl of BUTE, a nobleman haughty in his manners, contracted in his capacity, defpotic in his fentiments, and myfterious in his conduct, was fucceff

In an occafional Addrefs or Prologue, fpoken by Prince George, on acting a part in the Tragedy of CATO, performed at Leicester-House, about the year 1749, he was inftructed thus to exprefs himself→

The poet's labors elevate the mind,

Teach our young hearts with generous fire to burn,

And feel the virtuous fentiments we learn,

T' attain thefe glorious ends, what play fo fit
As that where all the powers of human wit
Combine to dignify great CATO'S name,
To deck his tomb, and confecrate his fame?
Where LIBERTY-O name for ever dear!
Breathes forth in every line, and bids us fear
Nor pains nor death to guard our facred laws,
But bravely perish in our country's caufe.

Should this fuperior to my years be thought,

KNOW, 'TWAS THE FIRST GREAT LESSON I WAS TAUGHT.

fully infinuating himself into the confidence of the Princess of Wales, and of her fon the Heir apparent of the Crown. On the 27th of October 1760, Sunday only having intervened fince the death of the late King, the Earl of Bute was fworn a Member of the Privy Council-a mark of diftinétion fo ftriking and peculiar as apparently to portend changes of great political importance. After a fhort interval the Rangership of Richmond Park was taken from the Princess Amelia, the only unmarried daughter of the late King, and whom he had ever delighted to distinguish by marks of his affection, and bestowed upon the Earl of Bute; and by an order of the King in Council, the name of the Duke of Cumberland, dear fince the memorable day of Culloden to the Whigs, was ftruck out of the Liturgy, The Parliament, which, agreeably to the falutary provifions of an Act paffed for that purpose, continued to exercife its functions for a period of fix months after the death of the Sovereign, met on the 18th November, when the King, feated on the throne with all the fplendid decorations of royalty, delivered a speech calculated in the highest degree to confirm all the fond and flattering prepoffeffions of the public in his favor. After a decent expreffion of concern for the lofs of the late King, and imploring the bleffing of Heaven on his endeavors to fuftain the weight of Government which now devolved upon him, the