magistrate, the law, and the church frown on such manners, and the wretches to whom they belong,—­when they are chased from the eye of day, and the society of civil life, into night-cellars and caves and woods.  But when these men themselves are the magistrates,—­when all the consequence, weight, and authority of a great nation adopt them,—­when we see them conjoined with victory, glory, power, and dominion, and homage paid to them by every government,—­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?