allusion to the scripture, in the other text,—­“Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s;” which, if it be not a profanation of the bible, for the sake of a silly witticism, let all men, but his own party, judge.  I am not malicious enough to return him the names which he has called me; but of all sins, I thank God, I have always abhorred atheism; and I had need be a better Christian than Mr Hunt has shown himself, if I forgive him so infamous a slander.

But as he has mistaken our Saviour for Julius Caesar, so he would Pompey too, if he were let alone; to him, and to his cause, or to the like cause it belonged, he says, to use these words:—­“he that is not for us is against us.”  I find he cares not whose the expression is, so it be not Christ’s.  But how comes Pompey the Great to be a whig?  He was, indeed, a defender of the ancient established Roman government; but Caesar was the whig who took up arms unlawfully to subvert it.  Our liberties and our religion both are safe; they are secured to us by the laws; and those laws are executed under an established government, by a lawful king.  The Defender of our Faith is the defender of our common freedom; to cabal, to write, to rail against this administration are all endeavours to destroy the government; and to oppose the succession, in any private man, is a treasonable practice against the foundation of it.  Pompey very honourably maintained the liberty of his country, which was governed by a common-wealth:  so that there lies no parallel betwixt his cause and Mr Hunt’s, except in the bare notion of a common-wealth, as it is opposed to monarchy; and that’s the thing he would obliquely slur upon us.  Yet on these premises, he is for ordering my lord chief justice to grant out warrants against all those who have applauded the “Duke of Guise;” as if they committed a riot when they clapped.  I suppose they paid for their places, as well as he and his party did, who hissed.  If he were not half distracted, for not being lord chief baron, methinks he should be lawyer enough to advise my lord chief justice better.  To clap and hiss are the privileges of a free-born subject in a playhouse:  they buy them with their money, and their hands and mouths are their own property.  It belongs to the Master of the Revels to see that no treason or immorality be in the play; but when it is acted, let every man like or dislike freely:  not but that respect should be used too, in the presence of the king; for by his permission the actors are allowed:  it is due to his person, as he is sacred; and to the successors, as being next related to him:  there are opportunities enow for men to hiss, who are so disposed, in their absence; for when the king is in sight, though but by accident, a malefactor is reprieved from death.  Yet such is the duty, and good manners of these good subjects, that they forbore not some rudeness in his majesty’s presence; but when his Royal Highness and his court were only there, they pushed it as far as their malice had power; and if their party had been more numerous, the affront had been greater.