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siderate and truly ingenuous mind , to treat them with the greatest lenity upon- that account . Nor can I omit just mentioning an argument which may be deduced from the " care of Providence . If God hath respect to
the meanest of his creatures , and despises not the workmanship of his own hands , let « s , whose supreme glorv it is to resemble Deity , imitate him in these amiable and gracious views . As Dr . Young truly and nobly observes- — " There is not a fly , but infinite wisdom is concerned both in its
structure and its destination . " How , dare we , then , to be destroyers of their ease , which we ought to promote ; or wantonly deprive them of that life which we cannot restore ? 1 would not enter on nay list of friends fTbough gr » ce 4 with polished manners
and fine sense , Yet wanting sensibility ) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm . An inadvertent step may crush the snail , That crawls at evening- in the public path 5 Bnt he that has humanity , for war tied , Will tread aside , and let the reptile live .
¦ i —— If man ' s convenience , health , Or safety , interferes , his rights and claims Are paramount , and must extinguish theirs . Else they are all ^ -tbe meanest things that
are , ** As free to live , and to enjoy that life , As God was free to form them at the first , Witcin his sovereign wisdom made them * U , Cowpbr . Task , Book vi .
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Monthly Repository , if not , you tvill much oblige me , and , I doubt not gratify many of your readers , by in serting the extracts I send you underneath . At any rate , I am sure you will agree with me , that they deserve a more durable station than the columns of a daily journal .
Two or three other speeches of this gentleman appeared in previous num ^ bers of the Statesman . I regret I have them not , to refer to , but if any of your readers have that paper for
1813 and the early part of 1814 , they will not , I am convinced , if they search and succeed , find their labour thrown away . I am , Sir , Your constant Reader ,
J . M . " The orator , on presenting himself , was received ( it is said ) by the Meeting , with the loudest acclamations He was much agitated by the enthusiasm of his reception , and said he
looked upon it as an instance of the most generous credulity . —What ! ( says lie ) and has not time effaced , and disappointment withered , or treachery destroyed , this glowing , this characteristic national sensibility ! Are you still determined to tnist and be
betrayed- *—to believe , and to be deceived —to love , and to be deserted ' . —May not / be one of those who , in the name of patriotism and for the purposes of plunder , have swindled away your heart , Jfchat they might gamble with it afterwards at the political
hazard table ! May I not pretend a youth of virtue that I may purefcae with its fame an age of richapostacy " Oh , my country ! duped , desolate , degraded—but still my country ; hear every precept—trust no man ' s professions . Ardeat as I am , honest
through every fibre , as I feel myself , I repel your confidence * though , perhaps , unnecessarily ; for I am humble , and below corruption ^ I am valueless , and not worth temptation , I am poor , and cannot afford to part with - a " . have—my character . Such are my sensations now : what they m » y ** hereafter , I pretend not : but should I ever hazard descending into the ; sycophant or slave , I beseech tuee heaven , that the first hour ol my crime may be the last of my hfe ; £ that the worm may batten on « £ bloom of my youth , before my men ( if I have any ) shall have causei to curse the mention of my menpry-
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S&to Eloquent Extracts .
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Wareham , Sin , May 15 , 1815 . ABOU T a year ago I made a few extracts in my common-place book , from a speech which appeared , ( and , 1 think , appeared only in this
country ) in the Statesman newspaper . The editor of that paper prefaced it by stating that the speaker was Mr . Phillips , a young Irish barrister ; that the speech was pronounced at an Ag®ate Meeting of the Catholics , then 1 tely held in Dublin , on the
resolution recommending the imme-<} i * te discussion of the Catholic question ; and further , that it was not much surpassed in the best specimens of jp recian , Roman or English oratory . In ; this oniiiion many better judges trap- in > self have concurred , I know not whether you will consider it of ** M > political a complexion for the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/22/
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