APPENDIX. A. SERM. viii. "A Syftem of Education is extremely defective that does not inculcate a Reverence for the Laws of that Society whereof we are Members, and a decent Respect to the ruling Powers. In this happy Country, an Attachment to the Conftitution, which has been tranfmitted to us by the wife exer tions of our Ancestors, fhould be impreffed on the Minds and Hearts of the rifing generation, as the most effectual Means of preferving to future generations thofe Privileges, which constitute the Freedom, and the Happiness of Britons." Gent. Mag. Nov. 1791. P. 984. B. Prov. xxiv. 21. See an excellent Sermon from this Text of fcripture (peculiarly applicable to the present times) preached before the University of Oxford, by the Rev. Dr. Croft, in 1783, from which the following Paffage is taken.-" Every Innovator fets out with complaints of great and intolerable abuses, and alarms Men with apprehenfions that their property is wantonly taken from them, and lavishly expended, and that their very Liberty is in danger. He will refer to diftant periods of our history, in which the principles of the Conftitution were facred and inviolate, when Magna Charta was obtained, when X when Parliaments were annual, when Representatives vouchfafed to receive Inftructions from their Conftituents, when difinterestedness and public Spirit actuated every Member of the Legislature; when Prerogative was confined within narrower Limits, and corrupt influence could not prevail. And when Arguments drawn from our own History are exhausted, he will refer us to the happy days of Greece and Rome, when the People enjoyed uninterrupted Freedom and Profperity, and Merit only was rewarded ; when the nobleft Services were to be a while forgotten, left the Hero, who had performed them, fhould arrogate too much to himfelf. And as if the history of past times were infufficient, he can add-a prophecy of exquisite happiness and uninterrupted liberty to these Regions which will flourish without a King, and without Nobility. When the mind is duly foured by these infinuations, when it has conceived a thorough HATRED of all that are put in authority over us, then ignorant or turbulent Men are called forth from their regular employment to dictate to the senate, to condemn by cenfure, or extol by their praifes, perfons who deferve neither the one nor the other, and to over-awe the freedom of public deliberation: Then the infallible Remedy is proposed; -a Remedy for all the Evils we may hereafter fuffer; the people are flattered as the Fountain of all authority, and are befought, by every thing facred and dear to them, to oppofe ufurpation, and to guard against future Encroachments. Thus Jealoufy and Malignity are excited, and if they return to their habitations outwardly peaceable, their inward peace is totally destroyed. They no longer obey the Laws with Cheerfulness; and Wealth and Power, which at all all times excite Envy, are now beheld with Abhorrence." C. Thefe "evil-fpeakers of Dignities," not only demonftrate their Contempt for Kings, and all that are in Authority; but alfo for Titles of every kind which imply Honour and Distinction; and fhew how anxious they are to "level them all down to their own Standard." D. "True Loyalty to our Prince is both our Intereft and our Duty; and without it, the fairest Pretences to Religion and Reformation are the most pernicious Covers of the moft dangerous of all kinds of Rebellion." Nalfon's political Maxim. E. No perfon rejoiced more fincerely than the Author at the Commencement of the French Revolution. He rejoiced to fee France (actuated, as he thought, by a Confcioufnefs of the falutary Rights of Man) breaking the Yoke of Defpotifm, and struggling to be free. He hoped that, by framing her Government upon the System of the British Conftitution, she might participate the Bleffings of that well-tempered Freedom of which we are in poffeffion. But, when he beheld her difdaining to confine herself to any rational fyftem, and proceeding to Theories of a very dangerous and destructive Tendency, his Rejoicings fubfided, and at length were converted into Senfations of Disappointment and Concern. F. O Fortunatos nimium! fua fi bona norint, quibus ipfa, procul difcordibus armis, Fundit humo facilem victum juftiffima tellus. VIRGIL. G. See the Speech, delivered in the House of Commons, Feb. 17th, 1792, by the Right Hon. William Pitt. "To the Bleffings of our happy Conftitution wa owe the exalted fituation we now hold amidst furrounding nations, envying, distracted, and diftreffed. Who, then, but an avowed enemy, will attempt to feduce us from the fure hold of fuch an unparalleled Tranfcendency?—The Continuance alone of the Means by which we have attained the Glory, can secure it to our Pofterity.-Let every true Englishman, therefore, join in this patriotic Wish for the Consti, tution---ESTO PERPETUA." Plowden's Jura Anglorum. H. SERM. ix. The Schools of Industry, and the Sunday Schools.Both these Inftitutions the Author had the Pleasure of vifiting during his stay in Warwick, and was happy to be informed of the Patronage they receive from the Nobility and Gentry in that place and neighbourhood. He was happy alfo to observe that, in whatever relates to these Inftitutions, "all things are done decently and in order,"So patronized and conducted, they cannot but prosper, and must eventually prove a Bleffing to both Rich and Poor. The School of Industry is an excellent Nursery for Female Servants, and certainly merits, from other places, more general Notice and Imitation, I. "The quality of Mercy is not ftrain'd, It bleffeth him that gives, and him that takes : Wherein doth fit the dread and fear of Kings; It is enthroned in the Hearts of Kings; And earthly power doth then fhew likeft God's, -In the courfe of Justice, none of us Should fee Salvation: we do pray for Mercy; SHAKESPEARE. K. Actuated by that Charity which leads us to rescue the characters of even the worst of men from unmerited reproach, I prefume to indulge the following conjecture. Is it improbable that Judas, at the time he betrayed Chrift, fuppofed he would not be put to death?—He had frequently witnessed the miraculous Power of his Divine Mafter, and had more than once seen him escape from the malice of his enemies, when it was humanly impoffible. That fame Power which he had feen alfo exerted in "faving others," he doubtless thought Chrift would exert to fave himSelf. This may be inferred from the conduct of the unhappy disciple afterwards, "When he saw that he was condemned, he repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of filver to the chief priests and elders, faying, I have finned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood."-The words-when he faw that he was condemned-feem to imply an unexpected circumftance: and the horrid act of his deftroying himself, further implies a mind fuddenly ftruck |