for therein you will read that "Jesus "Christ came into the world to save sin"ners"-repent, and the Gospel will give you consolation. Are any of you prosperous in your circumstances, and easy in your consciences? Let none of these men, by declaiming against defects in our constitution, or abuses in government, betray you into an opinion, that were the present order of things overturned, a better might, by their counsels, be established; for, by their counsels, you would either be plundered of your property, or compelled to become their accomplices in impiety and iniquity. See what has happened in France to all orders, to the common people as well as to the nobility. "The little finger of their republic has "become thicker, more oppressive to "the whole nation, than the loins of "their monarchy; they were chastised "with whips, they are chastised with scorpions."

I am not altogether insensible of the danger I may have incurred (should matters come to extremity) by thus publicly addressing my Countrymen. I might have concealed my sentiments, and waited in retirement, till the struggle had been over, and the issue known; but I disdain safety accompanied with dishonour. When Hannibal is at the gates, who but a poltron would listen to the timid counsels of neutrality, or attempt to screen himself from the calamity coming on his country, by skulking as a vagabond amid the mountains of Wales or of Westmoreland? I am ready, and I am persuaded that I entertain a just confidence in saying, that hundreds of thousands of loyal and honest men are as ready as I am, to hazard every thing in defence of the country.

I pray God to influence the hearts of both sides to good will, moderation, and peace to grant to our enemy grace to return to a due sense of piety and a belief in uncorrupted Christianity; and to im

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press our own minds with a serious sense of the necessity of so repenting of our sins, and so reforming our lives, as may enable us to hope for his protection against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

R. LANDAFF.

London, Jan. 20, 1798.

THE

SUBSTANCE

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SPEECH

INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS,

NOVEMBER 22, 1803.

SECOND EDITION.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IT was my full intention to have delivered the Substance of the following Speech in the House of Lords: but perceiving that, as I proceeded in the consideration of the subject, I could not comprehend, in a short speech, all that I wished to observe, and being unwilling to take up the time of the House with my speculations, I have thought fit, in this way, to give my sentiments to the Public. My "Address to the People of Great Britain," in 1798, was thought to do some good; and this Publication may, I sincerely hope, be of some little use: but however that may be, I could not rest satisfied with being considered as a careless, cold, or timid spectator of the common danger.

R. L.

Calgarth-Park, Nov. 18th, 1803.