pofterity, principles ingrafted in the human mind by the beneficent creator, were all confounded and loft in this dark and difmal night of confusion, anarchy, and licentiousness.

From what caufe your fufferings may have originated, this is not the time, nor the place, to confider. Too certain it is, that they have now rifen to fuch a height of aggravation, as needs no words to reprefent to you:-you feel it beyond the energy of words. Whatever the principles of your perfecutors may be, their unrelenting malice is but too notorious. To what a fcene were you witneffes the night before last, when, just escaped from the ftorm, and imagining yourselves arrived at a port of reft,-to awake at the midnight-hour, and find your city in flames! to fee your all perishing before your eyes, and to know that your deftroyers were fecretly among you, spreading the ruin, and exulting in the fuccefs of their infernal scheme!

Yes, my friends, ye were witneffes of it.-Ye faw the treacherous adherents of thefe pretended guardians of your rights and poffeffions, who came to refcue you from tyranny and oppreffion, armed with firebands, and, under cover of the darknefs, wrapping your city in flames. Ye faw the brave and generous fervants of your King,-that King whom you have so often heard reprefented as a tyrant, who fends forth his fleets and armies to enflave, ravage, deftroy,-flyng to the affistance of their fellow-fubects, in the midst of the flames, at the hazard of their lives, exerting every erve to preserve your dwellings and offeffions, and tearing from the hands of the dark incendiaries the inftruments hey had prepared for your deftrucion."

Having pathetically defcribed the ruin nd deftruction of that fatal night, the reacher proceeds to adminifter fome onfolation to the fufferers, by fhewing hat God had already done in their faour, and animating them to perfeveince in their duty, and reliance on the Divine Being.

"Let a reciprocation of kindnefs and manity diftinguifh you (fays he) in is feafon of diftrefs, to foften the rigour each others fufferings, and lighten the iverfal burden of affliction. Be of one art, and one mind; cleave together; mmend yourselves to the protection of d, and doubt not but he will com VOL. XXXVIII,

plete the work he hath already so graciously begun.

I muft not finish as if I meant to disappoint your expectations, and not adopt a conclufion which I am convinced you have already anticipated. The allegiance they had sworn to their lawful sovereign, and an affectionate attachment to his virtuous character, compelled your clergy to fhut thefe doors, rather than omit the dutiful addreffes which the church enjoins them daily to offer to Heaven for his fafety. Let us, therefore, conclude the fervice of this day, when the freedom of your worship is restored to you, by uniting together, with one heart, and one voice, to implore the divine favour and protection for our Sovereign Lord, King George; that God would be pleafed to give him length of days, and increase of happinefs;-to profper all his undertakings for the good of his people, and to blefs him with what his actions prove, and his words affert to be the "favourite wifh of his heart, the reftoration of harmony, and the re-eftablishment of order and happinefs in every part of his dominions." [334.]

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