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of this once Christian^ because Protestant
country^ or rather government^ as &r as it was
truly such, lias delivered it over to just punish-
ment for its partial apostasy ; and its idol^ as
usual, has become its plague. Its secularity^
its adoption of expediency as its supreme guide,
its mental libertinism, have precipitated it into
the pit, which itself has dug. Some provi-
dences, or rather judgements, as the case now
is, bear upon their forehead a legible inscrip*
tion indicative of their meaning. And when
the very individuals, by whose ministry the
curse which we are considering was hung on the
neck of England, are re-exalted to the very
pinnacle, on which they effected the mischief,
for no other apparent purpose than to be hurled
from it at the very instant of their elevation, at
the very time of the year, almost to a day, when
the offence was committed, by the very indivi*
duals whom themselves had introduced to legis-
lative power, by a majority almost to a man
constituted of that class, and by means of the
violation c£ that very oath, which was their
sheet-anchor, in failure of all others, that no
violence would be offered to the established
church, and, finally, by a coalition as base and
ungrateful as was ever exhibited in a civilized
