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but in robbery, and in all those 
public disorders which make life 
miserable. Thus would the pre- 
sent generation be certainly ruin- 
ed; that which is to follow could 
not propose to itseiffa remedy, but 
in pursuing the same arts of peace 
which had been so capriciously 
abandoned; and the more they 
prospered in that pursuit, the more 
they would contribute ta reproduce 
the inequality which had been be- 
fore condemned and exploded.— 
Where then are the blessings of 
this reform, and to what purpose 
is misery to be brought-on the 
present generation? It is with grief 
we see, in a neighbouring country, 
that the carrying into practice this 
wild doctrine of Equality and the 
Rights of Man, has already pro- 
duced these evils, and others ten 
thousand times greater. It is not 
yet publicly known, nor can it 
enter into the gentle heart of a 
Briton to conceive, the number 
of atrocious crimes against God 
and man that have been com- 
mitted in support of these opinions. 
Murders and assassinations have 
been deliberately planned, and jus- 
tified by some of these pretended 
philosophers, as the means to at- 
tain their ends of reform. With 
all their pretences and promises, 
they have proceeded to violate 
every right, civil and natural, that 
should have been observed towards 
their equals;—the people, who 
have only changed their masters, 
groan under new tyrannies of which 
they never heard or dreamed ; and 
are subjected to the chastisement 
of one desperate leader after ano- 
ther. The excesses of these ruf- 
fian demagogues have no bounds; 
they have already surpassed the 
wildest phrenzies of fanaticism, 
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superstition, and enthusiasm ; plun- 
dering and murdering at home, and 
propagating their opinions by the 
sword in foreign countries ;—im- 
posture, fallacy, falsehood, and 
bloodshed!—their philosophy _ is 
the idle talk of school-boys; and 
their actions are the savage fero- 
ciousness of wild beasts. Such are 
the new lights and the false phi- 
losophy of our pretended reform- 
ers ; and such the effects they have 
produced where alone they have 
unfortunately been tried. But, 
however these poor pretences may 
have imiposed on the understand- 
ings of men, in a neighbouring 
country, bred in ignorance, oppres- 
sion, and poverty, they can have 
no influence on the good sense and 
gravity of Britons, who have been 
used to the enjoyment of true liber- 
ty, and every day feel the blessings 
of abundance derived from a pro- 
ductive industry, protected by equal 
laws, and a free government. It 
is well known that those who are 
virtuous and honest have many 
more means of acquiring ease and 
comfort, wealth and distinction, 
and in a superior degree in this 
country than in any other ;—it is 
well known that we already pos- 
sess, and have long possessed, really 
and truly that which the pretended 
reformers would persuade ignorant 
people they alone can bestow. It 
has been the pride of Britons to 
boast of their liberty and property; 
and although these visionary re- 
formers have chosen to substitute 
the notion of equality in the place 
of the latter, it is trusted there are 
enough who know too well the 
value of their property, acquired 
under the influence of true liberty, 
to surrender it in exchange for an 
empty name. It is well known, 
and 
