Suck certainly was the language of 
St. Paul. How refpectable does re- 
ligion appear when ferved by mi- 
nifters ike you! Whence is it 
that priefts are in general actuated 
by another fpirit? . Jefus Chrift 
fought to convince by evidence, 
and laid down his life rather than 
enforce the reception of his.doc- 
trine. Wicked priefts preach re- 
volution. and bloodfhed, and fell 
the poor flocks like Judas. I hope 
foon to come to Genoa, when it 
will be a’ great pleafure to me to 
converfe with you. _ A bifhop like 
Fenelon, or the Archbifhop of Mi- 
lan, Ravenna, and Genoa, gives 
new vigcur to religion; fince he 
not only preaches, but. practifes 
virtue. A good bifhop isi the moft 
precious gift which Heaven’ can 
beftow..on.a.city or acountry.” 
of this town, men, women, ,and 
children, quitted the place this:day, 
rather than be prefent at the exe- 
cution of their haplefs countryman, 
Orr. Some removed to the 
diftance of many miles;—{carce a 
fentence w2s intercharged during 
e day, and every face prefented 
‘pitture of the deepeft melancho- 
y, horror, and indignation. The 
jilitary who attended the execu- 
ion ‘confifted of feveral thoufand 
en, horfe and foot, with cannon, 
nd a company of artillery—the 
holé forming a hollow fquare. 
Jo thefe Mr. Orr read his dyfme 
declaration, in a clear, ftrong, man- 
fly tone of voice. He was a diffen- 
jer. His laft accents articulated 
” C HiRes n'a eT 
Carrickfergus. 14. The inhabitants 
of 
life I have been fentenced to die 
upon the gallows, and this fentence 
has been in purfuance of a verdict 
of twelve men, who fhould have 
been indifferently and impartially 
chofen. How far they have been 
{o, I leave to that country “from 
which they have been chofen..to 
determine; and’ how far they have ° 
difcharged their. duty, [leave to 
their God and to themfelves.. They * 
have, in prénouncing their verdiét, 
thought proper to recommend me” 
as an objet of humane mercy. In « 
return, I pray to God, if they-have: 
erred, to have mercy upon. them. + 
The judge who condemned: me, ‘hu-* 
manely {hed tears in uttering my: 
fentence’;; but whether he did wife- = 
ly in fo highly: commending: the” 
wretched informer who {wore away 
my life, I leave to his own cool re-- 
flection; folemnly affuring him and 
all the world, with my dying breath, 
that the» informer °was: forfworn, 
The lawunder which 1 fuffercis” 
furely:a fevere one!) May the ma-- 
kers and promoters of it be juftifi- 
ed in the integrity of their motives: 
and the purity of their own lives! 
By that law 1 am ftamped a. felon; 
but: my: heart difdains the imputa- 
tion. My comfortable lot.and in- 
duftrious courfe’ of life beft refute 
the charge of being an adventurer 
for plunder; but if to have loved. 
my. country, to have known its 
wrongs, to Have felt the injuries of 
the perfecuted catholics, and to 
have united with them and. all 
other religious perfuafions in the 
moft orderly and leaft fanguinary 
means of procuring redrefs; if 
thofe be felonies I am a felon, but 
not otherwife. Had my counfel 
(for whofe honourable exertions I 
am indebted) prevailed in ‘their 
motion to have me tried for high 
treafon, rather than under the in 
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