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say, does not belong to me ; that feeling was never an 

 inmate of my bosom ; neither when the Jacobins raged 

 around us with all their fury, nor in the present days 

 of Eadical uproar and delusion. The latter, indeed, it 

 must be allowed, have one feature about them even 

 more hideous and disgusting than the Jacobins them- 

 selves. They fell down and worshipped the Goddess 

 of Reason, a most respectable and decent sort of being 

 compared with that which the Radicals have set up as 

 the idol of their worship. 



" ' They have elevated the Goddess of Lust on the 

 pedestal of shame an object of all others the most 

 congenial to their taste, the most deserving of their 

 homage, the most worthy of their adoration. After 

 exhibiting her claims to their favour in two distinct 

 quarters of the globe ; after compassing sea and land 

 with her guilty paramour, to gratify to the full her 

 impure desires, and even polluting the Holy Sepulchre 

 itself with her presence, to which she was carried in 

 mock majesty astride upon an ass, she returned to 

 this hallowed soil so hardened in sin, so bronzed with 

 infamy, so callous to every feeling of decency or 

 shame, as to go on Sunday last' here, gentlemen, the 

 reverend preacher alluded, not to the public procession 

 to St Paul's, where her late Majesty returned thanks 

 for her delivery, or to other processions which might, 

 partly at least, be considered as political, but to her 

 humble, unaffected, pious devotions in the church of 

 Hammersmith, ' to go on Sunday last, clothed in the 

 mantle of adultery ; to kneel down at the altar of that 

 God who is " of purer eyes than to behold iniquity," 

 when she ought rather to have stood barefooted in the 

 aisle, covered with a shirt as white as " unsunned snow," 



