MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 2 I I 



siderations. They had sinned themselves out of 

 all shame. This phalanx have kept their ground, 

 and will do so till, it is to be feared, violence from 

 an enraged people breaks them up, or, perhaps, 

 till the growing opinions against such a crooked 

 order of conducting the affairs of this great nation 

 becomes quite apparent to an immense majority, 

 whose frowns may have the power of bringing the 

 agents of government to pause upon the brink of 

 the precipice on which they stand, and to provide 

 in time, by wise and honest measures, to avert the 

 coming storm. It is appalling to think of matters 

 of this import being brought to extremities, 

 especially when the whole might so easily be 

 settled without any convulsion at all. The king 

 (whose interests are the same as the people's) if 

 freed from the advice of evil counsellors, and from 

 the unfitting trammels by which they have him 

 bound, might insist upon having the constitution 

 restored to its purity. This would at once settle 

 the business, and would cause him to be adored 

 by his whole people, and his name to be revered, 

 by the enlightened in every civilised country, to 

 the latest posterity. 



