Vol. TL.] | Poyaze reand the World, by the French, in 1793-23. oof 
and properremedy. The negletof this ap~ 
plication engenders new and increafmng evil 
and embariafiment, and every moment of 
delay augments the difficulty. 
| The contrary doétrine has been éx.- 
emplified In the trimmig and garblin 
conduct of all ages. And the confe- 
quences have followed, i.e. the murmur- 
ive, the commotion, and mifery of fociety ! 
There cannot; im nature, be a more un- 
worthy, dangerous, and impious degrine 
held, than that truth, moral jufice, and 
the fthefs of things, are lefs worthy, or 
lefs fafe to be immediately trated to, than 
Ampropricty, i1ujtice, and falfehood. Xt is 
a dodirme deftruftive, on its firft princi- 
ples, of all order and happine{s in hu- 
man fociety; and fo far as the trant 
greffion of men can eMe& it, dofrudive 
of the fowercignty of God him/eif. 
There cannot be the poflibility of a 
‘period in which an isnmeriate, ardent, and 
reverenticl preterence fhould not be given 
‘to the former foundations of duty, and in 
which the latter ptinciples fhould not be 
abandoned, as the fource of deformity, 
tending to general anarchy! 
In the multiform conrplexions of bu- 
‘man character, there are, and ever will 
be, fome men, perhaps the greater part, ' 
whofe minds may not be furnithed with 
falficient energy for the noble prompti- 
tude of attive, public virtue! This 
‘would be no evil to fociety, were it prac- 
ticable to prevail on fuch men, to be 
diffident in proportion to their ina. 
bility for public fervice. Whenever a 
man feels a fubje&t too extenfive and com- 
glex for him fo comprehend, and clearly 
t develope, to his own fatisfaGtion, he 
dhould be admoriithed not to be arrogant 
on fuch a fubjeét, but leave the difcuifion 
of it to clearer minds, or minds more 
Gitted to that particular topic. He fhould 
confider, that, by feemiag to give an opi- 
nion, or by blaming thofe who reafon 
with ardour, for the public weal, he fay 
poflibly be contributing to embarraffment 
and the extfen/ion of evil, which, but for 
Him, and fuch as him, might be got rid 
of, by the unobitruéted powers of reafon, 
prevalent of other men, of who hearts 
‘@s well as whof heads, he has caufe ta 
entertain a favourable idea. 
Tam no friend to implicit confidence, on 
the one hand, or fupinenefs with regard to 
the cultivation of a man’s own faculties, 
on the other. But we may fay with 
fafety, that whenever there is a cor ciore! 
wefs of 3 want of comprehenfion, on an 
important topic, it becomes a man’s auty 
to be Alent, til rational conviction is at- 
tendant on his mind; Wee this fimplé 
tule more generally obferved, prejudices 
of an idle aud flavith nature would be 
gradually temeved, and we fhould have 
lefs difficulty in getting rid of numerous 
political and foejal evils,---evils which 
frequently beconie fuch, or aré more, 
fenfibly felt, by mere change of times ang 
circumftances around us. 
This general remark will apply to the 
fubject in view. It it a fubject confel. 
edly requiring the exertion of men of 
talents and comprehenfive minds; but if 
once the uncomprehending, the unthinking, 
and thofe who are prejudiced by cisfto 
would ceale to obftru&, by timorows Opis 
nion and groundlefs apprehenfion, wa 
fhould get peaceably forward in a work 
of reform, which would refle& honour on 
the wiidom, patriotifm, and rational res 
ligion of this country. 
Nothing can be more certain, than that 
the longer a national evil is fuffered ‘te 
remain, uncorrected by the authority of 
reafon and juitice, the more fure ig its 
progreis towards a terrible remedy, im 
the convulficn cf government! The ge= 
nuine friends of erder, peace, and: happi- 
nefs, have this alarming truth ever before 
their eyes; they feel it painfully engraven 
on their minds, and from the folemmity ot 
their conviction, they fpeak, and ftrugele, 
in the hope of everting an impending cas 
lamity! The generous union of magna~ 
nimous men is xew wanting, in the great 
bufinefs before us. The ‘delay of it is 
big with incalculable danger! 
buth, Sept. 1, 1796. A Layman. 
For the Monthly Macazine. 
ACCOUNT OF THE LATS 
VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, 
By the Freich Commander, 
ENTRECASTEAUX, 
Made for the Purpofe of Drscover Y, ana 
alfo in fearcb of La Peyroust. 
From the French of the Journal of an Officer 
who ferved on board one of the fhips. 
N September 28th, 1791, in the twe 
floops, /a Recherche and PE fperancey 
of fixteen guns, and 110 men each, we 
weighed from the harbour of Breft, com. 
pletely equipped for a voyage of Circum- 
navigating the globe. The government 
had previoufly fent on board a number of 
gentlemen, verfed in. aftronomy, natural 
hiitory, botany, paintine, &c. and had 
provided an apparatus of aftronomical in- 
fruments, marine time-pieces, in fine, 
every article that appeared likely to ren- 
der the expedition fubfervient to the pure 
poles of fcience, The condué of the ex. 
mat peditien 

