Gentlemen,  such  are  the  passages  which  I  have  selected  to
you,  as  those  that  disclose  the  most  offensive  doctrines  in  the
book ;  that  is,  such  as  go  fundamentally  to  the  overturning
the  government  of  diis  country'.  I  beg  pardon — I  have  omit-
ted one  which  contains  more  of  direct  invitation  than  any
thing  I  have  yet  stated. — It  is  in  page  161 ;  it  is  said,  "  the
'*  fraud,  hypocrisy,  and  imposition  of  governments  are  now

beginning  to  be  too  well  understood  to  promise  them  any

long  career.  The  farce  of  monarchy  and  aristocracy  in  all
**  countries  is  following  that  of  chivalry,  and  Mr.  Burke  is
"  dressing  for  the  funeral — let  it  then  pass  quietly  to  the  tomb
*'  of  all  other  follies,  and  the  mourner  be  comforted.  The
"  time  is  not  very  distant  when  England  will  laugh  at  itself
"  for  sending  to  Holland,  Hanover,  Zell,  or  Brunswick,  for
*^  men,  at  the  expense  of  a  million  a  year,  who  understood
**  neither  her  laws,  her  language,  nor  her  interest,  and  whose
"  capacities  would  scarcely  have  fitted  them  for  the  office  ot

parish  constable."


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264  The  Attorney  GetieraVs  Speech  in  the

This  13  said  of  William  the  Third— this  is  said  of  twb  very
illustrious  Princes  of  the  House  of  Brunswick^  George  tne
First  and  Second,  and  extends  to  the  present  Sovereign  upcol
the  throne.
