Though  there  is  reason  to  think  that  the  really  ill-disposed  Jacobins,
who  hoped  or  wished  for  an  English  revolution,  were  not  at  that  tune

No  man  who  ever  truly  believed  m  his  Maker  and  Redeemer,  would  cease  to  believe,
though  throne  and  altar  were  to  perish  together.  A  revolution  which  destroys  the
means  of  religious  education,  will  ultimatdy  produce  irreligion,  but  this  must  be  a
work  of  time.  And  surely  the  Church,  if  it  fall,  must  &11  for  want  of  Religion,
not  Religion  for  want  of  the  Church.
WILUAM  ROSCOE.  611

muneraofi^  and  that  those  who  took  any  measures  to  promote  it  wei^
fewer  stilly  yet  they  were  quite  noisy,  boastful,  profligate,  and  fero-.
cious  enough  to  strike  a  panic  into  the  weU-meaning,  and  induce  the
better  sort  to  approve  of  strong  measures,  to  which  in  coder  times  they
would,  have  been  opposed.  Their  fears,  though  not  their  aflections,
confounded  the  philosophera  and  the  blackguards ;  the  reformers,  who
wished  to  remove  the  causes  of  revolution,  and  the  anarchists,  who
Joved  destruction  for  its  own  sake.  They  did  not,  perhaps,  account
them  equally  bad,  but  they  felt  them  equally  dreadful.  Every  arrival
from  France  brought  intelligenoe  of  new  horrors.  The  daring  energy
of  Pitt,  and  the  eloquent  denunciations  of  Burke,  gathered  the  friends
of  social  order  together  under  their  banners,  and  there  was  iM>thing
which  the  En^^ish  nation  would  not  have  surrendered,  had  the  states-
men been  as  wicked  as  their  enemies  have  represented  them.  Never,
since  Charles  the  Second,  had  England  been  in  such  danger  of  enslaving
itself  by  excess  of  loyalty.
