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que d’etre lasse de ses Rois, la France pouvoit les expatrier avectoute leur race. —I do not agree with this author that the exampleof Rome was honourable ; it would have been so, had an ampleprovision been made for Tarquin arid his family.

In January, 1793,1 published a Sermon entitled, “The Wisdomand Goodness of God in having made both Rich and Poor; withan Appendix respecting the then circumstances of Great Britain and France .” A strong spirit of insubordination and discontentwas, at that time, prevalent in Great Britain ; the common peoplewere, in every village, talking about liberty and equality withoutunderstanding the terms. I thought it not improper to endeavourto abate this revolutionary ferment, by informing the understand-ings of those who excited it.

The King (at his levee) complimented me in the warmestterms, in the hearing of the then Lord Dartmouth, on (he waspleased to say) the conciseness, clearness, and utility of this littlepublication; and the then Archbishop of Canterbury afterwardsinformed me, that His Majesty had spoken to him of the publi-cation in the same terms, two months before.

On this occasion, when the King was praising what I had writ-ten, I said to him, — “ I love to come forward in a moment ofdanger.” His reply was so quick and proper that I will put itdown,—“ I see you do, and it is a mark of a man of high spirit.”His Majesty’s reception of me at his levee, to which I went once,or at the most twice a year, was always so complimentary, thatnotwithstanding the pestilent prevalence of court-duplicity, I can-