requeft before the whole affembly; on which he thus addreffed her: Great "Sovereign! Weakened by disease, and "worn with fatigue, I come to ask an "abatement of my toils, hitherto, alas!

but little efficacious; and permiffion "to refign into your hands this volume "of laws, which the profligacy of the times would not receive; fince you alone can accomplish, what your few friends have attempted without fuccefs. "Send forth through the land your "powerful influence, to restore the foul "of ancient freedom, to rectify the taste,

and elevate the fentiments of a finking ἐσ age, and transfufe through every rank a predominant regard for TRUTH, “RELIGION, and the Commonweal.

Support, mighty GODDESS, the ma "jefty of the laws, the glory of the "King, and the reputation of Britain: animate her fons with Roman courage to defend their country; poffefs them with a holy zeal to affert thy

caufe, and reinftate thee in thy prime-.

val fplendour: extinguish in their "breafts the enfeebling love of PLEA

SURE, thy ignoble rival: fire them with a juft difdain of Avarice and Mean Ambition: teach them to defpife the * cowardice of doing wrong, to spurn the hire of oppreffion, and to abhor the wages of iniquity. Let the Mufes, and all the Liberal Arts, be made fubfervient to morality, and decency ❝ of manners: and, o thou guardian *and friend of human kind! infpirit all

in ftations of authority to join their "efforts in favour of their native land ❝ till under thy direction the conftitution "be thoroughly refined, Liberty and "power attain an equal poize, and

Britain become, by wholesome dif*cipline and prudent laws, incorruptible

at home, as well as, by a bold exer“tion of her hidden strength, be restored *to her former character abroad, and 44 rendered once more the mistress of the

"feas, the envy of the nations, and the dread of tyrants.”

The GODDESS heard him with deep attention, and, with a look and accent expreffive of peculiar satisfaction, replied,

Heroic man! Expect from Provi"dence and me the rewards due to your "exalted merit. Know, in the mean "while, that your Country turns her im"ploring eye on you, and asks from your "interpofition her long-wifhed deliver

ance and restoration. With you alone

fhe is determined to entrust her trea"fure; and fhe calls on you to direct its હૃદ application, and fave it from wafte "by difmiffing her fraudulent and her "ufelefs fervants, and introducing among "the reft methods of frugality; to "promote the reformation of her fons "to repell the encroachments, and coun"termine the policy, of her foreign "foes; to point her vengeance against "her bofom traitors, and fupport under

"the cares of government a brave and "honeft Prince. It is an awful charge; "but fhrink not from it. Take back "the facred volume. Your unabating "perfeverance fhall be crowned with "never-fading honours, and, what you

will efteem yet more defirable, with "eminent fuccefs. The cause you have "efpoufed is immortal; it is the cause "of VIRTUE."

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The GODDESS, then defcending fome) fteps from her Throne, prefented her hand to this fingular perfonage, and commanded him to fit down by her fide: after which, having employed Juftice to bring from her ftores a golden fignet with this infcription, To THE REAL PATRIOT, fhe delivered it into his hands, that he might wear it ever after. a retribution fo righteous and uncommon the whole Temple refounded with acclamations.

At

Silence was again proclaimed, when another votary advanced, whose presence I could perceive to produce in the beholders a mixture of reverence and love. I was furprised at the freshness and beauty of his looks, when told of his declining age. I afcribed it in part to the temper of his mind, which I understood was the sweetest that could be conceived. Indeed his very countenance declared it; for That was lighted up by candour and benignity. The "meek and quiet fpirit" of a little child difcovered itself in every feature of this amiable man. At the fame time there fhone about him a fanctitude of air, which feemed to be the joint emanation of Purity and Wisdom, His person was tall and graceful. A robe of white lawn, that reached down to his feet, prefented the emblem of Peace and Innocence. His gait was at once compofed and courteous. We were informed that this was another of VIRTUE's priefts, who made the feweft pretenfions, but had the fairest