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    sons of popular commotion , under chief governors ( all acting :, unquestionably , with g * ood intentions , but tipon various principles and different views ) , it is not improbable , that many men have crept into the

    comm ission , who , however useful they might occasionally have been , ougffat not to remain . The needy adventurer—the hunter for preferment—the intemperate zealot—the trader in false loyalty—the jobbers of absentees—if any of these various descriptions of

    individuals are now to be found , their names should be expunged from the the commission ; and if such a mode of proceeding should thin the cocamission , vacancies might be supplied ,

    by soliciting every gentleman of property and consideration to discharge some part of that debt of duty , which he owes to himself and the country , by accepting the ofBce of Justice of Peace . Should their number be

    inadequate to supply the deficiency , clergymen , long resident on their benefices , more inclined to follow the precepts of their divine M ~ aster , by feeding the hungry a ad clothing the naked Catholic ( although , adhering to the communion of his

    fathers , he should conscientiously decline to receive from him spiritual consolation ) , not harassing and vexing him by a new mode of tything , aud an increase of tithes : hut seeking to compensate the dissentients from his communion for the income he

    derives from their labour , by shewing a regard for their temporal welfareattached to their Protestant flocks hy a mutual interchange of good offices , by affection , and by habit . Such a man , anxiously endeavouring u pt to distract and divide , but to conciliate and reconcile all sects and

    Parties , would , from his education , llls leisure , his local knowledge , be * splendid acquisition to the magislra cy , and a public blessing to the '"strict committed to his care . Men ° * this description are retired and tt jobtr < isive ; but , 1 trust , if sought atl

    er , many such may be found . Persons there have been of a sort differing videty from those 1 have described . lllese men identify their preferment **« the welfare of the church ; and you had believed them , whatever ^ va&ced the one , necessarily promoted e other . Some cleigymen there may

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    have been , who * in a period of distractioB , perusing the Old Testament with more attention than the New , and admiring the glories of Joshua ( the son of Nun ) , fancied they perceived in the Catholics the Canaanites of old ; and ,

    at the head of militia and armed yeomanry , wished to conquer from them the promised glebe . Such men , I hope , are not now to be found in that most respectable order ; and if they are , I need scarcely add , they should no longer remain in the commission .

    Gentlemen , I must further admonish you , if you are infested with any of the Orange or Green Associations in this county , to discharge them—discharge all the processions and commemorations connected with them , and you will promote the peace and concord of the country ; but suffer them to prevail * and how can justice be administered ? " I am a loyal man , " says a witnessthat is , " Gentlemen of the Petty Jury , believe me , let me swear what I will /' —When he swears he is a loyal man , he means , " Gentlemen of the Jury , forget your oaths , and acquit the Orangeman . " A truly loyal man is one who is attached to the constitution under which we live , and who respects and is governed by the laws , which impart more personal freedom , when properly administered , than any other

    code of laws in existence . If there are disturbances in the country , the truly loyal man endeavours to appease thent . The truly loyal man is peaceful and quiet—he does his utmost to prevent commotion ; and if he cannot prevent it , he is at his post , ready to perform his duty in the day of peril * But what says the loyal man of another description—the mere pretender to loyalty ? i

    ( I am a loyal man in times of tranquillity—I am attached to the present order of things , as far as I can get any good hy it—I malign every man of a different opinion from those whom I serve—I bring my loyalty to market * " " Such loyalty has borne higher or lower prices , according to the different periods

    of modern times—he exposes it to sale in open market , at all times—seeking continually for a purchaser . Such are the pretenders to loyal tjs many of whom 1 have seen and incalculable mischiefs they perpetrate . It is not their interest that their country should be peaceful—their loyalty is a ' * « ea of troubled waters . "

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    Judge Fletcher ' s Charge . 657

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/69/