be frustrated. We have heads to devise, and hands to labour, in our several occupations. While health and strength remain, means of subsistence cannot fail us. The common cause should impel us to a more than ordinary degree of industry, that we may have it in our power to make every necessary sacrifice. Besides the present contest is to determine whether any property at all shall be left us. Should the designs of the enemy succeed, we lose the proud rank we now sustain among the commercial nations of the earth. Public credit will sink, the efforts of industry be paralysed, and we shall be engulphed in the torpor of despondency. In the poignancy of our grief we shall wring our hands-we shall gaze on each other with silent astonishment. Does it require a moment's consideration, whether we give up cheerfully a necessary proportion of our property to our lawful governors, or whether we part with the whole to a cruel and an usurping enemy! It would be insulting your understandings to dwell any longer on the subject. -Suffice it to say, that as your rulers will not, in prudence, unnecessarily augment your burdens, already sufficiently heavy, neither will you be backward to yield up a portion, in common with your fellow subjects. Means of defence cannot

be taken without expence, and that in a thousand different ways-but means of defence alone can save the COUNTRY!

Such then are the modes in which every man is now called upon to help his neighbour. Let us advise and counsel each other, that we meet the contest with composure and dignity. Let us steadily oppose the progress of the enemy meditating our destruction. Let us cheerfully aid the government of our country, in defraying necessary expences; for the appellations protectors and protected imply mutual duties, which ought to be recoguised and discharged.

Having thus explained the first part of this passage-They helped every one his neighbour, let us proceed to the consideration of the remaining clause-and every one said unto his brother, BE OF GOOD COURAGE!

The virtue of courage implies the existence of danger, as the duty of resignation supposes the individual subjected to suffering. And who can deny the prevalence of danger, when this island is menaced with invasion? Never perhaps at any former period were the inhabitants of

Britain exposed to more imminent danger. The enemy is desperate. Other nations, the French Consul has humbled and laid prostrate at his feet! But we have expelled him from Egypt, thus arresting him in his career towards the conquest of the world! He longs therefore to pour forth the vials of his wrath upon this island. No means, however base and dishonourable, will be left unemployed, to accomplish his favorite purpose. He wishes to strike a decisive blow. He aims at nothing less than our destruction. But, BRITONS, be of good courage-there are considerations calculated to cheer us when about to repel an INVADING ENEMY.

Recollect, then, BRITONS-Your CAUSE is a good cause. The human mind is either elevated or depressed by the views which it entertains of its own condition. Engaged in the prosecution of an object, which will not bear investigation, the full energies of the soul will not bend to its attainment. Doubt and hesitation will prevail; and their chilling influence retards every operation. This truth is exemplified in the intercourses of life; and holds good in a variety of respects. But, in the article of war, it is almost indispensible to victory. Hence the leaders of armies endeavour to inspire

their soldiers with the justice of their cause; hence the purport of the address usually made to them at the moment when they are about to rush on the enemy. I am not speaking of the justice of the principles on which war is generally undertaken-in most cases they are unjustifiable; and in every contest both sides cannot be right. But in the present instance we are acting purely on the DEFENSIVE; and resistance to invading foes will, both in the eye of God and man, admit of the fullest justification. You are not called to carry fire and sword into other countries-you are not engaged to ravage a foreign land-you have not taken up arms to injure or destroy the rights of your fellow creatures. No you are acting in your own defence-you are preserving from destruction that territory-those privileges, and the numerous blessings which Providence hath given you, as a rich present both to yourselves and to your posterity. If any cause on earth can inspire courage, surely THIS is THE CAUSE! It is worthy of all our efforts-it is entitled to our most strenuous exertions. Tread then with firm step-proceed, unshaken, in the accomplishment of your patriotic purposes. Should such a man as I flee? Who is there that being as I am would go into the temple to save his

life? I will not go in. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth-if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Again, BRITONS, be of good courage, for you have not neglected those means, which ought, in such circumstances, to be taken. Had the enemy come upon us unawares, so as to take us by surprise, then we should have had abundant reason for dismay. But our foes, having months ago intimated their design, and shown, by their continued preparations, that they are resolved to carry their design into execution, time has been given us to prepare for their reception. Our army and our navy have been augmented. Most of our countrymen are training for the repulsion of the foe. Few are the individuals, capable of bearing arms, who have not come forward with alacrity. Our coasts also are narrowly watched by day and by night; and beacons have been erected along our shores at proper distances, by which an immediate notice can be given of the approach of the enemy. With these precautions, what have we to fear? In these means of defence, we ought to cherish a degree of confidence. The very reflection, that we have taken