CONSIDERATIONS
ON
RELIGION and Public EDUCATION,
WITH
REMARKS
ON THE SPEECH OF
M. DUPONT,
DELIVERED IN THE
NATIONAL CONVENTION
OF
FRANCE.
TOGETHER WITH
an ADDRESS to the LADIES, &c.
OF
GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.
By HANNAH MORE.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
PRINTED at BOSTON,
by WELD and GREENOUGH.
Sold at the Magazine Office, No. 49, State Street.
MDCCXCIV.
A PREFATORY ADDRESS TO THE LADIES, &c. of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, INBEHALF OF THE FRENCH EMIGRANT CLERGY.
If it be allowed that there may arise occasions so extraordinary, thatall the lesser motives of delicacy ought to vanish before them; it ispresumed that the present emergency will in some measure justify thehardiness of an Address from a private individual, who, stimulated bythe urgency of the case, sacrifices inferior considerations to theardent desire of raising further supplies towards relieving a distressas pressing as it is unexampled.
We are informed by public advertisement, that the large sums already soliberally subscribed for the Emigrant Clergy, are almost exhausted.Authentic information adds, that multitudes of distressed Exiles in theisland of Jersey, are on the point of wanting bread.
Very many to whom this address is made have already contributed. O let[4]them not be weary in well-doing! Many are making generous exertions forthe just and natural claims of the widows and children of our braveseamen and soldiers. Let it not be said, that the present is aninterfering claim. Those to whom I write, have bread enough, and tospare. You, who fare sumptuously every day, and yet complain you havelittle to bestow, let not this bounty be subtracted from another bounty,but rather from some superfluous expense.
The beneficent and right minded want no arguments to be pressed uponthem; but I write to those of every description. Luxurious habits ofliving, which really furnish the distressed with the fairest grounds forapplication, are too often urged as a motive for withholding assistance,and produced as a plea for having little to spare. Let her who indulgessuch habits, and pleads such excuses in consequence, reflect, that byretrenching one costly dish from her abundant table, the superfluitiesof one expensive desert, one evening's public amusement, she mayfurnish