them imagine that Buonaparte knew the efficacy of prayer. And so he does, though he is neither vain enough nor impious enough to suppose that it insures him the blessing of heaven; but he is well assured, that it will create a higher opinion of him where veneration is conducive to his glory. His religion, therefore, is one of the springs. of his grand political machine; and though some say he would not scruple to change. his religion as often as his linen, provided he could obtain any political advantage by it, yet I do not see how he can be taxed with hypocrisy any more than ourselves. It is true, he makes his hypocrisy subservient to great purposes, while we, on the contrary, make a parade of it without any ostensible purpose, unless it is, indeed, to stamp us with perfidy and inconsistency in the eyes of the world.
The senseless cry of "No Popery” has resounded through the kingdom, and rivetted the chains of unhappy Ireland; yet the ministry have expended millions to establish the church of Antichrist (as we at home
