foundation; and though the Pope is probably hovering about our coast
in a fishing-smack, it is most likely he will fall a prey to the
vigilance of our cruisers; and it is certain that he has not yet
polluted the Protestantism of our soil.

Exactly in the same manner, the story of the wooden gods seized at
Charing Cross, by an order from the Foreign Office, turns out to be
without the shadow of a foundation; instead of the angels and
archangels, mentioned by the informer, nothing was discovered but a
wooden image of Lord Mulgrave, going down to Chatham, as a head-
piece for the Spanker gun-vessel; it was an exact resemblance of his
Lordship in his military uniform; and THEREFORE as little like a god
as can well be imagined.

Having set your fears at rest, as to the extent of the conspiracy
formed against the Protestant religion, I will now come to the
argument itself.

You say these men interpret the scriptures in an unorthodox manner,
and that they eat their god.--Very likely. All this may seem very
important to you, who live fourteen miles from a market-town, and,
from long residence upon your living, are become a kind of holy
vegetable; and in a theological sense it is highly important. But I
want soldiers and sailors for the state; I want to make a greater
use than I now can do of a poor country full of men; I want to
render the military service popular among the Irish; to check the
power of France; to make every possible exertion for the safety of
Europe, which in twenty years' time will be nothing but a mass of
French slaves: and then you, and ten other such boobies as you,
call out--"For God's sake, do not think of raising cavalry and