Let him only abftain from theft, pay his debts at the gaming-table, fulfil fuch contracts as the law would enforce fhould he attempt to break them, and fend a challenge to any man who happens, however undefignedly, to affront him; he may then talk as ufual of fentiment and integrity, of spirit and principle; he may fwear upon his confcience, he may fwear upon his honour, and be all the while a diffembler, a cheat, an adulterer, a villain; yes, a Villain, if coolly to violate the dearest and moft facred rights of fociety. can deserve the name.-Honour, Confcience, Principle, Spirit, Integrity, Sentiment! How dare you, Sir, take words like these in your polluted lips? Shameful abuse of language! Abominable impofition upon the human mind! Intolerable infult to every fincere lover of goodness, to every person of true fenfibility! Shall we contraft with the picture now drawn, that of a Young Man entering the world, not only with a well-turned mind, but with refolutions alike earnest and deliberate, alike rational and devout, never to prophane the fanctity of virtue, never to facrifice to low paffions the awful honours of humanity, fted faftly to reverence and faithfully to obey that first law, the Law of Confcience, to maintain inviolate the unaffected delicacies of native probity, or, in other words, the heart-taught and heart-felt convictions of truth and rectitude? Or fhall we proceed to prove, that fuch refolutions feriously revolved, frequently renewed, and firmly adhered to, through the rest of life, will, with the grace of Heaven, be a powerful preservative of innocence, and that he who acts accordingly will find the practice delightful, beyond all that is commonly esteemed moft delightful among men? These pleafing confiderations must be poftponed to a future opportunity, till when I commit you to the divine influence and your own reflections. ADDRESS III. ON HONOUR AS A PRINCIPLE. I CONCEIVE, Gentlemen, that to pre ferve and cherish the fenfe of truth, integrity, and glory, which we have found interwoven with the human mind, is the main defign of moral culture ; and that he will be the most estimable perfon in manhood who is the leaft perverted from the ingenuity of youth; who is conftantly recurring to his earliest and tendereft perceptions of virtue; who, while a man in understanding, is in "malice a child;" who, with the improvements of reflection, and the acquifitions of experience, retains, as much |