and unfounded persecution of an innocent man, to the contempt of the country and of the world.* It sat in secret judgment over those whom it bad arrested, in instances wherein it was, also, the only accuser ; ^ and it recognized the existence, in merely local selfconstituted " Committees," in the several Counties, of the same authority to arrest and to imprison those who were obnoxious to them, either with or without accusers or accusations, which it claimed for itself and exercised." In short, it very promptly set aside the government of the written Law, and established, in its stead, that of the unrestrained will of an oligarchy, seated within every Town, against which there was no other security, for either persons or properties, than the personal favor of the stronger local power, no matter how obtained -- all that, too, was done in the name of Freedom and the Rights of Man, by those who assumed to be honorable men, and, mo.st of all, by those who insisted that their allegiance to their Prince and their attachment to " the illustrious House "of Hanover" were ranked, by themselves, as among their most singular blessings;' by those, indeed, who, nearly at the same time, declared they were " deeply "impressed with the importance, the utility, and the "necessity of an accommodation with their Parent " State ; " aud who were, also, they said, " conscious " that the best service we can render to the present " and all future generations must consist in promoting "it."**