The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities / Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

by Henry M. Brooks

I am enabled by an inviſible power to communicate to you, a Litany ſanctioned by me, and to be adopted by the profeſſors of the patriotic religion of Ireland; a Litany which breathes the ſpirit of that freedom which I profeſſed when on earth, and has been here on eternal record; if its principle and doctrine tend to enlighten and emancipate your country, it will add (if poſſible) to that indeſcribable happineſs enjoyed by him, whom, without vanity, I may now call the virtuous and patriotic

MIRABEAU.

Elyſium, 5th Feb. 1792.

THE LITANY.

1ſt. Let there be a free, equal, and general repreſentation of your people in Parliament.

And all the people ſhall ſay amen.

2d. Let there be a reform of your church, an abolition of tithes, and let each ſect maintain its own paſtor.

And all, &c.

3d. Let the people of my terreſtrial country be an example to your people, and let their freedom be your freedom.

And all, &c.