few years was made Commander in Chief, in which fituation he remained till 1782, when the French unexpectedly, landed at Prince of Wales's Fort, took poffeffion of it, and after having given the Governor leave to fecure his own property, feized the ftock of furs, &c. &c. and blew up the fort. At the Company's request Mr. H. went out the year following, faw it rebuilt, and the new Go vernor fettled in his habitation (which they took care to fortify a little better than formerly), and returned to England in 1787. He had faved a few thousands, the fruits of many years induftry, and might, had he been bleffed with prudence, enjoyed many years of eafe and plenty; but he had lived fo long where money was of no ufe, that he feemed infenfible of its value here, and lent it with little or no fecurity to those he was fcarcely

acquainted with by name ; fincere and undefigning himself, he was by no means a match for the duplicity of others. His difpofition, as may be judged by his writing, was naturally hunane; what he wanted in learning and polite accomplishments he made up in native fimplicity and innate goodness; and he was fo ftrictly fcrupulous with regard to the property of others, that he was heard to fay, a few days before his death, "he could lay his hand on his heart and fay, he had never wronged any inan of fixpence."

Such are the outlines of Mr. Hearne's character; who, if he had fome failings, had many virtues to counterbalance them, of which charity was not the lealt. died of the dropfy, November 1792, aged 47.

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THERE hath been for fome time past in almost all European countries much talk concerning the Propaganda, a fociety whofe members are bound by folemn engagements to ftir up fubjects against their lawful rulers, and to promote diffenfions and agitations in all European ftates. Hitherto this fcciety is known chiefly by the effects produced by it: it confits of two orders or clafles of men, viz. men of enthufiaftic difpofitions, who imagine themselves to be called to reform the world, and of ambitious, mischievous knaves, who flatter the former in order to use them as their tools, and whofe with it is to breed trouble, confufion, and diftraction, which affords them an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and to lay hold on power after i hath been wrefted from the hands of thofe men in whom it had been lawfully and rightfully placed.

I have taken great pains (even in France itself) to obtain an accurate account of this club or fociety: I found means to become a member of almoft every club in Paris, even of that famous club of 1789, whole Prefident was the Marquis de Condorcet; and which, to the best of my knowledge, never admitted any foreigner as a member except

myself. But notwithstanding all my pains, endeavours, and researches, concerning the Propaganda, were in vain until lately, when I obtained, by the kindnefs of an eminent man, in whole heart the welfare of mankind is fincerely imprefled, the following authentic account, which I have here tranflated, and, by his permiflion communicate: I have no doubt of the authenticity of this account:

The club of the Propaganda is very different from the Jacobine club, notwithstanding they are too frequently confounded with each other. The Jacobines are the ftirrers up of the National Affembly; on the other hand, the Propaganda are the feducers and stirrers up of the whole human race. This club exifted as early as the year 1786, and the Lords Rochefoucault, Condorcet, and the Abbé Sieyes, were at the head of it.

Their tenets are as follows; and for the furtherance of them, their fociety is established as a philosophical or ler, whofe object it is to control the opinions of mankind. To become a member of this fociety, it is neceffary that the candidate be either a defender and promoter of modern philofophy (that is dogmatical atheilm), or elfe a man of an ambitious

character,

character, turbulent, and difcontented with the Government under which he lives. When he is admitted he gives his word of bonour to oblerve crefy; before he is accepted, he is informed that the number of members is very great, ipread over all the earth, and that all thefe members labour inceffantly to put any falle or traiterous members (who might betray their fecrets) out of the way. The candidate further gives his word of honour, that he will communicate all information he may acquire to his brethren; that he will always defend the people in oppofition to the Government; that he will do his utmoft to. refift all peremptory (by him called arbitrary) commands, and do all that in him lies to introduce an univerial tolerance of all religions.

There are two claffes of members, fuch as pay and fuch as do not pay; they pay according to their ability: the number of contributing members were about 5000, the number of non-contributing members about 50,000; thefe bind themfelves to fpread the doctrines of the Propaganda in all countries, and to promote the defigns thereof.

Therer has two degrees, adfpirants and initiate the first is acquainted with the fcope of the order, but the latter is alfo informed as to the means the order ufes to obtain this end. An adfpirant cannot be admitted into the degree of initiate until he has undertaken a philofophical miffion, and can clearly prove that he has made ten profelytes. The treafury of the order pofielles at prelent 20 millions of livres, ready money; and, according to the laft accounts, there will be, before the end of this year (1791), 30 millions in it.

The order is built upon the following principles: opinion and neceffity (or need) are the springs of all humon action; if you therefore can cause the need, neceffity, want, or dependance (call it which you will), to spread, you may ibereby controul the opinions of mankind, and will be enabled to shake all the ftoms of the world, even those which jom to bare the firmest founda on.

To delude the Hollanders has coft the order great labour; but the contideration that he blow brisme univerfa has fuftained them. The plan of the cicer is as follows: No one can deny but that

oppreffion, under which fome men live (let it be practifed where it will), is a great cruelty and calamity, this therefore must be removed and put an end to by the light of philosophy. When this is done, it will only then be neediul to wait for the favourable period in which the minds of mankind will be universally tuned to accept the new fyftem, which must be preached all at once over the whole of Europe. Thofe who obstinately refift this fyftem, we must endeavour by perfuafion or by need to renounce their oppofition; but if they perfift, and are incorrigible, they must be treated as the Jews have been treated, and be excluded from the rights of fociety, driven from among men.

There is another article in the fociety's plan which is no lefs remarkable; it is this, The Propaganda must not try to bring her plan to bear until he is perfetily convinced that the need (want or neceflity) exifts; it would be better to wait fifty years, than by pitance to fail.

A numerous fociety like this, whofe members hitherto as yet act fingly, which accumulates money, which goes to work flowly, and carefully avoids all precipitance, which will ftrike no blow until the is well affured of almoft certain fuccefs, fuch a fociety is a dangerous thing; their progrefs may poffibly be fwift, and deliverance out of their hand feems next to an impoffibility. The Dutch patriots who fled to France confidered the Propaganda as their chief anchor: Suppofe (ay they), fuppofe then that the Houfe of Auftria will afford us no affiftance, there yet remains for us the Propaganda; there are miffionaries of this order all over Holland, and perhaps even already fome regular lodges.

In the club of the friends of the people at Bruffels, a fpeaker lately expreffed himfelf in the following words: Every where they are preparing fetters, but philofophy and reafon will one day triumph; and the time will come when the unlimited, uncontrouled ruler of the Ottoman Empire in the evening fhall lay himfelf to reft as a defpot, and in the morning fhall arife as a citizen.'

The treafury of the Propaganda receives confiderable fums from all the provinces of Holland.