Rollin

   . This

    Morceau

   is taken from the beautiful Funeral Oration of the great

    Turenne

   : The whole Piece is very fine, but it seems to me that the Stroke I am speaking of should not have been made Use of by a Bishop.—This is it:

    "O Sovereigns! Enemies of

     France

    , ye live, and the Spirit of Christian Charity forbids me to wish your Deaths, &c.—But ye live, and I mourn in this Pulpit the Death of a virtuous Captain, whose Intentions were pure, &c.—

   An Apostrophe in this Taste would have been very proper at

    Rome

   in the Civil Wars, after the Assassination of

    Pompey

   ; or at

    London

   after the Death of

    Charles

   the First. But is it decent, in a Pulpit, to wish for the Death of the Emperor, the King of

    Spain

   , and the Electors; to put them in Balance with the General of a King's Army, who is their Enemy? Or ought the Intentions of a Captain, which can be no other than to serve his Prince, to be compared with the Politick Interests of the crown'd Heads against which he serves? What would be said of a

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