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 will by such means be interposed, to restrain that deluge of corruption which has overwhelmed the country in every direction, and threatens to sweep away the last vestiges of our national spirit, with the remaining bulwarks of our Constitutional liberties.

Such a Reform I consider as the surest pledge of the renovation of that lofty independence, once the proudest boast of the English Nation, and which now seems to be fast sinking into the languor of indifference.—I confide in it's power to arrest the declining progress of our sun, and fix it for ages yet to come in it's meridian brightness—I am convinced of it's efficacy to restore the high energy of the National character, and to call forth that constitutional attachment to the Government which it has been the glory of our ancestors to evince under the most trying