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 Magitrates, as a free People, that epecially over which you have the Honour of preiding, is by its Knowledge and its Widom above the Populace of other States.

Permit me to cite an Example of which there hould remain ome better Traces, an Example my Heart will never ceae to think of. I cannot call to mind, without the mot agreeable Emotion, the Memory of that virtuous Citizen to whom I owe my Being, and who often entertained my Infancy with the Repect that is due to you. Methinks I till behold him, earning his Bread by the Work of his Hands, and at