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Rh yet unborn, you will conceive it to be exceedingly difficult, if not impracticable, to ucceed in every part of it, to the full Satisfaction of all. Could the whole Body of the People have Conven’d for the ame Purpoe, there might have been equal Reaon to conclude, that a perfect Unanimity of Sentiments would have been an Object not to be obtain’d. In a Buines o univerally intereting, we have endeavor’d to act as became the Repreentatives of a wie, undertanding and free People; and, as we have Reaon to believe you would yourelves have done, we have open’d our Sentiments to each other with Candor, and made uch mutual Conceions as we could conitently, and without marring the only Plan, which in our mot mature Judgment we can at preent offer to you.

Interet of the Society is common to all its Members. The great Enquiry is, wherein this Common Interet conits. In determining this Quetion, an Advantage may arie from a Variety of Sentiments offer’d to public Examination concerning it. But wie Men are not apt to be obtinately tenacious of their own Opinions: They will always pay a due gard