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vi exhausted the powers of language to express the fervour of their good will and gratitude. The bitter and the sweet came from the same fountain, and continued most harmoniously to flow in a collateral course: but the one was sincere, the other hypocritical—the one meant to be seen, the other to be concealed. This is now no longer a secret. The faction has gained its end; and there is now hardly an interest in keeping up the imposition. The disciplina arcani has had its run and its reward, and is now abandoned.

But the victors will find, that they have purchased their success full dear. A reckoning will come; and the very arms by which they prevailed shall come to be the most effectual for their destruction. What they believe, because they have seen, will not be lost upon British Christians. They will have learned a lesson at last by which they will profit. They now perceive how they are to be guarded against, and treat, a foe of the worst will, the most intense and most fraudulent, that this world of sin and malice ever produced. Their natural protectors having betrayed them, and let in the Romish wolf among them, they are taught, if any thing can teach them, that it will not do to go on