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( 23 ) who are entrusted with the government of the state, should of themselves venture on so desperate a step, and be guilty of this worst kind of parricide, the people, I am satisfied, might, with great justice, make them the first victims of their temerity, and sacrifice them to the manes of their murdered country.

Leaving you, therefore, to determine at your leisure, I will take the liberty of determining for myself, and I, will venture to add, for nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand of the whole body of the people, nay, I may say, for the whole nation in general, placemen, pensioners, and other court-dependents excepted, that it is very consistent with the advantage, and even with the honour and dignity of this country, to save itself from ruin by the only means by which you acknowledge it can be saved, that is, "by narrowing those channels, "through