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 ¬had taken place, since even the paper war of her frantic democracy had ceased, and its offensive character had been disavowed. — The long succession of unprincipled, ferocious factions, which followed the rejected mediation, has always been resorted to as proof that there was no safety but in the hostile system which was adopted; but they who hold out those insecurities at a later period than the one I have pointed out, should at least be prepared to shew the danger which the earlier mediation might have produced. — It would be no argument in favour of a physician who was skilfully coercing a maniac, and reducing his dangerous strength, if it could be shewn, that by a dif- ferent treatment in the beginning, his fever might probably have been subdued, and his reason completely restored. — It would surely at least lie upon him to shew that he had made some trial of his art on the first symptoms of the disease.

"My confidence in this opinion is the more ¬unshaken ¬