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 19 notice of. Ingratitude is certainly one of the worſt fins that a man can be guilty of, and in a very ſpecial man- ner, when, it is committed in a breach of truſt, under the perſon who gives them bread for life. If then, I ſay, ſuch an one ſhould be found betray- ing his father’s truſt, and yielding up any right of his, for a fordid and paultry bribe; if the perſon who had ſeduced him, ſhould then fight him with his own weapons, and trick him of his covenanted reward and unjuſt hire, as my reader will find was the caſe in the following ſtory: Such a perſon, I ſay, if he ſhould break art- icles with him, and bilk him of his unjuſt and criminal expectations, is rather to be commended than the o- ther pitied. There is no creature upon the face of the earth ſo guilty of this crime, ingratitude, as mankind. E- ven the moſt ſurious of wild beaſts are civilized by gratitude, and wit not hurt their benefactors and pro- viders. But man is daily giving up his father, mother, wife, children, friend, nay, and his whole country, for a mere trifle. Let every man, thus