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68 every one to insult or ill-treat me : they could give their time to actuate, and then to swear to avenge it, and make a merit of event-working, to bring disgrace or injury upon such persons : never indeed, to benefit me ; but as pursuing their systems of villany, calling me their Property and Talisman, bringing persons under what they call their Fluid-balances against me ; persecuting and making murderous efforts upon me : using the name or expression, or the presence of particular persons as their authority, and then pretending, because I withstood them, that they had a right against such persons, or whom they called such persons duplicates to.

“Hence they ever asserted that Mr. Pitt was not half able to withstand magnetic fluid in its operative effect, but became actuated like a mere puppet by the expert-magnetists employed in such villanies :