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 Brutus owed much to Cæar, but Brutus thought private Benefits as well as private Injuries, were to be acrificed to the Publick Safety. And Brutus was an honourable Man.

The Interet of the State is the Firt Object of Men of Honour; Piety and Loyalty are included in it; to be fale to one’s Country is to be fale to God and the King.

If then we neglect the approaching Opportunity upon the next Election, we betray all the Ties of Nature, Religion and Allegiance; if we loe it we are lot with it. If a Majority of uch Men hould again prevail, Farewel to all that is dear to the Lovers of Liberty and Britain.

That Authority which (we know from the general Sene of the Nation) can be continued in the ame Hands, by no other Means but Violence and Corruption; mut be maintained as it is got.

You Sir, are but jut arrived at the Age of entring upon the publick Stage; and you arrive at it in this critical Moment, when all is at Stake. It is therefore, I have ingled You out from the Ret of my Countrymen, to kindle your Virtue and animate your Firt Appearance. I