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 and an Army at Command was the ole Law; when Cato and Cicero were in Danger of being torn to Pieces in the Streets; when to be honet was to be procribed; what Coure could good Men take over-pour’d by Numbers, and depairing of the Common-wealth, but to retire to Athens, or ome remote Corner to lament in Silence, and to eek for Comfort in the Study of Philoophy, ’till the Madnes was over, and a more aupicious Seaon invited to a Deliverance by a new Struggle?

We have lived to ee our antient Contitution in a manner diolved, and the most important Articles of our new Contract, upon ettling the Protetant Succeion, Evaded, Supended,or et aide; the Wealth and Strength of the Kingdom exhauted in Foreign Quarrels, and for Foreign Acquiitions; the very Nation it elf Sold to make Purchaes abroad and to enrich Strangers.

We have lived to ee the firt Honours of Peerage betowed to dignifie Protitution, the Freedom of the People, the mot inetimable Article of their Freedom, the Freedom of Elections, betrayed by their own Repreentatives, o that the mot precious Part of our Liberty may be jutly aid to have been tabbed by its own Guard. We