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2 are uffered to pas by without punihment or obervation. The preent minitry are as ingularly marked by their fortune, as by their crimes. Intead of atoning for their former conduct by any wie or popular meaure, they have found, in the enormity of one fact, a cover and defence for a eries of meaures, which mut have been fatal to any other adminitration. I fear we are too remis in oberving the whole of their proceedings. Struck with the principal figure, we do not ufficiently mark in what manner the canvas is filled up. Yet urely it is not a les crime, nor les fatal in its conequences, to encourage a flagrant breach of the law by a military force, than to make ue of the forms of parliament to detroy the contitution.—The minitry eem determined to give us a choice of difficulties, and, if poible, to perplex us with the multitude of their offences. The expedient is worthy of the Duke of Grafton. But though he has preerved a gradation and variety in his meaures, we hould remember that the principle is uniform. Dictated by the ame pirit, they deerve the ame attention. The following fact, though of the mot alarming ture