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 obey him.—I next urged that you had given him an Equivalent for Royal Munificence.—“What!” replied be, with great Quickneſs, “by giving up in Return, Honour, Character, Conſcience, and every Thing that ſhould diſtinguiſh a Man!”

I anſwered this exclamatory Interrogation only with a Smile of ineffable Contempt.—As to the latter Part of the Deſcription, viz. that a Penſion is generally underſtood in to mean Pay given to a State-hireling for Treaſon to his Country, I replied—Suppoſe Dr., or myſelf, chooſe to take the Words in the Scotiſh Acceptation of them; and if the Idea of a State-hireling in that Country doth not materially differ from that received in our own, the Idea of  doth, or at leaſt hath done moſt eſſentially. Thus,