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 is evident, whatever be the caue, that this nation, with all its renown for peculation and for learning, has yet made little proficiency in civil widom. We are till o much unacquainted with our own tate, and o unkilful in the puruit of happines, that we hudder without danger, complain without grievances, and uffer our quiet to be diturbed, and our commerce to be interrupted, by an oppoition to the government, raied only by interet, and upported only by clamour, which yet has o far prevailed upon ignorance and timidity, that many favour it as reaonable, and many dread it as powerful.

is urged by thoe who have been o indutrious to pread upicion, and incite fury from one end of the kingdom to the other, may be known by peruing the papers which have been at once