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 doubt before; as a moralit, he has taught that virtue may digrace; and as a patriot, he has gratified the mean by inults on the high. Finding edition attendant, he has been able to advance it; finding the nation combutible, he has been able to inflame it. Let us abtract from his wit the vivacity of inolence, and withdraw from his efficacy the ympathetick favour of Plebeian malignity; I do not fay that we hall leave him nothing; the caue that I defend corns the help of falehood; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praie?

is not by his livelines of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of alluion, that he detains the cits of London, and the boors of Middleex. Of tyle and entiment they take no cognizance. They admire him for virtues like their own, for contempt of order and violence of outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falehood. The Supporters of the Bill of Rights