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, at like vultures waiting for a day of carnage. Having worn out all the arts of dometick edition, having wearied violence, and exhauted falehood, they yet flattered themelves with ome aitance from the pride or malice of Spain; and when they could no longer make the people complain of grievances which they did not feel, they had the comfort yet of knowing that real evils were poible, and their reolution is well known of charging all evil on their governours.

reconciliation was therefore conidered as the los of their lat anchor; and received not only with the fretfulnes of diappointment but the rage of deperation. When they found that all were happy in pite of their machinations, and the oft effulgence of peace hone out upon the nation, they felt no motion but that of ullen envy; they could not, like Milton’s prince of hell, abtract themelves a moment from their evil; as they have not the