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 the wit of Satan, they have not his virtue; they tried once again what could be done by ophitry without art, and confidence without credit. They repreented their Sovereign as dihonoured and their country as betrayed, or, in their fiercer paroxyms of fury, reviled their Sovereign as betraying it.

pretences I have here endeavoured to expoe, by howing that more than has been yielded was not to be expected, that more perhaps was not to be deired, and that if all had been refued, there had carcely been an adequate reaon for a war.

was perhaps never much danger of war or of refual, but what danger there was, proceeded from the faction. Foreign nations, unacquainted with the inolence of Common Councils, and unaccutomed to the howl of Plebeian patriotim, when they heard of rabbles and riots, of petitions and