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, is to fear that a city may be drowned by the overflowing of its kennels. The ditemper which cowardice or malice thought either decay of the vitals, or reolution of the nerves, appears at lat to have been nothing more than a political phthiriais, a dieae too loathome for a plainer name; but the effect of negligence rather than of weaknes, and of which the hame is greater than the danger.

the diturbers of our quiet are ome animals of greater bulk, whom their power of roaring peruaded us to think formidable, but we now perceive that ound and force do not always go together. The noie of a avage proves nothing but his hunger.

all our broils, foreign and dometick, we may at lat hope to remain awhile in quiet, amued with the view of our own ucces. We have gained