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 refued a reaonable or unreaonable requet, who thinks his merit under-rated, and ees his influence declining, begins oon to talk of natural equality, the aburdity of many made for one, the original compact, the foundation of authority, and the majety of the people. As his political melancholy increaes, he tells, and perhaps dreams of the advances of the prerogative, and the dangers of arbitrary power; yet his deign in all his declamation is not to benefit his country, but to gratify his malice.

, however, are the mot honet of the opponents of government; their patriotim is a pecies of dieae; and they feel ome part of what they expres. But the greater, far the greater number of thoe who rave and rail, and inquire and accue, neither upect nor fear, nor care for the Public; but hope to force their way to riches by virulence and invective, and