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 clamour continues after the evil is pat. They who are till filling our ears with Mr. Wilkes, and the Freeholders of Middleex, lament a grievance, that is now at an end. Mr. Wilkes may be choen, if any will chooe him, and the precedent of his excluion makes not any honet, or any decent man, think himelf in danger.

may be doubted whether the name of a Patriot can be fairly given as the reward of ecret atire, or open outrage. To fill the news-papers with ly hints of corruption and intrigue, to circulate the Middleex Journal and London Pacquet, may indeed be zeal; but it may likewie be interet and malice. To offer a petition, not expected to be granted; to inult a King with a rude remontrance, only becaue there is no punihment for legal inolence, is not courage, for there is no danger; nor patriotim, for it tends to