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 les does the true Patriot circulate opinions which he knows to be fale. No man, who loves his country, fills the nation with clamorous complaints, that the Protetant religion is in danger, becaue Popery is etablihed in the extenive province of Quebec, a falehood o open and hameles, that it can need no confutation among thole who know that of which it is almot impoible for the mot unenlightened zealot to be ignorant.

Quebec is on the other ide of the Atlantic, at too great a ditance to do much good or harm to the European world:

the inhabitants, being French, were always Papits, who are certainly more dangerous as enemies, than as ubjects:

though the province be wide, the people are few, probably not o many as