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 enjoy a toleration, ought not to deny it to our new ubjects.

liberty of concience be a natural right, we have no power to with-hold it; if it be an indulgence, it may be allowed to Papits, while it is not denied to other ects.

is necearily and invariably a lover of the people. But even this mark may ometimes deceive us.

people is a very heterogeneous and confued mas of the wealthy and the poor, the wie and the foolih, the good and the bad. Before we confer on a man, who carees the people, the title of Patriot, we mut examine to what part of the people he directs his notice. It is proverbially aid, that he who diembles his own character, may be known by that of his companions. If the