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 ome caes, thoe uffer mot who are leat intended to be hurt. If the French in the late war had taken an Englih city, and permitted the natives to keep their dwellings, how could it have been recovered, but by the laughter of our friends? A bomb might as well detroy an Englihman as a Frenchman; and by famine we know that the inhabitants would be the firt that hould perih.

infliction of promicuous evil may therefore be lamented, but cannot be blamed. The power of lawful government mut be maintained; and the mieries which rebellion produces, can be charged only on the rebels.

man likewie is not a Patriot, who denies his governors their due praie, and who conceals from the people the benefits which they receive. Thoe therefore can lay no claim to this illutrious ,