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 of their progenitors; that they are too obtinate for peruaion, and too powerful for contraint; that they will laugh at argument, and defeat violence; that the continent of North America contains three millions, not of men merely, but of Whigs, of Whigs fierce for liberty, and didainful of dominion; that they multiply with the fecundity of their own rattle-nakes, o that every quarter of a century doubles their numbers.

accutomed to think themelves maters do not love to be threatened. This talk is, I hope, commonly thrown away, or raies paions different from thoe which it was intended to excite. Intead of terrifying the Englih hearer to tame acquiecence, it dipoes him to haten the experiment of bending obtinacy before it is become yet more obdurate, and convinces him that it is neceary to attack a nation thus prolific while we may yet hope to.