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 quantity of this payment. They are ready to co-operate with all the other dominions of the king; but they will co-operate by no means which they do not like, and at no greater charge than they are willing to bear.

claim, wild as it may eem, this claim, which uppoes dominion without authority, and ubjects without ubordination, has found among the libertines of policy many clamorous and hardy vindicators. The laws of Nature, the rights of humanity, the faith of charters, the danger of liberty, the encroachments of uurpation, have been thundered in our ears, ometimes by intereted faction, and ometimes by honet tupidity.

is aid by Fontenelle, that if twenty philoophers hall reolutely deny that the preence of the un makes the day, he will not depair but whole nations may adopt the