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 any man can have conented to intitutions etablihed in ditant ages, it will be difficult to explain. In the mot favourite reidence of liberty, the conent of individuals is merely paive, a tacit admiion in every community of the terms which that community grants and requires. As all are born the ubjects of ome tate of other, we may be aid to have been all born conenting to ome ytem of Government. Other conent than this, the condition of civil life does not allow. It is the unmeaning clamour of the pedants of policy, the delirious dream of republican fanaticim.

hear, ye ons and daughters of liberty, the ounds which the winds are wafting from the Wetern Continent. The Americans are telling one another, what, if we may judge from their noiy triumph, they have but lately dicovered, and what yet is a very important truth: That they are