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 are vented: if uch writers hope to deceive, let us rather repel them with corn, than refute them by diputation.

this lat terrifick paragraph are two poitions that, if our fears do not overpower our reflection, may enable us to upport life a little longer. We are told by thee croakers of calamity, not only that our preent miniters deign to enlave us, but that the ame malignity of purpoe is to decend through all their ucceors, and that the wealth to be poured into England by the Pactolus of America will, whenever it comes, be employed to purchae the remains of liberty.

thoe who now conduct the national affairs we may, without much arrogance, preume to know more than themelves, and of thoe who hall ucceed them, whether miniter or king, not to know les.