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 according to one orator, with three millions of Whigs, and according to another, with ninety thouand patriots of Maachuet’s Bay, we may poibly be checked in our career of reduction. We may be reduced to peace upon equal terms, or driven from the wetern continent, and forbidden to violate a econd time the happy borders of the land of liberty. The time is now perhaps at hand, which Sir Thomas Brown predicted between jet and earnet,

we are allowed upon our defeat to tipulate conditions, I hope the treaty of Boton will permit us to import into the confederated Cantons uch products as they do not raie, and uch manufactures as they do not make, and cannot buy cheaper from other nations, paying like others the appointed cutoms; that if an Englih hip alutes