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 drudges of edition wih to change their ground, they hear him with ullen ilence, feel conviction without repentance, and are confounded but not abahed; they go forward to another door, and find a kinder reception from a man enraged againt the government, becaue he has jut been paying the tax upon his windows.

a petition for a diolution of the Parliament will at all times have its favourers, may be eaily imagined. The people indeed do not expect that one Houe of Commons will be much honeter or much wier than another; they do not uppoe that the taxes will be lightened; or though they have been o often taught to hope it, that oap and candies will be cheaper; they expect no redres of grievances, for of no grievances but taxes do they complain; they wih not the extenion of liberty, for they do not feel any retraint;