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 come again for an anwer; and the poacher whoe gun has been eized, now finds an opportunity to reclaim it. Even the honet man is not dipleaed to ee himelf important, and willingly reumes in two years that power which he had reigned for even. Few love their friends o well as not to deire uperiority by unexpenive benefaction.

, notwithtanding all thee motives to compliance, the promoters of petitions have not been uccesful. Few could be peruaded to lament evils which they did not uffer, or to olicit for redres which they do not want. The petition has been, in ome places, rejected; and perhaps in all but one, igned only by the meanet and groet of the people.

this expedient now invented or revived to ditres the government, and equally practicable at all times by all who hall