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 for years diturbed by a faction, againt which all fashions ought to conpire; for its original principle is the deire of levelling; it is only animated under the name of zeal, by the natural malignity of the mean againt the great.

in the confuion which the Englih invaions produced in France, the villains, imagining that they had found the golden hour of emancipation, took arms in their hands, the knights of both nations conidered the caue as common, and, upending the general hotility, united to chatie them.

whole conduct of this depicable faction is ditinguished by plebeian grosnes, and avage indecency. To mirepreent the actions and the principles of their enemies is common to all parties; but the inolence of invective, and brutality of