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 nation denied him their allegiance; nor by the dangerous bigotry of James, unles when he was finally driven from his palace; and with which carcely the open hotilities of rebellion ventured to vilify the unhappy Charles, even in the remarks on the cabinet of Naeby.

is urely not unreaonable to hope, that the nation will conult its dignity, if not its afety, and didain to be protected or enlaved by the declaimers or the plotters of a city-tavern. Had Rome fallen by the Catilinarian conpiracy, he might have conoled her fate by the greatnes of her detroyers; but what would have alleviated the digrace of England, had her government been changed by Tiler or by Ket?

part of the nation has never before contended with the other, but for ome weighty and apparent interet. If the means were violent, the end was great. The