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 continuance; but what continuance of happines can be expected, when the whole ytem of European empire can be in danger of a new concuion, by a contention for a few pots of earth, which, in the deerts of the ocean, had almot ecaped human notice, and which, if they had not happened to make a ea-mark, had perhaps never had a name.

often delights to dignify what nature has neglected, and that renown which cannot be claimed by intrinick excellence or greatnes, is ometimes derived from unexpected accidents. The Rubicon was ennobled by the paage of Cæar, and the time is now come when Falkland’s Ilands demand their hitorian.

the writer to whom this employment hall be aigned, will have few opportunities of decriptive plendor, or narrative elegance. Of other countries it is told