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 rights, our fortunes, our lives, and our families."

"Think upon genuine episcopal ordination, without which there can be no lawful clergy," said the divine.

"Think of the piracies committed on our East-Indian trade by Green and the English thieves," said William Wilieson, half-owner and sole skipper of a brig that made four voyages annually between Cockpool and Whitehaven.

"Remember your liberties," rejoined Mareschal, who seemed to take a mischievous delight in precipitating the movements of the enthusiasm which he had excited, like a roguish boy, that, having lifted the sluice of a mill-dam, enjoys the clatter of the wheels which he has put into motion, without thinking of the mischief he may have occasioned. "Remember your liberties," he exclaimed, "confound cess, press, and presbytery, and the memory of old Willie that first brought them upon us!"