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 3 6 Terra-Filius. N O xxxv.. and betin to entertain new hobs that the prefent lraed ttate of affairs, and the uneafmefi of the m?le will incline them to a vhange, and draw I . them into the intereft of their lpijh idol. I have received repeated informations from Ox- voat, that this unhaIy miirriage is the darling to?ick of all their convertition and furnifties their pulpits, their coffee-hout3s, taverns, and common room_ with inexhauttible matter of railcry upon the ?qnt government i they do not, as they o condo',e with their fdlow-fubjeec upon thls me- lancholl]y profpe, but tk� a feetee il!-natur d plea- fare in the miry of their country, out of revenge to tho#, whom they cal! the authors of i. I ve likewith obtirv d, that of late the Chevalier s been mention'd with an air of importance in ur news-papers, a if he were really time-body =el rn=y froart hints have been given to make people believe that there are certain private treaties carrying on between feveral Io?i3 I)otenttes in his favouri one of whom, we are told, has varitten letter to the Chevalier de St. George5 the purport =vhreof is not yet knovn. From all which it is pretty plain, that the to'ires (whole name I thought woul& have been, long before now, l:uried with their hopes) think to make a good handle of. our unbrtunate divifions and diltraciom. They magine that we are grown defperate and deiirius under our prefent dit!reli a.nd that we will join with them in anlt mures, tl mad fit is uWa If there had been any room to cloubt of this, the renown'd Mr. M ha taken au effeual me- thud, in hi lalt fatura�'s weekly ournol, to con- vince us of it l by which we may:perceive that he think the patlqons of the people are rie enough . for the alarm, and that there' is no nine left to dally and rrmrale the tbifilai hc therefore open'd hi mini

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