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 7'erre. Filiu;. N �i hav.e knock'el o'th' head, if general Pu. ev�R?s lea- fomble aflil!ance had not fpoil-t their longing. The admirable concluc"t of that gentleman in fur. prizing and quelling a city fo univerfilly difaffeed, will, no doubt, in rome future unproltituted, un- garbled. hiltoy of a lebe!ln, meet with its due encoreram; for my part, tho' I verily believe I owe my life to him, I dare not attempt it. Your filerid Mr..a//s]/, or his �-iend Daniel D--oe, or his reverend friend the author of the Scourge (that ether true born ngliflman !) or the reverend Dr. 2--r of Cfir.Cburth col!ege in Oxjrd, was pleas'd to fay, That next to hayin beheld Cmls'r in the flefh he woukl wifh to tie g the R-sxoR,xIo,. I would not willingly comment on a blafphemous, as well as traiterous expreffion. i can't however help flying, that one could not, in the world, have feen a more lively emblem of the Rqi,ttion, than was to Ire feen at the time of that General's march into Off0rd. Far be it from me to fFeak lightly of that great, that d, reaclful day !-- Let their whipping Colonel, alarm d in his bed, running away hill naked, and calling o.n the walls and monks of Mt, ooat�s to elter hm  let the Scut. rs, who,/cure (as they thought) and triumphant in their guilt, laid themtIves tlown to reft, in hopes of a a, di trent kind o ri. ting, when awakened by the K,ng's trumpets, tell us how great were their tenors ! Let the loyalifls declare how unexpecqed, how ravi/hiug was their joy!--aM I if, all be excuxqd the eom[,arifon. Some time before this joyful entry, three I. men of the eSonflitutio Club were forced to .t few of us kept the field, and, by the afliltance o[ �ome honeit captains, withflood, confronted, and got the. better of our aclveries. For 'tis an old obfer- yatio-_, aM what mid� $oe can all glifhrae �owardss

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