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 o Terr-Filiu 9 ot plea?d to oey_ their orders. A full ac�ollrlt this fhall be the ubje& of Come future papers, l e a proper opportunity. By lyal7 is generafly underaoo3 a firm and dy afie&ion to the lawful prince of our country, Co as o be ready, upon all juff occafions, to venre our iives and tortunes in hs rvice: but finee, in thef days of kion and divJfion, there are alway two and rometimes more contendin rties, and fince boh or all o thcte parties call their own caufe the u caufe, and their own tide the right fide, the word 1oyaby, like innumerable other words, is come a meet found, without any certain meaning for as there is no common point agreed upon, where talty ought to centeri or, which is the time, as me rights and titles, and powers of Kings are eve- ry day dituted, upon which only the meafures loyalty depcnd lo alt and dioyalty, proceeding out of d}rent mouths, have a equivocal fignification, and e peetually jumbled and confus'd. Thus 0 x v o a n was always remarkable for it loyalty; that is, it always efuk8 one fide or was always warm and a&ive, and meddling n the intereR o tbme h. ourire prince, or tyrant, or ufur- per, or rebel, or inva&r, or pretender; (in defiance many times, o oaths, abjurations, and deeee$ to the ontrary,) who beh thus honour with its trona e, was immediately dubb'd a ?nter patrie  g and became the anointea of the Lord. To tflk of Oxvo loyalty in any other fenfe dull banter and wimace the EniflJ hiry of black inances of its per:'erfenes and difobedien to good princes and oF its tartly and adulation to bad ones  of its perpetual murmurings again all governments that did not make much of them, and of its humble fubmion, and dutifd refignation to thole which were flways adding to its chaters privileges.

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