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 have been thought worthy to be countenanced?

Earl, enquiring into the Reaſon of the preſent univerſal Diſcontent, (for ſuch I find it agreed to be on all Hands) has thought fit to impute it to Miſ-conduct in the Adminiſtration: A little unluckily, I confeſs, ſince it was anſwer’d, That at the Time when this Diſcontent moſt flam’d, his Lordſhip was at the Head of that Adminiſtration.

noble Earl, very deſervedly in a high Station, is pleas’d to charge it upon Fate, the Malignity of the Stars, a certain unaccountable Diſpoſition in the Heavens, for which there is no apparent Reaſon, nor Remedy.

The Reaſon is plain, is flagrant, is notorious. The early Impatience and