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xcii -groan, and blind to all but self-interést? For, wert thou in the pay of our grand enemy, thou couldst not have given stronger proofs of being devoted to thy country's ruin.

I beg the reader's pardon for my warmth; but, if I have, in any degree, succeeded in producing a single spark of compunction in the political cormorant of the day, my country must be benefited by it, and that is my highest ambition. I shall conclude observations on the subject af ministers with a quotation from Pliny,. which the reader will compare with what Fame say's of our enemy's cabinet, and draw his own inferences on the occasion. —Epist. Lib. I. I would only observe, that while we find Buonaparte has creatures in every cabinet, it has never been found that any of the princes had creatures in the cabinet of Buonaparte.