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 If on This Pretence, any Men should attempt to revive Animosities which Time had bury'd;—should attempt to divide and distract the Subjects of an united Kingdom, whose common Welfare depended on their Union;—should revile all Men without Distinction, who were born in a certain District; and indiscriminately endeavour to exclude them from a Participation of those public Trusts, Honours, and Emoluments, to which, with the rest of their Fellow-Subjects, they might stand intitled by their Capacity or Virtue:—Who would not discover, in this unequal Conduct, a clear and distinctive Mark of Licentiousness and Faction?

Again: If ever there had been a Time, when All who presumed to dissent in any Degree from those in Power, were indiscriminately and unjustly branded with the Name of Jacobite or Tory;—and if These very Men who had bestowed such Appellations should now deal them as freely round, on All who assent to Those