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252 which grind the poor to pamper the rich; thus a war, or any wild gooe chacechase [sic] is, as the vulgar ue the phrae, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the miniter, whoe chief merit is the art of keeping himelf in place.

It is not neceary then that he hould have bowels for the poor, o he can ecure for his family the odd trick. Or hould ome hew of repect, for what is termed with ignorant otentation an Englihman's birth-right, be expedient to bubble the gruff matiff that he has to lead by the noe, he can make an empty hew, very afely, by giving his ingle voice, and uffering his light quadron to file off to the other ide. And when a quetion of humanity is agitated he may dip a op in the milk of human kindnes, to ilence Cerberus, and talk of the interet which his heart takes in an attempt to make the earth no longer cry for vengeance as it ucks in its children's blood, though his cold hand may at the very moment rivet their chains, by anctioning the abominable traffick. A miniter is no longer a miniter than while he can carry a point, which he is determined to carry.—Yet it is not neceary that a miniter hould feel like a man, when a bold puh might hake his eat.

But, to have done with thee epiodical obervations, let me return to the more pecious lavery which chains the very oul of woman, keeping her for ever under the bondage of ignorance.

The prepoterous ditinctions of rank, which render civilization a cure, by dividing the world between voluptuous tyrants, and cunning envious dependents, corrupt, almot equally, every clas&ensp;