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Ch. 1. tion may fully jutify the obervation of a learned French author, who indeed generally both thought and wrote in the pirit of genuine freedom ; and who hath not crupled to profes, even in the very boom of his native country, that the Englih is the only nation in the world, where political or civil liberty is the direct end of it’s contitution. Recommending therefore to the tudent in our laws a farther and more accurate earch into this extenive and important title, I hall cloe my remarks upon it with the expiring wih of the famous father Paul to his country, “!”