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Show t 18 1 5 Great Britain. Good and ill fuccefs are equally admitted as reafons for perlEV-‘ering in the prefent methods. Several very prudent, and very well intentioned perfons were ofo inion, that during the prevalence of fuch dipra fitions, all ftruggle tended rather to inflame. than to abate the diflemper of the public counn fels. Finding fuch refiflance to be confidered as factions by mof'r within doors, and by ver many without, Icould not conlcientioully {up-s port what is againft my opinion, nor prudently contend with what I know is irretifiible. Preferving my principles unfhaken, I .re- ferve my activity for rational endeavours; and I hope my paf'r conduct has given {Litfieient evi» dence, that if I am a fingle day from my place, it isnot owing to indolence or love of diilipa- tion. The flightelt hope of doing good is fuf- ficient to recal me. to a {tation which I quitted with regret. In declining my ufual itrié'c attendance, I do not in the leaft condemn the fpirit of thofe gentlemen, who, with a jolt confidence in their abilities, (in which I clai m a fort of {bare from my love and admiration of them) were of opinion that their exertions in this defperate cafe might be of fome fervice. They But when my opinion I mutt add, in further explanation of my conduct, that, far from foftening the features of fuch a principle, and thereby removinga ny part of the popular odium or nat ural terrors attending it, I fhould be forry, tha thing framed in contradiction to the t any {pir our conltitution did not infiantly pro it of duce in fact, the groflefl: of the evils, wit h which it was pregnant in its nature. It is by lyi ng dormant a long time, or being at firfi very rarely exercifed, that arbitrary pow er fieals upon a people. On the next unconf'titutional act, all the falhionable world will be ready to fay-Your prophecies are ridiculous, your fears are vain, you fee how little of the mifchiefs which you formerly foreboded are come to pafs. Thus, by degrees, that artful foftening of all arbitrary power, the all edg infrequency or narrow extent ofits operat ed will be received as a fort of aphori ion, fm-and Mr. Humewill not be tingular in tell ing us, that the felicity of mankind is no more difturbed by it, than by earthquakes, or thu nder, C or x America is fuppofed of courfe to be injamur in the right. was fo very clearly to the contrary, for the reafons I have juft fiated, Iam fuie my attendance would have been ridiculous. ear; . men of the greatelt wifdom and authority in the nation. Every thing propoflid again/i .. ; pears, is vain and frivolous. You may be lure, thatI do not {peak of my oppofition. which in all circumflances mutt be {0; but that of E I9 ] They thought, that by contracting the ofits application, they might leflen fphere the lignity of an evil principle. Perhaps mathey were .2 . 9",»..3 mqwmrdva‘WF "artwr ,- by minif'ters, where the name of America apa |