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Show ( II l " the limiting qualification, inflead oftaking " out the Ring, does, in my humble opinion " {harpen and envenom it to a greater degree." And, in another, he adds, " that far from fof‘ " tening the features of fuch a principle, and " thereby removing any part of the popular ". odium or. natural terrors attending it, I fhould " diculous, your fears are vain, you fee how little " of the mifchiefs which you formerly foreboded " are come to pafs. Thus by degrees that artful " foftenm0 of all arbitrary power, the alledged ‘i‘nfrequency or narrow extent ofits operation, " will be received as a fortof aphorifm: and Mr. " Hume will not be fingular in telling us, that " be forry,rthat any thingframed in contradiétion " the felicity of mankind is no more dillurbed " to the fpirit of our confiitution did not inftantly " produce in fact, the grofleft of the evils, with " which it was pregnant in its nature." 80 that amendment, by foftening the features, and re- moving the p0pular odium, without producing the grollelt of evils with which it was pregnant in its nature, has, if I may ufe fuch terms of " by it, than by earthquakes, or thunder, or the " other more unufual accidents of nature." Now as to the falhionable world, living as they do under the tyranny of that greatel't of all tyrants, ffilm, upon fuch an occafion, I {hould hardly look up to them as a fit court of appeal. And as to Mr. Hume, let thofe remember who contrariety, made the bill worfi'. Such is the adopt his aphorifms-that that great philan- doctrine of Mr. Bu1ke, and juft it may be: but if1t be, I can only fay that he and I fee objeé'rs through different mediums; and that if he thinks it right to do evil that good may come of it I with to do good, by averting the evil. The phyfician that Props the progrefs of a difeafe, may, at one time or another, hope for its cure; but he that leaves the clifeafe to the efforts of nature alone, truf'rs to a caufe that is very unfu1e in the effeé't. Mr. Burke, however, thropifi and friend of liberty, Doétor Franklin, has not, in the depths of his wifdom thought, " alledged infrequency or narrow extent of ope" ration," any argument to prevent the protec- tion of mankind even " againft the more un" ufual accidents of nature,' and let them111 the remembring of this, regret, that his poli‘tics, like his philofophy, have not been the fubjeé'ts of our experiment. Happy, thrice in aid of his opinion fays, that, " 0n the next happy, had it been for this country, if, inftead of befetting this able man with foulmouthed " unconf'titutional aé't, all the fafhionable world language, and indecent mockery, (indecent " will be ready to fay-Your prophecies are ri- f‘ diculous, doubly |