rity, and a pretended love of their country, meant nothing at the bottom, but themselves; fo that when the bait was thrown before them, they fwallowed it at once, made feparate bargains, and left their friends to shift, as they could.

THE very thing; only you have a little dilated the thought.-There we left off, and there Cato began.

You cannot but be fenfible, my countrymen and fellow-citizens, under what a disadvantage we lie, who profess a zeal for the public interest: there is an infidelity in the people, and there is cause for that infidelity: they having been so often deceived and abused. I may, I think, without vanity affirm, that there is a great deal of difference between us, and the men, who acted this ignominious, and mischievous part; ignominious to themselves, mifchievous to their country: and when this difference is fairly laid before the people; I cannot conceive, it will be a very difficult task for us to recover that confidence, which they had fo unwittingly misplaced

in others:

PRAY, what were the perfons, who fo duped them, and ftigmatized themselves? were not many of them fuch as had accepted places, and long fought the battles of the grand fyftematical corrupter? were they not perfons, who had travelled with him, blind-fold, through all his dirty meanders; unheeding, where they trod, what destruction they made, or what their progress

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SIRS; what our worthy prolocutor has been pleased to obferve, deferves, in my opinion, our moft deliberate confideration.

I know very well; I have long known the public virtues of your hearts; and that you have no other ends in view; fave the intereft, the prefervation, and true glory of your country: but let us not blast the good effects of all these virtues, by being wanting in that cardinal one of prudence.

You cannot but be convinced from what is paft: how much greater weight we must have had; how much more good we might have done the public, had we been always cautious and unanimous in our conduct. From paft overfights let us learn wisdom.

WHAT? fhall the betrayers, the plunderers, the fellers of the conftitution and nation unite in. a body, as one man? fhall fuch a detestable confpiracy, who have nothing to cement them, but their common guilt, act unanimoufly to distress and deftroy a common-wealth and fhall not we, who are tied together by a virtuous friendfhip, be equally unanimous in its prefervation? fhall we unhappily fplit and divide, to the triumph and ftrengthening of the enemy; when we have no difpute about the end, but only about the means of pursuing it.

IT is certain every gentleman has a right to debate the matter, and to vote as things appear to his judgment: and in all public councils, it

feems reasonable, that the greater number should carry

carry the question: public business can be difpatched by no other method.

NEVERTHELESS, let us not reason wrong upon this right rule: for if a minority have no motive to byafs their opinions, but those generous ones, which virtue and truth infpire; it will, in the fcale of reafon, outweigh a majority, where avarice and ambition are concerned in their determinations.

As to my part, I care not, who the man of power is: let him have his levees : let the little great ones bow down to, and worship him: let him have the daubings, the flatteries, which are ever infeparable from power; I envy him not: they are the pageantries of a day: ftrip him of his office, they all vanish at once.

BUT tho' I care not, my fellow citizens, who the man is, yet what he is, is mine, is yours, is the whole nations concern. Let him have genius; let him have a true British heart; let him be an honeft man; and then the world fhall fee whether we will oppose him. It is directly contrary to all profeffions; it is repugnant to the character of a virtuous and wife man, to oppofe a minifter, because he is a minifter. Let him but pursue measures, agreeable to the conftitution of this free nation; to the benefit and honour of his country and be he old or new, he may be fecure, I am perfuaded, of all the countenance and affiftance we can give him.

MEMMIUS fat down, and was feconded by Atticus; but his fpeech was fhort.

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THE unanimity recommended by my honourable friend, needs no illuftration; it is like a felf-evident propofition: to explain is to darken it it wants no light, but what it carries within itself. There is another thing however which it may not be improper to just mention; and that is perfeverance.

SHOULD your honeft attempts happen to be repelled in one onfet, be not difheartened; renew them again, and with recruited vigour : fhould you be defeated a fecond time, lay not down the arms you have taken up in the caufe of liberty and truth; they are the daughters of heaven, and heaven will confpire with you in defending it's children.

I have lived long in the world, and have seen the various ebbs and flows of perfons and things; and you cannot imagine, what even a few, honeft, difinterested men may do; who have nothing in view, but the good of their country, and who are refolutely determined never to abandon it but then, they muft ufe prudence; they must watch narrowly the feafons and occafions, which in the whirl of time will turn up, and confpire with them. Should you fucceed; think what an honour it will be hereafter; what a heart-felt joy at prefent, to fhine in the future annals of this age, as fo many patres patriæ, faviours and protectors of your country and fhould you not fucceed, the glory of attempting it will render your name immortal.

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ATTICUS having done, there was a general clap, which fignified the approbation of the whole affembly; the noife of which was fo great, that it awaked me.

THUS, Ofellus, I have given you the fubftance of my night's vifion; and though it has -the regularity and confiftency of our waking thoughts, you cannot wonder, if you believe with me, that a divinity inspired it.

I thank you, Britannicus; had I the felicity

of fuch interesting and inftructive dreams, I

should never consider sleep, as a blank or chasm in our existence.

D.

No. 11. SATURDAY, October 18th, 1755.

For knaves and fools b'ing near of kin,
As Dutch Boors are t'a Sooterkin,
Both parties join'd to do their best,
To damn the public interest ;
And herded only in confults,
To put by one another's bolts.

HUDIBRAS.

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