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they do not understand flioemaking better than 

 fhoemakers ; the other is, to persuade Ihoemakers 

 that they do not understand legislating better than 

 legislators. The latter point is particularly difficult 

 in our own dear country ; but the other is the har- 

 dest of all hard things every where." 



These, Mr Editor, are the plain thoughts of a plain 

 man, exprefsed plainly and without disguise. I 

 fliall conclude these lucubrations with an illustration, 

 by way of variety. 



The constitution of Britain may be likened to 

 a rose, which, though one of the most beautiful ob- 

 jects in nature, still is armed with thorns, that 

 sometimes prick those to the quick who come near 

 it. This rose, however, with all its defects, is 

 the finest object of its kind that is to be met with in 

 nature ; and may therefore be called the rose unique. 

 It was picked up by our forefathers, some thousand 

 years ago, in the wilds of Germanj"-, where it was a 

 poor, weakly, stinted thing; but being transplanted 

 into the Britidi soil, it there took root and throve 

 amazingly. It has been there carefully nursed and 

 improved by incefsant culture, till it has gradually 

 acquired a health, a vigour, a magnitude, that never 

 had a parallel upon the globe. Its foliage is frefb ; 

 and it yields every year such an amazing abundance of 

 beautiful and fragrant flowers, as to be the astonilh- 

 ment of all the universe. People from the most dis- 

 tant nations come to look at and admire it. But still 

 these cursed thorns give infinite umbrage to some 

 finical gardeners, who v/ill be satisfied with nothing 

 fhort of perfection. These thorns are, to such per- 



