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- differ not much in sound; and by those who under- 
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taking effectual measures for getting the fire set to 
it. Wein Britain may be spectators of the blaze at 
a distance, if we please; but I trust we are blefsed 
with more grace than to think of intermeddling in it, 
While we are not the insurers, what businefs have 
we to prevent any man from burning his house wher 
he pleases ?—Is it not his own? and if he will set it 
on fire, let him look to the consequences. 
_ With regard to the French, they have got the ra- 
dies to such a degree, and the paroxysm is just now 
at such a height, that a wise man would as soon en- 
counter a pack of mad dogs, as have any thing to do 
with them. What businefs have we to prevent them 
_ from worrying and tearing each other to pieces, in 
_ their own way? If they are pleased to hang one an- 
other first, and then try them, and find they were in- 
nocent afterwards, as our Jedburgh judges did before 
them, why fhould wedisturb ourselves about it ? What 
in thename of wonder is it to us whether Lewis, or Pe- 
thion, or Brifsot, or Roberspierre, or Marat, or Gré- 
-goire, or Condorcet, or Chabot, or any other per- 
‘son among them fhall have the sway ? and what con- 
erns it to us, whether Prerogative, Hereditary 
Right, or Rights of Man, be the words made use of 
for the purpose of establifhing the dominion of those 
who with to bear sway among them. These words 
_ stand them aright, are nearly of the same signifi- 
‘eance, and only mean that they are the terms with 
‘which the people are pleased to be gulled at the pre- 
“sent time; and therefore they are employed by those _ 
who find they serve their purpose, till they become 
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