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people under the fascinating influence of glamar, 
who worfhip sucha phantom, and call it Liberty ? 
Are not those people in a delirium who call every new 
modulation, eterna/, though they see that the former 
everlasting institution did not exist a month? Blef+ 
sed be the country which gave me birth! and blef- 
sed be those who have preserved to. me the sacred. 
privileges I derive from that birthright !—In conse» 
quence of that, I can sit-in my garret, and laugh 
At low ambition and the pride of kings. 
I can write in favour of what I think right; I can in-. 
vestigate with freedom whatever appears to me to be: 
wrong. Thepen that is in my hand, though itbe worn 
to the stump, I can call my own; and I defy the proud-. 
est in this isle to take it fish me without my own 
consent. Not a hair on my bald pate can be touched: 
by the hand of power; not a pairing of my nail can be 
wrested from me by any one. My houses my eastle in. 
which I sleep secure ; and into which no one but the 
nightly robber, at the risk of his life, dares to intrude., 
I live as I will. Under the steady protection of the 
law, I go out and come in when I please; aad.if I en-- 
croach not on the property of others, no one has a 
right to afk me why I do so; or wherefore 1 do not 
comply with the rules they wifh to establifh. If I here 
exercise not the rights of man, I exercise the rights of 
s 
some superior being. When you can fhow me a coun. 
try that for half a century together has been able to 
boast of similar privileges, Ifhall believe that the Bri-. 
tifh constitution urges unjustly its claim to the highes& 
