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home, says the proverb, and when your own house 
is on fire, you will hardly be persuaded to run a mile 
to extinguifh the flames of another. Such a history 
affords about as much entertainment and satisfaction 
as the chronicle of Tyburn. The’ balance both of 
virtues and abilities turns perhaps in favour of the 
triple tree. What is‘the guilt of a simple footpad 
to that of a tyrant, who wantonly drives whole em- 
pires into an ocean of blood? The Britith cabinet 
may be considered as a kind of volcano in the mora/ 
world, spreading destruction in the proportion of an 
Alps to a mole hill beyond the petty ravages of Etna, 
or Vesuvius. 
Laurencekirk Timotuy THUNDERPROOF, 
April 16. 1792. 
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ANECDOTE. 
Iy the year 1774, two soldiers took a fancy to go 
hear a sermon; the orator was ‘Mr Murray, well 
known for his doctrine of universal salvation, In 
the afternoon of the same day, another preacher ex- 
hibited; but his doctrine was diametrically the re- 
verse of what they had heard in the morning. 
“Tom,” said one of them, ‘‘ do you hear how 
differently these folks preach? Which of them do 
you intend to believe?” ‘‘ I’ll be d——n’d,” says 
Tom, ‘if I believe either of em yet a while, till 
I see it come out in general orders,” 
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