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Sir, ‘To the Editor of the Bee. 
It wilt give me pleasure if this fhort paper fhall ap- 
pear to you worthy of a place in your useful mis- 
cellany. A STRANGER. 
A VISION. 
Durinc the troublesome times of the last century, 
a gentleman of the royal party was obliged from 
some private businefs, to travel into a distant part 
of the country. Being overtaken by a violent 
storm, he took fhelter under the hospitable roof of a 
friend, with whom he had been familiarly acquaint. 
ed in the early period of life. After a comfortable 
refrefhment, and a fhort account of what had befal. 
len him since the time of their separation, he turn- 
ed the conversation to politics, and exprefsed with 
much force and animation, his apprehensions of the to- 
tal destruction of Great Britain. Benevolus, (for 
such was the name of his kind entertainer,) heard 
him with pleasure, ‘and joined in execrating those 
scenes to which they had been constrained to bear 
witnefs. But, added this good man, I am per- 
suaded, that all will yet be well,—ihat from the a. 
narchy and confusion which now desolate our bor- 
ders, there will arise a constitution more perfect 
than has ever fallen to the lot of any people. Upon 
seeing astonifhment spread itself on the countenance 
of his guest, he proceeded to check the doubt which 
had begun to rise in his mind. 
** Although I am not the dupe of superstition, 
hor apt to be deceived by the creatures of imagina- 
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