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faulty or defective opeiatwn and influence on the 

 happinefs of the people, and without a single indivi- 

 dual being to be found in the whole realm, to prove 

 at the bar of the house, a real injury received from it^ 

 except in his brain, heated by the declamations of 

 artful men. I can afsure you of another fact, that 

 the proposal of new modelling your constitution to 

 the new theory of government, is affording a great 

 triumph to those who wifli to justify what has been 

 done in France ; and they find the declamations of the 

 opposition, excellent weapons to combat their anta- 

 gonists, who hold up Great Britain, as the most so- 

 lid and wise nation of the modern world, whilst they 

 maliciously agree with them, that the insulted con- 

 stitution, has already united what all nations and all 

 ages have been in search of, vi%. personal liberty, 

 security of property, with unlimited trade, and the 

 natural result of these three blefsings, national pro- 

 sperity*. 



This being confefsed both at home and abroad, 

 you can easily conceive the astonilhment of men who 

 sigh for, and languifh after, what the Almighty has 

 so liberally granted you, on hearing of a proposal 

 to put these greatest of earthly bltfsmgs to the rifk, 



* They afsert, that even the late bankruptcies is the greatest proof 

 of it, that could be given in the nature of things, as the cause of them 

 was a degree of credit unparalleled in the history of commerce. In 

 what nation, do they a(k, were there ever heard ot hundreds of indi- 

 viduals, pafsing their private notes to the amount of many times their 

 fortune, o;z fl /lar with gold andsilve.r, whilst most of the national 

 paper on the continent, and that of so many crowned heads, is sa 

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