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the country, have been known to continue 

 them for three or four miles of their road 

 home.* 



* The following is an extract from a Letter infert- 

 ed in the Gentleman's Magazine for September, 

 1799. p. 741. It is dated from Denbigh, and has the 

 fignature W. M. B. " What renders this feet par- 

 " ticularly dangerous is, that the preachers are in 

 " general inftruments of Jacobinifm, fent into this 

 * country to difleminate their doctrines; and I af- 

 " fure you, that Paine 's Works, and other books of 

 " the like tendency have been tranjlated into Weljk* 

 " and, Jecretly diftributed about by the leaders of this 

 tf fett. Thefe are fafts which may be depended on, 

 " and which are well known to many in this coun- 

 " try as well as to myfelf." Such is the zeal which 

 the enemies of our country exhibit in difTeminating 

 their poifonous principles into the minds of the illi- 

 terate and vulgar, who unable to fee through their 

 mallow artifices, are frequently I fear too eafily led 

 into their wicked defigns. 



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