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 a constitution muft this ftate have, to belye 

 the predi&ions of fo many phyficians, for 

 fo many years ! 



Many very fenfible and uncontroverted 

 reafonings, as well as facts, have been ufed 

 in declamations againft debts and taxes ; 

 but vifionary ideas of a perfect conduct are 

 not the enquiry, unlefs it is proved that 

 our enemies in Europe are happy in the 

 practice of fuch a conduct : For when we 

 are told that our debts and taxes are to en- 

 flave us to France, it feems to be forgotten 

 that our neighbour has her debts and taxes 

 as well as ourfelves, and is yet more op- 

 preiTed by them. 



When we are told, that it would be im- 

 pomble to find men or money for another 

 war, it reminds me of the ftate of Britain 

 in 1749. Had any man, at the termina- 

 tion of that war, predicted that another 

 would enfue in five years, in which this 

 country would expend above an hundred 

 millions, add feventy-five millions to her 

 debt, and keep, for feveral years, above 

 four hundred thoufand men in pay ; that 

 fhe would do all this, and increafe, during 

 the whole period, in income, power, and 

 wealth, and remain at the conclufion of it 

 in a moft flourishing iituation ; had any 

 man, I fay, dared to conceive fuch an idea, 



would 



