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best of my power, how much it is their 

 mutual interest to act cordially together, 

 and have offered every motive for such an 

 union; and I hope that prejudices, how- 

 ever strongly rooted, however enforced by 

 those who may be interested in the separa- 

 tion, will at last give way. I may, perhaps, 

 be thought somewhat caustick for a peace- 

 maker, and, I must own, 



" My zeal flows warm and eager from my bosom." 



But if war be made for the sake of peace, 

 those who doubt the wisdom of the expe- 

 dient will agree, that it ought to be prose- 

 cuted with vigour. 



I never was in company with Mr. 

 Brown, nor even knew him by sight, and 

 therefore can have no personal dislike to 

 him'; but I have heard numberless in- 

 stances of his arrogance and despotism, 

 and such high pretensions seem to me 

 little justified by his works. Arrogance 

 and imperious manners, which even joined 

 to the truest merit and the most splendid 

 talents, create disgust and opposition, 

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