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into a long and elaborate difcuffion of fo 

 difficult A fubjed- It will be fufficient for 

 me to obferve, that the only principle which 

 cannot be contefted, is that which gives to 

 every fociety the right of expelling thofe 

 who occalion in it trouble and diforder. 

 But why have civilized nations made, as 

 yet, fcarcely any ufe of a power fo juft and 

 humane ? Would tlie earth be too fmall for 

 receiving all the difturbers of public tran- 

 quillity ? Africa, Afia, and America afford 

 immenfe tra£l:s of land, uncultivated and 

 uninhabited, into which if malefadors 

 were difperfed, they might introduce our 

 language, our arts, and our induftry ? This^ 

 perhaps, might ftill be the effe<5tual means 

 of removing thofe obftacles which form a 

 barrier between us and the rich commerce of 

 India, by the ifthmus of Suez, and the Red 

 Sea. If the difficulty of approaching that 

 eoaft, and the ftill greater difFiculty of find- 

 ing 



