$66. 
and rural improvements might look. for- 
@ard with the moi pleafing expectations ! 
' How many thoufands of ufeful members 
of the community, feeling themfelves re- 
lieved from-a burden always irkfome in 
ifs nature, and frequently oppreffive by 
its. weight, would gather new vigour 
from their arduous. and important par- 
fame! As men who had been accul- 
fomed te labour for a foreign intereft, 
and to juftain. diadvanteges commenly 
proportioned toe their indultry,---as men 
liable te be counteracted by heavy taxa- 
tion on their beft projeé:s of edyance- 
ment;---as men frequently harrafled by 
thofe ef their own order waofe exeions 
thsy could neizher brook. nor renel, and 
imfpeGied and . prefled by others whord 
they withed to regard with fome cegree 
of reverence, they had- heretafore beex 
- galled and agitated -between-real hard fhip 
end conftant apprelienfion! Delivered at 
Jenizth from the flanding caufe of com- 
plaint, and enceuraged. by the certainty of 
igbouring and improving chiefs for their 
ewa_emolument, they will take a new 
oharateer im fociety, and become a be- 
mefit to that fociety in proportien to. the 
Hberty of their new fituation, 
gs To THE NATION AT. LARGE. 
. Kaying fhewn the diladvantaces of the 
old and vexatious fyftem ; the mizapplica- 
tion of Fithes from their original defi gn, 
the prefent noa-neceflity of they exif. 
-eence; the means by which they may be 
_ mfemoved; and the advantages which 
Would confequently refuit te particular 
cigfes from that removal, I come now, 
cand lafily, to fam mp the whoie in a few 
words. 
The whole nation thus rensyated in an 
article of the irft confequence to its prof 
_ perity, would have a new face of witdem, 
-echeerfulnefs; and content. Every citid 
gen would have anew pledge, that, wader 
the bieflmg of Providence, he is in that 
fiuation im which the fruits of the earth, 
“excellent and comely,” would be cul- 
tivated and brovght forth in the greatet 
‘ abundance which the foil and the ele- 
tachts are adapted to fupply. Ingennity 
end vfetul indufiry would operate with- 
out refiraint, Avhere they could be mof 
'. effeétually exercifed fer the fupply of hu- 
manwants. Theattachment of Englith- 
wach, under firch improved circumftances, 
might be expested to be more firmly fixed 
and rivetted to their native home; in- 
ftead of their withing to migrate te dif- 
tant regiens im gueft of. more fruithal 
ficids, and more-happy habitations. - Rey 
Plan for the Matton of Pies * 
| t Sup. 
ligion, the laft great fource of human 
felicity, would be more uniformly and 
focialy cherifhed; and that brotherly 
love, which is one of its moit amiable. 
features, would haye’a fairer protpeét of 
a more rooted cultivation and growth! 
Such are the diftin&® advantages which 
would evidently refult from fuch meafures 
as we have been confidering; and, Itruft, the 
evidence of them is too clear, not to gain 
the affent of the generality of my readers s 
fome will be found ready to ecntroverp 
my reafoning, as a matter of courley 
others will approve with relu@ance, and 
will perhaps tell me that to turn the weaka. 
nefs of the huraan mind into feng h, 
ments heweve L, might i 
of expeftation! Yet 
ch ee 
~¥; ‘ae 
viyery of the avorld, both moval 
ve 
Lhe sii 
and political, bax ever ariféa from tha 
EUEF 
fin) Tm 
ihere never was. an overthrow of 4 
government, cr a dangerous commoti 
in any fate, but what was engender 
by habits of cultivating error, and giv- 
ing Jandliox and coutinuente ta fome evi} 
policy,. inftead of petite Ry | 
embracing a found-one. ‘This falie an 
wicked policy, always foftered for the 
fuppofed intereft of fome uaprincipled 
individuals, will ever lead to its own 
punifhment, in the general refukt. - But 
it is the infallible property of truth to 
ftand invulnerable, and to thield thofe 
individuals and thofe governments whe 
bravely embrace her whenever fhe aps 
pears, aud repofe under her baimer! 
‘There is an eternal di€tinStion of right 
and wrong, good and evil, in the whole 
of human condy&, from the largeit meas 
fures ef the large& connexions, down fo 
the fmalleft. efforts of approbation or 
diflent, in the moit obfcure individual 
who acts in them. And thefe diftinc. 
tions are never without. their phyfical 
effeis, in proportion to the quantity of 
truth or error, by which the a€tiens and 
policy of men. are fwayed. Nothing, 
therefore, however imal, is unimportant 
in the whole of things, or of any particug 
lar department of things, to whichit natu- 
rally belongs. Human condudtis naturally 
liable to error ; but.zrxth fhould be fought 
out in all circumitances, and in all times, 
and be inemeigyely applicd as the natal 
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