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are evaded, the social compact is destroyed, the great deep is broken up, and "gorgons, monsters, and chimeras dire," rise from the abyss, to astonish and terrify both the guilty and the innocent. Such was the punishment preparing for Lady Anne, and likely to involve her perfectly innocent daughter.
ther her mighty empire shall expand or contract, her personal happiness continue brilliant with love and joy, or submit to the common changes which are the lot of humanity, this gem shall sparkle in her crown, as "the immediate jewel" of her people's love, and the virtue they are called to imitate, for ever and for ever!—Editor's Note.
