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such immense profit for serving your country, as you very gravely, though most ridiculously, call it; but, as I would term it, for serving yourself.

 

I doubt not, Sir, but you have already marked me down as one of "those enemies" (as you are pleased to call them) "of all government and subordination, so numerous in this country, who fail not to avail themselves of every opportunity, to spread universal dissatisfaction, and inflame the minds of the people to seek redress of their grievances by riots, rapine, and all kinds of disorders." This, Sir, is a language at which I am not surprized; as I know it is the common stile of every court-sycophant, from a lord of T——e and Pl——ns to a petty excise officer; from his gr——ce in the drawing-room to his scullion in the kitchen. Or, perhaps, you may take me for one of the opposition, of whom{{right|you]]