Still leſs does the true Patriot circulate opinions which he knows to be falſe. No man, who loves his country, fills the nation with clamorous complaints, that the Proteſtant religion is in danger, becauſe Popery is eſtabliſhed in the extenſive province of Quebec, a falſehood ſo open and ſhameleſs, that it can need no confutation among thole who know that of which it is almoſt impoſſible for the moſt unenlightened zealot to be ignorant.
That Quebec is on the other ſide of the Atlantic, at too great a diſtance to do much good or harm to the European world:
That the inhabitants, being French, were always Papiſts, who are certainly more dangerous as enemies, than as ſubjects:
That though the province be wide, the people are few, probably not ſo many
