In ſome caſes, thoſe ſuffer moſt who are leaſt intended to be hurt. If the French in the late war had taken an Engliſh city, and permitted the natives to keep their dwellings, how could it have been recovered, but by the ſlaughter of our friends? A bomb might as well deſtroy an Engliſhman as a Frenchman; and by famine we know that the inhabitants would be the firſt that ſhould periſh.
This infliction of promiſcuous evil may therefore be lamented, but cannot be blamed. The power of lawful government muſt be maintained; and the miſeries which rebellion produces, can be charged only on the rebels.
That man likewiſe is not a Patriot, who denies his governors their due praiſe, and who conceals from the people the benefits which they receive. Thoſe therefore can lay no claim to this illuſtrious appella-
