thoſe, who have with equal blindneſs hated their country.
Theſe anti-patriotic prejudices are the abortions of Folly impregnated by Faction, which being produced againſt the ſtanding order of Nature, have not ſtrength ſufficient for long life. They are born only to ſcream and periſh, and leave thoſe to contempt or deteſtation, whoſe kindneſs was employed to nurſe them into miſchief.
To perplex the opinion of the Publick many artifices have been uſed, which, as uſually happens when falſehood is to be maintained by fraud, loſe their force by counteracting one another.
The nation is ſometimes to be mollified by a tender tale of men, who fled from tyranny to rocks and deſerts, and is perſuaded to loſe all claims of juſtice, and all ſenſe of dignity, in compaſſion for a harm-
