ſhall be excluded from power and from profit, has produced ſo little effect, let us conſider the oppoſition as no longer formidable. The great engine has recoiled upon them. They thought that the terms they ſent were terms of weight, which would have amazed all and ſtumbled many; but the conſternation is now over, and their foes ſtand upright, as before.
With great propriety and dignity the king has, in his ſpeech, neglected or forgotten them. He might eaſily know, that what was preſented as the ſenſe of the people, is the ſenſe only of the profligate and diſſolute; and that whatever Parliament ſhould be convened, the ſame petitioners would be ready, for the ſame reaſon, to requeſt its diſſolution.
As we once had a rebellion of the clowns, we have now an oppoſition of the pedlars. The quiet of the nation has been
