The civil war was fought for what each army called and believed the beſt religion, and the beſt government. The ſtruggle in the reign of Anne, was to exclude or reſtore an exiled king. We are now diſputing, with almoſt equal animoſity, whether Middleſex ſhall be repreſented or not by a criminal from a jail.
The only comfort left in ſuch degeneracy is, that a lower ſtate can be no longer poſſible.
In this contemptuous cenſure, I mean not to include every ſingle man. In all lead, ſays the chemiſt, there is ſilver; and in all copper there is gold. But mingled maſſes are juſtly denominated by the greater quantity, and when the precious particles are not worth extraction, a faction and a pig muſt be melted down together to the forms and offices that chance allots them.
Fiunt urceoli, pelves, ſartago, patellæ.
