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THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.
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BACUFFA.
From 1719 to 1729.
Bloody Reign—Exterminates the Conspirators—Counterfeits Death—Becomes very popular.
HONEST men, who loved their country, saw the dangerous situation it was then in. Every day had produced instances of a growing indifference to that form of government which, from the earliest times, they had looked upon as sacred; and upon every slight and unreasonable disgust a person of consequence thought he had met with, a party was immediately formed, and nothing less was agreed on than directly imbruing their hands in the blood of their sovereign.
A prince was necessary who had qualities of mind proper to enable him to put a stop to these enormities before they involved the state in one scene of anarchy and ruin,
