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tion, the harder I find it to conceive that the Nature of Things can admit of a better. Other Governments, even when they deliberate on their Exiſtence, are obliged to truſt to imaginary Projects, or, at beſt, mere Poſſibilities. As to you, your Happineſs is ready made to your Hands; you have nothing to do but enjoy it; to be perfectly happy, you need only be ſatisfied with being ſo. Your Sovereignty, acquired or recovered by you at the point of your Swords, and maintained for two Ages by dint of Valour and Wiſdom, is at laſt fully and univerſally acknowledged. The moſt honourable Treaties have fixed your Li-
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