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and your Attention to their Welfare, the Reſpect and Obedience they yield to you; a Conduct this full of Juſtice and Wiſdom, and fit to obliterate more and more the Memory of thoſe unfortunate Events, which ought to be buried in eternal Silence and Oblivion! a Conduct the more judicious, as this equitable and generous People make a Pleaſure of their Duty; are naturally fond of honouring you; and the moſt zealous among them to maintain their own Rights and Privileges are at the ſame time the beſt diſpoſed to reſpect yours.
We ought not to think it ſtrange that the Heads of a civil Society
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