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is the inveſtigation of ſomething doubtful. An Italian philoſopher obſerves, that no man deſires to hear what he has already ſeen.
If their aſſemblies have been ſuddenly diſſolved, what was the reaſon? Their deliberations were indecent, and their intentions ſeditious. The power of diſſolution is granted and reſerved for ſuch times of turbulence. Their beſt friends have been lately ſoliciting the King to diſſolve his Parliament, to do what they ſo loudly complain of ſuffering.
That the ſame vengeance involves the innocent and guilty is an evil to be lamented, but human caution cannot prevent it, nor human power always redreſs it. To bring miſery on thoſe who have not deſerved it, is part of the aggregated guilt of rebellion.
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