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A few weeks will now ſhew whether the Government can be ſhaken by empty noiſe, and whether the faction which depends upon its influence, has not deceived alike the Public and itſelf. That it ſhould have continued till now, is ſufficiently ſhameful. None can indeed wonder that it has been ſupported by the ſectaries, the natural fomenters of ſedition, and confederates of the rabble, of whoſe religion little now remains but hatred of eſtabliſhments, and who are angry to find ſeparation now only tolerated, which was once rewarded; but every honeſt man muſt lament, that it has been regarded with frigid neutrality by the Tories, who, being long accuſtomed to ſignalize their principles by oppoſition to the court, do not yet confider that they have at laſt a king who knows not the name of party, and who wiſhes to be the common father of all his people.

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