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At present it may be said there is no demand
for any such instrument of
general of loyalty and good behaviour
runs through the great mass of the common people
Thus So far added the observation true
that the demand for it may be regarded as
being at present to its very lowest possible: but
is the very reason why the occasion of
and employing it and setting it to work ought
not to be . Victoriesat for this moment keep
the people our Victories in spite ofthe unexampled
weight of public pressures, keep the people in good
humour: at the moment and for the moment,
in spite of the indefinitely increasing accumulating prospect of
unexampledincreasing pressures. endless prospect of unexampled
precedented and ever and state increasing pressures.burthens. But
one of these days peace will come: and then at
any rate (to say nothing of sinister accidents)
there will be an end of victories. Then recommence
the attacks upon the vitals of the
constitution with redoubled fury, then when
there is nothing to create a diversion in favour
of internal quietness. The tide of national ill
humour, of which at this moment so large a
portion finds vent by discharging itself upon
the our foreign enemies of the country, enemy, being then be
pent up within the country, will return into
its formerthe old demand, and shout itself of a most
government if some such means as what man imposed be not employ'd
to , will carry it off<add>it</add>off, to dissipate it, will press upon act against government will in
unexampled forces to stem it, will recoil upon
government with unexampled pressure.
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