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each concession, which he is constrained to make,is regarded as a temporary tribute paid to factionand sedition, and is secretly attended with a re-solution of seizing every favorable opportunity toretract it. Nor should we imagine, that oppor-tunities of that kind will not offer in the courseof human affairs. Governments , especially thoseof a mixed kind, are in continual fluctuation:The humors of the people change perpetuallyfrom one extreme to another: And no resolutioncan be more wise, as well as more just, than thatof employing the -present advantages against theking who had formerly pushed much less tempt-ing ones to the utmost extremities against hispeople and his parliament. It is to be feared,that, if the religious rage, which has seized themultitude, be allowed to evaporate, they willquickly return to the ancient ecclesiastical establish-ment; and, with it, embrace those principles ofslavery, which it inculcates with such zeal on itssubmissive proselytes. Those patriots, who arenow the public idols, may then become theobjects of general detestation; and equal shoutsof joy attend their ignominious execution , withthose which second their present advantages andtriumphs. Nor ought the apprehension of suchan event to be regarded in them as a selfish con-sideration : In their safety is involved the securityof the laws : The patrons of the constitutioncannot suffer without a fatal blow to the consti-tution : And it is but justice in the public to pro-tect , at any hazard, those who have so generously