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ance a person so perfectly acquainted with the whole of American Chap. XX.} 1775. Feb. affairs, one whom all Europe ranks with our Boyles and Newtons, as an honor not to the English nation only, but to human nature. Overawed by the temper of the house, Dartmouth, with his wonted weakness, which made him execute the worst measures even when he seemed inclined to the best, turned round against his own candor, and declared for rejecting the plan immediately. This even Grafton advised; and Gower demanded. Perceiving the fixed purpose of the ministry, Chatham poured upon them a torrent of invective. This bill, said he, though rejected here, will make its way to the public, to the nation, to the remotest wilds of America; and however faulty or defective, it will at least manifest how zealous I have been to avert those storms which seem ready to burst on my country. Yet I am not surprised, that men who hate liberty, should detest those that prize it; or that those who want virtue