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I hope, Sir, you will lay aside your ill-grounded Suspicions of me, and join to punish the real Contrivers of this bloody Deed. [Offers to go.

It was first printed without his name, and is a severe satire against the contrivers and abettors of the opposition against King Charles II.

MOST subtle, and most accursed of all cruel Contrivers! thou didst thyself, then, set that Villain on thy foolish and fond Father, by whom his Blood was shed, and his Life nearly lost.

But, as the morals of the great body of the people are not yet so corrupt as those of the contrivers of this statute, I have not heard that any advantage has ever been taken of this clause.

It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to; and among this latter class, our merchants and manufacturers have been by far the principal architects.

The contrivers of taxes have, probably, found some difficulty in ascertaining what part of the rent ought to be considered as ground-rent, and what part ought to be considered as building-rent.

The contrivers of the several taxes which in England have, at different times, been imposed upon houses, seem to have imagined that there was some great difficulty in ascertaining, with tolerable exactness, what was the real rent of every house.

But the contrivers of this scheme of Government will not trust solely to the military power; because they are cunning men.

For a considerable time this separation of the representatives from their constituents went on with a silent progress; and had those, who conducted the plan for their total separation, been persons of temper and abilities any way equal to the magnitude of their design, the success would have been infallible: but by their precipitancy they have laid it open in all its nakedness; the nation is alarmed at it; and the event may not be pleasant to the contrivers of the scheme.

The story runs thus: When the most powerful, sagacious and wise Deity had, in six days, put the finishing stroke to his work-no less a performance than that of composing the world- when he had properly arranged the heavenly bodies, adjusted the musick of the spheres, and fitted every star to its orbit: when the secret springs which moved and regulated this sublime machine were curiously concealed from the acutest examiner, and when an impenetrable veil was thrown over the arcana of nature; [Page 137] it is said, that the great author of the whole, in the ineffability of his indulgence, amused himself with observing the progress of those ingenious little contrivers who call themselves PHILOSOPHERS.

Coach and four at Command, we took the Benefit of the Morning Air in the Park, and her Grace the Dutchess of Marlborough, being then in London, we frequently visited her Lodge, celebrated for its curious and inimitable Pieces of Painting; and in the Afternoon drove to the antient College of Eton, fam'd for Learning, and so eminent in the Numbers of bright [Page 54] and ingenious Gentlemen, who are deservedly deem'd the Pride and Glory of their Country; Nor was the Castle unobserv'd, that noble and magnificent Structure, so much honoured with the Presence of our ancient Monarchs, and greatly ornamented and embellish'd by various and bizarre Figures, form'd in different Shapes, from Numberless Arms, by the ingenious and artful Contrivers.

All the letters are written while the hearts of the writers must be supposed to be wholly engaged in their subjects (the events at the time generally dubious): so that they abound not only in critical situations, but with what may be called instantaneous descriptions and reflections (proper to be brought home to the breast of the youthful reader;) as also with affecting conversations; many of them written in the dialogue or dramatic way. 'Much more lively and affecting,' says one of the principa ... ess; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty (the events then hidden in the womb of fate;) than the dry, narrative, unanimated style of a person relating difficulties and danger surmounted, can be; the relater perfectly at ease; and if himself unmoved by his own story, not likely greatly to affect the reader.' What will be found to be more particularly aimed at in the following work is--to warn the inconsiderate and thoughtless of the one sex, against the base arts and designs of specious contrivers of the other--to caution parents against the undue exercise of their natural authority over their children in the great article of marriage--to warn children against preferring a man of pleasure to a man of probity upon that dangerous but too-commonly-received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband--but above all, to investigate the highest and most important doctrines not only of morality, but of christianity, by showing them thrown into action in the conduct of the worthy characters; while the unworthy, who set those doctrines at defiance, are condignly, and, as may be said, consequentially punished.

The snares will shortly gather about thee; but wish not to change places with the contrivers; for thy days will outlast those of their retribution." Again was the spirit silent; and yet again once more did his descendant question him, anxious to have the advice of one that saw so far, and that spoke the truth so purely, and loved him so well. "Too plainly, my father," said Dante, "do I see the time coming, when a blow is to be struck me, heaviest ever to the man that is not true to himself.

But though a common voter could only be ranged in an effectual constituency, and a common candidate only reach a constituency by obeying the orders of the political election-contrivers upon his side, certain voters and certain members would be quite independent of both.

Let us now take a glance at a snug little commercial bubble, blown into being by 'highly respectable men,' a private affair altogether, which never had a name upon 'Change, and was managed-we cannot say to the satisfaction of all parties-by the originating contrivers, without making any noise in the papers, or exciting public attention in any way.

"As patriots declared independence, the Quakers, who continued to do business with the British, were attacked as supporters of British rule, ""contrivers and authors of seditious publications"" critical of the revolutionary cause.Gottlieb"


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