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Excerpt from A Second Letter to the Author of an Examination of the Principles and Conduct of the Two B Rs: In Which the Many Misrepresentations and Groundless Conjectures, Contained in His Second Series of Facts and Arguments, &C., Are Detected and Exposed
Princes are but Men, and, confequently, have their Pafiions and Foibles, as well as others; therefore may, pofiibly, be mil'ca ken in their Points of Purfuit. It is for this Reafon, that minifterial Officers are, and have been introduced; and that Minilter, who is tenacious of his Duty, will never confent to any Meafures of his Matter, or of a private Favourite when he finds them again?; his Sovereign 3 real Interef't; but will always oppofe and remove them in a pru dent Manner, and with fuch Conduct and Decency, as 'the Refpeé't due to his Prince and Superior requires. Such Minifiers will always ?and their Ground, in fpite of Envy, Malice, or Hatred. Much it were to be wilhed, that in all council-cham bers, were placed in large Italic Characters, the Saying of a certain wife Monarch of Antiquity, which he was frcquently wont to repeat to his state-counfellms, viz. 11971572 I am going to do a om Deed, and you do not oppofe me, it is your 1767 and not mme.
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