Howcitizens a summary of his principles, and of his conduct in public affairs. He set down a few lines in execution of this proje6l: but when he recollected, as he was obliged to do, thirty years of labor directed to the public service and the multitude of fugitive pieces in which, since the revolution, he had uniformly attacked every institution inimical to liberty, he rejected the idea of a useless justification Tree as he was from the dominion of the passions, he could not consent to stain the purity of his mind by recollecting his persecutors ;perpetually and sublimely inattentive to himself, he determined to consecrate the short space that remained betveen him and death to a work of general and permanent iitility. That work is the performance now given to the world.
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