INTRODUCTION.
THE spirit of philofophy which pecu
liarly distinguishes the prefent age, after having corrected a number of errors fatal to fociety, feems now to be directed towards the principles of fociety itself, and we see preitself,—and judices vanifh which are difficult to overcome, in proportion as it is dangerous to attack them*. This rifing freedom of fentiment, the
As every popular notion which may contribute to the fupport of an arbitrary government is at all times. vigilantly protected by the whole strength of it, political