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JOSIAH TUCKER, JD.E)
DEAN of GLOUCESTER.
HAD this acute politician and excellent citizen lived in Greece or in
Rome, he would have had ftatues and altars railed to him. From his
earlieft youth he appears to have been a friend to his country and the uni-
verfe ;
Non JdJ Jed toti genii um fe credere mundo.
Whether he writes againft the barbarous cuftom of throwing at cocks, or
whether againft a war that coft this country forty thouiand men, the
Americans eighty thoufand, and incurred an additional debt to England of
eighty millions, benignity, good fenfe, and good intention, ever guide his
pen. Whether he reprobates fome errors that may have crept into our
excellent religious eftablifhment, or any abfurd and monopolizing practices
that may have infefted our commerce, the fame acutenefs, the fame phi-
lanthropy pervade all. However a friend he may have been in his writings
to an eftablifhment in religions opinions, he has been an equal friend to
univerfal toleration. His fate, indeed, has been that of the Trojan Pro®
p hetefs”^
n- ■■fatis aperit Caffandra j'uturis
Ora5 Dei jujjii non unquam credita Deucris.
It ieems as if in a mind of energy the train of thinking was laid, and
that there wanted only a fpark to fet it on fire. The Dean was led to coni’
mercial fpeculations perhaps by a circumftance which took place in the
little fea port town of Aberyftwith, where he lived in early life. The town
was divided into partizans of the Houfe of Hanover and the Houfe of Stuart
The latter, to gain over the Inhabitants to their caufe, tiled to tell them*
that if their Prince (as the Pretender was then called) came in, they fhould
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DEAN of GLOUCESTER.
HAD this acute politician and excellent citizen lived in Greece or in
Rome, he would have had ftatues and altars railed to him. From his
earlieft youth he appears to have been a friend to his country and the uni-
verfe ;
Non JdJ Jed toti genii um fe credere mundo.
Whether he writes againft the barbarous cuftom of throwing at cocks, or
whether againft a war that coft this country forty thouiand men, the
Americans eighty thoufand, and incurred an additional debt to England of
eighty millions, benignity, good fenfe, and good intention, ever guide his
pen. Whether he reprobates fome errors that may have crept into our
excellent religious eftablifhment, or any abfurd and monopolizing practices
that may have infefted our commerce, the fame acutenefs, the fame phi-
lanthropy pervade all. However a friend he may have been in his writings
to an eftablifhment in religions opinions, he has been an equal friend to
univerfal toleration. His fate, indeed, has been that of the Trojan Pro®
p hetefs”^
n- ■■fatis aperit Caffandra j'uturis
Ora5 Dei jujjii non unquam credita Deucris.
It ieems as if in a mind of energy the train of thinking was laid, and
that there wanted only a fpark to fet it on fire. The Dean was led to coni’
mercial fpeculations perhaps by a circumftance which took place in the
little fea port town of Aberyftwith, where he lived in early life. The town
was divided into partizans of the Houfe of Hanover and the Houfe of Stuart
The latter, to gain over the Inhabitants to their caufe, tiled to tell them*
that if their Prince (as the Pretender was then called) came in, they fhould
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