ARTY divifions, whether on the whole ope-PA rating for good or evil, are things infeparable from free government. This is a truth which, I believe, admits little diſpute, having been eſtabliſhed by the uniform experience of all ages. The part a good citizen ought to take in thefe divifions, has been a matter of much deeper controverfy. But God forbid, that any controverfy relating to our effential morals fhould admit of no decifion. It appears to me, that this queſtion, like moſt of the others which regard our duties in life, is to be determined by our ſtation in it. Private men may be wholly neutral, and entirely innocent: but they who are legally inveſted with public truſt, or ſtand on the high ground of rank and dignity, which is truft implied, can hardly in any cafe remain indifferent, without the certainty of finking into infignificance; and thereby in effect deferting that poſt in which, with the fulleft authority, and for the wifeſt purpoſes, the laws and inftitutions of their country have fixed them. However, if it be the office of thofe who are thus circumftanced, to take a decided B part,