s a love of one's country, one of the noblest passions that can warm and animate the human breast. "Zeal for the public good," says Mr Addison, "is the characteristic of a man of honour and a gentleman, and must take place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications;" "whosoever wants this motive, is an open enemy, or an inglorious neuter, to mankind, in proportion to the misapplied advantages with which nature and fortune have blessed him." This love of our country does not import an attachment to any particular soil, climate, or spot of earth, where perhaps we first drew our breath, though those natural ideas are often associated with the moral ones, and, like external signs or symbols, help to ascertain and bind them; but it imports an affection to that moral system or community which is governed by the same laws and magistrates, and the several parts of which are variously connected one with the other, and all united