Abstract

Though I esteem it to be criminal in some degree to be dropping false hints and suggestions about any matters that may materially affect the public, or raising groundless fears and apprehensions concerning the plague, or war, or any other the like alarming subjects; yet I doubt I shall be but too well justified in declaring, that at this juncture we appear to be in imminent danger of having the pestilence imported into this island. It now rages violently at Constantinople, in the Levant, and in Africa; insomuch that all the neighbouring nations, as we learn from the public prints, are taking all necessary precautions against it; and administration here at home have thought proper to double the quarantine.

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