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LIFE OF TOLAND. 39none are prevented from settling in Carolina, butclown-right atheists, such as Mr. Toland; andmost unjustly asserts, that in some copies of thePantheisticon, he inserted a prayer to the followingeffect: Omnipotens ct sempiteme Bacche; quihumanam societatem maxime in bihendo constituisti;concede propithts, nt istonim capita, qui hesternacompotatione gravantur, hodierna leventur; idquefat per pocida pocidorum. Amen. i. e, " Omnipotentand everlasting Bacchus, who foundest humansociety principally by drinking, propitiously grant,that the heads of those which are made heavy byyesterday's drinking, may be lightened by thisday's, and that by bumper after bumper. Amen."M. Maizeuz, a Frenchman, and Mr. Toland'sbiographer, assures us, that Mr. Toland neverdreamed of such a matter. He assures us, thathe knows the author, but forbears to mention him,on account of his profession. Indeed, there caniiardly be a doubt, that Dr. Hare himself was theauthor.The same year, Mr. Toland published Lettersfrom the Earl of Shaftesbury to the Lord ViscountMolesivorth ; as also, two letters written by SirGeorge Cropsley.Mr. Toland had these four years past lived atPutney, whence he could conveniently go to London,and return the same day.Being in townabout the middle of December, he found himselfvery ill, and an ignorant physician, by his impro-