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Like him (a traitor ere the birth of time)
From inbred vice to base rebellion prone,
Untempted, uninvited, of thy crime
The guilt and infamy is all thy own.
 

It is said that in the late horrid conspiracy, Arnold made the first overtures; and indeed as much seems pretty fairly deducible from his Address to the Inhabitants of America, as well as other papers published under his signature. See also a long and elegant letter from camp to a gentleman in Philadelphia, in many of the News-papers.