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Show (8‘4) (65 )' iron judge between us andhim ?--There was no com meafure to ourfelves ?---Becaufe we are Euglifhsten mon judge. V‘Je judged for ourfelves. lie was our King, our magillrate, our trtti‘tee. When we found in the fucceflion, and appointed inllead-w-a perion, who and they are Americans --1 his mull be owned to be perfectly jull and fatisl'aélory, and the Americans are the mull unreafonable men in the world, if they don't fee it exactly in the fame light. ..B.ut luppofe that the reprefentarive body of the province lhould make the comtilaint9-1‘he anfwer had no title by birth. wouldthen be, him to fail in the cffential points of thefe offices we t'ook another. This was our right, as Englifhmen... But we {ct afide one of his daughters, from her turn, The King's horfe threw him, and the lady' fuccetded. But that was chance. It that there was no accufer, or if any that {he never had been (keen. What had flte done? \ one chole, to {peak latin, no dc/afor.-~>,uppofe that they complain of falfehood and treachery towards the province ?~.--"l‘hat would be no charge, no crime"... --She had taken a remarkable part in the revolution, and was totally unexceptionablc. But there were in one fcale, the welfare and happinefs of many milliOns 0? Suppol‘e they give in evidence, the party's own letters F-l‘ha‘t would compleat the thing; for there Would then be no. thdence, no leflir.-~But will this people, and in the other, the advancement of only one lady, although a deferving one. There was therefore hold water i-uAdtn-irably ; with relipet‘t to and in latin. . ltis llron'giy difputed, whether thefe letters areofa pu he or a private nature. not, in itlelf, be a very. important point. might in a COLU‘iC of nature very well have happened, no equality, the latter could not but kick the beam-é I anfwer, that I fuhlcribe to this with my hand and my heart. But this is one tide of the medal. Let us turn the reverie. An American Governor is not fo big as a King ; he don't wear a crown, nor bear a feeptre, nor lit on a throne, nor is worthipped on the America, , American This may However let us endeavour to fettle it, {nice it lies in our way. "Whatever concerns and allec'ts the :nterells, the. wel- then that one of our coloniesihould take the flrongellt fare, and happinel‘s ofa whole people, is, and mutt be of a public nature, whether papers, letters, or any other thing whatfoever. (lined and evil are not mat»ters of law or of logic. They are the moll, if not the only elfential circumilances of the world. l‘hey are what every thing elfe refers to. They ltamp an eter- exceptions to their Governor, and defire to change nal mark and difference on all things, which even ima- him; Would they, in that cafe, be permitted to judge for themfelves ?--No. VVh-y not ?~-Becaule they are Americans. Who are to judge for them? ‘We. \Nhy for-Becan'fe we are litiglilhmen. But would. their application be to us, a {officient caufe for removal 5' T-Perhaps not ; but on the contrary, a realbn to continue him at prefent, and to promote and advance him gination cannot cancel or erafe. 'l'h'e enjoyment of the one, and the avoiding ol'the other, is the very end of our being, and likewife of all the beings which do, or which even can be fuppofed to exilt, and which. have a fenfe and perception of them. Whatever, therefore, relates to the general good or evil ofa people, is of a public nature. it is that Citcumfi'dnce "afterwards. which makes it {0. knee, nor has a navy, nor an army, nor makes Biihops ndr judges, nor is his civil lift perhaps above a thou~ {and pounds a year. He feems to be much more refponfible and more r‘emoveable, than a King. Snppole That has been the cafe before, and may probably be f0 again-~Btrt why is the meafure which we mete to them, [0 different from that, which we meafni'e The terms are as good as fynony- mous. Whatever concerns, on the contrary, only ""9 or that individual, is of a private nature. It 15 Con; . fined |