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Show (73) (72) have any reverts, merit of this; but let them lnppole the lame {iron-ghand to be upon us hmh, when they lhall have been convinced, how little we are in this relpeét to be envied. 1am unwilling to take my leave without laying likewile one word to my countrymen of England: It is not only riches and power, men and money, which the centre of governmtnt receives from the detachedparts of its dominions, hut lil-tewile credit and honour in the World. The Scotch and the irilh are as good men as any in Europe. This is well known, nhereyer they leek lervice and cllablilhntents, and the which they are left to do, in more parts than is for the benefit of Great Britain. Our countrymen of America have not yet lo figured in our quarter of the globe ; but it is hardly a compliment to place them clearly at the head of their own, the offspring of all Other people theft: included; it there are any l'poilcd children of our national family, it mull. be the hnglilh thcmlt-‘lyes yunlels that richesand luxury mend the manners of men, But neverthelels, being lo, the feat of empire. andall commands il‘fuing lrom our capital, and our name being forward, the actions, the merits, thefigure, thereputatien, and the glory of all our countrymen whattoevcr; and Whereloeyer, do exceedingly redound to us, and to the credit of England, and of Englilhmen. In‘rcturn for thele things, they delire no more than ajult lenle and acknowledgment ol'them. Whether we do make this return, whether thele Cli‘C‘lmilJIlCES have always the weight with us, which they merit, Englill'tmen will bell; determine by examinéng into their own brealls. But this we may be allured of; that the good will, allefiion, and attachment ol our countrymen, leread throughout our common empire, Will be our fiimcll llrength and lecurity, it it lhall- be our lot to continue in our prelent lplendor and prolperity; as likewile that the lame cannot but be our belt lup~ port and allillance, whcrcWIth to weather the liorms of fate and tortune, if Heaven lhttll on the contlrlary are r times of difficulty and dillrels in {tore for us. 1 have now finilhed, unlels it may be a Few word s «with refpeét to the author himlell. He hopes, that fliould, in the y'armth of writing, any inadvertencies or inaccuracies have fallen from him, that they will be tread:ly‘oyerlooiteJ ; he is perluaded, there are none {hen as allet‘l his argument. He has wrote with Freedom, hut he trolls without offence; he has no perfotnal views \t'l'iatloever, in any thing that he hits admoved or offered; he has no inter-ell in any dillant part of the Bzi ilh dotninions, neither in Scotland, Ireland, or America; he has neither trade or trafiick with them, nor a foot of land in any oFthem. His concerns, his property, his family, his friendlhips, his zililctions, every thing molt dear to him, center in South Britain. He has no intercourte or connexion with any man that either is, that ever was, or who to ‘the bell of his knowledge delires to be a miniller. He is totally indifferent, who {hall be at the head of our affairs, any otherwilc than as the public may be concerned in it. He would not perhaps, in his humble fituation. accept of any place or poll, high or low, which the King has to confer, great and powerful as he is. He wilhes only, that thele lheets may be read, as they are written, with the purelt and molt difinterelied intentions, for the good, the greatnels, and the prolperity of our whole empire; for the union, harmony, and prelervation of all its parts; and For the particular interet‘t, latety, peace, welfare, and happiu nels of Lngland. F IAN-I S, |