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Show a..." -r 80 SERIES OF ANSWERS TO BURKE before me has well obferved : ThitherJ" fay, where they have Reafon to believe our regular Troops cannot purfue them to Advantage; and from whence they can make. daily lncurfions on m ~--. .» »..~-..~A'uy‘,m #5., ‘v-mfi, "n-1,. _, ~' POPULAR OBJECTIONS. s: penfation. Which Sums, neverthelefs, ifthey {hould prevent the Colts of but one Year's Campaign by Sea and Land, would be a great fation for the Injuries they have done to others. and delireable Saving of the Expence of Blood, and by much the cheapeft in regard to Treafzzre. But above all, we ought always to remember, that we can better {pare Sm} of Treafure, than Ritual": of Blood: And that there hardly ever returns a Moiety of the Men who firft go out, fit for Service at the End of two Campaigns, even tho' there fhould not be one pitched Battle Now thele Things will certainly happen, {up- fought. pofing even that we {hould prove victorious, Btit on the contrary, if we fhould mifcarry at kit (which is certainly a fuppofeable Cafe) then we {hall be difabled, not only from compelling Sufferers may be fully and properly indemnified, and at no Expence to the Public, by fuch Promotions in Church, orIIState‘, in the Revenue, our defencelefs Frontiers. ln Relpeét to the few Inhabitants, who will not, or can not re- move, their exceflive Poverty will render them (for many Years to come) incapable of paying fufficient Taxes even for their own Defence, much lefs for making a full and adequate Compen- the Rebels to make Refiitution of their Land s and Houl‘es to the Loyalif'ts, but alfo from re» Not to mention, that many of theft: the Army, and Navy, as their refpeétive Ta- lents, Occupations, or Profefiions have rendered them fittel‘t for. ' ' ' .lieving them ourlelves. ANSWER 3 IF fuch Loyalifls, who are Na~ ANSWER 2. THE heft, the molt eH‘eftua l, and in the End the leai't expenfive Meth od: would be, to order a fair and reafonab le EflL mate to be made of their Lolfes; and then. to vndemnily the SufiE-rers out of the cur- rent Services of‘the Year. A public Lottery or two, or even a Million taken out of the Sinking Fund", Would perhaps be more fati sfaftory to the Sufferers, than any other Mode of Compenfation, tives of America, are f0 in Love with the Air and Climate of that Country, that nothing lefs than a Return to it again can content them, (which feems to be the Cafe with fume ofthem‘) then even they may be gratified in tlieu'VViflies, by a proper Dilpofition of our Forces n)ow on Duty in that Country. For as a great 1 art of the Provinces of New-York, New-737%}, Pm- flltmm'a, and Maryland, are at prefent open to out ‘ |