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Show «n. 82 SERIES or ANSWERS To a. i..v....r..-..,I_3£%V§.W‘a‘v¢ .-,,-,-- ~ POPULAR OBJECTIONS. our Land Forces, and at all Times accefiible 83 tral Provinces, whofe Inhabitants are the leaft infected with the Madnefs of the Times-,~it will be no difficult Matter, whili‘t our Fleets and and eftabliflr our public Character on a Rafting Foundation. As to their Neighbours to the. North, or to the South, a greater, and a more deferved Punifirment could not be inflicted on them, than TO LEAVE TEEM T0 THEMSELVES. Armies are on the Spot, to erect thefe Provinces And then the fanatical Hypocrites on the one into four feparate a'nd *" independent Republics, Side, and the Tyrants over'Slaves on the other, under the immediate Protection and Guardianfhip of Great-Britain. Thither therefore the well-afiet‘ted Refugees, now refiding either in Great-Britain, or in the adjoining Colonies, would afford an ufeful Leflbn to Mankind, by Sea; and as they are likewife the moft cen~ might retire; and there they might receive Lands in full equivalent to all their Lofres, and enjoy as much Liberty, as Men of Reafon and Moderation would wifh to ufe, and as good Men would know how to apply. And there, by peculiar Favours and Indulgencies, they might foon get wealthy. Thus likewife, in ren- dering £12m: happy, (who were made miferable on our Account) we 1hould confult our own national Honour in the mofl effectual Manner , ' Two of there Provinces, VPeIfl/rvam'a and filmy/and, are proprietary Governments. But that Circ umfiance would be fo far from being an Obflruétion to the that it would greatly favour it. For mof't general Plan, certainly the proprietary Go'vernors of lhefe two Provinces would be much more defirous of being unde r the Protection and Gunrdianfhip of Great-Britain, than to be caltofl‘, and left to the Mercy and Honcliy of republican Independents . and OBJECTION |