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Show [ I I7 3 not to my own old~fafhioned Notions of the the bef't able, or, if you pleafe, the lead unable Parlimony of former Days, when /lmsrim was a poor Country. Remember therefore the Orders given by him, and afterwards by you, to to bear it ?-»-efpecially if it be taken into the therefore granted, according to what you fay, and finer every Year. And are your Gold and Silver Laces -,-.--your rich Brocades, Silks, and that you are Two Millions of Souls; be it alfo allowed, as it is commonly afferted, that the Public Debt of the feveral Provinces amounts to about 800,000]. Sterling; and in the next Place, be it fuppoied, for Argument's Sake, Things now had :LIide ? Have you no Concerts, or Affemblies, no Play Houfes, or Gaming that were this general Debt equally divided among the Two Millions, each Individual Houfes, now fubfil'ting? Have you put down your Horfe Races and other fuch like Sports would owe about the Value of Eight Shillings. ii x; £131.;‘iir'r've 1. V7 a ': "w" A Jew 's and Diverlions? And is the Luxury of your Tables, and the Variety and Profufion of your Wines and Liquors quite banifhed from among you P~~Thefe are the Quef'tions, which you Thus fiands the Account on one we in Britain are reckoned to be Millions of Souls; and we owe Hundred and Forty-four Millions Side. Now about Eight almol't One of Money; which Debt, were it equally divided among us, ought to anfwer, before an Efiimate can be would throw a Burthen upon each Perlon of made of your relative Poverty, or before any Judgment can be formed concerning the EX' ceflivenefs of the Tax. BUT I have not yet done with you on this of the Cafe on both Sides, would it be {0 ca- Head. For even though you were poor (whiCh you know, You are not, compared with what you were Thirty Years ago) it may neverthelefs happen, that our relative Poverty may be found to be greater than yours. And if {0, when a new Burden is to be laid on, the preper Qiefiion ls, Wthh of thefe two Sorts of poor People, is the about 181. Sterling. This then being the State pital an Offence P would it be High-Trealbn in us to demand of you, who owe f0 little, to con- tribute equally with ourfelves, who owe f0 much, towards the public Expences ;---and fuch Ex- penees too as you were the Caufe of creating P Would it be a Crime of a Nature {0 very hei- nous and diabolical, as to call forth the hottefi 0f your Rage and Fury? Surely no:---And yet, my gentle Friend, we do not {0 much as P3 ailc _ Are all thefe Furniture, Prims, and Pictures. A HUI germ" Velvets ;---your Plate, and China, and Jewels ;--- 4 have your AlTortment of Goods made richer, your Coaches and Equipages;-~-your fumptuous ,1 0C1]; mgr; Account, that this additional Load is an Almerirzm Burthen, and not a Brz'tiflz one. Be it email «Maryanne-arguing- ;: [ 116 ] |
