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Show 42 ADDRESS AND APPEAL TO alty and Rebellion) never yet difgraced the Annals of the World I And it feems to be referved as a Mark'of Infamy pECtiliar to the prefent Age, and our modern Race of Patriots, that while the Prince on the Throne i's incel‘fan‘tl endeavouring to keep his People free, and to THE LANDED INTEREST. 43 Argument, which can be urged: And yet this has no Foundation at all, but in the Prejudices of fecure their Freedom more and more by all pro- change for Idler/6f; -, and then the Hands of its per and confiitutional Meafures‘, fuch Numbers Tradefinen, by being the Hands of the Diligent, "would enrich each other by reciprocal Employ- ihould be found amongit his Subjects, who are equally indufl‘rious to thwart his truly patriotic Deligns, and to rulh headlong into Slavery. BUT as Providence very often brings the greatei't Good out of the worft of Evils, let us {Ill-Wlllllllflrm; " not defpair, but that thefe very Attempts, I‘M-"l l lull" "I; wicked and unnatural as they are, may be the Means of uniting all honei‘t, and well-intenti~ > "‘13 J a oned' Men the firmer together, in order to fup» port, and even to firengthen the prefent Confiiu tution. For Example, the two great Illands of Britain and Ireland, whichare only feparated by a narrow Sea, ought not to be feparated at all by dififerent Governments, LaWs, or Parliaments. No good Realbn upon Earth Can be the Populace, who are almoft perpetually mil-- «taking their own Interel'ts. Even the City of Dublin would be a very great Gainer by fuch a Removal : For it would acquire [min/fry in Ex- ment -,-the Hands,I fay, of thofe very Tradef- .men, who in their prefent State, are almolt as poor, as the poorei't in the Kingdom.- That this is the natural and neceli‘ary Courfe of Things, and not an idle Theory, or vilionary Speculation, I appeal to Fact and daily Expe- rience.;--and l appeal, not only tothe Cafe of Edinburgh, whichis now three Times, at leal‘t, as rich and flourifhing, as when it was the Reli- denceof a Court, and of a Parliament; but I appeal alfo to almoit every Town in Ireland: Cork and Belfajf for Example, have neither Courts, nor Parliaments; and yet their Merchants, Manufhc‘lurers, and Traders are much given for fuch a Separation: And it has long richer in Proportion to their Numbers, than been the ardent Wiih of every true Patric: in both Nations, to fee them united. Indeed, the belt that can be laid for the Continuance 0'f‘the' prelE‘nt abfurd Syl'tem is, that the City of DullZz'iz would be a Sulferer by the Removal of the Court and Parliament :-~I fay, this is the vet)" thofe of Dulrlz'rz: And what is {'till more extraordinary, thole .little Towns, which once thought .themfelves happy in procuring Barracks to be belt ei'efted among them, in order to obtain, as they fondly imagined, the Benefit of a great Flo-w of tMorzqy, are now perfeélly convinced, that 14‘ 2 Towns |