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Show .190 S POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL U B J E C T S. 19: making a Kind of Apology to the flmerimm for the Conduit of our Parliament in paying the " the Houfe of Commons to confent to this King's Debts of his Civil Lii‘t. "Interelt; though at the fame Time I ac- "knowledge it to be, conflderz'ng all its Circum"flmzm, a dangerous Compliance, and not AndI own myfelf more hurt by this Paragraph, than by all the ref: of his Pamphlet : For as I am tho- "Grant, without any View to their own private " worthy to be drawn into Example." .. roughly perfuaded, he wrote from Conviction, and not from any finif'ter Views, one is forry to find {0 able, f0 honef‘t, and upright a Man, carried away by the Torrent of the Times to Now if the Compliance of the Parliament in difcharging this Debt was dangerous, the Inch :1 Degree, as to adopt Notions, which are contra€ting the Debt itfelf was really infamous; almof't too crude for a Club of Livery Politicians met in fome blind Alley at a City Ale- therefore ought not to be avowed, but had bet- Reafon Inuit be, becaufe the Circumfiance of His Words are theie :---" It is certain, ter be fupprelTed in Tendernefs to the Royal Caufe. But can this Author point out any fuch~ ‘ that no Inch (exorbitant) Grants as are above infamous Circuml'tances, if he were minded to ‘ mentioned have been made, unlefs in the fingle ‘ his prefent Majefiy for the Difcharge of the make the Difccvery ?---I dare anfwer for him, that he cannot. And as I will not {uppofe that he has more Tales to tell than any other private ‘ Debts of his Civil Liit. And in this Cafe I Gentleman, and much lefs that he himlelf was ‘ can ealily fuppofe, that a Motive of Com- an Accornplice in, or privy to any fuch Scenes ci'Iniquity as are here infinuated,---l will now houfe. ‘ Infiance of the Sum of513,oool granted to ‘ pafiion for a Number of innocent Perfons, ‘ who would otherwife have been Sufferers from " that Load upon his Majei‘ty's Revenue, and " an aliiefiionate Defire of relieving their ex- " cellent Sovereign (who has in no Infiance en‘ deavoured to violate the Liberties of his Sub"jec‘ts) from the unworthy Streights and In" conveniences, ill becoming the Royal Dignlti' ‘ into tw/zz'c/z fame of M5 Mini/fem had brozlg/If ‘ lzim (3} the injudz'cz'ous .Mmzagement of 111'! RC" avenue, may have induced many Members of " thc‘ undertake to prove to him and the World, how as great a Debt as this, nay, a much greater, might have been contracted in the Space often Years, without the leaft Ii apeachment of Waite, Profufion, Mitmanagement, or any other i fiffipplz'mtz'm whatfoever. EVERY Oflice, Dignity, Rank, or Station, has a certain Character to l‘uilain, which neCelliirily rcquires a correfpondent Train or Expences; 3‘0 that whether you confider the Demands upon a illlllllllll |