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Show [ 41 ] [40] '5 5th fhlow-firbjec'ls. Our connexion, according to the doé‘tor's meafure, would be propofition) the fiourifhing branches of upon no better footing than Alliances of North-America were to be entirely/81M- the fame kind with detached foreign Powers, which (as experience teaches us) fubfif't no longer than the private inferefl orfijmrale views of the contracting parties. But if (according to Dr. ratc'rl from the trunk, and excluded from the circle of the royal dizzdem, the effect would be reczprocally humiliating; for the act of feparation would, at the fame time, unavoidably (wired? the imperial narrow limits of Britifh and Irifh ground, If all thefe points are duly confidered, the very propofing f0 pernicious a mea- except a few finall Sugar-Iflands, peo- fure mutt appear highly criminal, if not pled chiefly by the molt miferable of treafonable! efpecially as t e author has been plenfed to infinuate, that there is flat/Jami}: of tlie Brit/fl.) Empire to the flaves : {0 that both Great- Britain and her Colonic: would reciprocally lofe im- portance, flrengl/J, and ficzzrity, by the difunion. A Guarantee ofindependence no alternative! - " If we neither can " govern the Americans," (fays he,) " nor be governed by them ; it~ we can againft all foreign invaders, as propofed " neither unite with them, nor ought by Dr. , would fall far fhort of the " to fubdue them; what remains" (fays effect which we enjoy by the prefent he) " but to part with them on as friendly " terms as we can ?" But is it notTrea- confiitution, becaufe it would not, like the latter, produce that mutual rafflale'm- fon againfl the Crown to inlinuate that 2‘in and proteflion which are due from jellow- the Americans cannot be gmu'rmzl, as G well |