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Show 210 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 3 Panic, and has no Foundation. Not to men: tion, that in Proportion as the flmerimm {hall be obliged to exert themfelves to defend their own Coal'ts, in Cafe of a Vv'ar; in the fame Proportion {hall Great-Britain be exonerated m Legillature, where there is no Liberty of the Prels, and where General Warrants and Left," d3; car/1m are irreflflz‘é/e,---in order to enjoy grea ter Freedoms than they have at prelEnt, and, to be refcued from the intolerable Yoke, under which from that Burden, and 111311 have more Ships they now groan. and Men at command, to proteé‘t her own are thefel But even this is not all: For theft : Americans are reprefented by this Suppolition, as not only preferring a French Government to Channel Trade, anti for other Services. THE 3d Objection is, That if we were to give up thefe Colonies, the Franc/z would take immediate Pofieflion of them. Now this Objection is entirely built on the following very wild, Very extravagant, and abfurd Suppofitions. ill, IT {uppofes that the Colonil'ts themfelves, who cannot brook our Government, would like a Franc/z one much better. Great-Britain, it feems, doth not grant them Liberty enough; and therefore they have Recourfe to Frame to obtain more :---That is, in plain Eng/2W2, our mild and limited Government, where Prerogative is aleertained by Law, where every Man is at Liberty to leek for Redrels, and where popular Clamours too often carry every Thing before them,---is neverthelels too fevers, 10" opprellive, and too tyrannical for the Spirits and Genius of Aiiyerz'cmzr to bear; and therefore they will apply to an arbitrary, defpotic Government, where the People have no Share in the i V 1 Le- What monfh'ous Abfurdrties a Brz'tz'flz, but even to a Government of their 0th model/mg am! rlizflng! For after they are fet free from any Submiflion to their MotherCountry; after they are told, that for the future they muf'c endeavour to pleale themfelves, feeing we cannot pleafe them; then, inftead of attempting to frame any popular Governments for redrefling thofe Evils, of which they now {0 bitterly complain,---they are reprelEnted as throwing theinlelves at once into the Arms of France;- the Republican Spirit is to fubfide; the Doctrine of pallive Obedience and Nonreliltance is to fueceed -, and, infiead of letting up for Freedom and Independence, they are to glory in having the Honour of being numbered among the Slaves of the Grand Monarch. BUT zdly,‘ This Matter may be further conlidered in another Point of View: For if it lhould be faid, that the z‘lmerz'mm might itill retain their Republican Spirit, tho' they lub‘ Q 2 mitted |