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Show C Io ) ( II ) " your Side 5 they ferved with Fidelity, as they " dom,--I hOpe a Day may be appointed to " confider the State of the Nation, with refpeé‘t " fought with Valour, and conquered for you "in every -Part of the World.---Detefied by "the National Reflections againft them, " which are unjuf't, groundlefs, illiberal, un" manly. It was not the Country of the Men " by which I was moved ; but the Man of that " Country wanted Wifdom, and held Principles " to Ant-«a ;\‘I hope that all Gentlemen will " come to the Debate, with that Temper and " Impartiality which his Majel‘ty recommends. " and the Importance of the Subjec‘t requires; " a Subject of greater Importance than ever en" gaged the Attention of this Houfe, that " incompatible with Freedom. " Subjeé‘t only excepted, when, near a Century " IT is a long Time, Mr. Sp r, finceI " have attended the P-- t. When the Re" folution was taken to t-x Am a Iwas " ill in Bed-~whe-n the Act palfed, I was ill in " Bed; if I could have endured to have been car- " ried in my Bed, In great was the Agitation of " my Mind for the Confequences, I would " have folieited fome kind Hand to have laid " me down on this Floor, to have borne my " Teftimony againlt it-‘it is now an an which " has palied. " ago, it was a Quettion whether You your" {elves were to be Bond or Free. i " IN the mean Time, as I cannot depend on " Health for any future Day, {uch is the Nature " ofmy Infirmity, Iwill beg to fay a few Words " at prefent, leaving the Juflice, the Equity, the " Policy, the Expediency of the an, to another " Time, Iwill only fpeak of one Point, :1 Point " which feems not to have been generally um- "‘ derf'tood, I mean the right--Some Gen" tlemen (alluding to Mr. N-g-z) feem to " have confidered it as a Point of Honour; if " I WOULD fpeak with a Decency of every "Gentlemen confider it in that Light, they "Aft of this H---fe, but I mull beg of this " lofe all Sight of Right and Wrong, by fol- " H-fe, Indulgence to {peak of it with Free- "lowing a Delufion which mul‘t lead to De- " dom, " firuflion. " IT |
