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Show (32) us. This lays us under an additional obligati~ on, in point of gratitude, to that good beha- { new 'i, K 33' / the King, the Parliament or our Nlothcr-COLIm try, alter this proof" of their moderation, and viour, which would have been our duty without it. I cannot but here remind you parti- regard for us. cularly of the words of that immortal patriot have cauie to biulh for us in this refpefi, What mutt we do for curl-elves ? \Vliere {hall in: find in Parliament, who has now a fecond time, been the principal means of faving Britain and her colonies from impending ruinfr " Say," And if Tim}, our Friends,fl10uld caverns liar enough removed from the light of day, in which to hide our heads! Or what rea~ " have been wrong'd ; they have been driven ion {hall we have to expet‘t friends, advocates and fprmlors again, how much foever we ma need them, if we have no more regard for the " to madnefs by injul'cice. Will you now pu" nifh them for the madnels you have occafio~ " ned ? Rather let prudence and temper come honor of thofi: who appeared {of us at the late alarming (:rilis ; when it was accounted ahnoi'l criminal to lay any thing in Our behalf? " firft from this title ; I WILL UNDERTAKE Let me habjoin, that as the good people of faid he, " the Americans have not in all things " acted with prudence and temper : They " FOR AMERICA that {he will follow the ex- this province had the honor to lead in a fiiirited, " ample."WhatSON,eitherofAMERICA or of tlze' decent and refpcftliil application for the LIBERTY is there, that has the leaft {park of ingenuity, who can help being touched and penetrated to the inmolt recelles of the heart, by fuch magnanimous and generous exprefli- t'etirels of our late grievances; methinks they THAT illufirious Patron of America fhould :tld now he ambitions to hare the honor ending in a pi'ttzdrnt, temperate, wile behau vim", in <_-:i>:1leqnen"e of the hands; and, if need two, a pt there is not, ambitious oiletting an exaznpit; of moltration and dilbrction to other colonies. 'l‘his honor would be equal to the ever have occafion to be afhamed of efpoufing hill mentionen, and would probably recommend its caufe, and making himfelf anfwerable for us greatly to mole, whom it will always be our interc‘it and duty to plealisg {0 long, at lealt, as ons in behalf of the colonies .9 Who is there, that would not almoft as willingly die, as that us ? We had other advocates of difiingtiillietl eminence and worth, who generoufly came God for- we can do it without renouncing our birth-right. lit will contribute to remove any imprcllions iliat bid, my brethren, that any one ofthem (hould may have been made of late, to our diladvantage. under fimilar engagements for us. ever have the leall: reafon to blufh for his ill placed confidence in us; as all of them will, it will at once gratify our belt iiiends,and f‘alfif‘v if we thew any unworthy behaviour towards the flanders of our enemies, who delight in re1 preferrting us as a (editions, fattlious and turbu~ {NC lent fort of people, who cannot endure the. a," The Rt. Hon. Mr. PITT. ES wholfome |