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Show <66) (67) fined to one or other's happinefs or welFare; to one or inflead 0F depriving them of their rights and privi. other's good and evil. Here is again the true unerring diitinaion. Thele things feem clear to the greateft leges, and the taking br',inQ/f‘1)roi)ofed, iniiead of the Iaéinggf tome of them, what would have been the degree of intuitive certainty. It is lirange to be forced to contequetnce ?-Hi}.;h l'reafon~~-But might not thefe reafon about them. However we are told otherwile. If have been private letters of friendlhip, and the receiver have (armed and concealed them P--- 1' here is no limit thing; as private letters in the cafe. No civi- fome compliments happen in a letter, to be made to an old lady, it changes the effence of every thing; jhe contracts and confines the whole matter, and all becomes of a private nature; although the chief fubjeét of that very letter {hould be to advife, and point out the means oi" altering the charter, and of new modeling the confiitution of a colony. and that there {hould be recommended therein, the finding fome way, according to its OWn language, " to l‘AKE OFF the 5‘ original incendiaries," leit they lhould " continue " to inllil their poifon into the minds of the people ;" lities {entto the fairer? Lady in the land, can make them lo. l‘ite perfon receiving, mull, at his own peril carry them to a Secretary of State, or to a juiltce of the Peace, or to form: Other Magillrate; We don't otherwife wanta word for him, which is mifprilion of [ration-But who would talte write of fuch athil]; ?--Let Mr. Attorney, or Mr. Solicitor anlwer that-But on what zground is all thisP-Bccaul‘e the Prince is fuppofed to be the public perfon, and but the mention of the old Ira-(v, maltes it all private to reprefent the whole people, and that what relates (fee Mr. ‘vVedderbnrne's fpeech, page 94. and letter to him may alTec‘tthem-But there are bad Princes, and writing againli them, is {ometimes writing in iupport, and in the intereiis of the Public, and of the People-No fuch plea, or propolirion is ever fuf~ oer. A. Oliver, Feb. 13, 1769.) But fuppole that: their: letters were really meant and intended to produce public elfeé‘ts; what will that do 9-hothing at all. If the perfon to whom they W re written, had not at that moment a place, it lignifies nothing ; although he might have had a polt before, and might look for one again, and although he might have communicated thefe letters to others, for the very purpole ol'all} fling the public. All this will be of no importance, if the perfon did not happen to have a place at the [lnlC.--~ Would not one be tempted to think, that as fome endeavour to leave no property in America, others have a mind to banifh all human reafon out of American alfairs? But let us take this matter in another light~Sup~ pole a Prince to have been the fnhjeét of thefe letters, infl‘ead-of apeople, and his conduct and character to have therein been f0 freely treated and cenlured, infiead of theirs, and the divelting him of his power anddignity, f0 plainly mentioned and recommended,» inllead fered. It would, on the contrary, he an additional crime, even to make, or to olfer l[.-.~But does any one, by reprefenting a body, acquire more prerogative than belong to that body itfell‘, or are the public more affected through a third perfon, than immediately in themfelves B-Yes, iult fo. Say a word agaim} a Prince and beware of informations, inditements, fines, prifons, fcali'olds and gibbets. 'l'hefe are the firongelt arguments in the world, and I never knew any man get the better, in difpttting with them. But ahufc a people from morning till night, and every one _knows, that the rule and the law is; let them mend their manners, if it is true ; let them delpife it, and leave it to fall on the author, if it is not~1 am at the feet o‘t Gamaliel, I delire only to learn. 1 [ball not contra- di€t the doctrine concerning a Prince, and I lublcrrbe, heartily, to that about a People. ‘; Should thele commonwealths |
