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Show ( 68 ) l 69 ~) monwealths of America, ever become as (irons: and independent, as they are now Weak and dependent, and lhould they, in their greatnefs and glory, reimemher a word of the humblel‘t and the meaneit, but not the lealt fincere, or the lealt dilinterelled of their friends and advocates, it will be, never to employ force and power, againlt reafon and argument; to leave thol‘einl'trtunents to inch as choofc to make ule of them, huttobelieve frat/J to be ever the real interell: :of the People; and the Public; and that no Other in- cenle, or ‘l‘acriflee, lhould ever be oliered at the altars of that Goddels, but the pure oblation of a freedom of thinking", (peaking, and writing. But here it tain late laWs as ever they were to pafs them. How- ever, 1 will not go back again to topicks, which {eeim fufficient to aWake the moll lethargic Englilhman, out of llIS loundell fleep; but I defire to put acale rela- ting tothis locality itfelF, and its power and effec'ls. At the beginning of the lal't century, there lived a. gentleman ol' the name of Fawkes. He hired a houfe and ionic cellars, and Other apartments in Wellmin- ‘iler. We will {uppol'e that he had a leafe of them; a l'eafe is, for the time, as good as a purchafe; it might not indeed be liamped, but {lamps were not then 'in falhion, it was good without. He bought {ome gunpowder. It is to be believed, that he paid honeitly cannot well fail" to be obferved, that {hould thefe for it. people, whoie dillrell'es are now pleaded, ever come be glutted with power and riches; that they will certainly run the race or the rel't of mankind, and learn for it He placed it in the cellars, or other apartments hired by him. He had, in eed, a mind to whole hitnlelf with blowing up the Legillature of GI‘Clt Britain. He met With his reward. But, {up‘ in theirturn, tyranny and injullice, as their betters pofe that he, and Garner, and the relt 0F theiralToci- and their predecefihts have done" before themm-I anfwer, no man perhaps believes this, more than my- ates, inltead of falling into the hands of an Englilh Jury, had been tried at Home, before the Conlillory z‘elf ; however, that this is not now the cafe. But it is hoped, that neither will: th re, in that day, be wanting lonie honell man, who will endeavour to make them blulh at inch :1 conduc‘l‘, if he (hall not be able Court, or at any other Court the e, they would no to he malters, both "of thernfelves and of others, to to diliuade and divert them"fr0tn it. = However, I would willingly in my turn, now -' ask, whether this lalt obfervation is alfo local, and confined to America, or Whether it extends itiell likewil‘e‘ to Great Britain? It is nor reafon and argument; ‘it is this ilocality which operates on the prefent occalion." It is this only that makes many men eafy and indifferent in the cafe, about right and Wrong, jul‘tice, and injultice.' \Vere He could, perhaps, have produced a receipt doubt have found an advocate. "l‘hat is no other than the duty of the profeflion.‘ I won't take upon me to fay, whether he would in this cafe have flourilhed about private property, trefpals, or forcible entry; but Whatever turn the ltaiian council had thought pro- per to give the caule ot‘ his clients, has any one {etioully, the leall doubt, but that they would have been cleared and acqu tted, and probably by the Court of Rome itfeli‘, in good time, preferred and promoted. As it happened, nothing remained for them but the honourof l‘vIartyrdom, wnich,hm'ever, lbmeotthem my countrymen,now in England, dipped once in the are laid to have attained. River Delaware, Idare fay, that it Would make an almolt miraculous change in their opinions. IF fome, who might be named, were tranfpofed into Afl‘embly of climate do, and luch force have pre'ndice, prepol1 MED, Ih'sy would perhaps be as ready to repeal cer..., . .p ‘ Wm, So much can a dilierence ‘fefiion and locality. But Garnet and Fawkes, and their friends were fools, JCl‘ulIS, as lome of them were. They did not underlhtnd their trade. A certain port ern |