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Show 88 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 89 lofophic Dr. FRANKLIN adopts the fame Ideas in regard to the prefent Contef't between Nari/z- Thing fill-6 that Will elate 0r deprefs the Minds of the difcerning Multitude, ferves the Fur. Amrrz'ra and Great-Britain. He fuppofes, agree- pofe of the Bear or the Bull to link or raife the ably to the Newtonian Philofophy, that there is Price of Stocks, according as he wifhes either to buy or fell. And by thefe Vile Means the a mutual Attraction and Gravitation between thcfe two Countries; but neverthelefs, that the Powers of Gravitation and Attraction being to much fironger in the writ Continent of North- Wretch, who perhaps the other Day came up i to London in the Waggon to be an Under-Clerk or a MeiTage Boy in a \Varehoule, acquires fuch flim‘rz'c‘zz, than in the little Spot of Great-Britain, a Fortune as lets him on 21 Pat with the greatelt it therefore follows, that the former will {wallow up, or abiorb the latter, and not weaver/(z. The preientailonifliing Emigrations from Great- Nobles of the Land. 4. THE News-Writers are a fourth Species of political Firebrands : A Species which abounds in this Country more than in any Other; for Britain and Ireland feem to confirm the Hy- .-,,. . ‘llll‘lll'lll _ pothefis of this eminent Philofopher but too well: And it were greatly to be wiihed, that the magical Spell, which is made to chain this our Illand to thofe immenfe Regions, were dif- folved 'e're it be too late.] 3. NEAR a-kin to this Man, is that other Monfier of modern Times, who is perpetually declaiming againf't a Peace, "viz. the Broker, and the Gambler of Change-alley. Letters from the Hague, wrote in a Garret at Home for Half 2 Guinea; the firf't News of a Battle fought (it matters not how improbable) with a Lift 0f the Slain and Priloners, their Cannon, Colours, {in Great Firings heard at Sea between Squa- drons not yet out of Port 5-21 Town taken be- fore the Enemy was near it ;-an intercepted Letter that never was wrote g-OX‘, in lhort, any Thing as \Men are in this Kingdom allowed greater Liberties to fay, or write what they pleafe; to likewife is the Abufe of that Blefling carried to a higher Pitch. In fact thefe People may be truly ‘faid to trade in Blood: For a War is their Harveit; and a Gazette Extraordinary produces :1 Crop of an hundred Fold: How then can it be fuppofed', that they can ever become the Friends of Peace? And how can you expe€t that any Minifters can be their Favourites, but the Miniiters of War? Yet thefe are the Men who may be truly faid to govern the Minds of the good People of‘ Eng/am], and to turn their Afiections whitherfoever they pleale; who can render any Scheme unpOpular which they diflike, and whole Approbation, or Dilapprobation, are regarded by 'l‘houfands, and almofi by Millions, as |