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138 POLITtCAL AND COMMERCIAL; SUBJECTS. ,39 'when you {hall find yourfelves able to execute have no other Conneétions with you, than if the Projeét. you had been {0 many {Overeign States, or Independent Kingdoms? One or other of [hefe IN the mean Time, the great ‘Chiellion is, What Courfe are we to take? And what are we to do with you, before you become this great and formidable People ?---Plain and evident it is by the Whole Tenor of your Conduél, that you endeavour, with all your Might to drive us to Extremities. For no Kind of Outrage, tor lnfult, is omitted on your Part, that can ir- , iritatelndividuals, or provoke a Government to chafiife the I-nfolence, not to {lay the Rebellion, three will probably be refolved upon: And if it {hould be the firfl, I do not think that we have any Caufe to fear the Event, or to doubt ofSuccefs. FOR though your Populace may rob and plunder the Naked and Defencelefs, this will not do the Bufinefs~ when a regular Force is brought againl'c them. And a Britif/z Army, which performed f0 many brave Actions in of its Subjects; and you do not feem at all dif«pofed to leave Room for an Accommodation. Germany, will hardly fly before an flmerz 'am Mob; not to mention that our Officers and In lhort, the Sword is the only Choice, which Soldiers, who pafTed ifeveral Campaigns with ‘you will permit us to make; unlefs we will vchufe to give you entirely up, and fubfcribe a Recantation. Upon thofe Terms indeed, you will deign to acknowledge the Power and Au- your Provincials in flmm'm, {aw nothing either thority of a Britiflz Parliament;--that is, you will allow, that we have aRight and a Power to in their Conduct. or their Courage, which could infpire them with a Dread of feeing the Provincials a lecond Time. Neither lhould we have the leal'c Caufe to fufpeét the Fidelity of our Troops, any more than their Bravery,"- give-you Bounties, and to pay your Expences; but no other. A firange Kind of Allegiance notwithflanding the bale lnlinuations of lbme of your Friends here (it indeed fuch Perlhns de- this! And the firlt that has ever yet appeared ferve to be called your Friends, who are in rea- in the Hifiory of Mankind ! HOWEVER, this being the Cafe, fliall we now compel you, by Force of Arms, to do your Duty ?---Shall we procrallinate your Compul- lity your greatefl: Foes, and whom you will find iion ?--:Or Ihall we entirely give you Up, and have to be f0 at the hill); notwithflanding, l lay, their Infinuations of the Feafibility of corrupting his Majelly's Forces, when fent over, by Means of large Bribes, or double Pay. This is‘a Surmife, as weak as it is wicked; For the Honour of the Briti/fi |
