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Show 218 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL Vided they are trotted, what Amount this they care not to Debt fhall 1‘ife:--For when the Time for Payment draws on, they are feized with 3. Fit of Patriotifm; and then Confederacies and Aflbciations are to difcharge all Arrears; or, at leaf't, are to poitpone the Payment of themflm' die. 5thly. AFTER a Separation from the Co- lonies, our Influence over them will be much greater than ever it was, fince they began to feel SUBJECTS. 219 teétion againi‘t the fironger; and the lefs cautious againl't the more crafty and dcfigning: So that in fhort, in Proportion as their faé‘tious, republican Spirit {hall in- trigue and cabal, {hall fplit into Parties, divide, and fubfl.divide,-in the fame Pro- portion fhall we be called in to become their general Umpires and Referees. Not to mention, that many of the late and prefent Emigrants, when they {hall fee thefe their own Weight and Im-- Storms arifing all around them, and when portance: For at prefent we are looked upon in no better a Light than that of Robbers and Ufurpers; whereas, we fhal‘i their promifed earthly Paradife turns out to be a dreary, unwholefome, inhofpitable, then be confidered as their Protectors, Mediators, and Benefactors. The Moment a Sepa~ ration takes Effefi, intefiine Qiarrels will fay, will probably return to us again, and take begin: For it is well known, Seeds of Difcord and Diffention that the between Province and Province, are now ready to fhoot forth; and that they are only kept down by the prefent Combinations of all the Colonies againl't us, whom they unhappily fancy to be their common Emmy. When therefore this Object of their Hatred {hall be removed by a Declaration on our Parts, that, f0 far from ufurping all Authority, we, from henceforward, will affume none at all againf't their own Confent; the weaker Provinces will intreat our Proteétion and howling \Vildernels,---many of them, I Refuge at but in Old Englmzzz', with all its Faults and Imperfections. LASTLY. Our Mfr-India lflands them- felves will receive fignal Benefit by this Separation. Indeed their Size and Situation render them incapable of futhraEting all Obedience from us; and yet the bad Precedents of their Neighbours on the Continent hath fometimes prompted them to fhew as refractory a Spirit as they well could.-.-But when they come to perceive, what are the bitter Effects of this untrac‘table Difpofition, exemplified in the Cafe of the Nort/z-flmerimm, it is probathey ble: it is reafonable to conclude, that W1 |
