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Show 34.2 Account (if G. Hutchinfon'r Letters, Git. lA= D-T-l l 343 J Mr. W'edderburn fcemed in the road for every kind of advancement-Unfortunately for Mr. \Vedderburn, the events of the war did not correlponl with his fyliems. Unfortunately too for his " irrefragahle argument," Dr. Franklin afterwards took an oath in Chancery ", that at the time that he tranfmitted the letters, he was R U I. E s for reducing a Great Empire 2‘0 (2 film/Z 07w,- prc/élztud to a late Miizfier, when he entered upon /m Adi/Izhflmz‘im *. ignorant of the party to whom they had been addrclled; having himl'.-lf received them from a third perfon, and for the exprefs pur- ' poi: their hing conveyed to America. Unfortunately alfo for Mr ".‘Vedderburn's " worthy governor," that governor himlélf, £2farr tie arrival of Dr. Franklin‘s packet in Bolton, fent over one of Dr Franklin's own " private" letters to England; exprefling {ome little coynefs indeed upon the occafion, but dcliring fecrccy, lell he fltould be prevented procuring more ufeful intelligence from the fame {ource 1'. Whether Mr. \Vedderburn in his {peech intended to draw a particular cafe and portraiture, for the purpofe only of injuring Dr. Franklin; or meant that his langu.-ge and epithets {hould apply generally to all, whether friends or foes, \vhofe praétice' {hould be found limiliar to it; is a matter that mutt be left to be adjulled between governor Hutchinlon and Mr. Wedderburn. But to return to Dr. Franklin. It was not flngular perhaps that as a man of honour, he {hould furrender his name to public {crutiny in order to prevent mifchief to others, and yet not betray his condjutor (even to the prefent moment,) to relieve his own fame from the .lievereit obloquy; butperhaps it belonged to few befides Dr. Franklin, to podefs mildncls and magnanimity enough, to refrain from in- temperate exprellions and meal‘ures, againlt Mr. Wedderburu and his fupporters, after all that had pafled. E.] * A copy ofthe proceedings in Chancery has been in my polTeflion; but being at prefent miflaid, 1 {peak only from memory here. (11 See the Remembranter for the year 1776, part 2d. p. 61. col. if? an 2d. AN ancient {age valued himfelf upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little one. The fcience that I, a modern Simpleton, am about to communicate, is the very reverie. I addrefs mylelf to all minifiets who have the management of extenlive dominions, which from their very greatnefs are become troublefome to govern-becaufe the multiplicity of their affairs leaves no time for fiddling. I. In the firl‘c place, gentlemen, you are to confider, that a great empire, like a great cake, is molt eafily diminifhed at the edges. Turn your attention therefore firll to your remottfl provinces; that, as you get rid of them, the next may follow in order. II. That the poflibility of this feparation may ‘always exift, take {pecial care the provinces are 3* [Thefe rules firll appeared in a London ncwfpaper about the beginning of the year 177.1,, and have feveral times lincebecn in- troduced into our public prints.-'l‘he miniiler alluded to is {uppofed to be the Earl of H h. ‘ The caufes and motions(:l'i'cditions (fiys Lord Bacon) are, innovation in religion, taxc , alteration or laws and culloms, breaking of privileges, general opprcdion, adv ment of unworthy per-forts, ilrangers, dearths, kllil)il.llLl‘.3k.l foliiers, factions grown defperate, and \vhatfoever in alluding people joineth and knit- teth them in acommon cauf:.' 11.] .tzewr |
