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Show 3 54 Rule: for reducing a great XVII. If you fee ritual nations rejoicing at the profpeé't of your difunion with your pro- [Az D.T.] we encouraged to attack the frontiers "l", tants: XVIII. If any colony {hould at their own c/Jm‘ge error} a forlnjfr to fecure their part againft the fleets of aforeign enemy, get your governor to betray that fortrefs into your hands. Never think of paying what it colt the country, for that would look, at leaf'r, like tome regard forjuftice; but turn it into a citadel, to awe the inhabitants and curb their commerce. If they Ihould have lodged in fuch fortrefs the very arms they bought and ul‘ed to aid you in your conquefts, feize them all; it will provoke like in- gratitude added to robbery.-One admirable efefi of thefe operations will be, to difcourage every other colony from erecting fuch defences, and {0 their and your enemies may more eafily invade them; to the great difgrace of your go- vernment, and of courts the furtherance of your this will feem to proceed from your ill-aw" or your z'glzorzmce, and contribute farther to produce and flrengthen an opinion among them, that you are no longer fit to govt» :1 them 'i". XX. Laf'tly, invefl: the g‘f'llt'i‘fl/ of your arm; in t/Jr praw'zm'r, with great and unconfiitutional powers, and free him from the controul of even. your own civil governors. Let him have troops now 1 under his command, with all the fortrefl'es in his pollefhon; and who knows but (like fome provincial generals in the Roman empire, and encouraged by the univerfal difcontent you have ‘ [I am not verfed in Indian affairs, but I find that in April 773, the afl'emblcd chiefs of the \vcfiern nations told one of our Indian agents, ‘ that they remembered their father, the King of ‘ Great Britain's meflage, delivered to them lalt fall; of demo‘ lifhing Fort Pittlburg [on the Ohio] and removing the foldicrs ‘ with their {harp-edged weapons out of the country;---this gave ‘ them great pleafure, as it was a flrong proof of his paternal ‘ kindnefs towards them.' XIX. Send armies into their country under pretence of protecting the inhabitants; but, inflead of garrifoning the forts on their frontiers with thoie troops, to prevent incurfions, demolifh tlmfe forts; and order the troops into the heart of the country, that the favages may be encou- (See Cmfiifu'ariom on 7/22 1/grrmzrnt rwit/J Illr. T. Ira/pole for Land: upon for Obio, p. 9,) This is go. neral hillory: I attempt no application of facts, perfonally invidious. E.] 1- [As the reader maybe inclined to divide his belief between the wifdom of miniftry, and the candor and veracity of Dr. Franklin, I lhall inform him that two contrary objections may be n1 1) Cl truth of this reprefenration. project. and that the troops may be protected by the inhabi- vinces, and endeavouring to promote it; if they tranflate, publifh and applaud all the complaints of your difcontented colonifls, at the lame time privately flimulating you to feverer meafures; let not that alarm or offend you. Why {hould it? fince you all mean the fame thing. Empire to a‘ 0112/! 021:. The firlt is, that the condzw \ ‘ Britain is made m; abfurd for poffibility; and the femur}, i not made abfurd twang/2 for fact. Ifwe conlidcr that tli's nice": does not include the meafures fublcquent to 1773, the latte t"‘heulry is eafily fet atide. The former, I can only {0va by the n my infiances in hifiory, where the infatuation of individuals has brought the heavielt calamities upon nations. E.] I [i. e. In the fituation and crifis into which things will now have been brought. E.] Z z 2 produced) |
