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Show "74.t [13: D.T.] Dr. Frank/if: A?) war 3. to Lord Howe. 375 impoilihle, on any terms given you to trot. i ‘ ' i 301'"1; you will then relinquifli to odious a cotninant , an i‘eturn to a more honourable private flatten: With the greatef't and molt fincere relpeft, I have the honour to be, the belly and the members reverfed. But I tell the Rory chiefly for the fake ofthe moral, which has the air of having beezi-liiggel' tzil by Dr. Franklin"; and is as follows.--‘ The polit :.l moral of ‘ this picture is now eafily difcovered. Hiltor y :uibrd s us many ‘ initances of the ruin ofltates, by the profceution of meafures ill ‘ {uited to the tempe Your Lordfliip's molt obedient, humble fervant, B. Franklin *. Q‘Ikhnanflsg r and genius ot‘its people. The ordai ning of ‘ laws in favor of one part of the nation , to the prejudice and op- prefli My Lord, on ofa/wt/Jer; is certainly the molt erroneous and miflaken policy. An £71m] difpenfzttion of protection, rights , privileges and advantages, is what every part is intitled to, and oughtto enjoy; it being a matter of no moment to the ltate, whether :1 {object grows rich and flourifhing on the Thames or the Ohio, in. Edinb urgh or Dublin. There mealhres never fail to create great and violentjealouiies and animoiities, between the people favored and the people oppreffed. From whenc e a. total reparation of afl'ec‘l ions, interelts, political obligations and all manner ot'conneétions, neceffarily enfues; by which the whole flatc is weakened and perhaps ruined for ever.' This language is part of the fame {yfiem with the following frag- ment ofa iEntence, which Dr. Frank lin inferted in apolitical pub- lication ofone Direfled to the Rig/J! H072. Lord I/yi‘ozmz‘ Howe. ‘* [it occurs to me to mention that Dr. Franklin was fuppofed ‘1 ‘ ‘ ‘‘ ' of his friends. ‘ The attempts to eflabli lh ar/n'zrmy power over {ogreat a part of the Britii h empir miuent hazard of our moll valuable comme e, [are] to the im-» rce, and of that na- tional Ilrength, {ccurity and felicity, which depend on 1min; and‘ libergfm-The prefervation ofwhieh, I am told, he uletl to (at, had been the great object and labor of his lite ; the whole being {uch a. thing 51.! we wor/z/M-‘Uer érfare/Zz-w. ' E.] -'to have been the inventor of a little eyzé/emauml n'rflgn at thle3 cctJiIiir; mencement of our difputes; reprefcnting the (late of Great Ir1 a" and her colonies, fliould the former pcrfiit- 1n rellrainmg theb atfew‘ trade, dellroying their currency, and taxmg their peoplg yGi-lcui: made by a legiflature in which they were not reprefente .-B "he Britain was fuppofed to have been placed upon the glo )‘e. [liftin colonies, her limbs, being {evered from her, {he wash-einrhic "figs ‘her eyes and mangled fiumps to heaven; her flzield, w rc dNew * This defign was printed on :1 mm', and Dr. Frankli n at the time Ibelieve occafionally ufed to write his notes on {itch cards. It was alfo [printed on a ba/f‘fljt'erofpnlozr, with an explanation by {ome other perfon, and the moral given above. The drawmg was but moderately executed. unable to wield, lay ufelefs by her tide ; her lance had pielgce f IvaEngland; the laurel branch was fallen from the hand of any "k nia; the Enqlifh oak had lofi: its head, and Good by a bare rumd with a few withered branches ; briars and. thorns were on the grot-n beneath it; our {hips had brooms at their topmal'.-licad-s,_ deuofl‘hg their being upon (ale; and Britannia herfelf was (ecu fliding? read world, no longer able to hold its balance ; her fragments 0‘. er p . . . . f with the label dale ado/um Belt/Ezl'lom-Thls 1n ihort, was the fabletfie (Empty of} zz. |
