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Show 384. Campm'ybn of Great Britain, Es'c. to be held facred, and faithfully complied with; For that whatever public utility might be fuppofed to arife from a breach of private faith, it was unj uft ; and would in the end be found unwife; honelty, being in truth, the belt policy. On this princi- IV. ple, the propofition was univerfally rejected ,- and though the Englifh profecuted the war, with unexampled barbarity, burning our defencelefs PAPERS towns in the midft of winter, and arming favages againft us; the debt was punétually paid; And the 0N merchants of London have tef'tified to the parliament, and Will teftify to all the world, that from their experience in dealing with us, they had, before the war, no apprehenfion of our unfairnefs; and that fince the war, they have been convinced, that their good opinion of us was well founded. -Eflg/cmd, on the contrary, an old, corrupt, extravagant, and profligate nation, fees herfelf SUBJECTS 0F PROVINCIAL POLITICS. deep in debt, which {he is in no condition to pay ; and yet is madly, and difhonef‘tly, running deeper, without any poflibility of difcharging her debt, N. B. 1/! tin: Paper: under ibis divi/im are dMingui/bed by 1"" [film [P- 1).] placed in fire running title at 1/1: but by a public bankruptcy. [It'fld qf gag/7 Iggy; It appears, therefore, from the general induf'try, frugality, ability, prudence, and virtue of America, that (he is a much fafer debtor than Britain ; --To fay nothing of the fatisfaétion generous minds mufi: have in reflecting, that by loans to America, they are oppofing tyranny, and aiding the caufe of liberty, which is the caufe of all mankind. 1V. PAPERS |