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Show 28o ACTS RELATiNG Part II. The watchmword given by thefe malea contents, they eagerly caught and fpread abroad: 3 general plan of defpotifm, as thefe malecontents believed, or wifhed to have believed, had been formed, and was purfuing: and of this plan the fuppofed new and unheard-of project of taxing A- merica was invieghcd againf't as a part. That this had been the language, both within doors and without, no body can be ignorant: that the Americans were blind to the afiif'tance they might derive from a body thus openly efpouling their interefls, and leaguing themfelves on their fide, is What no body can fuppofe: that they {hould be difpofed to with, and for- ward to expect, the downfal of a minifiry who oppofed their pretcnfions; and the exaltation of one that flood en- gaged to favour them, is what no body can doubt: that they ihould fail to perceive that acts of outrage, manifefiing their didadeé‘tion, mutt contribute to the event they wilhed for, can hardly be fuppofetl, Sect. XI. TO THE COLONIES. 281 [uppofed The utmol‘t firetch that political charity can make, is to hope that thofe Englifhmen who encouraged the oppofition of the Americans, by the ef- poufal of their caufe, did not with to fee any more mifchief done, any more outrages committed, than what might be neceflhry to bring about a revolution, ac- cording to their notions f0 delirable: and that there might be fome among them, who, defireable as this revolution feemed to them, might not think it worth pur- chafing at (my price. Among thefe laft, let us hope to find our orator. Be this as it may, thus much is indifpntable, that the Americans expcfled a change of ininiitry; and that it was the hope of contributing to a change, pro- miiing to be fo favourable to their pretenlions, that encouraged them, if not to begin, at lead to perfevere in their refiftance, The expectation was fulfilled. A change of the ininiflry--from what caufe is not material, did accordingly take place. The |