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Show to your fecond, it is, beyond Doubt, of a Na- ture [till worfe. For many among you are forely concerned, That they cannot pay their Britifli Debts \ 'ith an flm room; Sponge. This is an intolerable Grievance 3 and they long for the Day when they {hall be freed from this galling Chain. 112E!!! "'9‘' Our Merchants in Ldildwl, Brzfl'oz', Liverpool, qufg'ow, 59°C. €936. perfectly underfiand your many Hints and lnuendoes to us, on this Head. But indeed, left we lhould be {0 dull as not to comprehend your Meaning, you have fpoken out, and propofed an open AH‘ociation againlt paying your juft Debts. I-lad oar Debtors in any other Part of the Globe, had the From/z or Spoizio/‘dr propofed the like (and furely they have all at leatt an equal Right) what Name would you have given to fuch Proceedings P-f But I forget: You are not the faithlefs From/2 or Spooiards: You are ourfelves: You are honelt Englzflzmeiz. YOUR third Grievance is the Sovereig nty 0f Groat-Brz'loin. For you want to be inde pendent: You all your Speeches, and all your Writings, even when you take fome Pains to difguife it.- "What! an lfland! A Spot fuch as this to " command the great and mighty Continent of "North-flmorz'oo/ Prepofl'erous! AContinent, "whole Inhabitants double every five and " twenty Years ! Who therefore, within a Cen- "tury and an Half will be upwards of an "hundred and twenty Millions of Souls l- " Forbid it Patriotifm, forbid it Politics, that "inch :1 great and mighty Empire as this, "lhould be held in Subjeétion by the paltry "Kingdom of Great-Britain! Rather let the "Seat of Empire be transferred; and let it be "fixt, where it ought to be, viz. in Great f‘ America l" , Now, my good Friend, I will not flay to difpute with you the Calculations, on which your Orators, Philofophers, and Politicians have, for fome Years pafi, grounded thefe extravagant Conceits (though I think the Calculations themfelves both falfe, and abfurd) ; but I will only fay, that while we have the Power, we may command your Obedience, if we pleafe: And that it will be Time enough for you to PrOPOfC the making us a Province to flmo‘rz'ca, R when wv' matV15.@yvlugA. as"! Vivi , upon themfelves, for doing t/zez'r Duty, jult the fame Execrations, which you now bef'tow upon the laft. So much as to your firfi: Grievance; and as This Spirit is uppermolt; and this Principle is vilible in N made -, and then the prefent lvliniiters will draw nolonger the Province of another. 3‘Wi‘y|i:tai mutt ‘equire Searches, and Confifcations to be You with to be an Empire by itfelf, and to be we was. L E I29 ] nii'try muf't renew the Orders of their Prede= ceflbrs -, they muft enforce the Laws -, they l Aim [ 128 ] |