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Show qllllflllllll!" ' I ‘4 ', [ 182 [ 18 3 ] ] " who would otherwife have been Sufferers from rim, will meet with no better 21 Fate than the Stanip-ACt has done. Moreover, a Year's De. " that Load upon his Majel'ty's Revenue, and lay in laying it on will bejullfo much Time given " an afi'bé‘tionate Delire of relieving their ex- the Colonies to prepare for Battle; and Woe " cellent Sovereign (who has in no liillmce en- to that Adminillration which lhall propole it; for they will certainly l e overturned by the lame " deavoured to violate the Liberties of hi‘ {Cub- Arts and Managements which the former were, "jecls) from the umvcr by Streights and In" conveniences, ill becoming the Royal Dignity, and with much greater liafe. I Ihould now have done with this Gentleman's " into te/zz'r/z fame of 112': Jifitzflers /Z[Z([ Wong/1t Scheme, were it not that I find him, at Page 28, " venue, may have induced many Members of making a Kind of Apology to the flyizaricans for the Conduct of our Parliament in paying the King's Debts of his Civil Lift. And I own myl'elf more hurt by this Paragraph, than by all the tell of his Pamphlet : For as I am thoroughly perluaded, he wrote from Conviction, and not from any finiIter Views, one is forty to "the Houle of Commons to content to this " Grant, without any View to their own private " Interell; though at the fame Time I ac- find {0 able, {0 honell, and upright a Man, " him by the injedz'c‘z'ous Jifmmgc‘mew of My Re- " knowledge it to be, (on/Ederzfig all its Circum"flahces, a dangerous Compliance, and not " worthy to be drawn into Example." Now if the Compliance of the Parliament carried away by the Torrent of the Times to in dilcharging this Debt was dangerous, the Reafon mull be, becaule the Circumflance of fuch a Degree, as to adopt Notions, which are contracting the Debt itlelf was really infamous 3 almolt too crude for a Club of Livery Politicians met in fome blind Alley at a City Alc- therefore ought not to be avowed, but had better be {upprefl‘ed in Tendernefs to the Royal Caule. But can this Author point out any fuch houfix His "Words are thei'e :---" It is certain; " that no fuch (exorbitant) Grants as are above " mentioned have been lildtit',‘di‘llt‘iis tn the lingle " Inllance of the Sum of 513,000l. granted t0 ‘4 his preterit I‘i'laielly {or the Diibhaige of the u Debts or his civil Lifi. And in this cater " can eafily fuppofe, that a lVlotive of Com- " pallion for a Number of innocent I'ei‘ib ns, ‘4 who infamous Circumftances, if he were minded to make the Difcovery ?---I dare mixer for him, that he cannot. And as I will not l‘iippofe that he has more Tales to tell than any other private Gentlemen, or much leis that he himfelf was an Accomplice in, or privy to any Inch Scenes of Iniquity as are here infinuated,---I will now under- |