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Show 5thlyr. AFTER a Separation from the Co:lonies, our; lnfl'uence over them will be much greater than ever it was, time they began to feel their own .Weight and 1m portance: For at prefent we are looked upon in no better a‘Light than that of Robbers and. Ufu-rpers; whereas, we fhall then be confidered as their Proteéto'rs, Mew diators, Benefaélzors. The .Moment a: Separ ration takes Effeé‘t, inteltine Qiarrelstrwill begin: Forgit is well known, that the Seeds of Difcord and Difl‘ention. between Province and: Province are-now ready to {hoot forth ;' and that they' are only kept down by .the prefent Combination of all the Colonies .againfl: us,.: whom they :uhL haPPiIY'fanCY' ‘30 be their'eommm Emmy; W'heni therefore this :Objeét" 'of their ..Hatred» fh‘all be retrieved,- by a Declaratiortgon our Parts, that, To fan from ufurpingt-"all Authority, we, from: henceforward, willflaffume none; at all againfizxtheir own Confent". the weakerJ'rovinces will. intreat our PW ‘ teétion: cautious againfl the more crafty and de‘l'igning: So that in fhort, in Proportion as their faEtious, republican Spirit {hall in- trigue and cabal, fhall fplit into Parties, divide, and .fub-divide,---in the fame Pro- .portion fliall we be called in to become their general Umpires and Referees. Not to mention, that many of the late and prefent Emigrants, when they {hall fee thefe Storms arifing all around them, and when their promifed earthly Paradife turns out to be a dreary, unwholefome, inhofpitable, and howling Wilde-rnefs,-.--many of them, I fay, will probably return to us again, and take Refuge at laft in .Old England, with all its Faults and Imperfeétions. LASTLY. Our Wq/l-India Iflands themIelves will receive fignal Benefit by this Separation. Indeed their Size and Situation render them incapable of ftlbfiraéting all Obedience from us; and yet the bad Precedents of their Neighbours on the Continent hath fometimes prompted them to fhew as refraétory a Spirit as they well could.--But when they come to perceive, what are the bitter Elfeéts of this untraélable Difpofition, exemplified in the .Cafe of the North-flmerimm, it is probable, it is reafonable to conclude, that they Dd 2 will ' are feized with a Fit of Patriotifm; and then Confederacies and AiTociations are to difcharge all Arrears; or, at leai'c, are to pofipone the Payment of them fine die. :teEtion againft the fironger; and the 'lefs V what Amount this Debt ‘fhall rife :u-AFon when the Time for Payment'draws on, they. '[ 2-11 '] - am" UK M [ 210 I vided they are truf'ced, they care not" to- |