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Show ‘ , 13.x ' '_‘_« stems "intimate? HEY 1' ‘ £3: ADDRESS AND APPEAL To THE LANDED INTEREST. own Preli‘rvation and Prolperity are derived. And then the popular Cry would have been, that a wicked and a profligate Adminiltration done, or going to be done in flmerz‘ca, was only the Omen and Prelude to the like fatal Ella- l0 were going to facrifice the Honour and Dignity of the Err/9'7; Crown, and the dearrbought Rights and Privileges of the Briiz'r'z Natiws': to flrverimn Gold, and A'merimu ItigratEtude. ~-- Pieces the united Force of the Britzflz Parlia- ment, by ereéting one diminutive AiTembly of wiry News-Paper would have echoed and ethoed the Tale) tliaiflmerim was the Property lomewhere in the Vileft: And then, partly by flattering and cajoling,---partly by Bribes or Prelcription,-~-Communication of Benefits,--- im'm‘wnu'lur that ‘n Partic‘pation of Pof'ts of Honour, and Places of {who-"general Protee‘lionrunever-ceafing DC- N ience, &c. 81c. And then we fliould have been told with peculiar Emphafis, that this newfangled, niiiiiiterial Scheme of erecting lo many new Parliaments, all coordinate with each other: , and altogether as conltitutional) to break to Tl; n we flioul _l have been told (1nd every Town "mm-111mm: r: ; _g blilliments here in B 'z'mz'iz. For the next Step would be (and upon a Pretence full as good, States at Edinburgh, another at Tattle, a third at London, and a fourth at Bat/z, or Exeter, or of Great-Britain by every potTible and legal Claim; --by Right of DZlEO'Jei‘y',---l{ight of Oc- eupancy,~--Right of P fiefiiomn-uninterrupted i It under one general ".lonai'eh, was not only a n0torious Breach of the Engilf/Xz Confiitution, and utterly repugnant to the Law of the Land-,--but was allo a deep-laid, diabolical Contrivance to fubjugate there petty Parliaments, one after another, and all in their Turns, to the irrelillible Power ofone grand Defpot :---In lhort, then it would have been laid (and with great Appearance of Truth) that divide, a; impem was the minil‘terial Maxim ;---and that, what was done Bullying,---‘by exciting their Hope-s, or their Fears at one Time,r-uand their Jealoufies at another,---and by playing of? each of thefe puny Afiemblies againi‘t its Rival, the Minil'ter would necellarily become omnipotent ;---and then fare- well to the Liberties of Old Eng/and. 3dly. I object alfo againlt all tliofe of what- ever Denomination, from the roaring Patriot in the Senate, to the miferable Scribbler in the Garret, who are the Penfioners of Frame, or Spain, or of any other rival Powerz-rI fay, I object againft their being Judges in this Dif- pure, becaufe the very Intent of their receiving Pay is to promote Difcord, and to cherifh Factior -,---and becaufe they cannot earn their ‘Wages with more Facility, or with furer Succefs to their Employers, than by patronizing fuch Schemes, as will necelTarily keep up the Dilputes between Great-Britain and her Colonies. B 2 BUT |