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Show BUT here the Smartnefs of Debate (to ufe one of Mr. BURKE's very fmart Exprefiions) will be apt to fay, " Who are thofe Perfons againl't THE LANDED INTEREST. 13 Powers now among urn-furely we have ob‘ tained all the Proofs that are neceffary at pre- fent towards ef‘tablifhing a general Belief of the Fact, (which is the only Point here contended for;) and we muf't leave to Time, that great " be furnifhed with the molt politive Proofs, " before you are entitled to throw out fuch ln" veclives, give them to the Public, in order Difcoverer of political Machinations, to unravel the refi. WHEREFORE, zdly. Let it be obferved, that " that we may hold thefe Traitors to their " Country injufi Abhorrence." the Hill'ory of this very Country furnifhes us . " whom your Infinuations are levelled? Name " them, if you are able: And as you ought to \ Uta J ADDRESS AND APPEAL TO ) imam-Immune ' it‘t'iIlu'nllIlll'tK L ‘1 DI I! .7 Di some Man may be fully convinced of a bad Defign, or a wicked '* cheme being in Agitation, with‘ out being able to prove, who are the Perfons concerned in it. It is not ufual for the Guilty to call upon the Innocent to llep forwards and be their Accufers: Nor can it be expected. jul‘t after the Revolution, there were many venal Eizglz'flzmerz, both in the Senate and out of it, the Penlioners of France; who, to be fore, meant nothing by what they faid or did on thele Occafions, and for fuch Pay, but the Good of their dear leeding Country; who therefore {formed and thundered, fpeechified and ha- the hilt Thing in any Confpiracy which is to be rangued, printed and publifhed out of pure, difinterelted Zeal for the Welfare of poor, old brought to Light. Eng/and! that the Names of the Confpirators fhould be Indeed, generally fpeaking, . this is the lal't Part of any Plot, or of any bad HENCE therefore I infer, 3dly, That the like Defign, which on: be fully known, or legally, afcertained. And therefore, if either the EX- perience of former Times, or the Nature of the Cafe, can afford probable Reafons, and circumftantial Evidence in Support of this Alfertion, may happen again, or rather has happened already, unlels it can be lhewn, either, that Tim t/zero are Numbers of Ponfioner; to Foreign gard to the firl‘t of thefe Pofi tiOnSa ‘Viloroev'el Wl rl Powrrt Franco and Spain want no fuch Agents at pre- fem; or if they did, that they cannot now, as heretofore, find them here in Britozrz. In re- ‘ with ttriking Examples in Confirmation of the above Affertion. Particularly during the memomorable Reigns of CHARLES the Second, and WILLIAM the Third, that is, jui't before, and < To all which firong Words I would beg Leave to fuggefi the following Anfwers. I. Ithink it may be allowed, without injuring the Caufe of Truth, or even Charity, that a WV: ‘ .VV‘viV'?" l‘ : "41mm 12 |