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Show 114 ADDRESS AND APPEAI TO will give himfelf the Trouble, to examine coolly and impartiallyInto the ilender'1\eilonsalledged on our Parts, for beginni11g two of the molt THE LANDED INTEREST. 15 bloody and deibuCti‘e VV111.s, that ever were 11nyDifl'urbance: And that 20,000]. or 30,000], a Year {pent in Bribes and l'enfions, properly (liipoled, to raife an Oppohtion againfl‘ Govern- known, will find {with1e1t Cauie to believe, ment, and to enflame the l'Opulace 11011351 Liicir that thofe Powers will always thinkit to be Rulers, will do more eilbétual Service to the more for their Intuel'ts, to cut out Work at Courts of France and Spain, than thirty Times thefe Sums laid out in manning Fleets, or equipping Squadron-s. or preparing and embark~ Home for thele reltlel Asand tu1bu lent lllaneers '115 they are pleated to C1ill 11.; ) than to let us be £111)eace among ouilelves ,lelt that Ci1cumi‘t1nce "mm-Ill " "WE flcadza and 0/110) War, were begun and carried ing Troops for an Invalion. Ir therefore theie Points are To {ehevident, as not to be denied, the only Qieilion now 1e.~ maining is this, Can it be {Uppol-Cd, 01‘ is it cre- dible, that a popular Brit/fl; Senator, a li'riiz'flz Pamphleteer, or a Britt/fl News~writer, 1n an sud-mnuuu this on principally with a View to promote the im Age {0 pure and uncorrupt as ours,4would ac- mediate Interef'ts of the N01the1n Colonies, the former to proteCC‘t their Smtmglers, when hovermg about the Confis, and when acl 11ally t1adino in the prohibited Ports of the Spam/i1 We]!- cept of a Bribe, or a Penfion on luch chlh-o- waiter; and the latter, (a VVa1, alas! begun, racters, and approved Virtue, as to be {upenor without f0 much as a Declaration of War!) to do, I know not what! unlefs1t was to enable to any Temptation of this Sort? Now hereI fay nothing, but chute to be filent; and car: the grateful Colonies to 1ebel ngainf't the Mo- neilly entreat every Reader to judge for h1rnfelr. ther Country, pe1h1ips a Generation or tWO Jooner, than otherwile they would have done But be that as it may, one Thing15 ce1tam, and Indeed there was a Time, when a Text of fat- fliould give us an Opportunity of picking Qlarrels with ourtNeighbours. A11d111 01': cc1tain it is, that both the formerropmzflz (oi the .N-o Search) \Var, and the latte1 1Emu/z (oi the 1 a beyond Difpute, that the more. we are embroiled among ou1lelves, the lefs Caufe will the otht'r Powers of Europe have to fear our giving them any nourable Conditions 1" And are not all thefe 1lluf'trious Perlbnages either of fuch welliknown independent Fortunes, or of fuch fpotlefs Cha- cred Scripture might have been urged, as carry- ing fome Weightb in deciding the preterit Q16" tion. " Bewaie of falfe Prophets, who come to "you in Sheep's Cloathing, but inwardly they ‘are ravening Wolves. " by their Fruits. Ye {hall know them Do Men gather Grapes of f‘ T horns, |