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Show ,1 _ ADDRESS AND APPEAL TO come a troublefome Neighbour, and a danger- the Reigns of CHARLES 11. JAMES II. and WILLIAM III. joined the Confiitutionalills in Moreover in fome Years afterwards, when the Crown was fettled on the Houfe of Hanover, we bringing about the Revolution, chiefly with the Hopes, that a Prince who owed his Election to know it well, (for it is no Secret) that the Re~ .mlul'nulunm of Monarchy, however limited, or however well adminifiered, is grating to their Ears. They to be feared from a mere limple Democracy. publicans both then, and lince, had no other Merit towards that Houl‘e, notwithl'tanding all their Boaf'tings, than that of referving its Princes, like the Prifoners in ICACUS's,Den, to be devoured t/ze Zofl. A mighty Favour trulyl For which our Ears are perpetually dinned with a Repetition of the Services of thefe Men towards the ungrateful Houfe of cannot bear to think, that one Man, or one Fa- mily lhould be [0 much exalted above them/elves, in Contradiftion to their darling Maxim of a NATURAL EQUALITY. Hanover I E Gentlemen, having and Lords my AND now, excepted againfl: Courtiers and Placemen as fut/z, And this Scheme for laying the Foundation of a new and equal Republic is what the Republicans really intend by ufing the Phtafe Revolution Principles at this Day. In fliort, we have now the molt authen» tic Proofs, that their Predecefl'ors of old tried all Means in their Power, and even applied to the Court of France firfi to prevent, and then to defeat the Revolution, and to let up a Repub« ---againft pretended Patriots on every Account,- againf't the Penfioners of foreign Powers.~- and againfi: rank Republicans-,wmy humble Requelt is, that the Caufe between Mr. BURKE and me may be tried by the LANDED INTEREST ONLY. Y/zey are certainly the propereft and malt unex~ ceptionable Judges; for they have the mofl at Stoke; and their Interel't, and the Interefi of the Public, mull: neeefTarily coincide. They lican Form in its fiead -, alledging that it was more for the Interel‘t of that Court to have a Republican Government take Place in England. fomewhat after the Example of that of Holland, than any Kind of Monarthical Confiitution; can gain nothing either by War, or Peace, by R Submiflion to, or a Separation from, the Revolters in Norm-America, but what muf't tend 'to the general, as well as to their own particular C 2 Advantage. becaufe this, atone Time or other, might be- a ') li-Lllllllllllllm'i' could get them into the Mood to do it, whether with, orwithout a Cauie. For the very Sound ous Rival; whereas nothing of that Kind was new.3"; I . 19 AND I wrll add, as an lllufiration of this Mata ter, and to fhew how far certain l'erions will go to obtain their Ends, that the Republicans in the Voice. of the People, might the eafier be dethroned by the fame People, whenever they 1» THE LANDED INTEREST. come I l W i SEEM-i" t‘ was away. 2 . .,___JV\ 18 |