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Show 9151‘ '~"T£lié'l~tl‘ "at 93-minJ's" y ' 20 THE LANDED INTEREST. ADDRESS AND APPEAL To Advantage. Whereas almof't every other Rank of Men may find their Account, in countenanc- ing and i‘upporting fuch Meafures, as may greatly enrich themlelves, tho' at the Expence of depopulating and impoverifhing their native Country. NOR, my Lords and Gentlemen, is this Caufe beneath your folemn Notice and Regard. In the former Spam/xi [or iio-fearch] War, you fpent above Sixty M'z'llz'mzr Sterling, including the. extraordinary Sums railEd, and the frefh Debts contra€ted :--And in the lad Freer/z, Ohio, or ‘ u-uumlmmnw lm-"I'lillllll GEL , Acadia War, you fpent above NINETY MIL" LIONS STERLING, if computed after the fame Manner, viz. Additional Sums annually railed, and new Debts contracted. And all, alas! for ' whatl ! l ' 9* 2t BUT without any Retrofpeét to Things pal't, let us look towards What is to come. ‘ THE firlt Thing to be confidered in the Difpute between Mr. BURKE and me, is, which of our Schemes is tlze eaflefl to be executed, and the mo/tpmfiieahle? He propofes that allConceflions lhould be made on our Parts in Favour of the Colonies ; but that none, or next to none, lhould be made by them in Favour of Great Britain. Now this Propofal can never terminate the Difpute between us and them, but on one or other of the following Suppolitions. FIRST, that the Parliament and People of Great-Britain are now convinced, that they have afied injurioufly, illegally, and unconfiitutio- nally in pretending to make any Laws, whether good or bad, to bind the flmericzzm.-.Beeaufe they (the Almerimm) have their own Legiflatures, BUT which are totally independent of ours: And "‘ The late Dr. BUTLER, Billiop of Briflol, and after~ therefore we take Shame to ourfelves by revolt- ing theft: pretended, iifiirping Laws. For in wards of Durham had a lingular Notion refpec'ting largt‘ "lo", the firl't Step in Politics, as well as in "Communities and public Bodies ;-a Notion which perhapfi is not altogether unapplieable to the prefent Cafe. Hi9 Cultom was, when at Brzflez‘, to walk for Hours in his Gatden iii the darkell Night, which the Time of the Year Turn, and a aim {to fliort. " Why might not whole could anord; and I had frequently the Honour to attend him. After walking {ome '1‘l21‘.C,ihC' would {top fuddenly, and alk the QJClllOH, " What Security is there againll the " Communitige$ and Ipublic Bodies be feized With Fm of " Infamy; of" Individuals? The l'hyllcians know of'none‘: " And as to Divines, we have no Data either from Scrip; " ture, or Reafon to go upon relative to this Afiair."--- " Nothing but this Principle, that they are liable to n a- True, my Lord, 720 Mm: but a Leqfl of 52'! Unfit/[47155713 , My flmre f/sz of bit Lifi'. T50) are $01!: in the Helm? q/ the SQ" " in Hillorv." 'I‘ thought little of this odd Conceit of tllie not avmdéhirn .. Biflml"S at that Juné‘turev: But I own Icould es. Wrer'grz Df/fq/e'r [fa]! Téz'ugs. ‘, He would then take atiTother a uni, " Infamy, as well as Individuals?" 1%: Lord, Ifmrpg newer corfia'erm' flit Cafe, and (an gi-ve no Opmzon'cancermiigft. «E nity, equally at leafi with private Perfons, can accouns " for the maior Part of thofe Tranfaftions, which we rea a ling of it a great deal fince, and applying it to many Morals, |