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Show 76 THE LANDED INTEREST. ADDRESS AND APPEAL To called to an Account. 77 That in order to divert the Storm, and to throw a Barrel to the Whale, they prbjeéted the Plan of an Expedition, know; P O S T S C R I P T. " few out of the many Colonies, have been Fortifications of Cape Breton were very ruinous, and the Garrifon both weak and mutinous for Want of Pay, Cloathing, and Provifions, they bent their Forces againf't this Place. The Scheme fucceeded, and Cape Breton was yielded up; but the Joy of the Engl/ zNation knew no Bounds : For the People, from the highel't to the lowefi, were fo intoxicated with Norions of " liberal in their Grants to Great-Britain, dur~ the Importance of this Port, [tho' now it is evi- '" ing the Continuance of a privateering, {mug- dent, that it is a very ul‘elefs one if compared with others] that they forgor every other Idea in the general Tranfport; fo that the Planners and Conductors of the Expedition, N a Note at the Bottom of Page 52, (2d. 1 Edition) of my Letter to Mr. BURKE, lexr- prefi‘ed myfelfin the following Manner: " The " Infiances which Mr. BURKE has brought, [at Pages 74 and 75 ofhis Speech, 2d. Edit. 8vo.] " to prove that the Colonies, or rather that a mamuunuvw": i|-||I I‘lflul lk‘n "stir-1* ing the Temper of the Engli/z'z, and their Rage for Conquefis. Therefore, hearing that the " gling, trucking, and huckf'tering American " Sea-VVar, in which they were fure to be " the grea'tei't Gainers, {hall be particularly " confidered in an enfuing Treatife, An Addrefs " to the Landed Interef't of Great-Britain and " Ireland." infiead of their being called to an Account for their former Mifdemeanors, found themfelves careffed and applauded by the whole Nation; " Tm: Minutes which I took at that Time re- and to crown all, the Parliament itfelf voted a lative to this Affair, and which I intended to have inferted in the Body of this Treatife, were prodigious Sum of Money to reimburfe the New-Englanderr for their Expences, and their the following, that the leading Men in the Go- vernment of the Province of Maflaclzufi'n, had, fome Time before their famous EXpedition a- Services in this glorious Work. THIS, I fay, or to this Elieét, was the Account which 1 received ;--and which I believe Praétices in the Adminil'tration of public Af- in my own Mind, will be found to be for the mod Part very true, when it can be very tho- fairs, for which they were in Danger of being roughly examined imo, gainl‘c Cape Breton, been guilty of certain Mal- ‘ called But as I have been hurried, |