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Show '86 . ADDRESS AND APPEAL T0 THE LANDED INTEREST. 3dly. THE Advocates for making North- is properly Republican, is violently for a Change :ofGovernment, fuitable to fuch Principles; and A'merz‘m independent of the Britt/I; Parliament thefe Men are now become of fome Confequence, not f0 much on the Score of their ing the Brz'z‘i/x'i Confiitution into fomething Very n different from what it is at prefent, or ever was ; for the very Plea thefe Men ufe in regard to Zeal, and of their breaking through everyTye of Honour, Honef‘ty, and Confcience, for accom- North-America is, that Reprefentation and Lea as they ufe the Word Liberty merely as a Blind to conceal the Batteries they are ere€ting againlt it; and as they pretend to fupport and uphold l i r I l l the Conf'titution, at the very Inftant they are Uflllililllllllflln I "l I'. \‘1I\ |I| |\' "‘4‘! tr 3?? ‘ " mull, if confii'tent with themfelves, be for turn; Numbers, as on Account of their enthuliaf'tic plifhing fuch Defigns. Moreover, as they put on every Difguife; as they forge, lye, fallify; l 87 2dly. THAT Species among the lV/zz'gs which planning a Scheme to deftroy it -, their Defigns are f0 much the more dangerous by appearing to fight under the fame Banner with ourfelves; and the Wounds they give, are the more diffi~ cult of Cure, becaufe they {tab and allaflinate under the Mafk of Friendlhip, and therefore take their Aim the better, and {trike the deeper. In the former Plots and Confpiracies of the fa:- giflation (a very {mall Part of which is the Power of railing Taxes) mull: always go together; therefore as nineteen Parts in twenty of the People of England, and upwards of ninety-n nine Parts in an Hundred of the People ofScathad, are not qualified to be Valery, nor ever were, be their Property ever fl) great, that is (according to this new-falh-ioned Doctrine) are not repreiented in Parliament; it mul't inevita- bly follow, that a valt Majority of the Inhabi-~ tants of Great-Britain, as well as BriZi/Iz Ame» rim, have a right to renounce their Allegiance to the prefent Government as foon as they pleafe, and to fet up for Independence. For in Fact, according to the dangerous Principles now or cabiie:,their Aim and Intent were to dethrone the penly avowed, all this Multitude of Non-Elec- reigning Family, and to replace another: The prefent Views of the Republicans, which they are incelTantly purfuing by various Means, and almofl: contradictory Meafures, are, :0 have no tors owe no Subjeétion to that Legiflature, and Throne at all. Hence, by a Comparifon of the were made without their Confent, or Privity; two Crimes, the Reader mutt judge, which is and more efpecially where they have no Repre- the greatefl, and the molt repugnant to the Lnglg/lz Confiitution. fentation, they ought not to be fubjet‘t to any 3dly. to thofe Powers, in the Choice or Continuance of which they were not confulted. They ought not to be compelled to obey any Laws, which axatiom |