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Show (:4) (Is) If on can yet give yourfelves time to think, you will lee, the plain cale is this. A few years ago, you were afiaultetl by. enemies, whom you were not well able to refill. You reprefented this to your Mo- ther-country, and defired her aflifiance. You was largely afhfied, and by that means wholly delivered from all your enemies. After a time, your lV'Iother-country defiring to be reimburfed for fome part of the large expence {he had been at, laid a {mall tax (which the had always a right to do) on one of her Colonies. But how is it pofiible, that the taking this rcafonablc and legal fiep, fhould have let all America in a flame? Iwill tell you my opinion freely; and perhaps you will not think it improbable. I {peak the more freely, becaufe I am unbiafied : I have nothing to hope or fear from either fide. I gain nothing either by the Government or by the Americans, and pro« bably never fhall. AndI have no prerv» dice to any man in America : I love you as my brethren and countrymen. 10. IVly opinion is this. We have a few ~ {nine years been undermining it with all diligence, in hopes of erecting their grand idol, their dear Commonwealth upon its ruins. I believe they have let very few into their defign: (although many forward it, without knowing any thing of the mat- ter) but they are fteadily pur‘riiing it, as by various other means,:lo in particular by in~ flammatory papers,which are indul'trioufly and continually difperfed, throughout the town and country: by this method the have already wrought thoufands of the peo- ple, even to the pitch of madiiels. By the fame, only varied according to your cir- cumf'tances, America. they have likewife inflamed I make no doubt, but thefe very men are the original caufe of the prel‘ent breach between England and her Colonies. And they are {till pouring oil into the flame, {tudioufly incenfing each againfi' the other, and oppofing under a variety of pretences, all meafures of accommodation. So that although the Americans, in general, love the Englifh, and the Englilh in general, love the Americans, (all, I mean that are not yet cheated and exafperated by thefe artful men) et the rupture is growing wider every ay, and none can tell where it will end. men in England, who are determined enemies to lVlonarchy. Whether they hate Thefe good men hope it will end, in the his preterit iVlajefiy on any other ground, total defection of North America from Eng- than .bccautit he is a King, I know not. But land. they cordially hate his office, and hate for tome Englilh in general would be {0 irreconcileably difgufled, that they lhould be able, If this Were efi'eé‘ted, they trufi the With |
