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Show :70 THE RIGHTS or BRIT AI‘N AND CLAIMS 0:? AME-RICA. 7a firengthen them in their refillanee ; he res! tence of viiitimz a tick friend, on the day tained the goods. But they are fiill liaiely kept for the owners, {hould they either CL n~ pr«.-ee'lii'ig the aetinn on Bunker's hill, where, tinue faithful, or l'eize his Majefly's mercy, Country? is this a mark of thofe cruel re- and return to their duty. firdlitt‘, thofe melan-ch >ly feparations, of he was ki'led in arm»; againlt has King and The next paragraph of the Declaration, as Wilekil rhe. Congrefs complain? But THEIR it is not lupported by truth, is addiefii-d to the pathons. The Congrels complain, with an attempt at the pathos, " of the leparar‘ion ca.. [trike no imprellion with their arguments, " of wives from their huf‘oands, children the Congrefs, with their ulual want of imparm " from their parents, and the aged and fitk tiality and fairnefs, mention the CONSEQUENCES of their own rebellion, as the. caufe oftheir taking up arms. They obferve. " in m their relations and triends." But is it not notorious to the whole world, that this SEPARATlCN, which the Cingrefs af- feét to lament, was the nrcefi‘ary confequence of the rebellion oftheir countrymen? Did they not furround the tovsn ot Bllon, with an armed fine, with the avowed inten- tion ofdeflroying his Majefly's forces, Generals, and Governor? And were the gates to be left open " to let ruin enter," as one of their own writers exprrfiies himfelf? Have the people of Bolton futi‘ered more liardfhips than the inhabitants of befieged tt‘N'.S uloaliy {oft-er? Have they not even {offered fewer rethaints than men in their fituation had realon to expect ? Was not Dr. Warren, the Chairman of the Provincial (Longrels, a nororious abettor of the inlur- refiion, a nominal General in a rebel army, permitted to come into Bolton, under prfiv tenet: bulinets in to engage the naflions, whercth:y In the next paragraph 0F their Declaration, that General Gage iffued a Proclamation, 5‘ declaring all the inhabitants of Maliachun " tiers-Bay rebels, l‘ul‘pending the comic of " the Common Law, and publithing inf'tead " thereof the tile and exercife of the Law " l\/lartial."tie Bit, did he declare them rebels till they had attacked his Majelly's troops, feized his forts and garritons, befieged his army in the capital of the Province, and not only interrupted the common courfe of juttiee, but even totally annihilated all legal authority t" It is with peculiar efi'rontery, that the Congrels number the fulpenfion of the common courfe of juttice among their grievances, after all law and order had bee. trodden under foot by their own countrymen,With 11;"; he was auz‘norifed to do, as civil Governor, by a Law paired in the Province, many years ago, |