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Show 72 Tue RIGHTS OF BRITAIN 73 With the fame degree of arrogant folly the Congrefs complain, that " th in countrymen " vrere killed on Banker's-hill, that Charles- trated into Canada P And have they not tied every artifice tn inftigate the Savages to make war on their Sovereign and Mother-o " Town Was burnt to the ground, that their Country ? Almolt all there injuries preceded thejuf't exertions of this kingdom to puniflt " {hips and vellcls have been feized, that ‘ their iupplies of proviiions have been intercepted, that General Carleton is intligating the Canadians and Indians againll: " them, and that domeiiic enemies are en" couraged to attack them." All thefe things may certainly haw: happened; but 95!!"er , AND CLAiM's OF AMERICA. their rebellion. The conclufion of the Declaration, though laboured, contains nothing but empty declamation, and therefore merits little notice; The fame dil‘regard to truth. or rather the fame attention to mifrepretentatitm, which have they not happened in CttnlEQUEUCC of their own rebellion? Have they a right to dillinguilhes the refl‘ of that firange compo- attack others, and have others no right to alledge, " that they are reduced to the al" ternative ot'chufing an unconditional {ube defend themfelvcs? Do the inhabitants of Malifiehufets-Bay think, that as they have broken through all the ties that bind the {ubjeet to the Sovereign, the law of nature and of nations ought alto to be l‘ul‘pended to gratiiy their ambition, to flatter their folly; fition, is carried dawn to the end, They " million to tyranny, or refillince by forces" The Congrats {urely forget, or it fuits their purpofe to pafs over in filence, the favours able ( perhaps too favourable ) conditions offered to them, by the Refolution of the pendence? To the above imaginary catalogue Commons, in the month of February lath The terms couched in that Relblution were of American grievances, may be oppolEd f0 obvioully advantageous to America, that the jut't complaints ofGreathritain. the Oppofition in Parliament declared them msmrous; or, in other words, " too good to favour their extravagant fchemes of inde- Have not the rebels carried their hotlihties to every " to be fincere." An amicable fettlrment corner againli the Parent-Stare, that firfi‘ gave them exifience, and reared them It) had ceafed to have been an objet‘l with the prolperity? Have they not attacked her troops Detnagogues ABROAD; and it would have it Lexington and at Concord, fired upon ruined the {cherries ot the Faction at Home, riofion, burnt the Light-home, taken Ticon‘ derago and Crown Point, and even penetrated The FORMER derived their influence, comm" feguence, and power, from 30‘4th and eonfufiom |