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Show 78 THE RIGHTS or BRITAIN draw your armies, reeal your fleets, and you rmy have peace from the Americans; for, as " they fiT-ht not {or conquefl," they do not YET mean to transfer hofiilities into the heart oi thefe kingdoms ! The haughty Mtnarth who dreamt of univcrtztl tntna'chy in the, laft certury, Could {caretly have exp-rt led himielf in were inlolcnt terms to the petty Princee ltiri‘omidiiig hi5 tlnminions, than ""UIIIIH.' he Con- ;{r't‘irt iave done to the powerful Empire to which they owe the. allegiance of fuhjefiso tome allowance ought to he made for (Inna , Utter 'IrtmR ignorance, and a great deal for the petulance (t men nrw to ctnfequertce and authority; hut, cv:n in that cale, the intolanre of the Declaration IS calculated to AND CLAIMS or A M E RIC A; 79' of the DAUGHTER, to {lab her to the heart; and to finiih the horrid picture, they fmile at the mifchit-f they have done, and lock l'jOUfltl to the {pe tntirs for applaufe. It appears, upon the whole, that the Declaration, which Oilig‘l‘lt to contain all the argument in favour ofrhe Americans, coma rains, in trait, nothing that does not militite againlt their mute. The right of taxing all the {objects of the Empire, for the gene» ral {upport of the Eta-rte, is a part ofvthat Supremacy which the full principles of the Conflitution have Veiled in the Britifh Le- giflliture. This Supremacy ha: been exerted by Parliament, and admitted by the Americms, ever finer: their ancelors mi'rratetl from thefe ltingtlortis. mile indignation, as (Longrels, however, n, detperate {action have uniformly, in well as contempt. The are only the echees of in this Kingdom, who their public rxhibitions, degraded the firength, power, and authority (if Great-Britain, to exalt America on the ruins. \Vith an tfi‘i‘cntery without exan‘iple in any other tag: or nation, THESE MEN nfliime the tame cf Patriots, yet ltry the honor, dignity, and reputation of their Cuuiitry under the feet or" her rrbellious inhibits. Whit a peculiar refinement on If they now deny it, by that very act they ceale to he fuhjei'fts, and become rebels. But granting, for the fake of argument, that '1"a:r.:.tionyis no part of the fupremacy of Parliament, the very conduct of the Americans not only initities, but even renders it abtolutely necellirry, that a precedent lhoultl be made. They own, " that their internal relburces are " great." The inability or. Contributing to the neceflities ofa State, from whom they have derived their origin, their hipporr, their protetftion, and their profperity, is no longer Parricide, they bind the hands of the Mo:rurzit, while they plant a dagger in thoi'e of a preten e; and if they will give no Reveu nue as fubjeftx, they owe a debt as allies. They affect to maintain armies by land; They |