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Show ‘( 30 3 ( 31 ) Machia‘vel to take any advantage of thOfe' to What is foretold you in a late publication, that conjuncture will prove the lateft and the uttermof'c of your profperity, your peace, and, in all probability, of your exif'tence, as an independent ftate and nation. 'feud‘s and jealoufies which formerly fubfifted among them, and which eXpofed their liber- ties to more real danger than all the fleets and armies we are able to fend againft them. Your Minil'ters alfo, deceived by prefent appearances, vainly imagine, becaufe our ri- Roufe, my countrymen ! roufe from that vals in Europe are encouraging us to en-' fiate of guilty diflipation in which you have they will reject the opportunity when it' too long remained, and in which, if you longer continue, you are loft for ever. Roufe! offers of putting a final end to the greatnefs and unite in one general effort; 'till, by your and the glory of our empire; but if, by the imprudent meafures of the government, the unanimous and repeated Addrefl'es to the Throne, and to both Houfes of Parliament, public expences increafe, or the public in- come decreafe to fueh a degree that the pub; you draw the attention of every part of the government to their own interefts, and to the lic revenue fail, and you be rendered unable dangerous {late of the Britiih empire. gage beyond the poflibility of a retreat, that to pay the intereft of your debt, then will no longer be delayed the day and the hour of your deflruétion 5-then will you become an eal'y prey to the courts of France and Spain; who, you may depend upon it, will fall upon you as foon as they fee you fairly engaged in" a war with your Colonifts 3 and, according 8 to |
