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Show OBSERVATIONS, (29%. U R Colonies in NORTH AMERICA appear to be now determined to do and $b+$+$+$$iefieee$$+$$$$+bé$t$$+$¢$$+$+$$$$++$ fuller every thing, under the perfuafron, that GREAT BRITAIN is attempting to rob them of that Liberty to which every member of fociety, and all civil communities, have a natural and unalienable right. The qucfiion, therefore, ADVERTISEMENT. whether this is a reafonable perfuafion, is highly interefiing, and deferves the molt careful attention Of every Engli/lmzmz who values Liberty, and wi{hes to avoid ltaining himlelt‘ with the N tbe following Obfirvations, I bane taben tbat liberty of ex~ amzmng public mea ares, wbieb, happily for ibis kingdom, every perfon In It enjoys. Tbey contain 1/): fentiment: of a private and zuzeonnee'z'ed man 5 for 'wbieb, flooultl tbere be any t/Jincr wrone in them, be alone is anfwerable. o Q flfter all tbat bos been written on tbe diffmte wit/J America, no guilt of invading it. But it is impolhble to judge properly of this queftion without cone/5t ideas of Liberty in general; and of the nature, limits, and principles of Civil Liberty biparti- enlar.-----The following obfervations on this fubjcé‘t appear to me important, as well asjuft; and I cannot make myfclf ealy withOut offering them to the public at the prefent period, reader can expeé? to be informed, in Ibis publication, of mac/J tbat big with events of the lar't confequence to this kingdom. lie bar not before l‘nown. Perbaps, bowever, be may find in it Jome new matter ; and if be flow/(1, it will be ebiefly in tbe Ob/er- *uatzom on tbe [Vulture of Civil Liberty, and tb: Polity of tbe le do this, with reluctance and pain, urged by itrong feelings, wit/J flmeriea; and in tbe Appendix. *4"??? i$$$$¥¢$$¥~¢$fil M 4‘4"?*¥‘4‘4‘4‘ littlt‘i'v'l‘tfi‘t {Wokefiti *M"? I but at the fame time checked by the confeioufnefs that I am likely to deliver fentiments not favourable to the prefent meafures of that government, under which I live, and to which I am a conflzint and zealous well-wifhcr. Such, however, are my prefent fentiments and views, that this is a confident- tion of inferior moment with me; and, as I hope never to go beyond the bounds of decent difcullion and expol'rulation, I. flatter myfclf, that I {hall be able to avoid giving any perfon juft caufe of oll‘ence. The obfervations with which I {hall begin, fire of a more general and abflraé‘red nature; but being, in my opinion, of particular confequenee; and neceffary to introduce what I have principally in View, I hope they will be patiently read and confidercd. . SECTION. |