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Show £6 ACURE for the SPLEEN. A CURE fortheSPLEEN. is a country of will follow them when we refleEt, that this. confequences n certai the be will what der proper‘. y, and confi rebels of .. de'J'rlk. . For the punifhment of open traitors and law, of es inrul is no:, ard cannot be, governed by any certa the of nce exige the to ding but is iftfllélfid fuminarily, accor ing {hock is it be, mull: es quenc canfe thefe times ; and why rs flain, to humanity to confidcr: Suppofe a battle, and numbe iced facrif be mull tudes am ‘he reit put to flight ; what multi ers, ii. tne fuin'tquent purfuit; wha: .numbers taken prifon what impaled and gibbeze-l from unavordable neceifity; and ren ; child ent innoc fs helplé and wives their of es becom there 27 Sharp. Such are the miferies to whichlthis poor, unhappily deluded people are hafiening apace; and all to fave thofe liberties which their own loolilh credulity, and the wicked arts of their defigning leaders, have mifreprefented to their heated imaginations as being in danger; and which, heaven knows, how foon they may lofe in good earneft, if they go on in their mad career; well is it faid, that rebellion is like the fin of witchcraft, for in both cafes, the minds of men are en. tirely actuated by fuch a fpirit, as renders them proper Demoniacs; otherwife it would be morally imp :flible, that they ible to and. of the aged and infirm ; for then it will be impofl but for, with would ity human which 11151;: thofe drltinétions fliould throw up lives and fortunes, merely becaufe they fear h there one general calamity mull involve the innocent, iffuc people under Heaven either do or with to enjoy-and without they are in danger of loling a f'w of thofc rights, which no are, with the guilty-but fuppofe by a lucky accrdent, a body it which, I may add, we lhould have been much happier, had we never fancied ourfelves entitled to them. be before they would appear again With an irrefutable force, country and with a refentment that would mark the whole indivian elves yourf to with defolation and mifery; imagine linbut , battle in ded woun lly dual head of a family, morta rebitter his be would at h-wh deat of pangs gering in the Plffi‘. But, with fubmiflion, Rev. Sir, has not the go 1d. Continental Congrefs, in theirwifdom,'adop ted 'h-t 5.1139 n refolves, and Called upon us to extend our Views to the trim; un- would ofthe King‘s f‘i'ces, fhould be worfted, how long and fieflions, and how would he condemn his own ralhncfs as s moan tive plain fuch folly in that awful interval ; in tome . life.. his out he breat would he le, thefe, may we well fuppo I did why was- I that man h foolif , Idone have " What are ns paflio my blindly rufh upon certain ruin-now that feat, all cooled, and reafon, alas! too late, has refumed her happy events, and be in all refpeéts prepared for eve: y con. ting-ency? And what is this but preparing for cir'l war? Slyarp. They have advifed to this and many other extraordinary fieps; but that they have done it in their wiidoin, is, I confefs, more thanlcan fee. Trim. We read of a kind of wifdom which is foolilhnefs; and if the meafures of our auguft Congrefs can be faid to be wife, I believe it mull: be in fome fuch figurative fenfe. Or, thofc imaginary grievances difappear.-I now die a ti‘aiv‘ ttd- and rebel by the laws of my country-my cliate is forfe ry afi'eftionate wife, and our innocent babes, the {w eet: ens, in any inflance, as I have been in this‘of the conduct of been pledges of our loves---how have I, who ought to have that they would adopt fuch prudent meafures, as might tend their guide and protector-"how haveI left them fritndlefs, to bring about an accommodation of all our unhappy difputes; but infiead of this, they have blowu upa fpark, which was but kindling, into a raging conliagration. Their refolves are nothing fhort of high treafon; their afl'ociation is an open dc. o forlorn, deltitute of the means of procuring daily hrend----t what hardfhips, dangers and dilireffes have I abandoned them ure-u ---0 my (iod, how lhall I look up in this hcuroftort Sharp. I never was fo painfully deceived in my expeé‘tatL the Congrefs; Icomforted myfelf with the moft fanguine hopes, take them, 0 take them under thy protection-«for they are innocent of the heavy crime that now weighs down the foul claration of hof'tilities, partaking fo equally of wickednefs and of their unhappy hufband and father." iftic; it recommends robbery to the whole continent; it is Trim. I wonder wha. makes my eyes water fo--I believe it grows late. folly, that it is hard to fay which is its prevailing charafiercalculated to reduce thoufands of families to poverty and ruin; it tends directly to quarrelling, fightings and murders; it isa, Brim. Verily, friend Trim, thy humanity is more pleating than even thy fprightly humour---thonneedft not be alhamed fcheme, in the fixed nature of things, impoffible to be execu- of thy weaknefs in this cafe-that filent tear, drop'd over the reproach, alaugliing-fiock and abye-word, among all civilized laurc of thy diitrefs‘d country, does thee an honour which Sharp. fangs might envy, but could not con-fer. nations. Their addreffes are a jargon of contradictions and abfurdities; Britons and Canadians mull {mile with inefl'able D a eontem-p: ted; it mull render us contemptible in the eyes of Britons, a |