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Show A CURE for the SPLEEN. 30 31 ACURE for the SPLEEN. to George the Third, mull be difiinguilhed : And however oljullice; and to compel one, two, or at molt three counfel. fpecioul'ly the leaders may flatter their blind followers with lots, appointed by the King, to reign their teats at the board, hopes of fuccels in their oppofit‘ion? by publzlhing extrap‘is of which {eats they either had never accepted, or if they had, their rcfignations were void and of no effect-Other bodies letters from England, they may allure themfelves there is not ofwile-acres have aflbmbled, in warlike array, for the heroic their authority, even to the ruin of the prefent generatien, in this and all the other colonies, if it can't be ettabiilhed at a lefs expence : And it is as certain that l'ubmiflion is required. only to {ave the honour ofgovernment ; they never intend to tax us ; they don't with to enflave us; they abhor the thought; they want us to be happy and iree; but no, _we forfooth, mutt quarrel for a lhadow, under a moral certainty oflolmg the fubliance in the contell. The people are told byItheir oracles, put-pole ofcompelling an aged, intirmjullice, who had [ign'd an addrefs, to recant ; that is, to let his name to an infamous lie, fabricated in general, if they have been truly retailed in the news-papers, by heroes in their cups, incapable offpelling or realbning. And in thoie inll'ances where the devoted vic- tims, have either {ecreted themlelves, or had refolution enough to appear and refute, like Shadrach, Mefhech and Abednego, to {all down and worlhip the brazen image, tome haVe been the lealt reafon to {uppofe that parliament will not (up-port that, if they give way now, their chains are l‘lVlted, and inch deny'd the common rights of humanity; fuch as having corn ground for the daily bread of tlieinlelves and families ; others kind of trumpery; but, if they would but open their eyes, the conmon privileges and conveniences of fociety, fuch as experiment of lubmitting ; and if all their grievances are not employing labourers for hire, to reap, mow, threlh, Sac. nay redrefs'd, they may as well take up the cudgels, one or two, the very dumb heath of fome, have been deny'd the common or ten years hence, as now. sight: of nature ; an inflance of this kind happened in the then as well as new; and the deuce is in it, if they don't think they might fee that this is mere. deiufion ; let them try the They will have hands and guns county of Middlefex, where an unfortunate‘addreller hav- their wives, their children, their el'tates and their necks, worth ing a cow, {cut her over to his neighbour, a deacon, who was the owner ol'a bull, and to whom he had, for fome years, lent all his cows in the like exigencies ; i but the pious (lea- trying to lave. Some tell them they have been guilty or treafon already, they have put their hands to the plough, and it's toolate to look back. This is the language (1 vilei‘educers; but it is never too late in this world, to repent; and the {0011- con, animated with a holy zeal againl‘r Lord North, and Go» Vernor Hutchinl‘on, warmed with the ileams of modern pa- triotilm, and free from the infirmity of univerfal benevo- lence, {wore his bull lhonld not bull a tory cow. cr the better; they have a gracious King to deal with, and}: parliament of Britons, who know the value of civrl and X‘Cllgious liberty, and can make all due allowances for the ludden Bump. In all parts of the province, we have teen inflanceq extravagancies of Englifhmen, when firlt imprelled With the fear of loiing it; but it mull be remembered, that the'obllinate of this egregious folly of the mob, in compelling addrelfers to perfeverance ofincorrigiblc offenders, will put a period to the 73-1)". I fancy the deacon was well firicken in years. Gov. Hutchinfon, and to his prel‘ent Excellency Gen. Gage, long fuflbrings even of the Deity. I think lean perceive, that to recant; juit as if fuch forced recantations could perfuadc the world that fuch addrelTers did not addrel's i The aflors in the eyes of many begin to open ; I heartily Wllh they may attain a full view oftheir danger, before the door of mercy is thefe tragi-comi farcical {ceiies have no meaning at all ; in fliut. But I all; pardon, Rev'd Sir, for breakingin upon your them it is all the ct eét of rum and Hip: Theirabettors mean to make adminiflration believe that we are all of one mind ; but difcourfe, and interrupting it {0 long ; the dillrelles coinini upon my country, through the wicked machinations of moc patriots lie uppermoll in my mind ; and when I enter upon their folly is glaring; a band of highway robbers might as well make the world believe that'they and the perfons robb'd are all of a mind, by obliging them, when in their power, to fign a confellion that they confented to the robbery. People the fubjeé‘t, I know not where to flop. But I have done.- Sbarp Indeed '1"quire, there needs no apology ; you haw. deliver'd my fentiments, in much better terms than 1 can pre- have been grilled. impofed on, and milled long enough; it is tend to. high time for them to look aboutthem ; the nightis far (pent, ment ; and happy will itbe, if you, by your converfatron,;1:d Y the day is at hand--the day of reckoningnthe day, when the friends and fees, the liege liibjee s"7 andthe rebels and traitors, M The {ubjeéh as you obferve, is of the greatefi mo- |