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Show [ 10 l [II] but the meditation of revenge, where finitten pride, finarting from its wounds, fetter-s into harden our hearts: and pufi: us up with new rancour, neither the 28: of Henry the firuétion. pride and arrogance. Alas! this is not in- eighth, nor its handmaid of this reign, will For If any thing can be drawn from fuch ex- if the bloody fields, which they {aw and felt, are not fuflicie‘nt to {ubdue the reafon of Ame-y amples by a parity of the cafe, it is to thew, ant‘wer any wife end of policy or juttice. ricans (to ufe the exprefiive phrafe of a great lord in oflice) it is not the judicial flaughter, wnich is made in another hemifphere againfl: their nniverfal fenfe of juf'tice, that will ever reconcile them to the Britith government. how deep their crime, and how heavy their tho {hall at any time punifhment will be, dare to refitt a dittant power aétually dif- pofing of their property, without their voice or confent to the difpofition; and overturning their franchifes without charge or hearing. God forbid, that England thould ever read this lefion written in the blood of any of her fympathize in a proper horror of all punifhInent further than as it ferves for an example. To whom then does the example of an execu- tion in England for this American rebellion apply? Remember, you are told every day, that the pretent is a contel't between the two countries; and that we in England are at war for our own dignity againl't our rebeliious Cl'lll-r ofi-fpring l dren. Is this true? if it be, it is furely among withttanding this hitherto equal procedure, upon tome profpeét of ending the war with fugitive negro in the plantations, be and the Englith in America, on the other, upon the utual footing of other wars; and accordingly an exchange of prifoners has been regularly made from the beginning. If, not- fuccefs, (which however may be delufive) ad- minifiration prepares to aft agatnft thofe as z‘mz‘z‘orr who rein, in in their hands at the end of the troubles, in my opinion We [hall exhibit to the worl' as indecent a piece of injuftice as ever civil fury has produce . If the prilbners ,CUlifiuCI'CLi as a lefi‘hn to teach matters ' to their flaves. Such executions who have been exchanged have not by that ‘ fatiate our revenge; they may 1 . exchznge been viJ-‘rualify pardoned, the cartel harden i i ‘ s=§en§fka=y§gfiz ltfvf'fli' gala 3"." *3 i of king's natural and foreign troops, on one tide, (whether ‘e. fuch rebellious children that examples for difobedience thonld be made. For who ever thought of infirué‘ring parents in their duty by an example f om the punifhment of a difou bt‘dicnt ten? As well might the execution \Var is at prefent carried on, between the l Itake it for granted, gentlemen, that we |