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Show ( 56 ) (57) the great champion of all, for this calamity'l'o a ings, ciprz'ori, out of the American Alliemhlies; country, has been the new Earl of Mansfield: but his being {0, was to me, at the.v,ery firf't fight, an argument againf'c the war; for his from Montcalm's Letters, which have been found to be forgeries; and from Kalm's Travels, who made a voyage to America in the year 174.9, and who lays, that he was there LOrdfhip is no warrior, and therefore Ifup~ poled that if he had been more competent to the events of fuch an undertaking, he had been lefs janguine in his recommendations of ita' Let us fee,‘however, what his arguments were.{ The firft point to be fettled was, which of the two countries was the aggrcjflr ; and of courfe which was to blame: but this would not bear 'a difputeyfor‘in; the. year 1764, when all was told, that " the Englilh Colonies in North " America, in the {pace of thirty or fifty years, " would be able to form a {late by themfelves, "independent of Old England." But hereI muf'c beg leave to make an obfervation or two. Suppofing Mr. Kalm, inftead of going to North America in the year 174.9, had come into England, and on his arrival had been told, peace and harmony,1 between both countries, that there were men in this country who on this country, by .its Stamp-A6}, flung the firlt their bare knees bad a'ran/e t/Je Pretena'er's lam/fly; would not the inference have been jul‘r as fair to fay, that this country meant to put the flone at America; and'l‘ot (the. year 1766 ex- cepted) Great Britain. continued this flonz'ng of America, like as Stephen was .flonea', to the year 1775; when, bytNegroes and Indians, the Americans were to be {fcahfiea' and flayed alive, even as Bartholomew was; and, in both infiances, perhaps for the fame reafon: for Stephen and Bartholomew were Saints, and the Americans are called Diflenters, and Difienters are curfed, by {ome Church-of-England-Men, as Saints. To get rid then of this {tumblingblock, of aggrcflar/bzf, fomething was to be devifed; and this lomething was, that America meant to become independent of this country: But how was this to be fupported? The learned Lord proved it by z'naendoer, by flying: and domgr, Pretender on the throne of this kingdom, in exclufion of the prefent family, as to fay, what Mr. Kalm does fay, that America meant independeney? I think it would: for the quellion is not what individuals fay, but what is the fenfe of the nation. And it is plain it was not the fenfe of this country to put the Pretender on the throne, and I hope it never will, notwithflanding his health has been {0 drank, Ste. &C. &c._ &c. and what the fenfe of America was, appeared by the unanimous declaration of the people themfelves in the melt folemn and authentic manner. They fay, through their Congrefs, (and if ever the fenfe ofany people « were |