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Show ( 53 l (59) were taken, it was here found, for lb free and. general an election of Reprefentatives was never before known in the annals of the world) " We done. No: One hour ofju'f'tice and moderation " chmrfu/br content to the operation of fuch tickers in Blood, in all the petty Principalities of " Acts of the Britifh Parliament, as are, £07m "fldc', reltrained to the regulation of our ex- " ternal Commerce, for the purpofe of‘fecuring Germany can atchieve in twenty years to come. would have done more, than all the German Blood-hounds hired from all the German Traf~ But to return to the learned Lord. Having let up Independency, and upon what grounds I have fliewn, as the object of America; his " the commercial advantages of the whole em" pire to the Mother Country," 85c. Exec. *9 It may be indeed faid, that America has declared herfelf independent of this country, and therefore the prophecy of Mr. Kalm was true; Lorfhip argued, that the Rubicon was pall‘ed, that we {hould kill the Americans, or the A- mericans would kill us, and that we could not look back, but mutt go forward, though our deftruétion be certain and inevitable. In fhort he drove us on, until we are all now driven, like {0 many alles, into a Pound; and are {0 but this does not follow: for this country, by putting America out of the protection of its laws, forced it, for felf-prefervation fake, into Admitting, how- try be fufficient for conquef't, ten times its force would be infuflicient to hold the country in tubs jeé‘tion.‘ Three millions of people, not only with their affections loft, but their inveterate hatred gained, at three thoufand miles over the Atlantic, dif'tant from the arm of power, are not lb eafily held profirate at the feet of Parlia- ment, as Lord North was directed to fay could be " Vid. Votes of the Congrefs, reprinted for J. Almon, Oppe{ite Burlington-hours, Piccadilly, and alfo the hit Petition of the Congrefs to the King. - done z'liaboztizded, that Fourteen Shillings Land-Tax in the Pozma', nay, all the Pounds, Shillings, .1? and Pence in the Nation, will not Impound us. '.-_..¢mu'mw aw?" , ever, that America did mean Independency, I will now alk, Were the meafures purfued the means to prevent their becoming to? I appre- hend not: For although the force of this coun- -~<. that Rate of Independency. Such is our dilgraceful, and truly to be la- mented, fituation. The contempt of ourfelves, and the mockery of all Europe befides. Bullied by Frenchmen, infulted by Spaniards, me- morialized by Dutchmen; and yet, happy would it be for us, if thefe were the only calamities that we are to fuller. Another argument for our entering into this {avage War was, that the Americans were Cowards; an argument as full of indignity to this country, as it was of reproach to h1m that made it. Of Indignity, for are We to go to tvar |