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Show [38l " Wt: {hall decline the ungrateful talk of difctiliin‘g cruel enemies, who abufe your royal confidence and au- the irkfonie variety of artificcs, praetiled by many/10f your majell'y's minilters, the delufive pretences, drumets tcr~ tors, and unavailing feverities, that have from time to time been dealt out by them, in their attempts to execute thority, for the purpolc of dieting our deitruCtion. " ATTACHED to your majetty's pcrfon, family, and go- this impolitic plan, or of tracingr thro" 'a {cries of years palt, the progrcfs of the unhappy differences between ties that can unite focieties, and deplorinfz; every event that tends in any degree to weaken than, we folcmnly (irtvat-Britainiand thefe colonies, that have HOWed from this fatal fource. _ " YoUR majel‘ty's minifters, perfevering in their meafures, and proceeding to open hottilities for enforcrng them, have compelled us to arm in our own defence, and have engaged us in a controverfy fo peculiarly abhorrent to the aflitt‘tions of your ltill faithful colonitts, that when we conlider vrhom we mutt oppofe in this contef't, and if it continues, what may be the confizquences, our own particular misfortunes are accounted by us only as parts of our dittrefs. lll'llll III'I Anal [39] " KNOWING to what violent refentments, and in~ curable animofities, Civil (lifcords are apt to exalperate and inflame the contending parties, we think ourttlves required by indifpenfable obligations to Almightyfl‘rod, to your majefty, to our fellow fubjeéts, and to ourlelves, immediately to ufe all the means in our power, not in- compatible with our fafety, for flopping the further effu- fion of blood, and for averting the impending calamities that threaten the Britifh empire. " THUS called upon to addrefs your majefiy on affairs of fuch moment to America, and probably to all your dominions, we are carnettly delirous of performing this office, with the utmofc deference for your majefly ; and we vernment, with all devotion that principle and affection can infpire, connected with Great-Britain by the ftrongelt afiure your majefly, that we not only moit aidently defire the former harmony between her and thefe colonies may be rettored, but that a concord may be e‘itablithed between them, upon fo firm a batis as to perpetuate its hlefiings uninterrupted by any future diffenhons to fuceeeding ge- nerations in both countries, and to tranfnait your majefi'y's‘ name to potterity, adorned with that i'igvial and lailiag glory, that has attended the memory of thofe illutiiioii: perlonages, whofe virtues and abilities have t,‘I\'it'iL'.'liL‘tl Hates from dangerous convuilions, and, by re: pinefs to others, have erected the molt noble ant. durable monuments to their own fame. " W13 beg leave farther to affure your niaicitv, that notwithltanding the fufitrings of your loyalit‘oloniils, during the courfe of this prefent contioverly, our breafl‘s retain too tender a regard for tl e kingdom from which we derive our origin, to requeft fuch a reconciliation as might in any manner he inconfi tent with her dignity or her welfare. "I‘hefe, related as we are to her, honour and duty as well as inclination, induce us to fupport and advance; and the apprehenlions that now opprefs our hearts with unfpeakable grief, being once removed, your majcfty will find your faithful fuhjee‘ts on this continent therefore pray, that your majefty's royal magnanimity and ready and willing at all times, as they have ever been, with their lives and fortunes, to tillert and maintain the benevolence may make the mofl' favourable confl‘ruétions of our exprefions on fo uncommon an oceafion. Could rights and interefis of your majet'ty, and of our mother country. we reprefeiit in their full force, the fentiments that agitate the minds of us your dutiful fubjeéts, we are perfuaded " WE therefore befeech your majcfly, that your royal authority and influence may )e gracioutly interpofetl to your majei'iy would afcribe any feeming deviation from. procure us relief from our afliiéting fea" and jealoulies, reVerence in our language, and even in our conduct, not occafioned by the fyfl'em before mentioned, and to fettle to any reprehenfible intention, but to the impoffibility of peace through every part of your dominions‘, with all reconciling the ufial appearances of refpeét with a juit humility fubmitting to your majelly's wife conlideration, attention to our own prefervation againft thofe artful and cruel whether it may not be expedient for facilitating thofe im- portant pui'pofes, that your majetly be pleated tofdirte't ome |