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Show [ [4X] tome mode, by which the united applications of your faithful colonills to the throne, in put‘l‘uanee of their common councils, may be improved into a happy and per-- manentrecomtiliation3 and that, in the mean time, meanlures may be taken for preventing the further dellruetion of the lives of your majell‘y's litbjeél‘s ; and that {itch flu» tutes as more immediately dillrels any of your tnajt'li‘y's colonies may be repealed. " hot; by {rich arrangements as your inajelly's wilii'om can form for collecting the united figure of your American people, we are convinced your majcliy would t'ective {uch lath lacioi'y proofs of the dilpohtion of the colonitls towards their lotereign and parent liate, that the wiflzed for op~ portunity Would loon be refiorcd to them, of evincing the lincerity of their pt'oleliious, by every tellimony of devow IHUE'IHIIIII" lion becoming the molt dutiful {ubjeéits and the molt allix‘tiontue colonilts. " THAT your tnajcll'y may enjoy a long and prolperous reign, and that your dutcendents may govern your (10-. ASH minions with honour to them-{elves and happincls to their firbjeCts, is our linccre prayer." indignation which has flept too long for your honour, or the welfare of the empire. But we have not been per- mitted to entertain this pleafing expectation. Every day brought an accumulation of injuries, and the invention of the miniftry has been conf'tantly cxercifed, in adding to the calamities of your American brethren. " AFTER the molt valuable right of legiflation was infringed; when the powers allumed by your parliament, in which we are not re;)reletited, and from our local and other circuml'tanccs cannot properly be reprefented, renered our property precarious; after being denied that mode of trial, to which we have long:r been indebted for the lafety of our perlons, and the prefervation of our liberties 5 after being in many inl'tances divelled of thofe laws, which were tranfmitted to us by our common an- Ccl'tors, and {ubjeéted to an arbitrary code, compiled under the aufpices of Roman tyrants; after thofe chars» ters, which encouraged our predecellors to brave death and danger in every fhape, on unknown teas, in deferts unexplored, amidl'c barbarous and inhofpitable nations, were annulled ; when, without the form of trial, Without a public aceufation, whole colonies were condemned, I Tm: adurefs to the people of Great-Britain was agreed to the fame day, as follows : " Fri/wk, Cymrtiynwz, (1m! Biff/{7.1172, " BY tltele, and by every other appellation that may delignate the ties, which bind m to each other, we entreat your lei'ious attention to this our {econd attempt to prevent their dillblution. Remembrance of former friendlhips, pride in the glorious atehievements of our common anceliors, and ztfleétion for the heirs of their virtues, have hitherto preferved our mutual conneétion; but when that ti'icndlhip is violated by the groilelt injuries; when the pride of ancet'try becomes our reproach, and we are no otherwife allied than as tyrants and Haves; when reduced to the melancholy alternative of renouncing your favour or our freedom ; can we hefitatc about the choice i Let the lpirit of Britons determine. " lN a former addrefs we allotted our rights, and fluted the injuries we had then received. We liopcd, that the utention of our wrongs would have routed that honett indignation theirtrade dellroyed, their inhabitantsimpoverifhed ; when foldiers were encouraged to embrue their hands in the blood of Americans, by OflT€FS of impunity; when new modes of trial were inltituted for the ruin of the accufed, where the charge carried with it the horrors of conviélion ; when a del‘po-tic government was eltabliflied in a neighbouring province, and its limits extended to every of our l‘i'ontiers; we little imagined that any thing could be added to this black catalogue of unprovoked injuries : but; we have unhappily been deceived, and the late tneafures of the Britilh miniltry fully convince us, that their object is the reduétion of thele colonies to flavery and ruin. " To confirm this aflertion, let us recall your attention to the allitirs of America, fince our lal't addrefs. Let us combat the calumnies of our enemies ; and let us warn you of the dangers that threaten you in our de~ firuélion. Many of your fellow-fubjeéts, whole fituation deprived them of other lhpport, drew their maintenance from the lea; but the deprivation of our liberty being inliiflicient to fatisfy the rel'enftnent of our enemies, the horrors |