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Show 24. TO LORD DARTMOUTH. ,wm:ww§s't‘W‘ zrtfi'vrm"~:r - f 25 J as Great Britain? If you do, ponder, confider well, what antwer will you give if you er'cape puniflmient in this world, when you come to be quellioned before the ()Zfirwtiwzr 072 LORD N ORTH's Cami/[awry P L A N. ' throne of God, for the detlruStion you have made of his creatures, the work of his hands, to whom be granted CAN NOT recall an idea to mv mind more amaz - life and liberty, earth, air and water, equally as to your- . ingly ahfurd and Prupid than the idea of Lord North's lecond attempt to lull the colonif'ts into a belie f of his inclination to hold out to them terms of a {afe and amicable reconciliation with Great Britain. No one is igu norant, that the America .s have otFered every thing that can poflibly be deviled to bury the injurious and enflav - felf: and yet, prefumptuous man, you have dared to counteract his providence! lave you confcience, my Lord ? If you have, IWOuld not, for the empire of a thoufand worlds, be Lord Dartmouth. But, my Lord, it is not to awaken your confcience that I write you this letter: the flame of civil war, by your manage- ing claim of adminittration, in perpetual oblivion, and ment, hath extended. far and wide in America; battles leave matters on the fame footing they were before the pretence was held up. Thofe generous propofals, h0w~ iever often repeated, have as often been rejeéted with an rnfolent contempt, and yet the pro/bum! politician tells his opponents in the Britifh houfe of commons, that he is heartily inclined to a reconciliation with the colonies, and willing to put them in the fituation they to pafiion- ately defire, that is, lays h‘e, to a courtier demanding haw: been fought, numbers have been Ilain, and priibners taken on both tides; the Americans have in their poiieflion ten for one, and among them many men of rank, Prefect, Preiton, Stoptord, and others; they are all treated with tenderneis and regard,while the prii'oners you have taken are treat/ml with {everity, carried to England in irons, there, as it is laid, to be tried, and of comic condemned and executed, or, in other worxs, un- der form of law, murdered. ' My Lord, if there be anything on earth or in hea- ven that you refpeél, avoid that rode-Yon have colonel Allen, captain Martindale, and lome other prifoners --.the hour that it is known here that any of thofe prifoners are executed, the prifoners here will be facrificed- nay more, every Englifh and Scots adherent ;-dread, (huh, and forever abandon llICh murderous intentions.- The cries and vengeance of all the relations of mole whole blood {hall be ihed in this manner will iurround you, death and horror will be your conflant companions, and'the torments of the damned, even on earth, will await you. . My Lord, this is but the beginning of formws. Take in good part whatl write. it is truth, and intended for the benefit of Britain and America. explanation, in nflale of abfo/ute depmdarzce m the Britt/1 parliament in all car/er w/mlfawrr ; for, lays his Lordfhip, they were unqueftionably thus dependant in i763. Had his Lordihip entirely forgot the {ucceis of his former ex- periment, perhaps atrial of the fame wretched trite over again, might have appeared leis ridiculous. Imay in- deed fay, lefs infulting to the lowefl underflandimr. I would all; the mof't credulous votary for making up the difpute, what poflib/e ground: he perceives to found his expectation of a permanent reconciliation upon? Has any thing lately happened, which has indicated a change of difpofition in the Prince or his favourites? Can a majority, which have been fecured fromone {even years to another, by pure force of corruption, be de- pended on to remain firm to a flaughtering, plundering and defolating court, and {hare the deteflation of preterit and future ages, for mere nothing.P Has the court re- folved to call: Bernard, Hutchinfon, Richardion, Mal- AN ENGLISH AMERICAN. colm, and Richardton the recent volunteer, out on the common ? I tell you, nay! You have afrefh infiance of Obflrwlims the firmnefs of the cabinet, in adding another three thou~ |