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Show . w ".1... .- fiflsn.-4~.>-\:w ‘g-eag'qplr/fiflw"wk-23w- r ‘1' xii INTRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION. xiii in any Degree of Safety, without the Affifiance of Great Britain, to defend them both from fo~ Ieign and domefiic Enemies: --And that the Expences of maintaining a Fleet and Army, of building Fortrefies, and of fortifying Ports and London Evening Pofl, Azgzg? I, 1776, as fooni as the Nation was informed, that the King's Iorces had obliged the lxebels to evacuate Canada,~-was put into my llands, as a Corro- boration of whatI was here advancing. Harbours, of fupporting the Eclat of an independent Civil Government in each Province, would be about ten Times as great. as the Sum which the Parent State lhould levy on or requirefrom them, by Way of contributing their Share towards the general Defence of the Empire.i"' Therefore the wary Americans do not chufe to part with thefe Benefits, while a Pollibility re- mains of perfuading the credulous Engliflt (till. to continue them. " SOMETHING mufi be DONE. " LET the Merchants meet at Guildhall, fe- rioufly deliberate, and DETERMINE: Let them invite the Lords, and Member: of the Oppofitz'on to JOIN THEM: Let them make their APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE AT LARGE, and t0 the City of London in particular: " Let them Openly declare, that nothing but " Neceflity, and the Principle of Self Preferva- 'rHE- Republicans at Home are molt violently incenfed againf't the Author of this Propofal, becaufe it would quafh at once all their darling Projeé‘ts of introducing finIilar Liberty-Meet- ings, linIilar CongrelTes, and limilar Forms of " tion [CAIALINE'J' Speed; exafi/y, fee 112'; Ha- mngue in SALUST] "induced them to take this " important Step: And let them call themfelves, " THE COMMITTEE OF CONSERVATION."' This Language is f0 plain, that it needs no Com~ ment. He that runs may read. Government here in Brittney-and becaufe it would cut off all l'retences for clamouring a-- gainfi Government on Amount of its tyrannizing NOTHING now remains, in order to finifh this over the natural Rights and Liberties of their Controverfy, but to obviate certain Objefiions dear perfecuted Brethren, the poor,. innocent raifed by the Crafty, fwallowed by the Credu- lous, and terrible only to the Ignorant, againlt a'mericam. the Idea of a total Separation. [\NHILS'I' I was writing the above, the fol- low1ng 1nce1.d1ary laiagiaph, Inleited In the London And therefore, to put thefe Objeétions in as ftrong a Light as poffible, I [hall here introduce them in the B 3 Form |