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Show INTRODUCTION PERHAPS the feiiriments contained in the fa‘l0wing pages. at: not yet fufliciently fafhionabie to pronure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a. thing wrong, gives it a {upeificialappearancerrf being rigbt, and raifes a: firfi'. a formidable outcry in defence of whom. But the tumult {con iubiides. Time makes more converts than reafou. V As a long and violent abuie of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in queition (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inqui'i') and 33 thfi King of England hath undertaken in his own Rig/2t, to {upport the Parliament in what he calls tbeirr, and as the good per-pie of this country are grievoufly opprefied by the nombinaiion, they have an undoubted privilege to enquire into the pretentious of both, and equally to rejcé't the uiutn. petion of either. In the foiiowing iheets, the author hath {tudioufly avoid. ed every thing which is perional among ourielves. Compliments as well as cenfure to individuals make no part thereof. The wife, and the worthy, need not the triumph ofa pamphlet ; and thofe whoie fenrimems are injudicious, tor unfriendly, will ceaie of themflzlves unlcis too much pains are bellowed upon their converfion. The caufe of America is in a great meafurc the caufe of all mankind. Many circuinhances hath, and will ariie, which are not local, but univerfal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are elicited, and in the Event of which, their Aiiceétions are inzerefied. The lay- ing a Country deiolete with Fire and Sword, declaring War again" the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders ihftfittrf from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Men to whom Nature has given the power of feeling 5 oi which Ciais, regardlefs of Party geniuregis the A U T H O R, |