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Show 10‘ COMMON SENSE. COMMONSENSE. 21' The enn'ell in monarchy and fucctflim, between the of the hour: of commons (the repub‘ican part in the con- houfe; of Y :rk and ifdl‘Crtf'iCh lard England in a [cent of h'o n r‘. many years. rweive‘pitchcd battles, brildee ilk «mfthrs and ticgee, were {ought lit-tween Henry and Ed'Wau. Twrce was Hmry prilnner to Edward, who in his turn was primer to tlensy. And in uncertain is the fate of war, and the temper of a nation, {when nothing but perfonal matters are the ground of a quarrel, that Henry fli uilOP) what tht government of England is nearly as men. arrhicai as that of l7 since or Spain. Men {all out with names wrthnur undrwflantiirg them. For it is the repub- Was taken in triumph from t! prir'on to a palace, nno Eda Wald obliged to fly from a palace to a foreign land ; yet, as fudden trartiirions of remper are {eldom lafling, Henry in llcan and nri' the mnnarhtcal part of he confiitution oi" Elli-{and which Egliihmen glory in, viz. the liberty of chm/fr- g nn home of cr‘riirnéns from out of their own but dy-and it is can; to tee that whrn'rcpubiicw virtue fails, "xi/Cry enfues. Why is the corrilirurion of England fickly, but becaufe monarchv hath poil'oned the tcpub:ic,the Crown hath mgr: {Ed the comm int i ht» turn was driven from the throne, and Edward recalled in Erig‘and a king hath little more to do than to make to {ucceed him. The parliament always following the firongell iidc. This conrel't began in the reign of Henry the limb, and was not entirely cxtingurflied till Henry the letenth, in War and give away places -, which in plain terms, is to Im< poventh the nation and {at it together by the cars. A pier- ty bulinets indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred Including 2 period or thoufand Prerling a year for, and worlhiped into the bargain ! Oi more worth is one honeft man to fociety and m- 67 years, viz. from r412, to r489. In lhort, monarchy and fuccdficn have laid (not this or the fight of God, than all the crowned ruflians that ever r lived. that kingdom only) but the world in blood and alhcs. Thoughts on the prefent {late ofAmerican affairs. whom the families were united. 'Tis a form of government which the word at God bears 'Iet'timony againil', and blood will attend it. If we erquire into the buliucfs of a kingme {hall find that irrtome countries they have none; and after launrering :way their lives without pleahre to rhetnfelvrs, or advan- N the following pages I (tiller nothing more than fimple fafls, plain arguments, and common {cnfe ; and have no other preliminaries to lettle with the reader, than that: he will diveilt hrmleifoi prejudica and prepofl‘flion, and {tri- tage to the nation, withdraw from the (acne, and leave ter his reafon and his feelings to determine for th:mlelves ; their llJCCtiliiNS to tread the lame idle round. that he will put on, or rather that he will not put 43f, the true character ofa man, and generoufly enlarge his views beyond the preterit day. ' Volumes have been written on the fubjcé't of the flunggle between England and America. Men of all rarks have in alrfo‘ute monatehies the whole weight of bulimia, civil and military, lies on the long ;the children of 11ml, in their reqnefl for a king, organ this plea 5‘ that he may judge us. and no out heroic us and fight our battles." But in Countries when he is neither a judge nor a general, as in England, a man would be p~ filed to know what it his bulimia. "l"m: neaacr any government approaches to a republic the lets bufinelk time is for a king. It is trimewhat d'fT‘icult to with various dffiglh‘ ; but all have beenincficclua', and the period of debate is slated. Arms, as the lafi refource, decide the eonrefi; the appeal was the choice of th: king, find a proper mm:- for the government of England. and the continent hash accepted the challenge. Sir 'illiam Meredith calls it a republic gbut in its preterit Rate it is unworthy the name, became the corrupt irifluence of the crown, by having all the places in its difpota', hath {0 cf- rcéiually r'waiiowcd up the power, and eaten out the virtue of emrnrked in the controverfy, from dtfierent motives, and It hath been reported of the late Mr. Peiham (who tho' an able minil‘ler was not wirhom his faults) that on his being attacked in the houfe ofttommona, on the {com that his rncaiurcs were only of a temporary kind, replied 1b?! {01 i |