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Show COMMON SENSE. 46 COMMON SENSE. this COfllifit‘nlfmm ruin. Rutasit is mo re than probable that we fhatl never be without a CONGRESS every well .47 Third/yu-Whilc we profcfs ourfelves the fubjeé'ls of Bri- tain, we mull, in the eye of foreign nations, be confidered as rebels. The precedent is fomewhat dangerous to r/‘m'r wilhcr to good order, mul't‘ own, that the mode for 1‘ht'flfing members of that body. deletvcs confidcta'ton. And E place, for men to be in arms under the name of fubjcéts; put it as 3 quci'tinn to theft, who make a find» of mankind, whether reprrlentation and eteétion is not too great a powcr for one and tl‘r'.‘ faint:- body of men to printer When we ance and fubjcé'tion, requires an idea much too refined for common underflanding. Fourrbly.-Were a manifeiio to be publifhcrl, and dif< patched to foreign courts, letting forth the miferics we h we endured, and the peaceable methods we have infill" él'uatiy are planning for poltcrity, we ought to remember, that vir- tue is not hereditary. It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims,and are frc;,:.m-ir‘:y furptiled into realon by their miftakes. Mr. Cornwall (one of the Lords of the Trealury) treated the petition of the New-Yotk Affembly with contempt, becaufe that battle, he laid, conlifit-d but of twenty fix members, which trifling number, he argued, could not with decency be put in! the whole. V» c thank him for his involuntary honeliy'.* To CONCLUDE, however flrange it may appear to fame, we, on the fpot, can folve the paradox: But'to unite rciif't. tried for redrefs; declaring, at the fame time, that not be. ing able, any longer, to live happily or lafely under the cruel difpofition of the lSritii'h court, we had been driven to the neceliity of breaking oftT all cont-mainly; with her; at the fame time, aliuring all fuch courts nicer pmcrtab'e difnoli, tion towards them, and of our dclire of entering into trade with them: Such a memorial would produce more good cfl'eé'ts to this Continent, than if a {hip were freightcd with petitions to Britain. or however unwilling they may be to think in, matters not, Under our prefent denomination of l'lritifh fubjedis, we but many flrong and firiking reafcns, may be given to thew, can neither be receiVed not heard ab fit-d: The culiom of that nothing can fettle our affairs in expeditioufly as an open all courts are againfi us, and will be lo, unzil, by an independance, we take rank with other nations. Thole proceedings may at firl'r appear flange and difficult ; but, like all other fieps which we have already pali'cd and determined declaration for independance. Some of which are, Fir/i. It is the cufiom of Nations, when any two are at war, for form: other powers not engaged in the quarrel, to hop in as mediators and bring about the preliminaries of a peace; but while America calls herl'elf the Subjcfi of Great Britain, no power however well difpofed {he may be, can offer her mediation. Wherefore, in our preterit {late (we may quarrel on for ever, over, will in a little time became familiar and agreeable; and, unti' an independance is declared, the Continent will feel itfelf like a man who continues putting off tome unplea- lant bulin ls tram day to day, yet knows it mul't be done, hates to fer about it, wilhcs it over, and is continually haunted With the tl‘roushts of its ncccfflty. Sawfly-It is Lnreafonablc to fuppofe, that France or Spain will give us any kind of allifiance, if we mean only, to make ufe of that allIiiance for the purpol'e of repairing the breach, and firengtlening the connexion between Britain and America; becaul‘e, thof: powers would be fufferers by the confcqucnccs. Third/j. "* Tbofl who won/d fail/y under/fond qf wlmt great {NY/ilguenzr a Mtg! and rqua/ rrprc/em‘mion 2': tr a flare, Jébrula'rmo' .b'urgb‘r political Dfizrifiriant. APPENDIX. SIN C E the publication of the firfl edition of this pami phlet, or rather on the fame dai on which it came out. the King's Speech made its appearance in this city. Had the {pint of prophecy directed the birth of this ptoduflion, it |