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My LORD,

Y OU may, perhaps, be furprifed at this

public addrefs, after fo long 2 filence.
But as] find the advocates of your party have
lately raifed their voices high againft us, I
think it is time to anfwer their charge, in the
fame manner they have attacked us; and
as they have lifted under your banner, I
know no where fo proper to apply as to the
head-quarters.

Were I to enter into all the minutia
of your adm n, and the meafures you
have purfued, which has given rife to the pre-
fent oppofition, I fhould {well this letter into
a volume; and mutt therefore leave them to
your future biographer, who, in giving your
chara@ter at length, will neceffarily blazon
our glory ; to dwell upon fuch facts as have

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becu fo ftrikingly obvious, and fo manifeltly
prejudicial to the nation, that every eye has
been witnefs to their effects, and every ton-
gue has re-ecchoed the difapprobation of.

We are charged with per/onal dilguft and
national antipathy, as the principal foundations
whereon we have ratfed the fabric of our oppo-
tion——that it is not particular meafures, but
particular men, that we diflike—and that we
have a good employment more at beart than a
good peace.

Had we not concurred with you in all
your meafures in the beginning of your
adm n, without te‘lifying the leaft difap-
probation, either to your perfon, or your coun-
try—had we not applauded every expedient
that was devifed, and partook of their fuccefs—
and had not mof ofus refigned our employ-
ments at a time, when no others were va-
cant that we could reafonably expect would
fall to our fhare; fuch accufations might
bear at leaft the femblance of probability :
But thefe are facts fo notorioufly known, that
they only require being mentioned, to be in-

conteftably proved, and evince the falfity of

our enemies infinuations.

The object of Mr. P—’s refignation was
fo manifeft to all the world, that itis amazing
any writers, however fervily difpofed to vili-
fy, could ever attribute it to any other caule,
than the difapprobation of the meafure he fo

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earneftly recommended, and which he fo
evidently proved, to be the only expedient.
for giving a greater luftre to our arms, and
more permanent fecurity to our conftitution,
in church and ftate—I mean a dec’aration
of war againft Spain in Oétober 1761.
This was rejected—he forefaw all the dif-
honour and misfortunes that would necef-
farily accrue from this inattention. Notwith-
ftanding the propofal was approved the en-
fuing month, notwithftanding his —— re-
warded him with a handfome penfion for his
pat fervices, and a title for thofe of his wife
—He forefaw the lofs of Newfoundland,
and the prefent (What jhall I call it?)
peace; and would therefore no longer have
the guidance of that adm——n, whofe luftre
might have been tarnithed by fuch inglorious
events.

When I fay Mr. P— forcfaw the lofs of
Newfoundland, Ido not mean that be wifked
it, to give a colour to planning an oppofition,
which till then there was littie or no pretext
for (fave the non-declartaion of war againft
Spain in October inftead of November). Far
be that from me, or any of us, who form the
prefent antiminifterial party; I only mean,
that there being no other fortifications raifed
during the whole war, and to the end of his
refplendent adm-——n, or any more men of
wat kept upon that ftation, during that pe-

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riod, than at the time of its being /urrendere
ed tothe Frerich, he had reafon to be appre-+
henfive of its difmemberment from the firft
commencementof hoftilities—and he had alfa
reafon to think himfelf very lucky the event
did not happen whilft he was at the head of
affairs; not that it could have been impu-
ted as any crime to fo popylar a m r, for
the nation to have fuftained one lofs (even
though we had never regained it) after fuch
fignalifed and repeated fuccefles: but his
glory might hereby have been diminifhed,
and the people might have perceived, or
imagined they perceived, infallibility was
not the lot of any man, and the Patriot could
not always conquer.

It istrue, the retaking of this ifland, in
fome meafure, wiped off the flur of negli-
gence and inattention which you, my Lord,
fo greatly merited, in not having more /ea/on-
ably provided for the defence of that valuable
pofieffion, ata time you ought to have been ac-
quainted with the defigns of the French there-
upon, though four frigates only. might have
taken it. And it is to this infight of all the
operations of the French navy, which we
were fo minutely acquainted with during
Mr. P—’s adminiftration, that we may at-
tribute his intentional remif[nefs, (or, in other
words, national aconomy) in not fortifying
and fecyring that ifland ; being certain that

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no hips could be deftined againft it, though
they might accidentally efcape out of Brett,
whilft our fieet in the Bay fo compleatly

blocked up the French navy.
But when any the leaft merit is imputed

to the retaking of Newfoundland, it fhould
be remembered, that no perfon in England
could participate of it, as there was no plan
jaid here for fuch an attempt. The Ame-
ricans atchieved it, and therefore engrofs all
the honour. Upon the fame principles, the
then m y were, in every fenfible man’s
eye, exculpated from the fhame attending
the furrender of Minorca and Braddock’s de-
feat. Blakeney never received any orders to
eapitulate, nor in all likelihcod would, if he
had held out fix months longer ; nor did the
American commander follow his inftructions
from home. So that there is fcarce any
prince or minifter in Europe, except the King
of Pruffia, that is anfwerable for their gene-
rals conduét, as circumftances muft necefla-
rily vary the execution of the plan of ope-
rations, however well laid; and {cope muft
be left for the judgment of a commander
upon the fpot. The King of Pruffia being
moft frequently with the active part of his
army, is an exception to this; and to the
want of this allowance to the Imperial gene-
rals, whofe inftructions muft be tenacioufly
followed, we may impute many of their de-
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have the fineft opportunity of charging the
enemy to advantage. This they have as
frequently loft, and with it a battle, inftead )
I of gaining a victory. |
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i rive no merit, then, from the recovery of this
i ifland, how were they blameable for its lofs?
il The anfwer is ready, becaufe they! fhould
| have fecured it from any attempts of the ene-
my; or, if they left it in the fame defence-
lefs ftate they found it, without its being at-
tacked for fix ycars; becaufe they did not
procure intelligence of the deftination of
every frigate that failed from France, or any
of the iflands belonging to that crown, and
q becaufe zndividuals fuffered by its being a
a fhort time in the hands of the French, and
individuals have a right to complain; and no
. man has ever yet thought himfelf unautho-
R rifed to abufe a m———, or condemn a mea-
is fure, that did not chime in with his particu-
Jar intereft.
Though the m-———y derived no per/fonal
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and fuffered greatly in their reputation by its |
lofs; yet the flur thrown vpon them was) ©
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«with what reafon ‘I will not pretend to
determine. No fooner was that ifland in the
hands of the enemy, and the report of a peace
being upon the carpet, but the policy of the
m——r was feen through, in yielding up
Newfoundland to the French, that they
might reftore it to us as an apparent equiva-
lent for Cape Breton, or perhaps Canada.
This your Lordthip was publickly accufed of.
You alone know the fincerity of your inten-
tions; and if you have derived no merit from
our being fo early repofleffed of it, you have
at leaft thereby cait off this imputation. But
as we are to look upon the recovery as an
accidental ftroke, planned without your know-
ledge, and atchieved without your defire ; fo
the impartial world cannot perceive any other
honour you derive from it, but that of hav-
ing it put out of your power to play this po-
litical humbug with the court of Verfailles.

Thus, my Lord, you fee, that, on whatever
fide we view the lofs of Newfoundland, all the
blame, all the negligence, all the difhonour,
will reft upon your Lordfhip, without any
part of it falling upon Mr. P—, or any of
his coadjutors.

This, then, was certainly one of the prin-
cipal caufes of our refigning our employ-
ments; for though we were convinced of
your Tory principles, and your being a
Scotchman, we had neverthelefs till now

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unitéd with you, acted in concert in thé fanié
adm——~n, and believed you an honeft man.
As you never pretended to fupport indefeafible
hereditary wight, gave the leaft glance of
bringing in the pretender, but. feemed the
moft ftrenuous:of any. courtier for the Pro-
teftant caufe, and the houfe of Hanover, we
had no room to/think you a Jacobite. You
entertained no high notions of arbitrary power;
but juftly confidered our conftitution com-
pofed of the three ‘tates, King, Lords, and
Commons,. without whofe coneurrent aid ‘no
law could be framed, no fupplies could be
granted. The liberties of the people you
feemed to have a juft and valuable fenfe. of,
and at the fame time confidered it neceflary
to fupport the legal prerogative of the crown.
Thefe, which we. found the prevalent prin-
ciples of the modern Tories, we could difco-
ver no impropriety in ; :and, though we pro-
fefied ourlelves Whigs, we thought a coali-
tion of parties under thefe circumstances was
no way incompatible. If it thould be aiked,
as we made part of the Tory adm——n for
atime, were we not become Tories? No;
we had blended the parties in fo nice and cu-
rjous a manner, that it was difficult to difco-
ver where the Whig ended, or where the Tory
began. But we were neverthelefs Whigs-—
{taunch Whigs—which we now approve our-
{ulves, in oppofing every ftep of the Tory
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vened.

Should this carry the face of any feem-
ing contradiction, let it be remembered, that
parties are only names ; that a man’s actions
conftitute him a good or a bad man—As long
as the firft charaéterife him, he is to be
efteemed and affociated with, let his politi-
cal principles go by whatever-title they may ;
but if the latter fhould diftinguifh him, it is
not his being called a Whig that will recom-
mend him to the honeft part of mankind.
Bolingbroke was by turns both Whig and
Tory, and he was equally defpifed by both—
Moie recent examples might be produced.
But to the point.

I fay, my Lord, as your political principles
fo nearly chimed in with our’s, we thought
it no blot in our efcutcheon, to make part of
a Tory adm——n, though we profeffed our-
felves Whigs, as long as the meafures you
purfued were fuited to thofe profeffions, and
tended tothe good of your country; but
when we found you even negligent in cne
part of the world to the defence of our va-
luable pofleffions, and even attentive in ano-
ther to terras of pacification, which we could
not expect (in the beginning of a Spanith
war) could yet be very honourable for us—
we thought it was time to take ourfelves ont
of the ‘fory adm——n, and profefs our-
felves Whigs.

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_Venal and corrupt adminifrations, are fo
much the phrafeology of difappointed am-
bition, that though I could prove that of
your Lordthip’s both the one and the other,
I thould be loth to attempt the tafk, left it
fhould be fufpected I gave up my thare in it,
becaufe my authcrity was limited, or my
rapacity circumfcribed; as it might be
threwdly fufpected that m y extent of power
being called in queftion, or the war being
nea. ly at an end, whereby the pecuniary pro-
fits of my office would be greatly leflened, I
was difgufted with the infraction, or thought
myfelf qualified for other departments of
more future value and importance. No,
my Lord, far from this; I will give you all
your due ; avarice is the leaft of your vices:
to evince this, we need recur only to that
part of your adm n, when you filled
the poft of S y of St—e, and fo bene-
ficently diminifhed your own revenue to in-
creafe that of your clerks to double their
falary. Your ample fortune certainly {ets
you above any mean artifices to amuafs riches ;
and if you cannot /rve upon anegg a day, as
a great orator declared in an honourable
houfe, be could, in order to prove his pa-
triotifin, and the finall influence pecuniary
advantages could have upon him ; you cer-
tainly may have as much reafon to defpife
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at heart, as your own private {take is to the
full as great as his.

You fee, my Lord, I make you all the
allowances that can reafonably be expected
from an adve-fary. I exculpate you from
avarice, and want of generofity; nor do I
directly tax you with venality and corruption ;
but that part of your political principles {fo
immediately connected with the great rule of
your adm——n, now become fo glaring, 1s
what can never be reconciled with found
Whiggifm, is what can never be approved by
true Englifhmen, and the real /overs of their
country. What I mean, my Lord, is, that
unbounded prerogative you allow your Sov—n,
to appoint his own officers, and continue
them in poft as long as fuits his pleafure :
this the Whigs have itrenuoufly and effec-
tually oppofed ever fince the houfe of Hano-
ver came to the throne, down to the prefent
time. It is impoflible for a Prince to ac-
quaint himfelf with the paffions, difpofitions,
and abilities of individuals, who always ap-
pear in mafk before the throne, fo as to
chufe thofe who are the propereft qualified
for filling pofts of confequence; and with
regard to inferior employs, it is ftill more
impracticable : fo that it is properly the pro-
vince of a fagacious m——r, or his coadju-
tors, to felect fuitable objects, make their ap-

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pointments, and regulate their pofts. No
man was ever better qualified for this pro-
vince than Sir Robert W——e, who never
‘et his mafter have the leaft trouble upon his
hands in thefe refpeéts : but having people of
integrity and capacity always ready, he filled
up every place as it became vacant with the
utmoft eafe, difpatch, and propriety. Hence
that good order and harmony which fubfifted
during the greateft part of his adm n;
hence that expedition in bufinefs of a public
and private nature ; hence that national ec -
nomy upon every occafion —- that good un-
der ftanding at home and abroad, but particu-
Jarly the latter fo clearly manifefted upon the
moft important occafions—eleCticns ! and
hence that unufual acquiefcence to every mea-
{ure propofed by the m——r, and fecured
by a maj—ty !

Thefe were fome of the many advantages
derived to the nation from the limitation of
prerogative by the Whigs. His fuccefior
Mr. P—, who followed the footfteps of Sir
Robert in every thing that tended to the pu-
blic good, was equally affiduous in taking
off all trouble and care from his mafter in
thefe appointments and nominations; and
had not his death (which every honeft Whig
may lament) that has fince cccafioned fo
many changes and innovations, unluckily
happened, we might {till have feen things

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conducted in this happy courfe, It muft,
however, be acknowledged, that, even in
his days, there were envious courtiers, who
would fometimes tingle in the ears of their
mafter, that he fubmitted himfelf entirely
to the government of hism——r ; and that
his late M———y once went fo far as to pro-
mife the Duke of R- a fmall poft for a
perfon he had recommended ; the vacancy
was however filled up by Mr, P— in favour
of his adb/e friend. ‘The Duke took an op-
portunity of reminding his M——y of his
promife, who frankly acknowledged, That
King G— had promifed it to bis Grace, but
that King P—wm had given it to another.

From this time his M—y never attempted
to nominate for any employment, and P—m,
with his confederates, were fecure of every
poft of honour or profit, from Lord Ch—r
down to the loweft branch of the Excife-
Office. This defpotifm, it is true, they car-
ried with fomewhat too high a band; and it
were to be wifhed, for the honour of the
Whigs, that the geueral refignatton in one
day, when the late rebellion was at its crifis,
did not find a place in the annals of our times.
Had they not before fo manifeftly proved
their atte-hment to the h—e of H——, their
enemies might have given fome groundlefs
infinuations not highly favourable of their

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zeal to the Proteftant caufe, and the prefent
happy eftablifhment.

All the happy effects of this limitation of
prerogative are at an end—Your mafter ap-
points his own fervants, and you have lately
inftilled fuch notions of power in him, that
he thinks he has a right to keep you at his
elbow, in defpite of all the reprefentations
that have been made againft you, in defpite
of all the hideous characters that have been
drawn of you, in writing and prints, in def-
pite of all infinuations to your difadvantage,
with regard to your intimacy with the—-—,
—in defpite of the Whigs—in defpite of the
oppofition.

This, my Lord, is one of thofe alarming
circumftances, that has raifed fo many ene-
mies to your adm——n : had there not been
a new bridge erected over the Tweed, or had
not you yourfelf been born in Scotland, I
very much queftion whether you could have
efcaped cenfure from the Whigs, as foon as
the fundamental principles which lay for
foe time dormant, was fo compleatly ma-
nifefted.

At fo critical a period, was it not the high-
eft pitch of imprudence in your Lordfhip to
fet on foot a negotiation between us and
France, for bringing about a peace ? Was it
not flying i in the face of the oppofition, to
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the feffion, before the fupplies for the enfi-
ing year were granted? Could you expect
them to be filently read, without being c.n-
vafied or criticifed? Had we not the negotia-
tion of the preceding year before us, with
which we might comr ire, and at all events
draw conclufions in favour of the terms of-
fered in 1761, though then rejected? Had
we not the ultimatum and the uti piffidetis
to recur to, whereby we might prove that
a peace would have been ,more eligible
laft year than now? However far advan-
ced the negotiation might have been, it
was the higheft pitch of rafhnefs to divulge
the fecret till the clofe of the feffion, when
all the bufinefs was over: the members had
then retired to their fylvan paftimes, and
would have forgot the terms of pacification
by that time they met again. The curiofity
of the people would have fubfided ; the worft
peace that could have been made, would
have been but a nine days wonder; the fup-
plies for the current year would have been
abundantly granted, and every thing would.
have been conducted without debate or ani-
mofity.

But, as you have rifqued the publication
of the fums at this period, every body, in
and out of doors, will canvas them; every
body will condemn them. Though the pri-
mary object of the war, that is, afcertaining

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the limits‘of our North American Colonies;
and fecuring them from future incurfions, is
more than compaffed, by our retaining all
Canada, and that part of Louifiana, extend-
ing from the Apalachean mountains to the
river Miffifippi: though we have alfo ac-
quired and retained Cape Breton, the Dun-
kirk of America, and key to the Gulph: of
St. Laurence ; though we have divided the
neutral iflands in our ‘avour, and gained
Granada and the Grenadillas therewith ; —~
added Florida, as a barrier to our continen-
tial poffeffions in America, have gained the
liberty of cutting logwood without interrup-
tion at Honduras and Campeachy, and pof-
fefs that valuable acquifition of the ifland of
Senegal, and therewith the trade of the
whole river of the fame name in Africa:
no body can difpute that we have made con-
ceffion, greatly inglorious, highly difhonour-
able: it is in vain to urge with your partifans,
it is the beft peace England ever made, and
cali upon the negotiation of the treaty of Aix-
la-Chapelle, to compare the terms of the
definitive treaty of 1748 with thofe of 1762.
Our affairs were then very differently fituated '
from what: they are at prefent; and though

we had then made ourfelves mafters of Cape’

Breton, it was our only conqueft: it is true:
we gave it up, and fent hoftages to bind the
bargain; but what was the reftitution of a:

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fingle place, compared to that of the valuable
iflands of Martinico and Guadalupe * As to
the noble Lords who went as fureties for the
execution of that article, they were treated
with the greateft refpect at Verfailles, and
not thrown into the Baftile, as the fcandalous
prints of thofe times fuggefted.

The advocates for the preliminaries lay
great ftrefs upon our being repaid the charge
we have been at in fupporting the French pri-
foners during the war, as an object that was
not in the leaft attended to in the former
negotiation; and they take for granted, the
court of Verfailles gives up all claim to the
captures made before the declaration of war,
becaufe nu mention is made of them in the
preliminary articles, though Mr. Bufly fo
ftrongly infifted upon this pointin 1761.

We have been repeatedly aflured from
various. hands, that the preliminaries made
public do not contain all the terms that were
figned at Fontainbleau the 3d of November,
and fince ratified ; but that there are feveral
other articles kept fecret, fome of which
have, however, tranfpired in the political
world, and amongft thefe is the provifion of
indemnification we are to make the French
for the. above-mentioned captures, Some
infinuate, that the other fecret articles regard
the difpofitions that are to take place in fa-
vour of the King of Pruffia and the Soeen

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of Hungary in Germany; but the more
fanguine anti-pacific-inveftigators infift upon
it, that they relate to other reftitutions, or
ceffions that we are to make to France and
Spain, and which you, my Lord, did not
dare publickly avow.

If this is the cafe, you have made a fine
piece of work of it indeed ; and as fooner
or later the nature and tendency of thofe
fecret articles will come out, what do you
imagine will then be the confequence?—
There is but one argument that leads me to
think thefe fuggeftions may be premature,
and that is, if your Lordthip had intended to
have dealt thus underhandedly with the peo-
ple, it certainly would have occurred to you,
that there was no reafon for publifhing the re-
ftitution of Martinico and Guadalupe, or in-
deed any part of the preliminaries; at Jeaft
till the clofe of the feffions, when the fup-
plies being granted, as in full time of war,
if this indemnification for the French cap-
tures made before the declaration of war
had been to take place, you might eafily
have drawn it out of the furplus of the grants
for 1763, without the leaft noife being made
about it.

To fupport the argument, then, we will
fuppofe that no other reftitutions or ceffions
are to take place, but thofe mentioned in
the public preliminaries ; are they not fufhcient

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to ftigmatife this nation for ever as thick-
{culled negotiators? Do they not corroborate
what we have been fo often rallied upon,
that, let us gain ever fo many victories over
the French in the field, they always conquer
us in the cabinet? Not bot I think we re-
tain land and iflands enough in America; far
I fee no likelihood of our fettling all Canada,
and that tract of land between our back fet-
lements and the Miffiffipi, or indeed of what
fervice it would be, without we had a mind

‘to make our colonies rival the mother-coun-

try in power and riches, which many pa-
triots and politicians have long been appre-
henfive of, before we were in poffeffion of
fuch a great extent of territory. Were land
the only object of war and conqueft, we need
not go fo far as America; we have fome hun-
dred miles of good foil in Scotland, Wales,
and Ireland, which remain uncultivated, for
no other reafon, that I could ever find, except it
were the want of hands, or a proper fpirit of
induftry being excited amongit the people.
Either of thefe caufes will occafion our new
acquifitions in North America remaining a
defert. And as to iflands in America, if we
had been in want of them, I apprehend the
Bahamas, fo numerous, and, I doubt not,
fruitful, if properly cultivated, would not
have remained fo long in our poficffion, with-

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out being fettled, or made any ufe of, by the
Englith.

Hence, my Lord, it will appear the refti-
tutions we have made do not fo much affect
our intere(t as our honour. It would have
been glorious for us to have made a peace
upon the bafis of an uti pofidetis. It would
have deterred the French from ever infulting
us again, and kept all the powers of Europe
in awe, left they fhould have incurred our
difpleafure, and fuftained fuch loffes as they
would have had no hopes of regaining.

The writers who attempt to fupport the
meafures you have purfued, pretend the
greateft regard has been paid, in framing the
preliminaries in queftion, to the trade and
commerce of Great Britain; that new branches
are hereby ftruck out in every quarter of the
globe, and new channels opened to the re-
moteft, and as yet unknown parts of Ame-
rica. This they attempt to exemplify in our
acquifition of Canada, which they affure -fe-
cures us all the fur and beaver trade of that
quarter of the world, and enables us to fabri-
cate various branches of manufaCtures where-~
in they enter, at a much cheaper rate than
we could before, whereby we fhall not only
rival all the other commercial powers of Ea-
rope in the peltry trade of North America
alone, but alfo in all thofe other manufactures
whereof they make a part, by being enabled

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to under(ell them at foreign markets. They
then endeavour to point out the immediate
advantages refulting from our being in pof-
feffion of the ifland of Senegal, which gives
us the command of the trade of the whole
river of that name, and the country adjacent,
and. pretend we fhall fave near half a million
yearly in the fingle article of gum, whic
we ufed to pay to foreigners, befides the
negroe, tooth and gold-duft trades, which
are carried on from thence. They then
firetch away to the continent of South Ame-
rica, and talk loudly of the benefits which
will accrue to.us from the unlimited per-
miflion we have obtained of cutting log-
wood at Campeachy and Honduras ; a pri-
vilege. we could never before obtain in all
our treaties with the court of Madrid. Nay,
they would go as far as Afia, and have the
confidence to tell us the advantages we. have
gained there, and ftill retain, will enable us
to rival all the Eaft India companies of Eu-
rope, as we have fo compleatly fecured the
Nabohs intereft. and good opinion ; fhave
deflroyed the trade of the French there fome
years, notwithftanding the reflitutions made
them, and asthe Dutch are there upon the
decline. In anf{wer to this, it will be only
necefiary to obferve, that our prefent trade to
(Canada is fo far from being of that im-
portance it is reprefented, that thofe who
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have dealt in the peltry of that country, fince
we have been pofleffed of it, have been lofers,
by reafon of the full refolution taken by the
Hudfon-bay company, to underfell indivi-
duals in every article they deal in ; fo that
till fome regulation is made upon this head,
this trade is not likely to produce the pro-
mifed happy effects.

As to our trade to Senegal, it certainly is
a very advantageous and lucrative one, and
will neccffaril,, lower the price of printed
cotton and linens, as fo great a quantity of
the gum coming from thence is ufed in
thofe manufactures, and as this can now be
bought at fo {mall a proportionate price to
what we ufed formerly to pay foreigners. But
asa monopoly of this trade has been promifed to
a certain confiderable dealer, we cannot rea-
fonably expect he will have the good of his
country fo much at heart, as to preponderate
againft his private intereft, and prevail upon
him to fell this commodity at its prefent low

rice,

The privilege of cutting and fhipping log-
wood at Honduras and Campeachy, without
angoyance or interruption, is certainly an ob-
ject of fome confequence to the Weft Indian
traders ; but as the point fo much ‘conten-
ded fer under Sir Robert’s adm n, (which
to be fure he could not obtain, any more than
the privilege now granted) of no fearch, is
not

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not acquiefced to, we imagine this trade will
not be productive of thofe great emoluments
which were at firft expected from it, as it is
well known, it is the interloping trade of ne-
groes to the Spanifh main, which are paid for
in hard dollars, that makes this trade fo lucra-
tive and defirous. As the Spaniards are per-
feétly acquainted with this circumftance atten-
ding the logwood trade, it is not to be expec-
ted they will ever give us a public grant of a
thing fo detrimental to them.—But the objec
ftill remains.

I muft acknowledge, I believe our Eaft
India company is at this time the moft opu-
lent. and beft eftablifhed of any in Afia, and
that the reduction of Pondicherry, and the
other French fettlements there, muft greatly
interrupt their trade for fome confiderable
time: but as it has long fince been a moot
point, whether our Eaft India trade, as it is
now catried on, though of infinite profit to
individuals, is of any real fervice to the na-
tion ; fo, till this is decided, it will be impoi-
fible for me to perceive the advantages.we
can reap, as a people, from our fuccefies, and
the prefent thriving ftate of our affairs in
Afia.

Thus, my Lord, you fee the pretended
emoluments we are to expect from the ac-
quifitions and reftitutions we make by the
peace, however pompous an appearance they

may

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may parade upon paper by the writers of
your party, lofe the very femblance of ad-
vantages, when put to a cloie and impartial
examen.

It is evident, from what I have faid, that
we have more lands in our poffeffion than
we thall people and cultivate, unlefs, with our
ufual friendfhip and politenefs, we provide
for the Germans better than their own
ptincesand mafters will, and make,an emigra-
tion of fome thoufand more Palatines to
America, in furnifhing them with all the ne-
ceffaries both for their voyage, aad future
fettlement. This would be but common
gratitude in us, as we have conquered America
in Germany, to enable the conquerors to re-
tain their acquifitions; and who fo proper as
a colony of Brandenburghers, who have fo
eminently diftinguifhed themfelves as faldiers .
and Proteftants this war? This would bea
meafure highly eligible, if there were not tea~
fon to fear fome future ambitious king of
Proffia might difcover a prior right than us;
or the French, or the natives, to thofe. lands,
and fupport his claim by the loyalty of his
fubjeéts upon the fpot. .

Our trade to Canada, fo far from being:a
benefit to the nation, appears evidently a lofs
to individuals, and muft continue fo, as long
as the Hudfon’s Bay company are premitted
to monopolife at one time,, and-underfell -at

another,

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another (for finifter reafons) the fair and

‘open trader, who, without combination, can-

not long carry ona lofing traffic.

The commerce to the ifland of Senegal ‘is
of little or no confequence, as gum, which is
its principal commodity, can be an article of

‘no great import, without it be to the linnen

manufactures.

The privilege granted for cutting and
carrying away logwood at Honduras will
only prove an encouragement to a parcel
of infamous freebooters fettled there, who
living a moft abandoned and profligate life,
are a fcandal to the people from whom they
are an outcalt.

' And ‘as to the advantages the Eaft india
company will reap from the peace, and the
prefent flourifhing fiate of their affairs in Afia,
as that is a moft deftruétive monopoly, drain-
ing us of our filver, both fpecie and bullion,
for unwholefome herbs and crockery ware,
‘fo the more thriving and extenfive their trade
is, the more pernicious it muft prove to the
nation,

After this, my Lord, I think your moft
zealous advocates for the advantages we gain
by the preliminaries, muft be forced to avow
them merely chimerical, whil& the difhonour
we fuftain by making the important reftitu-
tionsis and ever willbe indelible. Perhaps, my
Lord, {6meofyour partifans mayafk, how came

itthat fo many of the refignees {till condefcend-
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ed to remain in poft after the preliminaries
were figned, andevenratified? They could not
be ignorant of their contents, or the fuppofed
difhonour that is thereby caft upon the na-
tion: why then did they not throw up their
places upon their firft appearance ? Can Mr.
T—, who was fo ftrenuous in recommending
and defending the preliminaries the day they
were canvafled in the H—e of C——s, be
convinced of the difingenuity of his reafoning,
or the fallacy of his own arguments ? Or, are
his eyes opened all of a fudden by infpiration,
which has enabled him to difcover the
fhamefulnefsandignominy oftheterms? Thefe
queiiions may be very eafily anfwered. Mr.:
T—, nor any other of the refignees, fince the
figning of the preliminaries, were then ac-
quainted with the tenor and drift of the /e-
cret articles-—whofe dangerous confequences
and malignant influence—no true patriot,
no honeft man would countenance.

Iam forry, my Lord, to make ufe of fuch
har(h expretfions; but I acknowledge .he
good of my country, which I have fo greatly
at heart, operating ftrongly upon me, in the
heat of argument, an unguarded word may
efcape me.

Efad we carried on the war with the fame
{pirit that we have thefe three laft years,
we might in a fhort time have made ourfelves
mafters of all Louifiana, without being

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cooped up with that narrow boundary the
Miffifippi, poffefled ourfelves of all Cuba,
St. Domingo and Hifpaniola, and all the
Weft Indian iflands without exception : then
made a defcent upon Terra Firma, and be-
come matters of all the Spanifh provinces in
South America. Having cut off this refource
to the court of Madrid, their forces would
foon have languifhed, and we might eafily
have turned the tables upon the Spaniards in
favour of the Portuguefe, and foon brought

the firft under the Jatter’s fubje@tion. Hav-

ing accomplifhed this great point, in favour
of his moft Faithful Majefty, we might by
the fame means, that is, having all the trade
and treafures of North and South America
in our hands,.have enabled the King of Pruffia
to defeat all the wicked defigns of the Em-
prefs Queen, and his other enemies againft
him and the Proteftant caufe. Thirty mil-
lion of money would purchafe all the inha-
bitants of Germany (though by the bye we
have fpent forty millions this war there, and
are now juft where we fet out) which might
foon have been brought from the new world ;
and having furnifhed his Pruffian Majefty
with an army of 800,c00 ¢ffeCtive men, he
would foon have been in a-condition to de-
throne her Imperial Majefty, and we fhould
have had the fatisfaction to fee a Proteftant
Emperor of our own election. This great
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ftroke being effeéted in favour of the liber.
ties of Europe, we fhould then have had
nothing to do but to attack the Grand Signior,
dethrone him, and place a Proteftant Prince
upon the Ottoman throne. We then might
have carried our fuccef:ful arms farther Eaft,
and in a fhort time have made ourfelves
complete mailers of Afia — and then —
what then? Why, like Alexander, we
fhould have mourned we had not more worlds
to conquer.

However romantic this may at firft ap-
pear, itmuft have been the neceflary and in-
evitable confequence of having pufhed the
war with vigour, and not fubmitted to the
prefent inglorious terms of pacification, I
know but two arguments that can with any
face be oppoied to this. The firft is, that,
before we had entirely accomplifhed this
great plan of operations, our national debt
might have been fo immenfely increafed,
that we could not have been able any way to
pay the aggregate intereft, and the nation
muft have become abiolutely a bankrupt,
The fecond is, that had we fucceeded to the
utmoft of our withes, and gained every one
of thefe dominions, we could neither have
defended, or expected to have remained in
quiet poffeflion of them, fince we muft have
excited the jealoufy of all Europe, and even
our own created Proteftant Emperor.

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In anfwer to thefe oppofed arguments,

I be'teve it is a received maxim in politics,
that no people, or fet of people, either na-
tives or foreigners, whofe intereft it is to
fupport a government, will ever (as long as
fuch their intereft remains) either directly or
indirectly undermine it. This being a fet-
tled axiom, that even Macbiavel could not
contradict, it muft neceffarily follow, that
the greater number we intereft in the fate of
the nation, fo many more we eftablith
friends to the ftate. Now, as we have al-
ready gained the cordiality, zx this refped?,
of about one million three hundred and fixty
thoufand individuals (at a hundred pounds a
head) foreigners and natives, by the national
debt ; if we could increafe it to three times
the fum of 136,000,000]. which it now a-
mounts. to, we fhould make fure of the
greateft, that is, the richeft part of Europe,
as our attached and certain friends ; which
might eafily be done by purfuing the war for
only twenty years,—a belligerant period of no
great extent, confidering the forty years war
we often read of in the annals of Branden-
burg. With refpcé to the intereft of the
national debt, if that fhould amount to more
than we could conveniently pay in fpecie,
which it might eafily do upon thefe princi-
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ples, confidering we are only reckoned to
have about twelve millions’ in all. Great
Britain; it would be neceflary to create a
fufficient number of additional Bank drills,
and other paper currency, which fully an-
fwer the intent of fpecie, are more portable
to individuals, and lefs burthenfome to the
ftate. And, if it fhould ever be. though ex-
pedient to pay off the national debt, not with
a fpunge, we have always projectors in fuch
numbers to affift us, that the thing might be
done by calculation in a fortnight. Henriques
will throw as many figures upon paper, as
will fill a theet in an inftant, and in another
divide them into fo many parts, that there
will fcarce be left a fhilling in the pound—
and Ma//y’s fliding rule will multiply them
into farthings, before we know whether they
are pounds, fhillings or pence.—Such ge-
niufes are ufeful toa ftate; 1 wonder they

do not meet with greater encouragement.
As to the fecond objection, when.once we
had made ourfelves mafters of all America,
Afia, and I might throw in Africa, with the
connexions and pofleffions we fhould then
have in Europe; we certainly fhould bea
match for all the Princes of Europe leagued
together, and, in defpite of all jealoufy and
envy at our fuccefs, they would find it their
true intereft to keep in with us, leit we
fhould ferve them juft as we had ferved the
other

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othet three parts of the world: fo that
France, Spain, Ruffia, and even the Pro-
teftant Emperor himéelf, notwithftanding
his craving and eriterprizing fpirit, would
be glad to court our friendfhip, if not pay us
tribute. The difficulty of peopling and de-
fending thefe vaft poffeffions, I acknowledge
is not fo eafily got over—but as we might
embody the militia of Africa, and march the
trained-bands of Afia, if neceflity fhould re-
quire, by incorporating afew of our regulars
with, and eftablifhing a proper difcipline. in
thofe quarters, this obftacle would not be in-
furmountable ; efpecially as our continental
friends, ever ready at emigration, would flock
thither in fhoals upon the leaft encourage-
ment. The Germans would certainly be
glad of any other country, fince they will
not defend their, own, without being paid for
it by foreigners, who have no intereft in
their protection.

Our miffing of thefe , great and extenfive
conquefts may, my Lord, be looked upon
amongft the moft ftriking difadvantages of
patching up this rafh and precipitate peace.
It is true, they cannot be confidered as more
than negative difadvantages, whilft the be-
nign influence and. bleflings of tranquillity
are fure and permanent—nourifhing our
manufactures, cherifhing our trade, and cir-
culating our riches to every corner of the

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ifland; butthen, how far greater would have
been this circulation; how much more ex-
tenfive would have been our exports ! and how
ftill more flourifhing would have been our
commerce to every quarter of the globe.

It were needle(s to labour at any argument
to evince this; common fenfe muft at the
firft glance prove it to every man’s under-
ftanding ; and if the members of the oppo-
fition fhould be hard driven to affign a reafon
for their refignations and attack upon your
Lordfhip’s adm—~—n, they may always
have recourfe to this invincible and folid ar-
gument, the negative lof of all Afia, Africa,
South America, and the remainder of the
Weft Indian iflands.

I believe, my Lord, you will labour un-
der no {mall difficulty, when called upon, as
doubtle/s you will be, by public inquiry into your
adm——n, to vindicate this part of your
conduct ; not to mention fuch other points
of malverfation as I have already cited. In
this dilemma, I think the moft friendly ad-
vice that can be given you, would be to re-
tire from power and employment, into the
moft fequeftered part of Scotland, and there,
by a reclufe and penitent life, make all the
atonement in your power for the manifold
fins and crimes you have been guilty of to-
wards G—d, your S—-n, and the Nation.

This

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This might carry the air of envy, anda
defire to fupplant you in fome important
poft, had I not already fo clearly fet forth
the caufes of our difguit, and the full refo-
lution of every man of us not to /ubmit to
let ourfelves be appointed to any place, how-
ever important, however lucrative. The
prefent oppofition avows the fame principles,
and acts upon the fame generous and national |
plan of all the great oppofitions fince the re-
volution,who having nothing but the real good
of their country at heart,could never be biaffed
by perfonal intereft, deluded by profits; or
feduced by titles ; it would therefore be fruit-
lefs to attempt filencing us by a ribbon or a
place—we foar above fuch mean influence.

It is publickly reported, that your Lord-
fhip intends to ufe your intereft to take off
the late additional tax upon porter, fo burthen-
fome to the poorer fort of people, particu-
larly labourers, to whom it is both food and
nourifhment, in order to lay it upon fome
article that is not fo immediately connected
with the neceflaries of the working part of
the nation. Indeed it is faid that your Lord-
thip flrenuoufly oppofed this tax at the time
of its Seing laid on, “reprefenting the hard-
fhip it would be to the mechanical world, and
was inclined tu produce the fum required by
anadditional impoft upon rum and melaties,
articles of luxury and fuperfluity ; but that

F for

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for fome private confideration, this was fe
jected. Doubtlefs, this popular meafure,
your Lordfhip has been excited to, in order,
if poffible, to wean the sie from that pre-
judice and difguft they have to you and your
adm n: but can it be believed that the
people of England will ever approve the con-
duét of a Scotchman, when even his fellow
countrymen, and thofe of fome tank in the
ftate, unite againft him, not through any per-
fonal pique, private refentment, difappointed
ambition, or in the expectation of oppofing
themfelves into power or office ; but merely
and fincerely for the good of their country,
which they have fo tenacioufly at heart, and
to fruftrate fuch dangerous and deftructive
meéafures as your Lordfhip has lately purfued,
and I have taken upon myfelf thus to expofe
in vindicating the conduct of the members of
the prefent glorious Oppofition.

If this fhould any way look like an ac-
knowledgment, that it were poffible for a
Scotchman to be honeft and patriotic, and
{uch a conceffion were to be made in favour
of the four Scotch Members of the oppo:
fition; it would be neceffary to obferve at the
fame time, they are the only exception to
the general opinion fo univerfally and juftly
entertained of that nation.

it were almoft unneceffary at this time to
remind your Lordthip, of what has been fo

often

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27
often and loudly complained of by every
Englifhman and Hibernian, who has been
difappointed of promotion’ during this war :
I mean the ftriking partiality in favour of the
Scotch. This object alone, once would have
imagined, fhould have prompted you to have
putfued the war at all events, till fuch time
as you had amply and compleatly provided
for all your friends, on the other fide of the
Tweed. I fay, my Lord, from this confi-
deration, one would have imagined, a French
and Spanifh war would have been the moft
eligible meafure for the fecurity and fupport
of your adm n, though additional fup-
plies had been ever fo difficult to raife, and
though honourable terms of accommodation
had been offered on the part of the bellige-
rant powers. It is true even then, you never
would have been able to gain over the four
Scotch members of the oppofition, but per-
haps fome indirect method might have been
found to have foftened their refentment, by
providing for fome of their friends and rela~
tions in the army and navy. This may in-
deed,my Lord, be looked upon as a great over-
fight in your politics,at a time you fhould have
taken every poffible ftep to infure your totter-
ing power, efpecially amonftyour fellow coun-
trymen, whole oppofition muft convey a very
unfavourable idea of your conduct and de-

figns. Such miftaken policy was a fure pre-
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fige of the blunders and inattention to our
proper intereft which we were to expect at
the hands of fuch a ftatefman in the framing
of a peace.

As this grievous complaint is now ina
great meafure at an end, by reafon of the
pacific meafures that are taking place: fo
we are rather led to confider the confequences
of your not more amply purfuing it, than
to manifeft our refentment at your former
partiality ; a partiality fo great, that we have
always {een Scotch troops employed upon
the moft arduous and dangerous enterprizes,
whereby you furnifhed them with an oppor-
tunity of fignalizing their courage and vigilance
in fo {triking a manner, as to give colour to
many promotions, which looked like a recom-
pence for their paft fervices, By thefe glorious
occafions, you enabled them to rifque their
lives in purfuit of honour and preferment,
which many Englifh and Irifh officers, for
want of thefe favourable opportunities, could
not gain.

As this channel of national partiality is
now ftopped, we muft expect to {ce it ftream
in other courfes: all Canada, will perhaps,
be fettled by Scotchmen, efpecially if the
Englifh fhould not chufe to flock there in
numbers fufficient to people and cultivate fo
cold and extenfive a country: we may ex-

pect to fee half a dozen more new bridges
erected

29
erected over the Tweed—All foreign fnufts
prohibited, and nothing but Scotch allowed
to be taken, even at court; nor need we
be furprifed if her ——— fhould appear the
next birth-day, in plaid colour filk, to make

ita reigning fafhion ; or that a jaunt to Edin-

burgh fhould be ascommon as one to Kew.
One of the writers on our fide of the quef-
tion, has indeed, fuggefted, that if things

went on fo fwimingly for a few years in fa-

vour of Scotland, we might expect to fee a
Royal Palace built there for the fixed refi-
dence of the court; but this I cannot per-
fuade myfelf, will take place any time thefe

ten years, confidering the preparations that

mutt be previoufly made.

The writer of the North Briton, our fa-
vourite author, has fo amply and decently
evinced the political tenets of the prefent
Tories (in one of his late difquifitions *) that
it is matter of wonder and aftonifhment to
me, how they will ever be able to anfwer
him, or henceforward hold up their heads,
He has ciearly proved, that they would
certainly have joined the rebels, both in
1715 and 1745, if their courage had been
equal to their affection for the Pretender.
Another reafon might, I think, with due
fubmiffion to that learned writer, be afligned,
is, that their regimentals were not ready
in time, by reafon of the number of

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journeymen taylors then employed in bearing
arms» They would, neverthelefs, certainly
have marched to join the rebels in 174.5, if
their arms and ammunition had not been fo
opportunely feized in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Playhoufe. It is, however, a happy confi-
deration, that they have not courage fuffici-
ent to fupport their evil defigns in the field ;
as, however deep their political machinati-
ons may be, however notorious their princi-
ples and attachments, and however numerous
their body, their pol/treonery will always keep
them in due fubjection.

There is one circumftance, which the
North Briton. has in this Portrait of the mo-
dern Tories, fo nicely touched upon, that.no-
thing but the pencil of fo great a matter,
cou!d fo judicioufly have hit off; I mean the
entire reformation of the political principles
of the Tories, during Mr. P—’s adm n,
He does not, indeed, affign any reafon for
this extraora'nary temporary change, which
clearly evinces the Tories are attached to
men and not mea/ures.

I may, indeed, be afked, fince this writer
has fo amply proved all the Tories rank Ja-
cobites, and every one of them defirous of
bringing in the Pretender ; how came it that
knowing by experience, and convinced of their
principles, we ever united with them in the
fame adm—n, in the purfuit of the fame

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objects, in fupport of the fame Prince? In
an{wer to this, let it-be remembered, that it is
not individuals but expedients we oppofe. In
one word, wechimed in with the Zor7es till the
lofs of Newfoundland (which fo greatly flurred
the reputation of the Scotch M—r) till their
avowed arbitrary tenets, which I have already
mentioned, became manifeft, and the pre-
fent inglorious peace took place.

I have not in this place infifted upon the
negative difadvantages we fuftain by a fuf-
penfion of armsin the four quarters of the
world, or the imputation of ingratitude we
fhall lay under by all Europe, for having
brought the King of Pruffia into this war,
and left him in the lurch—without attending
4 thofe glorious motives—the fupport of
proteftantifm in the empire, and the ballance
of power, in purfuit of which we have fo
zealoufly raifed our national debt to 136
millions, By this one ftep we have given
up all future pretence to determine the
quarrels of the princes of Germany, a
privilege we have never yielded to any other
power «ince the revolution.—This claim,
which we have fupported for almoft a cen-
tury #t .12 price of fo much blood, and trea-
fure ; v7a'ch we have hitherto confidered as
much out birth-right as the fovereignty of the
fea, we have thus inglorioufly yiclded, thus
pufilanimonfly given up.

If after this, my Lord, you fhould not be

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convinced of the upright motives, which)
have influenced the prefent’ Whig oppofition:
—of the impracticability of. ever regaining
their affeCtion, or re-uniting with them--if you
{hould not be convinced of the impropriety,
difadvantage, and. danger, (to fay no’ worfe) :
of thel eading rule’ of your admin—n,’ in
granting your S n the full liberty of name’
ing his own fervants, and keeping them ‘in
power as long as they pleafe—if this:uncon-
{titutional prerogative (never before allowed
any prince of the houfe of H r upon the’
Uritifh throne), fhould not appear to'you in
its moft glaring and. baneful light—if you
fhould not be co. : *.2d of the difhonour of |
the terms of the prei. .t peace, with the /ecret :
articles fapprefled to public eyes :. in a word, »
if. your’ Lordfhip, fhould not, immediately,
upon your reading this, infift upon refigning »
your employments, that more able; faithfal.:
and popular M rs.may take the reins of:
government into their hands; you ‘muit be |
callous to all conviction, blind to your own: >
perfonal fecurity, and refolved to’complete the: :
facrifice of the nation, » So that,:if it were: ;
not impoflible, it would be fruitlefs in::me.’
to. urge thefe points any ftronger; or diiplay '
the contraft of your and former adm——ns: |
But; being convinced of the force of’ my rea:. 1
foning, and the likelihood theres is of your
taking my advice, I fubfcribe myfelf

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