Alas! dear Sir, England has already to its Coft, found all these Ties and Connections, to be, indeed, light as Air! Yes, I fay.--- England has experimentally found them to be no Links at all, if put into Competition with prefent Intereft; much less to be Links of Iron:---She has, I repeat and infift upon it, made this unwelcome Discovery concerning Colony-Gratitude, even from the Moment that each Infant-Colony could stand alone, without the Affiftance of the Parent-State. In short, there is fomething aftonishingly abfurd in the very Suppofition, that a People fo addicted to Chicane, as you have painted these Americans to be; and who most undoubtedly have devised many difingenuous Artifices against paying their just Debts to their English Creditors;---fhould all on a fudden, by the mere Magic of your enchanting Metaphors, be fo changed and altered, as not only to become very honeft, very exact, and punctual in their Dealings; but also very liberal, generous, and munificent. And here again, I willingly fubmit to be ranked in the Number of those poor, ignorant Beings, whom you condescend to mention at Page 61. "All this I know well "enough, will found wild and chimerical to the "PROFANE HERD of thofe vulgar and mecha"nical Politicians, who have no Place among "us [in the House of Commons;] a Sort of People, who think that nothing exists but * what "what is grofs and material; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be Directors "of the great Movement of Empire, are not "fit to turn a Wheel in the Machine." Now, Mr. Director of the great Movement of Empire! Will you permit (and it is the only Boon I afk) an obscure Perfon, whofe Province it is to turn only one of the inferior Wheels:---I fay, will you permit him to appear in your Prefence, whilft you are perfonating a great Minister of State in this new-intended triotic Administration? O'Diva gratum quæ regis antium, pa THE first Act of your Directorfhip will undoubtedly be •Superbos Vertere funeribus triumphos! That is, to turn out the prefent Set of Minifterial Blunderers, that profane Herd of vulgar and mechanical Politicians, who fancy, that Officers are neceffary to collect a Revenue, and Laws to enforce the Payment ;---then to repeal every penal Statute for compelling the good People of England to pay Taxes against their own Confent ;-to difcharge, of Course, thofe grofs and material Beings, called Cuftom-Houfe H Officers, Officers, Excife-Men, &c. &c. &c. and to trust entirely to the copious Revenue which fhall arife from the voluntary Flow of heaped-up Plenty, bursting from the Weight of its own rich Luxuriance, FREE GIFTS AND VOLUNTARY DoNATIONS. Methinks, Sir, I fee you acting your grand minifterial Part, with great Dignity and Propriety in this new and bufy Scene. Methinks I fee vaft Crouds around you, all preffing forwards, all joyfully pouring forth their free-will Offerings for the Service of the State, in the exuberant Plenty of rich Luxuriance. And I too, who never was at a minifterial Levee but three Times in my Life, and that about twenty Years ago,---I also wish most ardently to attend on fuch an Occafion. And that I may not come empty-handed, for we shall all be Givers, and no Receivers, I will humbly beg Leave to bring this Pamplet with me, and to lay it at your Feet; in Token of that Duty, Gratitude, and Respect, with which I have the Honour to be, A Lately published by the fame Author, Tracts Political and Commercial, viz. I. Solution of the important Question, whether a poor Country, where raw Materials and Provifions are cheap, and Wages low, can Supplant the Trade of a rich manufacturing Country, where raw Materials and Provifions are dear, and the Price of Labour high. 2. The Cafe of going to War for the Sake of Trade confidered in a new Light. 3. A Letter from a Merchant in London to his Nephew in America, concerning the late and prefent Disturbances in the Colonies. 4. The true Intereft of Great-Britain fet forth in regard to the Colonies; and the only Means of living in Peace and Harmony with them. ...5. The respective Pleas and Arguments of the Mother Country and of the Colonies diftinctly fet forth; and the Impoffibility of a Compromife of Differences, or a mutual Conceffion of Rights plainly demonftrated; with a prefatory Epistle to the Plenipotentiaries of the Congress. Printed for RIVINGTON, CADEL, and WALTER. Tracts Polemical and Theological. 1. An Apology for the Church of England, as by Law established, occafioned by a Petition to Parliament for abolishing Subfcriptions. 2. Two Letters to the Rev. Dr. KIPPIS: Letter ft. Concerning the Extent of the Claim of the Church Church of England to regulate the external Behaviour of her own Members; and also to influence their internal Judgements in Controverfies of Faith Letter 2d. Wherein the Question is dif cuffed, whether the English Reformers in the Reign of EDWARD VI. intended to establish the Doctrines of Predeftination, Redemption, Grace, Juftification, and Perfeverance, in the Calvinistical Senfe, as the Doctrines of the Church of England. "3. Religious Intolerance no Part of the General Plan either of the Mofaic, or Chriftian Difpenfation. 4. A brief and difpaffionate View of the Difficulties refpectively attending the Trinitarian, Arian, and Socinian Systems, To be published by the Meeting of the An humble Addres and earnest Appeal to those refpectable Perfonages in Great-Britain and Ireland, who by their great and permanent Interest in landed Property, their liberal Education, elevated Rank, and enlarged Views are the ableft to judge, and the fittest to decide, whether a Connection with, or a Separation from, the Northern Colonies be most for the national Advantage, and the lafting Benefit of these Kingdoms. To be published in the Courfe of the enfuing Winter. AVolume of Select Sermons on interefting and important Subjects. |