168 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. March Commons of the City of London, in Com- ded that their contributions are unalienably mon Council affembled, beg leave to ap- applied to relieve that diftrefs, which is the proach your Throne, and to intreat your Ma- only fair and public foundation of requiring jefty's royal attention, whilft, with the hu them, and that neither their aids, nor our mility of dutiful fubjects, we lay before finking funds, fhall be any longer perverted your Majesty, what at prefent most immedi- from a public benefit, and mifapplied to the ately affects us in the spirit and tendency of purpofe of corruption, instead of redeeming the public measures now depending; and the the debts of the nation, according to the anxiety we feel at the naked and expofed x first wife and juft inftitution. ftate in which this country will be left, by draining it of the national troops, as well as at the danger and disgrace attending the late treaties for foreign mercenaries, whofe latitude is fuch, as to provide the means of in troducing a foreign army into this realm., "We cannot, Sir, without horror, look forward to that difmemberment of the empire; that increase of the national debt, and of burthenfome taxes; that loss of our most valuable refources; thofe diftreffes of our merchants and manufacturers; thofe deficiencies of the revenue; that effufion of the blood of our countrymen and brethren; that failure of public credit, and thofe dreadful calamities and convulfions which must follow a civil war fo begun and purfued, whofe extent no wisdom can forefec. "We humbly conceive, that no people can be bound to furrender their rights and liberties as a return for protection. The colonies have fought our battles with us; and in the last war, they fo far exceeded their abilities, that this nation thought it just and neceflary to make them an annual compenfation; and even now, driven to open hoftilities in their own defence, they are willing (their charters being inviolably fecured) to continue to us all thofe advantages of a regular and exclufive commerce, to which we have long owed our opulence and profperity. And we have every atfurance which men in their fituation can fafely give, that, if afked as freemen, they are willing to go farther, and to afford to the exhausted state of the revenue of this country, fuch reasonable voluntary aid as their abilities permit, provi "Indulge but, most gracious sovereign, the humanity and benignity of your own royal difpofition, and our prayers will be granted. We implore the extenfion of your Majefty's juftice and mercy towards that continent, which, when arbiter of the terms of peace, it was your Majefty's own determination to prefer to every other compenfation, for all the expences of the laft war. "We humbly and earnestly beseech your Majefty, that the moft folemn, clear, dif tinct and unambiguous fpecification of thofe just and honourable terms, which your Majefty, with both Houses of Parliament, mean to grant to the colonies, may precede the dreadful operations of your armament. Every colour and fufpicion of injuftice and oppreffion will then be removed from the proceedings of the mother country; and, if those just and honourable terms are not submitted to, your Majefty will undoubtedly be enabled to meet, what will then be rebellion, with the zealous hearts and hands of a determined, loyal, and united people." His Majefty was pleased to return an anfwer to the following purport: "I deplore, with the decpeft concern, the miferies which a great part of my fubjects in America have brought upon themselves by an unjuftifiable refiftance to the conftitutional authority of this kingdom; and I fhall be ready and happy to alleviate thofe miferies by acts of mercy and clemency, whenever that authority fhall be established, and the now exifting rebellion at an end to obtain thefe falutary purposes, I will invariably pursue the moft proper and effectual means." To our CORRESPONDENTS. THE Birth of Senfibility-Epigrammatifta-Anti-Zoilus, in defence of Mr. Granger-A Requeft to our Philofophical Readers-and Queries to the Rey. Mr. Jebb, ball appear in our next. H. L's Poetry-C. F's theological Remarks-Amator virtutis—A Song in Praife of good Punch-and feveral other Favours are received, which fball be duly noticed. We never far an Advertisement of the Pamphlet mentioned by E. C. if he will forward one to our Publisher, a proper Regard will be paid to it in our Review. W. D-'s Extempore Lines-and the Obfervations on Gaming and public Credit, are far below Par. The Remarks on Voltaire fhall be attended to-and alfo the Review of the American Measures. E. F-Vicarius-and an Officer are received, but too late for infertion this Month. The BLESSED EFFECTS OF VENALITY, a Political Print, AND A curious new invented DUMB WAITER. LONDON, printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47, in Pater-nofter-Row. Of whom may be had complete Sets, from the Year 1732 to the prefent Time, ready bound and flitched, or any fingle Volume to complete Sets. Lift of new Publications 214 Poetical Effays 215 Prologue to the Spleen 216 Epilogue ibid. In Praise of good Punch 217 ibia. ibid. 218 ibid. Trial of the Duchefs of Kingfton ibid. 222 223 With the following Embellishments, viz. PRICES of STOCK S, Stock India Sou. Sea.¡ Old S. S. New S. S., 3 per C. | 3 per C. | 3 per C. | Stock Ann. 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