^, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) i^ O Z 11.25 |2i8 125 ^m ■ 2.2 Ui u 14.0 2.0 ■1U-- 1.4 1.6 V Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 23 WBT MAIN STHET WIBSTtR,N.Y. MSM (716)172-4303 v V ^ •SJ <^ 4!^°^ '1» '^*- O^ ^>^ '49^ <^^> %?^ > CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical IMicroreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions liistoriques Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Features of this copy which may be bibliographically unique, which may alter any of the images in the reproduction, or which may significantly change the usual method of filming, are checited below. D D D D D D n Coloured covers/ Couverture de couleur I I Covers damaged/ Couverture endommag6e Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaurde et/ou peilicul^e I I Cover title missing/ Le titre de couverture manque I I Coloured maps/ Cartes gdographiques en couleur Coloured inic (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire) I I Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur Bound with other material/ Reli6 avec d'autres documents Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin/ La re liure serrde peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge intirieure Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajout6es lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte, mais, lorsque cela itait possible, ces pages n'ont pas 6t6 film6es. Additional comments:/ Commentaires supplimentaires; L'institut a microfilm^ le mellleur exemplaire qu'il lui a 6X6 possible de se procurer. Les details de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-Atre uniques du point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une modification dans la methods normale de filmage sont indiqute ci-dessous. I I Coloured pages/ D This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmi au taux de reduction indiquA ci-dessous. Pages de couleur Pagus damaged/ Pages endommagies Pages restored and/oi Pages restaur^es et/ou pellicui^es Pages discoloured, stained or foxet Pages dicolor^es, tachetdes ou piqu6es Pages detached/ Pages d^tach^es Showthrough/ Transparence Quality of prir Quality indgale de I'impression Includes supplementary materii Comprend du mat6riel suppidmentaire Only edition available/ Seule Edition disponible I I Pagus damaged/ I I Pages restored and/or laminated/ r~7| Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ I I Pages detached/ ry\ Showthrough/ r~~1 Quality of print varies/ I I Includes supplementary material/ r~~| Only edition available/ Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata slips, tissues, etc., have been ref limed to ensure the best possible image/ Les pages totalement ou partiellement obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure, etc., ont M fiimdes d nouveau de fa^on d obtenir la meilleure image possible. The tot The po» oft film Ori( beg the sion oth( first sion or 11 The shal TINI whii Map diffi entii beg right requ metl 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X 30X / 12X itx 20X 24X 28X 32X lire details Lies du modifier ger une filmage 6es The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanics to the generosity of: Library of the Pubiic Archives of Canada The images appearing here are the best quality possible considering the condition and legibility of the original copy and in keeping with the filming contract specifications. Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed beginning with the front cover and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All other original copies are filmed beginning on the first page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impression. re The last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain the symbol -^ (meaning "CON- TINUED"), or the symbol y (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Maps, olates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included In one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: L'exemplaire filmA f ut reproduit grAce A la g4nAroslt6 de: La bibliothdque des Archives publiques du Canada Les images suivantes ont M reproduites avec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et de la nettet* de l'exemplaire fiim6. et en conformity avec ies conditions du contrat de filmage. Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en papier est imprimte sont film6s en commenpant par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la dernlAre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second plat, salon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmte en commenqant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernlAre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaftra sur la dernlAre image de cheque microfiche, seion ie cas: le cymbole -^ signifie "A SUIVRE". le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmte d des taux de reduction diff6rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichi, 11 est film6 d partir de I'angle supArleur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. y errata Id to nt le pelure. 9on d I 1 2 ' '3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 '"^MM \ :$ • ■■=!% * L » ':''' r II • I-'. N 3 • fs^. .!^ A >\t. A ;;...>,■; r * LETTER ■^ > ti M :t' ..| . f TO THE Gentlemen of the Common Council 1 -yJJ- By a Citizen and Watchmaker. /■'■ iS 1-c .^. [Price Six Pencb.] ^■^ }$ t *jjc>. .J' X ^■•"^tU f iimii f i fi t m ^ f imt m mmiiiH-' Jk ' ,* 1 ''"T ^'^. V -4^ *i^'^lVili, HiQf. t*f f. P V !J if V iJ .3- ^ -■^«»?r-»r* .^Jitiigj Hm iji a i iiin fc {j e ^iofmiiws dn a; .'«a|)d'-jn(»»; ^>iKffcafSy'i:'^.s*«ifi»*--»<«tt***» t .t,OM nt''... -fT SI JH iy Common Council. r A LETTER TO THE GENTLEMEN OF THE By a CITIZEN and Watchmaker. : I LO N D iV, Sold by M. Coop£R> in Pater-no/ler-Row, ■/- : "^^ 1756. ■':'^-"::%^'"-: :;:;:-;:^, *■ s: ■M 4^ ! I f fk r IT I 'if n UT or a'lr^r-*-, -qi-if .^. . % *^j' rx V w|v- M /^ -■" l-.r f ^'^ ji rj. v-rf- jt.x* i*, V^*" ^..^^ ' d ID -fta*""' wp,-» ) .M^ ^ LIo^ y •> W> ; ■0 i- i f J 1 Kb f* r ■"- • LETTER TO THE Gentlemen of the Common Council. '-■y^r.^'/: By a CitizEN and Watchmaker. GENTLEMEN, TH E Moment our good L c r d' Mayor had determined to call us together, at this unufual S^afon, I re-!*^ folved to lay before You my Thoughts, however indigefted through Want of Time, upon the fuppofed Occafion of our Meeting. I coniidered only, that he, who writes from the Didtates of his Heart, B hath -i,^:-: -*. [2] hath little need of Preparation, and that Truth neither lequiics the Colouring of Language, nor the Artifices of reaibning. But if I were inclined to pradife them, yet I underdand no Artifice. I am a plain Man, who have gained a moderate For- tune, and maintained a decent Reputa- tipn by Hqnefly and Induftry* But I would not wandec fron^ my Subjed. ,, • .it «#4 ^"^ J-J '♦•»• ' ' } ' ■ '•/■■■ 1 F the Intention of our Meeting, as is generally believed , is to addrefs His Majesty upon the prefent Situation of public Affairs, let us refled with Pleafure, that, this great City is going to refumc her. ancient Dignity, and afTert her due Iniluei^ce in whatever regards the Wel- fare of the Nation. •■(■ m rz ! ^' That (he may prefcrve this Influence, let us endeavour in our Addrefs to fpeak the univerial Senfe of the Kingdom, and ■S.' .^ give ti) give to other Cities an Example, at once, of Spirit and Moderation. Let us re- member, that our Unanimity will be a powerful Argument in Favour of our De- terminations, and a Proof of our own Con- viction of the Redlitude of whatever we propofe : that we fhall appear a Kind of Reprefentatives of all the commercial In- terefls of Great Britain, and that, altho' an honeft Warmth of Temper, a certain Degree of Indignation will be allowed to the prefent DiftrefTes of our Country, yet all Appearance of Paffion will leflch the Dignity of our Charadter. Let us with all Humility lay before His Ma- jesty our Sentiments of thofe Meafures, by which his CroWh hath been difho- noiifed, and fo fair a Part of his Domi- minions ignominioufly abandoned to the Enemy. But let not our Enemies behold any Abatement of our AfFedtion and Du- ty to his facred Perfon and Family. Let B 2 them [ + ] them rather fee our Reliance upon his Wifdom and Magnanimity ; our Ardour and Refolution to Aipport him with our Lives and Fortunes. Neither in Fa(ft is France become more formidable by her Conqueft, than fhe was, when we be- held her, fome few Months ago, with almoft an Air of Triumph. Whatever Advantage fhe hath gained, hath not been gained over this Nation, but over the phlegmatic Indolence of the Per- fon, who fuperintcnds our naval Affairs, and the natural Timidity, improved and ftill improving by Age, of one noble Lord, in whom is placed the whole Di- redion and Power of the Adminiftration. The naval Glory of the Nation, one fingle Man excepted, is ftill acknowledged ; the Spirit of our People is yet unbroken, and our Refources numerous and power- f, > 'it It X [ s] I T hath been the profefled Defign of fome, who would affume the Charadler of Patriots, to reprefent the Nation as ab- folutely, and beyond all Hope undone. For what valuable Purpofe thus repre- fented, I really cannot conjedlure. Our political Writers have taken the fame Tone, and in daily Declamation piteoufly lament over the unavoidable Ruin of their Country. But thefe Gentlemen are Pa- triots through their Indigence, and their Declamations are their Subfiftance. Yet one Writer of a very different Charader, with Regard to his Fortune, lately made his Appearance. The Teft, or conftitu- tional Journal was duly prepared. AH Arts were ufed , Advertifements , Pro- mifes, Expectations and Difappointments to raife the Attention of the Public. The Paper made its one Appearance , when the Author , finding the Spirit of two Hours haranguing unable to animate one - ^ Quarter f^==? l! i: [ 6 ] Quarter of an HoOi**s reading, modeftly turned his Genius to the merry-making of Ballade. Is then the national Indigna- .tion to be trifled away in finging and rhiming? Are we really, and already, become fo much Frenchmen, as to fing when we are angry ? Is this the Refcnt- ment befitting a great People, and re- commended to us by one of our Repre- fentatives? Will ever this Gentleman hereafter blame the general Inattention and Infenfibility of the Age , when he himfelf, with all his Patriot Feelings, is amufed with the low Pleafantries, that di- vert our Streets ? The Houfe is on Fire, and we are finging in the midft of the Flames. . , '■■■/ : -—.■ ■ -.-".. ., A . ' .- , .( . . .»»»■,• . . . .,»,.-. .,, , ■ .-.v. . . V J- , From the very favourable Opinion wc had entertained of this Gentleman's Abi- lities, we were encouraged to expedt the clear and ampk Proofs pf Mifcondua: in O the [7] the Minlfter. It was a Tafk apparently of no great Difiiculty. Nor this our grealeft Expectation, when informed, I mean only by common Report, by whom he was aflifled. Was it unreafonable to expert fome wifer Plan of Operations, to animate the Nation under its Didreiles, and preferve it from approaching Ruin ? Why might not fuch Plan be laid before the Public ? Why delayed, perhaps for ever, for the Judgment of the Parlia- ment ? The Approbation of the Public might have had its due Weight in carry- ing it into Execution-.* ^ ^ t,.i ,,„_;,., .Dvi 'Ti^^^^'i But it hath been the eafy Tafk of thiij Gentleman , among others , merely to convince us of our Misfortunes. Can they imagine we do not feel them ? In- ftead of applying Remedies, the Phyfi- cian tells his Patient, his Didder is in-i- curable , his Conftitution irrecoverably broken. '■K u I [8] broken, the Jlamina vita worn out, and the Symptoms of Death are in his Face. Were it not more companionate to en- courage the poor Wretch to fupport his Mifery with Fortitude, and to exert his little Remainder of Strength with the Hopes of his Recovery? ,. ;i: -iv ;■ t '; To apply thefe Images. Wc feel the Diftreffes, to which a long Train of Er- rors hath reduced us. We have lately fufFered a Lofs, not eaiily recoverable. Minorca is loft. But not the Spirit of the Nation, its natural Strength, and the Powers of its Conflitution, are loft. Our Enemies cannot furely have gained fo great an Advantage over us by this one Misfortune, that we ftiould totally defpair. Our Fleets are equally fupcrior to thofe of the French, as before St, Philip's was taken. Our national Forces are now fufHcient to repel an Invafion ; and thefe t'lsJuii Auxi« [9] Auxiliaries , fo diflionourable , though neccffary, by our Indolence in r aifing our national Troops, may be difmift with Safety. Even in the gloomicft Apprehen- fions, let us be afTured of thefe Maxims, that no Man ever knew his own Strength, whether ading or fufFering j that no Na- tion ever exerted its utmoft Efforts, cer- tainly never unfuccefsfully j that the Pu- blic never can be poor, while the private is rich -, that Religion hath inexhaudible Refources, and Liberty employs them all. If there be Truth in Reafon, the pure Religion of the Gofpel can never be to- tally depreffed by Popifh Superftition, or Briti(h Liberty enflaved by French Ty- ranny. ' ' : ! I CONFESS, GENTLEMEN, I deiigned to have fupported this AfTertion, which I have ventured to call a Maxim, that no Nation ever exerted its utmcft C Efforts If* %fforH unfuccefsfuUyy by Examples from our ownHiftory, of which I imagine my- fclf a tolerable Mafter. I thought, the Example of our Anceilors might animate their Defcendants. But there is no fuch Inftance, in the Briti(h liliftory, of natio- nal Di(honour, as we, the Defcendants of thofe glorious Ancefiors, this Moment {ui£br, and are bequeathing to our Pofte- fity. They were generally Conquerors, or when they lofl a Battle, they loft not their Reputation with it, for their Ene- mies did Honour to their Courage. I : Ipretend not to much Knowledge in ancient Hiftory. My younger Days were applied to the Bufmefs of my Pro- fefiion. But I dare believe there are nu- merous Examples of Greek and Roman Virtue happily exerted for the Preferva- tion of thofe great Republics, even in their extremeft Danger. I am able at prefent to [ " ] to recoiled only two Inftances, but thofc, I fancy, I can give with a tolerable De^ gree of Exadnefe. When Xerxes invaded Greece, arid' in a particular Manner denounted Ven- geance on the Athenians (they were pro- bably called Robbers and Pyrates in his Declaration of War) that glorious PeojJe abandoned their City, the Temples of their Gods, and the Sepulchres of their Anceftors (according to the Language of their Hiftorians) to the Spoil and Ravage of the Pcrfians, They tranfported their Wives and Children to Salamis. Then, animated with the facred Ardors of Li- berty and Love of Country, they engaged, defeated, routed the Barbarians. From this Period their Hiftorians date their fu^ turc Glory. . ' _. C 2 When [ '2 ] * - ■ When the Conful, by whofc Impe- tuofity the Romans were impelled to ven- ture the Battle of Cannae, in which they were defeated with the Slaughter of al- moft fifty thoufand Citizens 5 when he was entering Rome, the Senate and all other Orders of the State went out to receive him, as if had returned with Vidory. They gave him their folemn Thanks, for not di'fpairing of the Safety of the Com- 1 monweahh, even after fuch a Misfortune, and for returning to place himfelf at the Head of the Laws and Armies of the Re- public. This Aa of Wifdom, for I do not mention it with Regard to its Mag- nanimity alone, reftored the Spirit of the People, and made them believe the Senate had powerful and effedtual Refources (lill remaining to vindicate the Honour and retrieve the Misfortunes of their Country. r « { It 0': I for It [ "3] I T is not without Shame and Confii- fion of Face, that in their prefent Dege- neracy, I think myfelf obliged to men- tion the Dutch, as Examples of this Pa- triot Magnanimity. But we are permitted to learn Virtue from every Nation upon Earth, who have ever reverenced the Name of Liberty, or knew to value its Bleflings. They formed their poor, dif- trjeffed States beneath the immediate Op- prcffions of the Spanifti Monarchy. They have fince maintained the Dignity of their Republic againft the united Powers of France and England. When France was infinitely more formidable, than (he is at prefent, they fingly oppofed the rapid Conquefls of her Monarch, and appeared nobly determined, in the ExprefHon of our glorious Deliverer, to die in their lafl Dyke. While thefe Examples, and Sen- timents like thefe, infpire and animate the Hearts of Britons, they never can be conquered 5 f m If 'I' ■ ■, I 14] conquered 5 they never can fubmit to Slavery. • .^ *i/ "^ I 'i . - But to whofe Integrity, to whofe A- bilities fhall we intruft the Prefervation of their Country? Lfet the Deftination of our Fleets; their Weaknefs; the Delays in fending them, and, in one important Inf- tance, the Choice of an Admiral, untried and unknown in the moft neceiTary Part of his military Capacity ; let thefe Proofs evince the Knowledge of that Perfon, who hath had the fole Diredion of our naval Affairs; let them prove his Difcernment in the Choice of Officers, whom he em* ploys, and his attention to the Preferva- tion of His Majesty's Dominions. Or if an acknowledged Skill in Elec- tion-Intrigues at home can fuppofb an- other great Man capable of fuilaining tfad Character and Interefts of the Nation in Foreign Courts; i£ Expedients are Mea- furcs. [ «s } fures, and Artifices are the Arts of Poli- tics, then let a noble D ■ continue to prefide at the Head of our Adminidra- tion. ConfefTedly, no Man fo fit for that high Office. But What an unaccountable Creature is Man ! By Nature irrefolute, and obfti- nate by Habitude. Bold and venturous in holding an unmanageable , felf-de- flrudtive Power, yet fearful and timid in the Meafures, which can alone maintain him in that Power. If fuch a Man were a Pilot, though frighted by every idle Storm , and rendered by his Fears lefs capable of acting 5 though confcious how juft the Clamours of the Ship's Compa- ny, Merchants, Owners, Paflengers and Sailors y though not unapprehenfive of Danger from their Menaces, yet he would probabjy hold fad the Helm, in Hopes the Tempeft would blow over. Even when .i*f h: I ■if-f' \'i t i6 ] when the Storm overpowers him, he feems to think the Steerage, where he flands , will fink lafl in the general Shipwreck. But not to wander too long in Simi- litudes, which have confeflcdly very little Proof, though much lUuAration, let me be permitted to afk this one fimple, un- prejudiced Queftion. Can we reafonably fuppofe, that the fame Perfons , who have unhappily reduced the Nation to its prefent inglorious Diflrefles, fhall ever be able, whether by their Courage or their Wifdom, to relieve the Nation from thefe inglorious DiftrefTes ? Impofiible. We may as well fuppofe them capable of re- taking Minorca, which they have lofl by their Indolence, Timidity and Inadtivity. We may with jufter Reafon imagine them more perplexed in their own Er- rors, and more incapable of ading, to any "X he 5 he neral 5imi- little jt me , un- nably who to its irer be their thefe We of re- oftby ivity. agine nEr- to any g< [ 17 1 any valuable Purpofe , by that Lofs of Power, they have fufFered in their Lofs of Reputation. J r^. A -' > 1 •■« I »i « ( M f I' » *.' 1 III I have' now, GENTLEMEN, brought down thefe Reflexions to the Point, at which I aimed 5 that if thefe great Perfons are difplaccd, to whom fhould we wi(h His Majesty would intruft his own and the Nation's Happi- nefs, and Honour ? But if I fhould ap- pear, like all other Projedors, too much enamoured of my own Scheme , yet I frankly confcfs, it has not any Excufe from the little Time I have for writing j it hath been long the Objcd of my befl Attention, and is now the laft reafoning of my Underflanding. i -::. .'71 *.ii Our Patriot Writers unanimoufly de- clare for turning out all the great Officers of State, at prefent in the Adminiftra- B tion. -JWi»VC,-«-.'l-C%\ TiMf' ! . s i [ i8] tion. This Propofai hath too much Vio- lence in it ; nor is it eafily pradicable. It hath an Air of Party, which would pre- vent its own good EfFedls, if it were car- ried into Executioii. It would probably continue an uiifeafonable; and therefore deftrudivc Oppofition. Nor, for the Ho- nour of our Country, would I willingly &fk, whether, if all thefe Geatlenien were turned out, we have others of more un- blemifhed Ititegrity, and more acknow^ ledged Abilities, to fill all their Piaces. However, there are two Gentlemen of apparent Superiority to all others in either Party. They have both continued long in Offices of greateft Truft and Power, with unfufpe^ed Reputation. They dif- fered laft Year in their Judgment of pu- blic Meafures. Their Contefl was main- tained with a Warmth, which might na- turally rife from their mutual Convidion. Their Reconciliation is now become ne- ^- ceflary /io- • It prc- car- ►ably rforc Ho- ingly were e un- :now^ ?lftces. ien of either long ower, zy dif- )f pu- main- ;ht na- n&Aon» e nc- ceffary [ 19 ] ccffary to the Welfare, perhaps, to the very Being of their Country. If their Contcft was of Virtue, they will eafily be reconciled. Great Spirits cannot long maintain little Refentments, and if the Love of Country be their prevailing Paf- fion, it will fubdue all others ; for in Ef- fe(!t there is but one Pailion in the Heart of Man. Their common Friends may propofe and fettle the Terms of their Union -, but the Nation, in thefe her Dif- treiTes, calls upon them, implores, con- jures, I had almoft faid, commands them to unite. She hath more than enough to gratify their perfonal Ambition $ enough to indulge them in obliging and making happy their mutual Friends. Permit me, GENTLEMEN, nor i« it wholly foreign to the Purpofe of this Letter, permit me to mention fome of thofc Advantages, which I fim per- D 2 fuaded. .■ 1^ i. [ 20 ] fuaded , will arife from this Union. If they are each of them fuperior to every otiier Man, moft capable of ferving the Public 5 if they were fmgly oppofed to each other laft Winter, who (hall be able to form an Oppofition againft them, when united ? The Mcalures, neceffary to re- trieve the Honour of the Nation, will eafily then be carried into Execution : not diflreffed by midnight Debates, which not only fruitlefsly confumed fo many valuable Hours, but mufl have rendered the Speakers liftlef« and inattentive to next Day's Bulinefs. If they are not * wholly inexcufable in throwing away the Winter in thefe unprofitable Debates, let us remember, that one of thefe Gentle- men was aduated by the human Refent- nlent of being turned out of his Employ- ment ; nor can we fuppofe ' him lefs fen- fibly affedlcd for his Friends. The other probably imagined, if he could excufe . , the [ 21 ] the Mcafures of the Minifter, for In- ftancc, the Heffian Treaty, he might have Influence enough over him to direft him afterguards to better Counfels. But fuch is the Gratitude of Ambition , that this Gentleman muft have been long fince convinced, he was miftaken in his Hopes j and that a Man fo tenacious of governing, as obftinatelv to hold his Power amidft the Errors, or let us call them the Mis- fortunes of his Adminiftration ; amidft the dangerous Refentments of the People, will never admit a Partner in his Admi- niftration. For if we know any Thing of this Gentleman, Fearfulnefs and Ti- midity is no Part of his Charadler, from whence we may believe, he had no Share in the late timid Expedients , by which Minorca wais loft. But, indeed, what r 1 U.' ii'i oi I . jF •%• •fj > '»' Share ft; .*'l wKKHllKi^iiff!^^ lii «; f \ t 22 ) Share of Power or Confidence could he exped, who was at once feared and hated, f t?i • i ' . r \ -.,*." 1. ■ ' But, I am wandering from the Proof of thofe Advantages, which I flatter my- felf will attend the Completion of my Scheme. Thefe two Gentlemen adting from their own, uninfluenced Judgment^ cannot he compelled to any Compliances^ either hafe in themfelves, or injurious to their Country. Neither to lavifh away the laft Treafures of the Nation in ignomi- nious and unavailing Subfidies; nor to facrifice one Britifh Intereft to the Pre- fcrvationof any foreign Dominions. They cannot be obliged to bend the Dignity of their Adminiftration, to Stock-jobbers and Money - Changers, Employment*, Places, Penfions, will then be given to Merit aid he d and •r n.v t Proof er my- of my adting [gmentj »liance$» rious to way the ignomi" nor to he Pre- . They ynity of Jobbers >yment9, ;iven to Merit 9 [23 ] Merit and Abilities 5 nor fliall we ever hear a great Officer of State pleading his being only four Months in Office, as an Excufe for not knowing the common, cuftomary Forms of it 5 or appealiag to his Clerk for the conftant Pradice in fending his Di^atches. Such an amaz- ing, anexampled Inflance of Ignorance could never be believed by any lefs in^ conteiUble Proof, than his own candid Acknowledgement ; yet fi^om this Igno- rance, and in his own Language, the mt adverting to thefe moft neceflary Forms, hath arifen fuch Confuiion and Contca* diction, that difcretionary Orders are t6 be pofitively obeyed, and unintelligible Letters to be clearly underflood. For fuch Jargon is now become the Language, that demands a pundual and unconditional Obedience, . :: : > - j. ': G1VJ8 ¥-\ ■ «! I! [ 84 ] Give me Leave to fuppofe I had his Lordfliip's Orders for making him a Clock. I fend it home. It puts all the Family into Confufion* The Chaplain knows not the canonical Hour for Prayers. The Butler blunders in laying his Side- board, and the Cook in fending up Din- ner. Whence is all this Confufion ? The Clock points one Hour and flrikes an- other. Would his Lordfhip think it a fufficient Excufe, if I told him I had been only four Months at the Trade ? Or fhall I be weak enough to call my Apprentice to convidt me upon Oath, that I did not know the firft Principles of my Bulincfs ? But I beg Pardon, and acknowledge this Affair is of too ferious a Nature to be treated with the Levity of langhing. It will probably be made, as ic furely well deferves, a Matter of national Inquiry, and [is I ihd then, if my poor Abilides can be fer-^ vite^ble to Mr. PS ke^ and, as from ihy Soul I think, to the Juilice of his Ganfey he may frankly command them. I (hall otily remark here, that they, who advife their S ov e r ei g n to any Ad of Power contrary to his natural Clemencyi will have very litde Right to the public; Compaflion, when they fliall themfelves ^become Objedls of his Juftice. ^ But if the Author of this Letter (hould ever be encouraged by Your Approba- tion, GENTLEMEN, and that of the Public, to write again, permit him to af- fure You, that no Sendments of Slavery and adubtioh $ no Language unbecoming the Charader of a Citizen of this great Metropolis; no Principles di(honourable or injurious to Liberty | no perfonal In- E vedtive. !l n vcdlivi, or private Slander » 1 Ihall ' ever ftain his WritlngSr He is determiiied nt^ ver to know any other Friends, ot other Enemies, but thofe, who are £n($mie& or Friends to the beft of Princes, th^ Piro^ teftant Succeffion in his iUi^ftrious.Houfe^ to the Laws and Liberties and Conftitu-» tion of Great Britain. I am • . • ^ • • ' ' A ♦ * - f»^,-«*« -S"!!^- .w^ - .... wlfiiV^wJu •Tr,' • '. ' ■ . ^-^ t!f '*^ ' * > GENTLEMjEN. ,..Vt V:Xft ::'^y:l:, ;:;^i0^;;ans .; :id t^ v I p: ^...i.-v Yhurmoft obidietii'^ Servants I :i>j:> f'X, . ■li'iUL—Jfi I iliii 'i'''*'ta #*♦■ i((mica or Cooftitu-» ■ » - 4 ?. ' * t . t . xr •ipT ..i-r? obedient t f»/« *