their election? Can the intervention of the sea
that divides us, cause disparity in rights, or
can any reason be given, why English subjects,
who live three thousand miles from the royal
palace, should enjoy less liberty than those who
are three hundred miles distant from it?
REASON looks with indignation on such dis-
tinctions, and freemen can never perceive their
propriety. And yet, however chimerical and
unjust such discriminations are, the Parliament
assert, that they have a right to bind us in all
cases without exception, whether we consent or
not; that they may take and use our property
when and in what manner they please; that we
are pensioners on their bounty for all that we
possess, and can hold it no longer than they
vouchase to permit. Such declarations we con-
sider as heresies in English politics, and which
can no more operate to deprive us of our pro-
perty, than the interdicts of the Pope can di-
vest Kings of sceptres which the laws of the
land and the voice of the people have placed in
their hands.
AT the conclusion of the late war -- a war
rendered glorious by the abilities and integrity
of a Minister, to whose efforts the British em-
pire owes its safety and its fame: At the con-
clusion of this war, which was succeeded by an
inglorious peace, formed under the auspices of
a Minister of principles, and of a family un-
friendly to the protestant cause, and inimical to
liberty. -- We say at this period, and under the
influence of that man, a plan for enslaving your