consequences? Our address was treated with contempt and ne-
glect. The first American congress did the same, and met with
similar treatment. The total repeal of the stamp act, and the
partial repeal of the revenue acts took place, not because the
complaints of America were deemed just and reasonable; but
because these acts were found to militate against the commercial
interests of Great Britian: This was the declared motive of the
repeal.

These influences are sufficient for our pupose; but they de-
rive greater validity and force from the following:

The legal assembly of Massachusetts Bay, preferred, not long
since, a most humble, dutiful, and earnest petition to his Ma-
jesty, requesting the dismission of a governor, highly odious to
the people, and whose misrepresentations they regarded as one
chief source of all their calamities. Did they succeed in their
request? No, it was treated with the greatest indignity, and
stigmatized as "a seditious, vexations, and scandalous libel."

I know the men I have to deal with will acquiesce in this
stigma. Will they also dare to calumniate the noble and spirit-
ed petition that came from the Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of London? Will they venture to justify that unparalelled stride
of power, by which popery and arbitrary dominion were esta-
blished in Canada? The citizens of London remonstrated
against it, they signified its repugnancy to the principles of the
revolution; but like ours, their complaints were unattended to.
From thence we may learn how little dependence ought to be
placed on this method of obtaining the redress of grievances.

There is less reason now than ever to expect deliverance, in
this way, from the hand of oppression. The system of slavery,
fabricated against America, cannot at this time be considered as
the effect of inconsideration and rashness. It is the offspring of
mature deliberation. It has been fostered by time, and strength-
ened by every artifice human subtilty is capable of. After the
claims of parliament had lain dormant for awhile, they are again
resumed and prosecuted with more than common ardour. The
Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety : He is deep-
ly interested to execute his purpose, if possible: we know he has
declared, that he will never desist, till he has brought America
to his feet; and we may conclude, nothing but necessity will
induce him to abandon his aims. In common life, to retract
an error even in the beginning, is no easy talk ; -- Perseverance