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 Our connexion, according to the doctor's measure, would be upon no better footing than Alliances of the same kind with detached foreign Powers, which (as experience teaches us) subsist no longer than the private interest or separate views of the contracting parties.

If all these points are duly considered, the very proposing so pernicious a measure must appear highly criminal, if not treasonable! especially as the author has been pleased to insinuate that there is no alternative! — "If we neither can govern the Americans,” (fays he,) "nor be governed by them, if we can neither unite with them, nor ought to subdue them; what remains" (says he) "but to part with them on as friendly terms as we can?" But is it not Treason against the Crown to insinuate that the Americans cannot be governed, as well as Treason against