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 the People at large to say that we cannot unite with our American Brethren, when there is a constitutional mode, both of Government and Union, established by law, and an unquestionable precedent, the observance of which would undoubtedly satisfy every honest American Subject?

The advocates for the jurisdiction of the British Parliament in America, like all promoters of bad measures, will not fail to represent those, that oppose them, as licentious and disaffected persons; and therefore, as it is highly necessary for the general welfare and subsistence of the British Empire, both in Europe, Asia, and America, (upon the principles already explained,) that we Should strictly maintain our Loyalty to the Crown, at the same time that we steadily assert our legal and constitutional Rights,— I think we ought to lose no proper opportunity of expressing