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the event therefore of this contet—let us again repeat it—not the eparate interets of his Majety, but thoe of his Britih ubjects are involved. If the Americans inult him by groundles complaints of his government, it is becaue he aerted our rights:—if they have dared to renounce all allegiance to his Crown, it is becaue he determined not to give up our rights.

general charge brought againt his Majety, in this audacious paper, is, that "the hitory of his reign is a hitory of repeated injuries and uurpations; all having in direct object the etablihment of an abolute tyranny over"—what they call—"thee tates,"—what we hould call—his Majety's ubjects in America.

upport of this atrocious charge certain maxims are advanced; a theory of Government is etablihed; and what the Authors of the Declaration call Facts, are ubmitted, as they tell us, to "the candid world."

maxims, this theory, and thee facts we are now about to examine. We hall begin by the facts. And to tate them more clearly, the everal charges are numbered; and divided into o many eparate Articles. They are given in the order in which they tand in the Declaration; and each conidered apart. But as there is a tudied confuion 9