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10 in that arrangement, it was thought right to ubjoin a hort, but general, Review of the whole; in which the maxims and the theory are examined; and the grievances alleged are claed under their repective heads. And under certain heads the Congres would no doubt have claed them; if concious of the futility of the charges, they had not fled to the mean reource of endeavouring to upply by numbers, what they wanted in weight; to confue where they could not hope to convince.

merit eems to have been aumed by the Authors of the Declaration on account of the "attention," which they profes to have hewn to us, whom for this lat time, as they inform us, they tyle—"their Britih brethren:"—of the "warnings," they have given us:— of "their appeals to our native jutice and magnanimity." And to do them jutice, ome art there was in the teps by which they endeavoured to make us their dupes; the blind intruments of procuring them that independence, at which they o long have aimed.—Their firt attacks were cautious; the Minitry only were to blame: To rail at Miniters, is always popular. The King was deceived; the Parliament miled; the nation deluded.—In a little time they aw that Parliament was neither to be frightened, nor argued into a reignation of its jut authority; and then Parliament came in for its hare of culpability. It encroached on the rights of the American Aemblies. For they too, all at once, were become Parliaments: Still the King was their common Father; the nation, their brethren.—Yet a little while and they aw, that the King was not to be peruaded to liten to the deceitful voice of faction, in preference to the ober advice