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12 our rulers, upported by proof, I hould readily allow it to be the duty of every man to unite in procuring redres to injured ubjects: But if it appear-and I trut it will appear—that the charges are unupported, even by the hadow of a proof, let it in return, be allowed to be the duty of every man to unite in reducing rebellious ubjects to a due obedience to law.

hould I be, could I ugget new motives to my fellow-ubjects of Great Britain, for ubmitting with cheerfulnes to the burdens which mut be borne, for concurring with zeal in the meaures which mut be adopted, to effectuate this important object.

hould I be, could I contribute to efface any tain, which the fale accuations of the rebellious Congres, may have thrown on the character of a Prince, o jutly entitled to the love of his ubjects, and the eteem of foreign nations.

hould I be, were it poible to induce this deluded people to liten to the voice of reaon; to abandon a et of men who are making them tilts to their own private ambition; to return to their former confidence in the King and his Parliament, and like the Romans, when they threw off the yoke of the Decemvirs:—"Inde libertatis captare auram, unde ervitutem timendo Rempublicam in eum tatum perduxere." ANSWER