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 Will this be Silas Dean and old Frankland, comcome [sic] here to plead for the Americans, I looked always for critical Jack, or forty five, but he was in the lowelower [sic] work-house with old Vulcan forging thunder bolts for them, then their eyes kindled like wild cats and shined like candles.

Arra, said I, between my soul and myself, What is become of the king’s big beef eaters, that they don’t come and toss these cumberers of the house o vover [sic] the window? why does my good wise King an master, send away his guards and armies abroad to kill rebels, and so many here left alive ? Arra, for shame, By shaint Patrick, it is here the devilry is distilled, which began the disobedience ; call them brave fellows, oppressed and made poor by British taxations, where did such a poor people get the money to purchase the arms, amunition, privateers and clothing they now have ? Ah, my cra, I find it out now, they took it from the Scots and Irish emigrants. plundered all the British store-houses, gave them only paper dollars of their own making, which will do for nothing but bum wiping; and this makes the brave fellows. Oh, my cra, what is the most of their original, but the refuse of the gallows, murderers, coiners, horse-stealers and sons of whores, it was a cheating of both the gallows and the poor hangman, sending so many of them there, no wonder nor they have stolen the fourth part of the earth, so many rogues in a croud.

Ah, my dear shouls, I will not predict, but speaking low, betwixt my shoul and myself, take another glisk of my old Brills, and look but one year before you, and you will see another sedition infused, by the black virtue of a Corn Bill, then they will export and import at their pleasure, rottrot [sic] our corn at sea, get a drawback for so doing, as they did for the tobacco some years ago; their next touch will be a tax