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 tax on our potatoes, the oat meal will soon go to five thirteens a stone, how then will a poor soldier live on sixpence halfpenny a day, or a labourer on a thirteen : Ah my hearts of oak, this will inrage both the Scots and the Irish, a hungry man will fight for his belly before he fight for any king at all, at all; the poor will kill the rich, and the rich will hang the poor, and the never a shoul will be left alive in a few years: Oh Mr Hatcher, burn your Bill, for the wicked hungry Scots will throw your big wigs in the fire.---Think how many poor shouls has suffered by your ploting and voting already, &c.

I will not now touch on the Clergy, or they will call me crack brained, but they act too much with with the erronious set of men, called Typographers or Printers, for if they meet with a wrong word in a book, they’ll tell you from the very pulpit, it is an error of the press; ah, it cannot err at all, but like the fire, it must burn all that is laid upon it, for it is only a piece of hard wood, iron, stone and leathren belts below; the printers are but mortal men and boys, and liable to many mistakes, men that give light to the world, and men that benights the world, points out the failings of all men, but conceals their own, so far as they can, for which cause, I’ll blunder out a real rag of their outbreakings: Many of you counts a nullo nothing, puts hundreds for thousands, and thousands for hundreds, by so doing, not only in news papers, and histories, but in sermons and sacred books, one in the very new Testament, for the words.. Go, and sin no more, put in the words, Go, and sin more; another of you, in printing the ten commands, puts in, Thou shalt commit adultery, Thou shalt steal, thou shalt kill, thou shalt hunger thy father and thy mother. &c. another of you in printing of a Catechism, Asks who it was,that was thrown into the sea and swallowed up the whale ? Another of