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 * Dear SIR,

T this critical Conjuncture when the Rumour of a new Parliament ounds like the lat Trumpet, to awaken the Genius of Old England, and raie departed Liberty to Life, it would be a Crime to be ilent.

My Retreat into this Country, which was meant only to be out of the way of beholding the Calamities of my own, and of hearing the Cries and Lamentations of my Fellow Citizens, to which I could neither ee nor bring any Remedy, may expoe me to the Reproach of having abandon’d my Friends in their Ditres, if I hould remanremain [sic] indolent when the leat Glimmering of Redemption appeared.

In thoe Times of Ditraction, o like our own, when the will of a Triumvirate, upported by a Majority of bribed Senators, and