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 We muſt now ceaſe to pity their Oppreſſion, becauſe you, Sir, have proved them Slaves; their Complaints muſt now be deemed the Voice of Sedition, becauſe Dr. declares their Reſiſtance .–Let us leave then America to mourn her Fate, which the high-born Spirit of her yet untamed Sons ſeem determined, if poſſible, to retard by reſolute Oppoſition and bold Encounter, in which ſome turbulent and equally rebellious Sons at Home, with anxious and forward Zeal, wiſh them Succeſs; and congratulate our native Country, that has ſuch a pious and ever-watchful Guardian on the throne, and ſuch Miniſters ſurrounding it, who are determined at all Events, and at every deſperate Hazard, to ſacrifice all, even our own Children, before One Branch of the Royal Prerogative ſhall be loſt, the Omnipotence of Parliament queſtioned, or the Grandeur of the Britiſh Empire impaired. Can