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 force many endeavours have been ued, either to diuade, or to deter us. Sometimes the merit of the Americans is exalted, and ometimes their ufferings are aggravated. We are told of their contributions to the lat war, a war incited by their outcries, and continued for their protection, a war by which none but themelves were gainers. All that they can boat is, that they did omething for themelves, and did not wholly tand inactive, while the ons of Britain were fighting in their caue.

we cannot admire, we are called to pity them; to pity thoe that hew no regard to their mother-country; have obeyed no law which they could violate; have imparted no good which they could with-hold; have entered into aociations of fraud to rob their creditors; and into combinations to ditres all who depended on their commerce. We are reproached with the cruelty of hutting one port, where every