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( 6 ) over them. Look about you, like a man of ſenſe, and will ſoon ſee that bad ſubjects coſt more money than  Kings. Our national debt, for which we are now ſuch heavy taxes, was doubled by the troubles in America all brought upon us from the beginning by the Diſſenters there and here. Did not Dr Price write for them? did not the Birmingham Dr, (late one of the King’s-cle of France) encourage them, and write mob principles of Government, to juſtify them? Yet theſe people brought our burdens upon us, are they that rail moſt at  expenſiveneſs of our Government, and uſe it as a handle  over turning it: juſt like the devil, who drives men  ſin, and then gets them damned for it if he can: and  he is pleaſed, becauſe he delights to be the author  Miſery: that is his greatneſs; and ſome people have  notion of any other: ſo they maſſacre poor Prieſts;  and plunder their country and their church; put  and Queens in priſon, try them as they pleaſe, and then behead them; and then ſing Ca Ira joy that Hell is broke looſe

I have Nothing more to ſay, (till my next Letter) that the Government, which is moſt wicked, be the  of it what it will, is generally the weakeſt in itſelf, and the ſt expenſive to the people: and ſo, after all  can be ſaid, Honeſty is the beſt policy, and the honeſt  is the beſt ſubject. Keep this in your mind, John; and farewel.From your loving Brother,

P. S. Perhaps they may tell thee, John, that thou nothing to loſe, and that any change may be to thy advantage; but thou haſt a Body and a Soul: and if the  goes to the gallows, and thy ſoul to the devil, won't  be a loſs, ?

TEN COMMANDMENTS, as they are adopted in, tranſlated from the French.

O Gods we’ll have, like fools of old;

No Deity we’ll ſerve but Gold.

2. Saints images you may purloin,

And melt them into ready coin.