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 N o xxxv,. erre-Filius. It is allow'd by all impartial perforts, who have any tolerable notions of liberty,nd the nglifi eon- itution, that theand which was made by the then honourable boue o commons aRainff Kin CRLES the rfl, was juff and well grounded they were a- triot, the/ were true Eglimen, and behav'd like honeff rqr(tative of their country, when tey beheld the deareft rights of it ju upon the of being facrificed to tyrannical counls and arbi- trary power. But there laudable proceings of the prllamen were, in length of time, d by the implacable ani mties of different parties, made ufe of by a fe. abandon'd wretches, to perpetrate the mo afroniX- ing and execrable vilNnies.- I will mention but one inance more, and that ill pretint among u The late South-fin diredora, their aiders, abettors, and confederates have, by their unexampled mirma- nagement and corruption, brought univerfal calami- ty upon the nation, and upon themfclves the uni. verfal refentmnts of their f ellow-fubjes; all heart are fill'd with indignation again them, and all months with clamour and eomplnt; they have rouz'd up the genius of an injur'd people, and arm it with vengeance and fury; mo of the Ounties and Boroughs in England hae. in their feveral peti- tiota, expreflM their abhorence of there mipreants, and demanded jugice and rdiefl the ze vigoroufly putruing them thro' all their dark labyrinths and lurking holes; and the K    hin,lf has been gracioufly pleas'd to join with his opprei- fed rubieS, in proteeing again fuch PZR  cmos It is remarkable that the Wnos have been more 1ous d a&ive un thi occafion tMn the ja- cozs which ha made the latter fondly ima- gine, that we are at la conting into their mealurea,

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