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 enjoying uch invaluable Privileges as they do here: And it would be thought a very unjut Reply from an arbitrary Prince in Defence of his tyrannical Proceedings, that he treated his Subjects better here, than the Grand Seignior treated his Slaves in Turkey.

Obj. X. All thee are rare Caes, and for the generality Wives have no Reaon to complain.

But no Thanks to the Laws of our Country for that Exemption; let every particular Woman who is well treated, thank God and her Huband for the Bleing. At the ame Time, he may reflect, that he is in the Condition of a Slave, tho' he is not treated as uch, according to the Opinion of a late eminent Member of the Houe of Commons, who declared in that honourable Aembly, that he thought "that Nation in a State of Slavery, where any Man had it in his Power to make them o, tho' perhaps the Rod might not always be held over their Backs."

Tho' I have taken the Liberty to peak my ene of thee Laws, and the Conequences of them, which are the Caues of our Complaint; and alo to anwer ome Objections, which I uppos'd might be made, yet