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 threatened his royal Predecessor) with a general Resignation:—

If their Leaders should be taken at their Word, and unexpectedly stripped of all Power and Influence:—

If on This, the Clamours of their attendant Populace should arise; and for the Sake of the public Tranquillity, Overtures should be made by the Prince to the Discontented:—If the same Principle should still predominate, and Demands in Favour of Men should be the leading Object of Accommodation:—

If these Demands should be not only irrational in their Kind, but exorbitant and oppressive in their Degree; requiring a general Restoration of All the Discontented, and a general Dismission of all who were in Power, tho' of known Fidelity to their King and Country:—

If such should be the Conduct of any Set of Men, they would stand evidently convicted of Licentiousness and Faction.