LETTER IV.
I SUPPOSE, my friends, you are aware that the English Parliament, the same body which has passed so many cheap and handy "Ejectment Acts," and which has now four times attempted to cheat you out of your Tenant-right—that these same Parliament-men have, within about three weeks, passed one of their "Acts," as they call them, creating a new "crime:" for these fellows, let me tell you, have always taken it upon them to create "crimes" whenever they liked, and, I suppose, virtues also,—as well as to establish churches and enact true religions. At one time they made it a heinous crime to celebrate Mass, which made "felons" of the Catholics,—and another crime, not to go to church, which nailed the Dissenters. And you know it is a Parliament "crime" at present for a man to shoot the wild birds that grow fat upon his own corn stocks, without the leave or "license" of them, the Parliament-men.
And, then, this Parliament and Government have been so long, unfortunately, endured, by reason of the miserable dissensions of the people,—have been so long suffered to carry on a system of successful plunder, and have secured to themselves so vast a revenue out of the sweat and blood of toiling men, that they can pay plenty of solemn judges, ferocious military gentlemen, upper and under clergymen, detec-
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