againſt our rulers, ſupported by proof, I ſhould readily allow it to be the duty of every man to unite in procuring redreſs to injured ſubjects: But if it appear-and I truſt it will appear—that the charges are unſupported, even by the ſhadow of a proof, let it in return, be allowed to be the duty of every man to unite in reducing rebellious ſubjects to a due obedience to law.
Happy ſhould I be, could I ſuggeſt new motives to my fellow-ſubjects of Great Britain, for ſubmitting with cheerfulneſs to the burdens which muſt be borne, for concurring with zeal in the meaſures which muſt be adopted, to effectuate this important object.
Happy ſhould I be, could I contribute to efface any ſtain, which the falſe accuſations of the rebellious Congreſs, may have thrown on the character of a Prince, ſo juſtly entitled to the love of his ſubjects, and the eſteem of foreign nations.
Happy ſhould I be, were it poſſible to induce this deluded people to liſten to the voice of reaſon; to abandon a ſet of men who are making them ſtilts to their own private ambition; to return to their former confidence in the King and his Parliament, and like the Romans, when they threw off the yoke of the Decemvirs:—"Inde libertatis captare auram, unde ſervitutem timendo Rempublicam in eum ſtatum perduxere."
