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Obadlah Mouſetrap.
honeſty. I know that you would
think I had ſome illicit buſineſs to
tranſact, worthy of giving ſuch a pre-
ſent, for an opportunity to do it in;
but ye are both miſtaken, I never
wronged my king nor my country in
my iife, I look upon you both as per-
ſons that hath infamouſly forfeited
the truſt renoſed in you, and are lia-
ble of being ſeverely puniſhed for it;
which, if I was to be as cruel to you
(by informing againſt you) as you
have been to me, by ſuſpecting that
I would wrong the King of his due,
that muft unavoidably be the caſe;
but I ſcorn ſuch an action, though I
deſpiſe your principles. ———However,
my friends I would admoniſh you
to be more honeſt, and more upon
your guard for the future, which will
effectually compleat my good inten-
tion by this experiment.
FINIS.
GLASGOW,
Printed by ]. & M. ROBERTSON,
Saltmarket, 1805.
