LIBERTY and Property, the Love of our Country, Truth and Disinterestedness, are most unhappily be­come only meer Sounds and Words of Course, and now seldom mean more than our common compli­mentary Cant, viz.—Your most humble Servant, I am exceeding glad, or exceeding sorry for you, &C.—in which Lip Service there is perhaps seldom one Word of Truth and Sin­cerity. And as most People love to be in the Fashion, and seeing it is now very unfashionable to be guilty of speaking the Truth (especially where Interest is concerned) and conforming our Acti­ons thereunto; so now there are many among us, who from some secret Self Love disguise the Truth, and basely act now, as did Pilot of old, who asked by Way of Jest, "What is Truth? and immediately fled from an Answer: And altho' the Truth may not with Propriety be spoken at all Times, yet there is the fit Time when it should be spoken; and then it is criminal to with-hold one's Peace; and as Truth is Light which dispels Darkness, so when Clouds and Darkness surround us, and im­minent Danger hangeth over our Heads, then how good is it to have Truth break out upon us in a Flood of Day [...] ( [...] we may be indulg'd the Expression)—Darkness was perhaps never more thick and gloomy than at this Day. [Page 4] And as Party, Interest, the insatiable Love of Money, are ever the most violent Enemies to Truth, Liberty, and the universal Love of one's Country; so wherever these are pre­dominant and daily grow more powerful, they do forever en­deavour to the utmost of their Skill and Strength, right or wrong, to warp and bend every Thing, however unjust, unsociable and selfish, to say in, fix and strengthen that Side, or Party they are of, however opposite, detrimental, and pernicious it may prove in its Consequences, to the whole Community, to their Country, either row, or hereafter: And the greater and more powerful the Party, and the greater the Interest to uphold and carry it on, consequently the greater must be the real Damage done to all those against whom any such S [...]tt and Party of Men improve their Interest, and exert their Power.

Now, if these general Observations are true; it will we believe be readily granted that there is a great Deal of Reason, for e­very honest Man, at this critical Conjuncture of our Affairs of this Province, when Things are, we fear, ripening for our final Destruction and Overthrow, to stand up unterrified and unseduced, for the real Interest, Liberties and Properties of his Fellow-Ci­tizens, and for his dear Children, and his dearer Country. Now every honest Man has a fair Opportunity to prove to the World, whether he most loveth his Country, or the Mammon; whether he is a true Patron, or a Demas, or a Judas.

Experience has dearly and wofully taught us all, That nothing in the World will so powerfully set the Tongue, the Pen, the Wit, and Heart of most Men so earnestly, so vigorously to Work as IN­TEREST, either real or imaginary. This it was perhaps that sat the judicious Author to work to write and publish to the World that Piece in a late Independent Advertiser, No. 13. Mar. 28. wherein the good Author out of pure Zeal for Virtue and ar­dent Love to his Country, has dictated and prescribed the only Scheme (as he says) that can possibly have any direct and good Tendency to implant in us the moral Duties and Virtues; and really make us, a wise, pr [...]ent, industrious, honest, yea a pros­perous and compleatly HAPPY PEOPLE—‘All which (accord­ing to this prodigious Genius) will be immediately consequent [Page 5] upon the due Appropriation of the late Royal Bounty graci­ously granted to the brave Sons of New-England, for the glo­rious Atchievement in the happy Reduction of the mighty Fortress at Louisbourg. Which Bounty cannot consistent with true Wisdom be any Way so well, and wisely managed and disposed of by the Governments for the real and perpetual Good, Welfare and Prosperity of the Publick, As "Immedi­ately to deliver it all up in a Lump to the good M—and redeem of them, all the great Emission of Paper-Money, which they are now collecting together. This (says that pious Scribble) will make us, more rich, more wise, frugal, industrious, more in Love of Virtue, and averse to Vice, Vanity and Folly—’ Glorious Scheme—Taking it (as he does) for granted, that the very large Emission of our Paper-Currency, only, has absolutely in­volved and overwhelmed us in all our prodigious Difficulties and Misfortunes—Surely this Gentleman could see a vast Way, and penetrate into the inmost Recesses of the political CONSTI­TUTION.—But what if any one should have the Front and Hardiness to say, that it is not so in Fact, but far otherwise; and that our Difficulties are compounded of many hurtful Ingre­dients, and that they have been a long Time coming upon us; and that we have but just now as it were been favoured with a Medicine that has reached the Cause.—'Tis universally allow'd that Peace, Industry, and good Government, make most Things plenty, and consequently cheap: That War, is a great Calamity, or rather the greatest of Calamities, and always brings on Scar­city, Devastation and Distress of every Kind: That it is the PEOPLE which are the true Riches, Beauty, and Strength of every Kingdom, Nation and Province; and when the People are taken away, and the Country thereby thin'd and made bare of Labourers and Inhabitants; then also, almost every Blessing is ta­ken away with them; and if this had not been, and were it not now very much our Case with Regard to the People, we should not even now (with all our Paper Money, as bad as it is) be in such sinking, such deplorable Circumstances.—Does the Ground manure and till it self? And will the Earth yield her Increase without the Labour of the Husbandman? What Benefit in many [Page 6] Respects is the shining of the Sun, and the most refreshing Rains and Dews upon the Earth, where few or no People are? Are not Things many Times very scarce, and very dear, even where SILVER MONEY it self, is very plenty!—And are Ar­ticles of Life, &c.—ever any where cheap and plenty (especially in War-Time) but where there is constantly much People?—Take away the Bees, and although your Garden may for a Time be ever so beautifully stored and adorned with the greatest Va­riety of Flowers, yet you shall have no Honey in the Hive, al­though you would give ever so dear for it; but there always will be Honey where there are Bees; and always the more Honey the better they are looked after.

If this will hold good with Regard to the Political Hive, see­ing this is pretty much our impoverished Case, who are now so drained of our robust and able-bodied Labourers, the Conse­quence must be, that all our Difficulties don't necessarily arise meerly on Account of the great Emission of Paper Money. And in Case the Paper Money had not been made, by the publick Currency of which, we carried on the great Expedition against our potent and common Enemies, and happily (through divine Goodness) succeeded, we perhaps should have been in much worse Cir­cumstances.

And, notwithstanding the mighty Bustle and Clamour, that has been by some cunning and selfish Men industriously raised and aggravated, about the Badness of the Money, yet we are ex­perimentally taught to know, that if the Articles of Life had been, or were now very plenty, they must, and would be cheap; and be sold very low even for our despised Paper-Money! This is also true with Regard to the Money itself, which even the M—themselves every Day are fully demonstrating to every one that hath Eyes to see, and Ears to hear; or else why are they so greedy after it, hoarding of it up to make it scarce, in Order to make it to them as good as so much SILVER. First they con­demn'd it, and them that made it, and jumpt a 100 per cent in the Principal, for every Article they parted with for it; altho' they were for the Expedition it self; then settled their Books and Accounts, fixt them at Silver from 26 s. 8. d. to about 30 s. per [Page 7] Ounce; and now call in all their Silver Bonds, Notes, &c.,—to be paid in these individual Bills, at between 50 and 60 s. per Ounce with 10 perCent Interest; then put these Bills quite [...]g into their coffers, in Order soon to have them all redeemed for Silver Money at about 80 s. per Ounce, This is a fine Whi [...]-Row, All this can be fully proved—Him therefore that can reckon, let him reckon:—100 per Cent Start upon the Principal, that is what they just before sold at 6 or 700 perCent Advance, they now sold from 12 to 15, and even 7 to 20 100 perCent Advance for this Money—settled their Books and let out a vast Quantity of this Money upon Bond, &c. at about 30 s.—oz. and 10 per Cent Interest (I must repeat it)—and now call it all in at al­most £. 3 per Ounce, for these Bills—for which they will de­mand the Silver Money Bounty, according to the Face of the Bill—Now, pray is it the Money, or is it these Managers of it, that ruin and undo this Country.—This is their wise and pious Scheme. to inrich us, to make us so much the more wise, industrious, fru­gal, yea more every Thing—But this is not all, for some we have heard have proposed a Scheme ten Times worse—viz. ‘To give these good M—all the Silver given, or grant­ed to the Governments, for our Bills now extant;—and also, [...]orrow at Home, fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling upon Interest; and so immediately sink all Paper-Money at once.’

But the Mischief is not laid quite so deep, but some have [...] a Glimpse of it, and give Warning accordingly—which Scheme, if it should take will as inevitably ruin the Country, as [...] a Man to the Heart, will take away his Life: For as our Pro­duce and Export has never yet been sufficient to make any pro­portionable Returns for what has been with a bad Design conti­nually imported from foreign Parts, we are consequently in this Case much in Debt; add to this, all our other Debts, and the yearly Interest we must pay for 50,000 Sterling;—and the M—indefatigable Industry, in experting all the Silver to make Remittances for themselves, and to lodge their Estates in Eng­land, by all which Money we shall in a few [...] neither Silver, nor [...] People, and all [...] Beggars, or Slaves—And when in these Circumstances, how shall we pay this [Page 8] vast-Debt, with the yearly Interest, which Interest, is a great Sum of it self, how great then must the Burden he, to pay [...] both Principal and Interest, especially when reduced to such a Condition—This is perishing indeed! These are such plain Truths, is perhaps some Men among us won't like, and for this Reason, because they are plain Truths—Though perhaps, they may be sneer'd at as dry, husky Stuff, Windmills, Whir [...]gigs, [...].

But we shall honestly depend upon our Representations to ap­pear and act, not only immediately for us, but also for the real Good of our Pos [...]i [...]y, with a bountiful Eye, and Singleness of Hear [...] with a view and [...] Regard to the whole Community, exclusive of Prejudice [...] Party—And we hope our General Court will [...] see thro' the bad Views and Designs of some Men, to involve us all in Ruin—we hope and pray, that all such [...], will come off and fare like the Dog in the Table, and so have neither the Substance, nor the shadow; to teach them for the nature, and all others like them, not to be too greedy, and the Lastful after the [...]. For us the Love of Money is emphatically the Rent of all Evil, so he that is guilty of this [...] is so far guilty of betraying his Country, and just so [...], in whom this is their Ruling passion, just so many violent Enemies to [...] Country there be, wherever they reside: For a Merce­nary Spirit is as opposite to the Love of ones Country as Virtue is as Vice, [...] contrary as Light is to Darkness.

Now is the sit, you perhaps the only Time for Electors to look about their, and if possible to nonplus and disappoint the unreaso­nable and exorbitant Hope, of a certain Set and Party of Men [...]; and rather than choose and elect any that we have the least Reason, or [...] suspicion to imagine are susceptible of [...], or being Tempted by Money, or Preserment to adhere to the destructive [...] of these Compassionate Gentlemen; ra­ther than [...] such, let us [...] them, and if there are any such, let [...] with the utmost [...] and abhorrence Spue them out, as [...]estable Members of the Common-wealth; not only as unfit to be intrusted with our Liberties, and to make New Laws, but as utterly unworthy even to breath in the Air of a free, and well established Government. And as a little heaven, [...] the [Page 9] whole Lamp, we ought therefore to be exceeding cautious & watch­ful what sort of Men we chuse for our Representatives; for wh [...]ver out of Interest real, or Imaginary, out of any s [...]ister Views, or particular Friendship, or any other Selfish Motives, should Vote for any Person who has a mercenary Cast of Mind, let him now consi­der, that in so doing, he actually does all in his Power, (by such a base Compliment) to give up all the Liberties and Properties of the true Sons of New-England: Every such Member is as a [...] of [...] in the Constitution, and the greater Number of such Spots, the sooner will the whole Body be ripe for Destruction—But to return,

It is with the Political, as with natural Bodies, and as all great Bodies move slow, so must all great and weighty Affairs; and Things of the greatest Concernment and Con­sequence demand the greatest Seriousness and cool Conside­ration, reflecting calmly on what is past, examining and me­ditating on what is present, and laying a good Foundation for future Superstructures to be built upon: This is true Wisdom. And as we in this Government have been for many Years wear­ing our selves into mighty Difficulties, by Pride Idleness, Extra­vagance, by being fool'd and flattered out [...] Senses by an Arch, Shy Set of Men, till we are arrived to a most horrible Pre­cipice, we must expect to be suddenly cast down by them, unless prevented by our Watchmen and Guardians; and nothing will sooner and more infallibly bring this to pass, than suddenly to come into any Schemes and Measures of the M—let them be what they will; for they cannot serve two Masters in one Capacity, and as they love Money, they must consequently hate their Country.—This we know, by at least fifty Years Experience, and God grant it may not be so one Year longer.—They have almost ruin'd the Coun­try by using such Means to beggar the Inhabitants, to aggran­dize their own private Fortunes, in order to make the Common­alty Slaves and Vassals, and themselves Lords of Mannors, and sole Possessors of our Lands, Liberties &c. Is not this the Truth? We have no Interest to serve but what is general, and for the Good and Welfare of our Country—But we expect to meet with Scepticks in Politicks and Government as well as in Religion, whose Interest [Page 10] it is not to believe in their Doctrine, but to murmur and cavil even at the most self evident Truths, that run counter to their Designs and Views.—As Riches in general are said to take to themselves Wings and flee away, so we may depend upon it, that in the most literal Sense, in Case these Men get the Silver into their Hands, it will fly with the Wings of the Wind to some other Parts of the World, and none more likely, than the Place to which they have constantly already [...] all they could any ways possibly procure—But seeing it is still there, we would humbly offer to the Pub­lick our Opinion about it:—‘Whether it would not be most for the true Interest of the Country, (altho' it will be some conside­rable Time a coming to pass,) to keep all the Silver Money B [...]y granted, forever in the Bank of England, as the Govern­ment's Fund, and Bottom; and to have the Interest thereof only, drawn for yearly by the Government, which Interest will amount to about Eighty Thousand Pounds (as our Money now stands) yearly; and so every Year, sink and burn Eighty Thousand Pounds of our Paper Bills; and tax the Province in due Proportion likewise every Year; and sink and burn them; and then it will not take up half so long a Time to heal our Wounds, and re­dress our Grievancies, and case off our Burdens, as it has by de­grees taken to bring us into them; which would if let alone unavoidably ruin us; and if we can yet be saved; better late than never.’ For a Silver Fund is always absolutely necessary to keep up the Credit of all negotiable Bills and Notes, not only in the Bank of England, but also in all well established Commu­nities, and for want of which here in our Government we are so undone as to the Credit of our paper Medium, it therefore is of the highest Conce [...]ent to our Government so to order and contrive their Schemes, with Regard to the Silver we now have the Pro­spect of, and to keep [...] for a perpetual Fund for the Sole Benefit of the Province to Support the Credit thereof forever, the Interest of which will [...] but a moderate Tax yearly laid on the Go­vernment be sufficient always to pay all our publicCharges of the Government: and then as many Paper Bills as may at any Time be emitted for the Government's Use will be forever, as good as [...] Bank [...] in the World; but in Case any other Scheme [Page 11] should take, which by Degrees will consume this Silver Fund, and reduce this Government to such unhappy Circumstances, as to be obliged to emit Paper Money, as we have been forced to do with­out a Fund; seeing we may never have such a Fund granted to us again on any Account, shan't we be consequently in abundantly worse Circumstances than ever.

And when we have a well established Peace; when we have many more Labourers, when the M—and all other [...] players, punctually pay off all Wages in good Silver Money of their own importing; when they pay for our Ships, L [...]mber, Fish, O [...], Tar, Provision, &c.—always in good hard Silver Mo­ney; when they leave off importing such vast Quantities of [...] Commodities, such as Velvets, Laces, Silks of all Kinds, the finest Linnens, Cambricks, and Tea, and Lemmons, in such prodigious Quantities; We say, when this is our happy Case,—Then, and then only shall we be a most industrious, thriving, and happy Province. Then we doubt not, but these very Men who now act so contrary to this Scheme, if they turn from Darkness to Light, they will with all Justice, by all honest Men, be esteem­ed, true Friends to the Community; hearty Lovers of their Country; studying and acting for the Peace and Prosperity of our Jerusalem. But until they are actually seen and known to do these Things, and [...] in so doing (for nothing less than occular Demonstration will do in this momentous Case) we shall still have the same Opinion of them for the future, as we all now have, viz. That they are using their utmost Endeavours by all Sorts of Ways and Means to ruin our Country, and aggrandize their own private Fortunes: Who sacrifice to Mammon, and do mind the Things by which they may get it: O wretched Members of Society, who shall deliver us from them! But o go on.

‘It is thought a very low Way of Talking [...] use the Stile in the late forementioned Advertisor) to say if the M—import more Goods than are really necessary, and for the pub­lick Good (which it is thought they never yet had at Heart, for they were not brought up to such a Trade) That the Peo­ple are not obliged to buy them! And in any such Case the Da­mage will naturally fall and center upon themselves.’—,But [Page 12] who of them ever did, or think ye, ever will pay away good hard Pieces of Eight, if they had, or could get any Thing else to pay—Don't they perpetually import [...] amongst us, all Man­ner of unnecessary and extravagant Articles and Commodities, on Purpose to delude, beguile, intic [...] and [...] the less prudent and wary among us; to work them out of their Money, and reward the Sweat of their Brows, with Trifles and Vanities—Is not this in Fact, basely tempting of others, or with yet more Pro­priety, the bring actually guilty of other Mens Sins, Vanities, and Extravagances. Remove the wicked Cause, and then see if the Effect c [...]seth not. Let them always pay the Labourers in good Silver Money (of their own importing, for they are oblig'd to find their own Tools) and then see if they will constantly part with it all for their G [...]w Gaws, unnecessary Apparel, Furniture, and the like; many, yea very many Score Thousand Pounds of which, have been foolishly bought up and consumed by the Peo­ple in general, for Want of the Money they had faithfully earned but they could not seasonably get it, and were in some Sort oblig­ed to do so, or be turned out of Employ, or work for nothing, which is still worse.

But if Silver Money new, (as our Author has hinted) is such an infallible Remedy as Specifick, when in the good M—Hands against all Manner of Idleness, Dishonesty, Luxury, Self­ishness (in the worst Sense of the Word) mean Spiritedness and the like; why have not pious M—taken as much Pains and run as great Risques for the Good of their Country, in order to procure and import this precious Mo [...]y, as they have forever been industrious to export and sent it always out of the Country!—If our Fish, Shipping, Lumber, Oyl &c—are in any other Parts of the World (as the Climate won't perhaps alter their Nature and Qualities) as good as Silver, and do actually procure, and would always procure it [...] why then are they not esteemed to be as well worth it here [...] and if it is, why is there never any sent, or imp [...]rted hard and paid down for such necessary Commodities! more especially since (as these M—now say) our FISH TRADE ONLY, exclusive of every Thing else, would be more than sufficient to procute us a Silver Medium [Page 13] forever? If this is absolutely the Case, have [...] the M—Right Hands forgot their Cunning, in not carrying as such a Trade for Silver; seeing Money is as much their Tool, as the Brand A [...] is the Carpenters; who is full as good in his Place, as his Im­player; and the one is as much obliged to find his own Tools [...] the other.—If this is really the Case—we are thankful they have been left once to speak the Truth; as also to infor their [...] and superlative Love to their Country, and Fellow- [...] yet importing any Silver here, as a Medium of Trade; but on the contrary, have all along kept it out of the Country—And NOW, there, is a happy Prospect of having a Silver Fund for the Good of the Publick, which they own to have in it so many moral Virtues and social Qualites, yet these Virtues and Proper­ties cannot be extracted, unless the Silver is first of all deposited, or rather given up to them to pass through their Hands, to be ma­naged for the Good of the Community, in a Way past finding out!

But if Silver and Gold have those glorious Properties; why are not those Parts of the World, where it is exceeding plenty, and where the People seem in other Things to have their Senses about them; Why are they not much Wiser, and less addicted to Scycophancy, Treachery, Covetousness, Pride, Luxury, Party Spirit, Self Interest, and the like?—Or does the Climate alter the Heart and Nature of Men? Or are no M—there whose Hands it must pass thro'! and seeing our Paper Money (as they say is so big with Mischief and little worth, and so fatal in its Consequences to the Government, for which Reasons these M—have all along so strongly appear'd against it—how comes it to pass, that these very M—are now boarding of it up? This seems to be a sort of Infatuation.—As they not long since raised a mighty Noise and Clamour against the Paper Money. because there was no Silver Bottom, or Fund to support it and redeem it, why did not they themselves establish one? And seeing we are now in a hopeful Way of getting such a Fund and Bank without them;—Why are they now so prodigiously sitting themselves against it!—but Murder will out.—It is not, they now think, so much for their Interest, as to have all the Silver if possible in their own Hands: They now want to have it all for the very Bill they [...] [Page 14] been so hot and spiteful against; by which they have already got so much. This (say they) will now insallibly save the Country from Ruin. But, nothing can save us, but having the Balance of Trade in our Favour; and this can never be, unless our Produce by our Labour and Frugality, is constantly exported, and greater than what is imported in Lieu thereof; and this will never come to pass, while we are kept in Debt to foreign Parts, for so many unnecessary Commodities: And that we are now overwhelmed in Debt for such Things, and which are perpetually crouded upon us by these very M—is too true to make a Jest of—"And while this is the abominable Practice, we shall always be in Want; for nothing will bring Want so soon, as such ill Manage­ment, when it is fed and nur [...]ed up by every expensive Vanity, and so strongly inforced and recommended by such ill Examples, and while this is our unhappy Case, (although we preach, and soft, and talk, and write incessantly it will not avail one Mite, to make the Country thrive and prosper; but we shall still be in miserable Circumstances: And nothing will prevent it, but putting a final Period to such Proceedings.

And as to making the PEOPLE in general frugal and industri­ous, the only sure Way that we know of, is, To set them a good EXAMPLE of such Things; to duly administer all good and wholsom Laws; to allow them sufficient Wages for their La­bour, and pay them their Money as soon as they have earned it; for then they have Right to it, and no Man has a Right to Money who has not earned it, or has not Property to purchase it: To encourage our own Trade and Manufacturies, buy them and wear them; to train up our Youth to Diligence and In­dustry, and educate them in the true Principles of Religion, Ho­nesty, and Love to their Country; to keep our Lands in our own Possession, and encourage the tilling and manuring of them. &c.—By [...]ways taking due Care what Sort of Men we con­stantly Choose and appoint for our Guardians and Representatives, to whom we of Necessity do commit our Lives, our Liberties, our Estates, and every Thing that is near and dear unto us. These are not vain Chimeras and idle Speculations, but the very Truth itself and none but the wilfully Blind can help seeing and [Page 15] confessing it to be so—And, ‘whosoever votes for a Fool, or Knave, thereby endeavours to ruin his Country, himself, his Children; and if the greater Part of the House should happen to be wiser, or honester, no Thanks to him, for he did all in his Power to corrupt and debauch it, and if no Body else were concern'd with him, it would be Matter of Thankfulness, if he forthwith was made a Slave, and his Children perpetual Vassals and Beggars.’

‘But if the only effectual Method to make us a wise, frugal, and happy People, is, To indulge the M—in their Schemes.’—Then their jumping (upon the great Emission of Old Tenor) so prodigious high upon all their Commodities, as immediately in Hand to get about twelve Years Interest upon Interest; then their exclaiming so loud Yesterday for Want of a Silver-Fund, to redeem the Bills with, and to Day against it, because we have a Prospect of such an One: then their letting out their Old Tenor, which they have so often and so fiercely oppos'd for a­bout 30 s. per Ounce, and calling in the very same Bills now, at near 60 s. per Ounce with Interest, in order to bring about their good Scheme to have them all redeemed with real Silver Money in Hand, at about 30 s. per oz. and so they to have the sole Ma­nagement of all the ROYAL Bounty: Their exporting all the Silver out of the Country, and importing a Flood of English Goods, &c. Year after Year to keep us forever in Debt; their Feeding our Enemies, and Starving our Fellow Citizens; their Party and sycophantick Spirit, Extortion, Oppression, and the like: If these are the only wise Methods, (and these Methods they always have used) to make us an industrious, frugal, thriving and prosperous People; then encourage them, let them rule—For as they have Riches, every young Tyro of a M—will be fond to rule, and as Riches are not always to Men to Under­standing, we shall then have a Fine Government! To conclude. We are of Opinion, none have suffered much by our Paper-Money, except Salary Gentlemen, and they (it seems) have suf­fered prodigiously; and no Wonder such have preached against it. All others, have all along looked out, and by Way of Trade have pretty well-righted themselves, in making every Body give [Page 16] for their Commodities, in Proportion as they have been forced to pay [...] so that with all such, it has been as broad as it is long, and according to that [...]njust Proverb, "Two Cheats is an even Bargain.—But Salary Gentlemen, have not had this Opportuni­ty, and therefore have been greatly injured: And they should all be honestly redress'd by Those who have hired and employed them; and they will do so—if they are honest, and are willing to do to others, as they would be done unto.

One Word more and we have done—We will esteem and reverence all Men for the Good they have already done, or are still inclined to do, and for no other Reason ought any to be es­teemed. But if under a false Pretence of doing us Good, which we can neither see nor feel, they will pick our Pockets, and do us all possible Harm and Mischief, or would do it if in their Power; how can we help detesting and hating them.

May these Hints set much abler Men to Work for the real and true Interest of our Country.