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Thy name, O Chatham, with ſome few more, is made, rare inſtance, immortal by defeat; and to thee NEW HONOURS riſe from the ruins of thy country. While you live, never fading laurels, the juſt reward of thy virtue, conduct, and fidelity, ſhall crown thy hoary head, and ſhade thy venerable brow.—And may thine and Britain's raviſhed eyes behold thy foes and hers, for their treachery and villainy, dragged to execution, dreſſed and diſ honoured in funeral ROSEMARY and the baneful YEW.
TO follow you regularly through every ſtep of a fourteen years ſhameful and inglori
Sir, it is not your rotten troop in the preſent Houſe of Commons; it is not your venal, beg
The day, we fear, is not far diſtant, when you will have reaſon, too much reaſon, to wiſh you had acted like a father, and not like a tyrant; when you will be bound to curſe thoſe traitors, thoſe exalted villains, whom now in the face of day, without a bluſh, you can be baſe enough to call your friends; be aſſured, Sir, your danger is great amidſt all this fancied ſecurity, and it will be im
Then, like the wounds that bleed afreſh, will be brought to their minds your barbarous and un
Conſider, Sir, if through the late and preſent iniquitous meaſures, and an obſtinate reſolution in your Majeſty to
Should you, Sir, ſtill purſue the ſame tyrannical meaſures, only to gratify a mean vindictive ſpirit, and be the author of ſuch dreadful miſchiefs; O, we ſhudder at the thought! The people will then per
Let theſe things, Sir, be well weighed; tremble for the event; drive thoſe traitors from your breaſt, who now ſurround you; let the juſt and honeſt have your confidence, and once more make your people happy, great and free; be not the inſtru
Your plan, Sir, for bringing the colonies by force of arms into a ſtate of ſubjection to your will, is cruel, bloody, and, I hope, impracticable. It is repugnant to every principle of humanity, juſtice,
Men, Sir, at three thouſand miles diſtance muſt think it extremely hard to work, toil, and run hazards, only to ſupport the infamous luxury of high pampered Lords, a rotten court, and your tribe of venal ſenators, minions, pimps, and pa
Force, Sir, can never be uſed effectually to an
If violent methods be not uſed, at this time, to prevent it, your Northern Colonies, Sir, muſt conſtantly increaſe in people, wealth, and power; their inhabitants are conſiderably more than dou