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LONDON, March 17, 1778.
Friday last the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, the
Sheriff's, with about fifty Members of the Common
Council of the city of London, went to the palace
of St. James's and had the honour of presenting to
the King their humble address and petition, which
was conceived in these words.
Mod gracious Sovereign,
WE. your Majefty' smoft faithful and loyal
fubje&s, the Lord Mayor, the >ldermen,
and Commons of the city of London, afiembled in
Common Council; attached by principle to your
royal house; to your person by the truest affection ;
to the honour and prosperity of your government ;
by all that can interest and be dear to the heart of
man; in the deplorable fixation of this once power
ful and flourishing country, we ask, with the most
profound humility, permission to throw ourselves at
your Majesty's feet, and to make known the vows
and sentiments of a faithful and afflicted people.
When firft alarmed with the civil war, your loyal
city of London, seconded by the sentiments of many
other refpedable bodies of your kingdom, and by
thole of your wisest and heft fubje&s, humbly be
fetched you to avco the impending evil; the foie
fight of all the calamities that it has already pro
duced, was but too well founded, and the evils ftiil
more serious, with which, to all appearance, we
shall focn be overwhelmed.
Your faithful people had, on this occasion, the
mis ertunes of receiving from your Majesty an an
swer, which they attributed to the imperfect manner
in which they fear, at that time, to have exprefTed
their submissive and refpedful sentiments; not ma
nifefting the gracious difpofiticn of your Majesty, or
esteeming it comformable to the sacred refpe& the
people bear to their Sovereign. To their zeal un
alterable for his true glory, they retired in fad and
refpedful silence, patiently expecting that Frcvi
deuce would change the face of affairs, and rpeuiu
to us the favour and protection of your Majesty,
when experience should have placed in its true light,
the well founded nature of thei fears, and the fatal
tendency of those councils that have milled the na
tion. It is certain that your Majesty and many of
your fubjeAs have been milled and deceived. Ihe e
has been no pains spared to hide from one and ano
ther, the true nature of the affairs in which we are
engaged ; there is no artifice that has mot been used
to poison the minds of your fubjeds ; and we are
persuaded that greater abilities have been employed,
in engaging in this war, than have been difeovered
in order to conduct it to an honourable and advan
tageous end, if, in such a war, any kind of conduce
could effectually procure honour or advantage.
They have used all possible industry to render
suspicious the declarations, and to make us de pife
the resistance of our brothers, who, Eng ifh like us.
gave no room to doubt that they were endowed with
that sincerity and courage, that has ever distinguish
ed the name and race: —They have represented their
inclinations under falfe colours; they have painted
their natural faculties as infinitely less than they
really are ; they have given us a falfe calculation of
their resources; they hare infilled their opinions
even to the last moment, when despair has supplied
what they failed in force.—We have seen an entire
army, the flower of the British forces and of their
allies, walled by hunger io the defars of America,
lay down their arms, and their soldiers f atched
from death by the very men that the murder and ra
pnes of lavages (unhappily employed) made to quit
the plough and become soldiers, by the very fame
men, Who had been painted in colours so contempti
ble, that in our calamity we have had no coniu ta
tion — vVe have seen another army, equally b^ave,
equal y well commanded, pals two years ina con
tinual leries of victories that have only Served to
weaken them, without lessening the refilling force;
without obtaining any kind of submission; without
being able to reduce to the obedience of your Maj s
ty, not even the imaheft, not even the weakest of
Thirteen revolted Provinces.—The union that reigns
among the e Provinces; their hatred, kindled by
the administration of your Majesty, have received
a new degree of force, by the injudicious means
employed to diffolv&the one, and triumph over the
other. We Support fleets and armies, aimoft equal
in number, and proportionally much more expen
sive, than all those employed in the most glorious
war that this country has had to Support, against
the united force of monarchies the most ancient and
formidable of Europe.
Some detached islands of little consequence, and
on the Continent, a deserted (own, where the com
bined army of your Majesty is not in fafety, a;e all
the fruits that are produced by an expence exceed
ing twenty millions ; ninety three ships of war, and
sixty thousand of the best soldiers that could be rail
ed in our own and foreign country, all employed in
this lingular service.
We are told that the forces of your Majesty, both
by lea and land, have done all that was possible to
expert from the meft perfect discipline, and the most
determined courage; nevertheless the total defeat
of one part, and the ineffectual victories ofthe other,
have conspired almost equally to the deftrudion of
your power, and to the dismemberment of your
empire.
We Should negle&, in the most unpardonable
manner, that which we owe to your Majesty, to
ourselves, and to our country, if we expressed not,
as we here do, what we think of this terrible and
decifiva proof of the frenzy that originally proceed-
ed an enterprize, which faithfully followed through
all its progress, in each measure relative to its exe
cution proves, that by a uniform mifeondua, all
those evils have ben compleated that abfolure
ignorance fat on foot. We are convinced that they
are not rhe iliufions propagated by feme interefled
and artful men, as their continuance like to every
thing falfe, could net be lifting; but that it is the
unanimous Sentiment of every American who riles
invincible against all plans of coercion, civil and
military, such as have been employed against them t@
this hour. A people entirely united, are not a peo
ple that can be subdued. If the force actually em
ployed for this cenqueft cannot efFeft it, it cannot be
effected by any force that may be in our power.
The riches of this country are considerable, and
we fli&ll be dfpofed to u'e them most liberally, and
with all cur hearts, if to Support the honour and
dignity of your crown. But domestic peace, and
domeliic ceconomy, are the only means of defraying
the expence of a distant war. By that which we
now Support our resources are drained, whiift our
rivals ceeonomife theirs; whilst each year that we
continue the war, we make to lean in their favour,
the balance of our forces and public riches.
We think ourftfres ob iged, most refpe&ed Sove
reign, to express to y.,ur M*fefy, a,. ^.,, we cx
perience, when we confider the purport of your Ma
j-sty's most gracious Ipeech from the throne, and
apprehending more ftrorgly, as dees all the world,
by the great preparations you are making, how cri
tical our , fixation is, with the neighbouring pow
ers—we have not the Satisfaction to learn by this
Speech, by any assurance from rhe servants of your
Majesty, or even by any public report, if any alli
an e is formed with any ot the powerful Ra es of Eu
rope, that may serve to protest us against the com
plicated dangers with which this nation is, in a man
ner lo manifestly threatned—we have not even any
reason to be certain, that there is not formed against
us. an alliance of the most dangerous nature. In
this state of doubt, anxiety and danger, we have re
course to the clemency and wisdom of your Majesty,
the tender father and watchful guardian of his peo
ple, beseeching you gracefully to adopt the proper
incafures for eftablilhing internal peace, and(as much
as will permit, the unhappy circumstances to which
we are reduced, by the deftru&ive system hitherto
followed) to reunite the British nation, by some hap
py, honorable and lifting tie; fearing that the Ame
ricans, driven to despair, by the rigors of a war,
that we would continue to prosecute against them,
wean themselves entirely from the mother country,
f-aringthat the Jeaft spark of xh<ira£dtiob for us, be
extinguished by habitual and reciprocal murder and
rapine, fearing at last, that in some fatal moment,
the people who have hitherto formed a considerable
part of the force of Great Britain, ircreafe by an
union, in a formidable and lifting manner, the force
of enemies, the most constant power and prosperity
of your M^jefty's kingdom.
We humbly, and with confidence hope, that your
Majesty will give all possible efficacy to the concessi
ons which have been propoled in parliament (we
hope they may not have been made too late) and we
rest with so much assurance, upon the magnanimity
of ycur Majesty's loyal and generous intentions,that
we have not the smallest apprehensions, that his par
tiality for any elafs of men, will have the least in
fluence cn his resolutions, when nothing less than
the well being and even existence of his people are
called in question. We implore and supplicate your
Majesty, with the most humble confidence, to guard,
that in the councils and officers destined to the exe
cutive power, not the smallest obstacle may appear,
against the consummation of the great, happy and
necessary woik of peace, to draw your affairs from
an administration of but little wisdom and little pru
dence, and to deserve, to extend and confirm the re
viving confidence of all your people. In favour of
luch measures, of such arrangements, and to such
an end, your citizens of London will never fail to
give ycur Majesty the most affectionate and the most
constant assistance,
The KIN G's Answer.
r Cannot think that the zeal of my fuljeds, the re
lfources of my kingdoms, the bravery of my fleets and
armies, have been unwisely and impru dent/, employed,
•when the object of their efforts Das to maintain the
confiitutienal subordination that ought to reign in the
different parts of my dominions ; and <whicb is so ne
cejar, to the prosperity of the whole.
I have always lamented the calamities infe,arable
from war; and am read, to do all that depends on me,
to forward the measures adopted b, the legislative body,
in order to re efiabrijh by means of a happy and honor
able reconciliation, the treasures of peace, commerce,
affeflion and confidence, between the Mother Country
and the Colonies.