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GE NERAL
THURSDAY,
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[ Published every fuelday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
From the LONDON EVENING POST.
To Doftor JOSIAH TUCKER,
Dean of Gloucester.
BRISTOL; August 28, 1779.
YO U have ,iven the public your opinion concern
ing the disadvantages which would probably attend
" e '""'' " they should attempt to invade this country.
As far as you have kept this point in view, you have done
well, and deserve thanks for your good intentions; but I
am sorry to find you cannot, even ia this hour of general
dan ger, a& the wife part cf endeavouring to secure the
united efforts of all parties and diflindions against the
common enemy, without debafi^g your observations with
the Rioft illiberal and unwarrantable aspersions on the
char^aers-of those gentlemen who have o'ppofed the de
ftruftive measures of the prefent,adminiftration. You
impute to these gentlemen rrfnciphs which they sniver
fady difciaim; and perfifi in repeating the accusation,
however ill founded, with toe view of rendering them
unpopular and odious T :s, in your last publication,
ad the members nd Trench of the opposition are repre
sented as Republicans; and 'you infiauate, that if they
should not join the French in overturning the conflitution
of this country, it will be more owing to their cowardice
than their principles. 1 am unified in faying, that there
is a meanness and mauciouhi fs in this reflection which
marks the malignity of a Tmy, Ministerial Frieft, for it
Evidently calculated to prejudice the King against his
truett friends, and is intended to represent the virtuous
but nnfuceefsful oppofers of our late measures, as enemies
to the perlon, family, and government of the King,
as a limited monarch, according to the confutation;
whereas in truth they are only enemies to the fatal
councils of his Mmiilers; and so far is your fuggeflion
from being well founded, that on the contrary, in exa&
proportion to the JeyaJtVjU : zeal of the Opposition
towards his Majeiiy, mutt be the sincerity of their vexa
tion and grief at the une sampled humiliation and distresses
which his Ministers have brought upon the nation. There
is no one inflauce in the conduit of Opposition which can
in the least degree support the invidious charge which is so
induftri mfly propagated against them : They have ever
made the strongest profeffions of attachment to rhe Hano
,ver , family and the present couftitution; they exerted eve
ry nerve to maintain and support them, when many of the
, fathers and friends of the present royal favourites were tak
ing an aftive part in the interest of France arid the Pre
tender. Surely then if the new-born zeal of Jacobites and
Tones towards the present King is to be admitted as ge
nuine, the presumptions in favour of the antient friends
and fupparters of the royal family cannot justly be dis
credited.
These preemptions would have had great weight in the
minds of those who were less conversant with the world
than you have been, because every one knows thata total
renunciation of fuco principles,? the Whigs of this country
have uniformly maintained,could nctfe fudderdy take pla<e,
as to juftify your affertibn of their becoming Republicans ;
but there is a pcuhar aggravation of your crime in bring
ing this falfe accusation against your brethren, for I know
that you are intimately conn.&d with many zealous
Whigs, some of them the nioff con@erable men in our city,
who have warmly inveighed against, and most sincerely
lamented the fata! obftin<y, with which the American
war has been pursued. Yen know that these gentlemen
are the most steady and zealous friends to the present King
and couftitution ; and th're'ere I hope that when you re
cohed yourf^f, you will not find it to be a pleasing reflec
tion, that you have contradicted your own experience and
conviction, and villified many of your intimate friends, for
the fake of gratifying the mean and unworthy purposes of
a party.
These observations, Mr. Dean, wII naturally create
some doubts concerning the goodness es your heart, but
you have lain yomfelfopen in another view. You pretend
to be a^ adept in nice, political questions, and have
seen so little cf what all the world knows, as to presume
that you could anfwtr the great and immortal Locke.
Permit mo to fay that one thousandth part of the penetra
tion which is requisite for this arduous talk would have
taught you, that there is not the most diftart connection
between the principles advanced by the opposition against
the American war, and those principles which are properly
republican. As there is no Repubiicanifm in our conten
ding as Englishmen, that the King has no right to levy
money, but by the cenfent of eur Parliament, 'tis very
natural to fnppofe that the Americans might adopt this
Englifli principle, and believe that the King, being
their common head as well as ours, should receive
his American money, as the free gift of bis American
Parliaments, (for such their Councils and Assemblies are
in fad) in the fame manner as he receives his English and
Irifli money from their refpeftive Parliaments; so that
were you to clear this great American question from the
darkness asd cenfufion in which inlere'fled men have in
volved it, it will be found at laftto have been only an
appeal to the justice and liberality of Englishmen, whe-
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It wastherefore unworthy such a philofcphical politi
cian as you profefs yourfelf to be, to attribute the conduct
of Opposition to doubtful and controverted motives, such
as those of Republicanism, which they so Nuanimoufly
disavow, instead of those plain and fi pie principles be
fore mentioned. It would be a reflection on the under
ftmding of the noble and learned leaders in the Oppositi
on to suppose them capable of believing that such an ex
tensive empire as ours could be altered from a limited
Monarchy to a Republic. So great is the influence which
the Crown has established toy its various connections with
the different orders of the people, from the firft Peer down
to the lowest Excifeman, that I question whether there be
any one man of sense in the kingdom who believes that
such a revolution could be effected. I will add further
(and lam jufrified in making this assertion, having had
a very extensive acquaintance with the principal characters
in the Opposition both in the highest @nd middling Jaffes)
that I never met with one man who wished that a Repub
lican form of government might take place in these king
doms, in preference to our cenftitutiou, as it is by law
established. If truth had been your object, or candour
your guide, you would have attributed the conduct Of
Opposition to better motives than those of Republicanism ;
it would have been natural for you to have presumed that
there might be many cautious and considerate men in these
kingdoms, who might honefliy believe that it was a most
dangerous measure to enter into a dispute concerning
rights and powers with such a people and at such a dis
tance as tbe Americans are, and that in cgufequence of
this conviction, they might tonfider it as more for the in
terest of Great. Britain to secure the fohd advantages of
commerce, rather than the unfobftantial trappings of sove
reignty. If the advice of a Chatham, a Camden, and
many other illufirious worthies, had been followed, the
firft of these alternatives had been ours; but as Governor
Johnftone observes, this blessing was rejected by us in cur
hour of insolence ; and sorry am 1 to add, that you know,
how that a terwards when we would have inherited the
bleffiog, we found no plate for repentance, though we
fought it carefully and with tears. We have exhibited to
the world an instance of infatuation unexampled in the
annals of history. I (had not attempt to describe
the happiness we c. # ce possessed, nor paint the numerous
evils which we at present fuffer, or those calamities wh ; ch
we have so much reason to expert from the ruinous mea
sures which the King's Minifiers have pursued. I fhafl
only observe, that pride was never hitherto so deeply
humbled, nor avarice ever so much disappointed, nor has
the cunning and craftinefs of man been ever in so mar
ked a manner rendered instrumental to accomplish tee
very ends which it attempted to prevent. The Opposition
forewarns I us of the ruin and deflruCtion into which we
were madly plunging; but like Cassandra they prophefiej
ther the Americans had not art equal right witlTthe other
British. fubjeas, of giving and granting their own money.
They solicited in the most humble manner (fee the petition
of the Congress brought over by Mr. Penn) that they
might partake of this privilege in common with their fel
low fubje&s, and that his Majesty would be graciously
pleased to direct some mode by which the united applica
tion of the Colonies to the Throne may be improved into
am happy and permanent reconcibation. Now, Sir, un
der these circumstances, what other part has been acted by
the Opposition, butfuch as you have repeatedly and pa
thetically enforced in your fermbns, viz. to de as we would
be done by, and to oppose the railing of a revenue from
America, on such principles, as Engliflimen themselves
would violently oppose were they in the fame circumflanc
es. Let every honest Englifhmin lay his hand tohis heart
and tell me kow he would reafpn if any Parliament but
his own wer # to presume to give and grant his money.
The Englishman's answer, is the American's defence.
Every member therefore of Opposition who has delivered
those sentiments in support of the rights of America, which
under similar circumflances he would have delivered in de
fence of his own, is so far to be tendered as an honefl and
tefpeflable charafter, and the charge of Republicanism on
this account is in every refpeft illiberal and ill-founded.
It is not duly attended to, but nothing is mare evident,
than that every foundation on which the charge of Re
publicanism is grounded against the Opposition, will hold
with equal strength against the Ministry and my Lord
North in particular—for the Ministry, by the inftru&ions
given to Lord Carlifle and the other Commissioners, sub
mitted to comply with the demands of the Americans in a
much greater extent than would have perfectly (a/sfied
them, if these offers had been made before they had been
driven by their despair into a treaty with France. So that
the principal difference between the condud of Opposi
tion and that of Lord North is this—they intreated him
to make peace with America whilst it could be done,—
he was determined not to attempt it, till it could not be
done. But the principles of Opposition cannot truly be
said to be Republican, unless the Ministry are also Re
publicans; for they have adopted their principles, and
would have carried them into execution, had it not been
for the fatality which attends all their measures—the being
alittle too late.
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