The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-09-10

Rom an catnoitckS round them 10 advile the
vacation of what titles they pleafe, andre
grant whole townihips, proprietors and all
to what favourite they fee meet ! fay what
more or rather what part of all this is want
ing to huifh every title theR unfortunate
James projected when our Iebell,ous forefa-
theirs drove him out of his paternal King
dom to make way for furry Dutchman,
who IN good faith very fcurvily rewarded
their confidence in his juifice and patriotifm
Il belonged to you Briton born and educat-
who from your cradle knew that all your
glory and Happiness refided in the liberty and
iecurity of your lubjeefs IL beloved you Sir
TO have conliaered all their natural, charter
and national rights and to have 6gnaized
your firft entrance upon the administration
by reforation of all the avarice of foreign
ers and their rapacious favourites had grad0-
ally ufurped. Annual ParIiaments at leaf
you might have eRablifhed and left the pso-
pie TO themfelyes in the choice of their guar
dams. You had mniRer who foul would
have exulted in luch meafure, and Whole
difgrace began to fix upon you the cbsHES
ter of man, who could not avail hi Of
the beR advice. Exalted by his fuperJofts-
Tents to pinace of military glory unEroa@
10 any modern Bfitifh monarch, you might
have held the balance of Europe without
burdening your iubjees with an additional
faEthing Of expence, barely by afking few
manly quefions. Sojuft and princely fiep
would have furprifed mankind with Iuch ex-
a'tedi ideas of your wifdom and fpirit, that
none would have dared an infult upon the
remotef corner of your dominions nor any
fate fuppoied to be under your protection.
Fluihed with an uninterrupted ferries of VIC
tories, and fated with acquilsiohs you had a
field open to you as wide as the world itielf.
The improvement and iecurity of yourdomi-
Mons were objects of real importance, in
which every man of worth would have en-
barked his all and emulated his neighbour in
forwarding your plans.
lnifead of this you were fcarce warm in
the throne till we had ample evidence
of the narownefs of your deGgns. Tnnkets
where the objects of your admiration f.
nancing and fquandring on worthless favour
ties the buiinels ofyour court. From fuch
a difpoGtion what had we to expect bur ta-
pine and di1ipationl You quickly found
you politics di(guffuI to your people, who
ever lavilhed their fsvours on the worthy and
the brave, but formed to be aeeced by mill
lions to provide Gnecures for every dirty boo
BY who was thought .convenient. tool for
your Dictator A hardy wight oppoied
your pleafure, and you employed every en-
gRe in your power TO ruin him. impatient
of the refiraints of that contribution which
binds even Kings to act reafonably, you have
with unremitting ardor endeavcured to free
yourfelf from them all. The fcandalous
manner in which every quefion relative 10
the rights of the people has been carried
thefe four years pah fhews what check
you have from the pnEoned representatives
of the commons of Great Britain.
The executive power with you is nomi-
nally independents, and were a thoufand
MansheIds, equally independent, it would al
ter the cafe but little relpeeing the exc
cution Of your foveregn p!eafure as far as
their influence could reach. But how have
you managed on this Gde the Atlantic
Laws for our government have been
formed in Great Britain, and beczufe the
content of this people is efentiaIly necef.
fairy to render them conRitulionalIy binding.
Asctand army were fent over with them to
folicit that content with charged bayonets.
Thois fame foreign manufacturers Of Anne
rican laws, for equally kind purPofes, were
pleafed to grant you m indefinite porEion of
the effzses Of gentlemen with whom Ihey had