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must be left to your own breasts: but the fimilitude is too ftriking to escape the obfervation of the leaft difcerning part of mankind; and must raise the most alarming thoughts in the minds of all that wish well to their king and country. It is now with you, my countrymen, to fave both; and I hope that nothing will cajole or deter you from exerting that virtue which alone can preferve us. I need not tell how neyou ceffary it is for you to reject with indignation all those who would bribe you to their purposes, or drown your fenfes in riot, drunkenness and debauchery, to prevent you from making a proper choice. The firft are treating with you upon terms of bargain and fale; and, if they buy, have, by all the rules of dealing, a right to fell. The defigns of the others are equally abfurd with thofe of that vain man, who promifed himself the immediate poffeffion of all the fine women, whom his invitation to a public breakfast at Bath had collected together. Your choice fhould be prudent, deliberate, and circumípect. I but mention these things to you, to put you the more upon your guard against what I would principally with to warn you. I mean that deliberate intention, which is but too apparent, of subjecting England to the dominion of Scotland, by the fpecious artifices of a Favourite of that country. It is not that I think that the people of that part of the united kingdom have not an equal right to enjoy the confidence of their fovereign, or the fweets of his power, whenever they appear better, or even equally well qualified for the highest offices of ftate. No; may they freely enjoy whatever their Sovereign honours them with in refponible offices! But what you ought most carefully to attend to, is to prevent this allpowerful Minion from intruding upon you his own countrymen and dependents. The proper reprefentation of Scotland is particularly provided for by the most folemn act that ever was made in any kingdom upon earth; I mean the act of union of the two kingdoms in 1796. It is in that moft wifely established, that the representation of that part of the united kingdom fhall be confined to 16 peers and 45 commoners, Whatever therefore tends to increafe that number, fo far infringes upon that most falutary provifion, and makes a mockery of the most important establishment that ever was entered into by two kingdoms. They and their emiffaries are now hard at work amongst you; and whatever engagements you enter into, be doubly careful how you treat with Scotimen. They are born under the influence of defpotism, and nurfed with the milk of tyranny and arbitrary power, in the family of the Stuarts. At a time therefore when we

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daily fee every poft of government filled with the creatures of this Minion, and every fet of men who with well to their king and country profcribed; and when all thofe who are allowed to be in office, though for ever so short a time, are rendered the more obnoxious, in proportion as their endeavours to serve their country have fucceeeed, in gaining them the confidence or popularity of the nation at a time, I fay, when capacity is looked upon as a mere mockery, and patriotifm a crime, it behoves you more than ordinarily to beware of fuch men. Look round the feveral offices of ftate, and fee if they are not filled with the avowed friends and abject creatures of this over-bearing Favourite, who, afraid of trusting his own flender abilities in the arduous task of government, retires in fecret, and from his lurking place, fcatters firebrands, arrows and death, over the face of the country. He is too fond of power to live without it, too weak to weild the vaft machine, and too wicked to fuffer thofe, who can, to do the ftate any fervice. Take heed therefore how you fuffer yourselves to be betrayed by fuch a man, and those followers and tools of his, who, to the disgrace of this country, have raised national distinctions which every honeft mind muft revolt at, and which nothing but the meanest and most deteftable artifice can uphold for a moment. At a time when all parties are abolished, and when all mankind are united in the moft facred love and affection for the king, thefe men have arrogantly affumed to themselves the vain title of THE KING'S FRIENDS. As if all loyalty and duty was centered in their breafts, and as if every other bofom was incapable of revering and fupporting the royal hand, which difpenfes law, juftice, and liberty to all his fubjects. Believe me, all mankind are fenfible of the bleffings of his majesty's reign, and are safe and happy under his protection. Look narrowly into thefe men, try them, and examine them well, and you will find that they have neither honesty nor understanding enough to recommend themselves to their fellow fubjects by upright proceedings or real fervices. They will turn out to be nothing better than the tools of the Favourite's wicked machinations, the abject followers of his fortune, or the creatures of his power for the fake of the emolument of it. Under these circumftances your country calls upon you to be more than ordinarily circumfpect in the choice of thofe you fend to reprefent you at this critical time. Upon this it depends whether you hall be freemen or flaves. You were born to freedom, which is fecured to you, by the principles of the revolution under the illuftrious houfe of Hanover,

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and I trust that you will do nothing to forfeit that glorious title. For this purpose you must moft diligently avoid making choice of Scotchmen; as Scotland hath already its full complement of representatives in the British parliament. And however plaufible the argument may feem, that by that folemn act we are now one people under one head, trust not to it; it is deceitful: For when was it known that they chose an Englishman in any borough or county of Scotland? They would look upon fuch an attempt, fhould it be ever made, as the most audacious infringement of their liberties and priviJeges. And by parity of reason I hope and believe that you will judge fo of your own. The arm is already lifted up to deftroy you, and every thing that is dear to you; and you muft take efpecial care to ward off the fatal blow, left it deftroy also the root of the tree. Look well to those whom you mean to chufe, and fee that they are not only Englishmen, but even such Englishmen as are not connected with the E- of B. From him is derived the fource of all our misfortunes; from him, I fay, who, honoured, as he has been, with many favourable opportunities, to cultivate a right understanding between the king and his people, has ne glected both, and is daily facrificing them to his own vanity and ambition. Confider, therefore, gentlemen, what you are about before it is too late. Chufe none but those who are most likely to alleviate the heavy burthens under which you now totter, and are ready to fink. Preferve the precious gift of liberty, which you have received from your forefathers, and piously transmit it to your children. Shew the world by the choice which you make, that you are Englishmen, and will be free; and do your parts by endeavouring to deliver your most amiable Sovereign from the hands of those who hold him captive in the worft of chains.

I am, Gentlemen,

With the utmost truth and fincerity,

Your faithful friend and well-wisher,

An Englishman.

For

For the POLITICAL REGISTER.

A Lift of the Penfions allowed to fuperannuated and wounded Officers, their Widows, Children, &c. on the Eftablishment of bis Majesty's Navy.

Name.

Services.

Sum.

James Compton, For their long fervices as officers
Thomas Cooper, and commiffioners of his ma-
Charles Colby, jesty's navy, 250 l. each, and
William Bately, an additional 1501. by his ma- .
Efqrs. jesty's fign manual payable out

Lieut. Gen.

James Paterfen.

of money received for old ftores 1600 0

In lieu of his full pay, as colo-
nel of marines, in confideration
of his good and faithful services,

and of his being fuperfeded by his majesty's esta-
blishment in council, appointing 3 colonels of
marines out of the captains of his majefty's navy 730 0

Capt. In confideration of his great
James Gilchrift. fervices, gallant behaviour, and

Capt. David Brodie,

Capt.

fevere wounds

300 0

In confideration of his fuffer-
ings, and gallant behaviour - 200

In confideration of his having Fred. Cornwall. loft an arm in fight

Capt. Stephen Colby.

In confideration of his having loft an eye, in action against the enemy

200

150 0 0

3180 0 0

Capt.

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Wm. Bell, Efq; As a fuperannuated officer, and in confideration of his having

been one of the commiffioners for fick and hurt feamen

118 12

200 O

3576 30

Dr.

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