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herself in fiction, that fiction to please should be founded in verisimilitude. But in the wise system, there is nothing like truth, nothing like policey, nothing like experience, or common sense.

We shall be forced ultimately to retreat, let in retreat while we can do it with honor, those violent oppressive acts must be repealed, I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them, I stake my reputation upon it. I will [comment???] to be taken for an [Ideal??], if they are not finally repealed. The cause of America is allied to every true [Whig??]. This glorious [spirit??] animates those milions of [men in ??] over colonies, what shall oppose this [spirit??] [aided by ???] the congenial flaem, glowing in the breast of every Whig in England

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to the amount I hope of double the Ameri= can number, Ireland they have to a man nay what dependence can you have on your soldiery, the unhappy instruments of your wrath? They are Englishment, who must feel for the pri= vileges of Englishment, and their carrying muskets and [baggonets??] about them surely does not exclude them from the [pale???] of civil community. Foreign war hangs over your heads by a slight [??] little thread. France and Spain are watching your conduct, and waiting for the maturity of your errors. But you are anxious who shall disown [first??] the great poet, and per= haps a greater politician than ever he was a poet has given you the wisest council, follow it. [??????] [Projice tela manu.???]

With a dignity beoming your exalted situation make the first advances to Concord, to peace and happiness; for that is your true Dignity, to act with Prudence and with Justice.

Same.

My Lords, if the minutes [thus??] persevere in [misadvising??] and misleading the King I wil not say that they alienate the affections of his subjects from the Crown, but I will affirm that they make the Crown not worth his wearing. I will not say the King is betrayed, but I will affirm that the Kingdom is undone.

My Lords I am old and weak at present unable to say more: but my feelings and Indignation [are??] too strong to have said less: I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head upon my pillow, without given this [???]

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to my eternal abhorrence of such prepos= terous and erroneous principles.

Lord Mansfield

Those are the errors which have been objec= ted and this manner and form in which they have assigned. For the reasons I have given I cannot allow any of them It was our duty as well as your Inclination [sed??]= [lourly??] to consider, whether upon any other ground, or in any other light we could find an Information which we might allow with satisfaction to our own minds & avow to the world.

But [how??] let me pause!

It is fit to take some notice of the saviour terrors hung out; the numerous crowds which have attended and now attend in and about the hall, out of all reach of knowing what [???] in court & the tumult which in other places have shamefully insulted all order

& government. Audacious addresses in prints, dictate to us from those, they call the people the judgement to be given now and afterwards upon the Conviction. Beacons of policy have been urged from Danger to the Kingdom by commotion and general confusion. Give me leave to take the opportunity of this great and respectable audience to let the whole World know all such attempts are in vain. Unless we have been able to find an Error which will bear us out to reverse the [outlawry??]; it must be affirmed. The Constitution does not allow reason of State to influence our Judgement, God forbid it shoudn't. We must not re= gard political consequences now for= midable soever tehy might be, if Rebellion was the certain consequence

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