Maryland Gazette February 1776

tbt 8E».T ArtHT.tef a Foa,|ipi»U', S\ich is the curfe of facViohs m art Jibfolflte gote&meim , n»**~-ia.;~L.*_L/-A .,». ,»*that neicfcr prince, nor people can know, arty bounds in their refehtment, becanfe 'they Tlave not known any in the exercife of authority.But a well poiled con.ftitution, like that of the BngVtfh colonies; carries in its principles, and tfte limitations of It« different powers, A prefervafiye and antidote igainft the evil*, of anarchy.Whenever the mother country hath removed the ground of their complaints, by re-eftaolifnirig them m their brigirial fituntion they (hould reft ion-'tented, that being, on the whole,.the happieft to which a wile people < oultt-'juftly afpire. .-, " "JThey could not ..embrace a lyftera of atifoliite inJtpnJmct without burltirig the bantls of religion, of oatht, of laws, ot language, of blood, in intereir, of commerce, of al: thole hao'itudej, in fine, which hold them nnitfd among therafelves, under thd peaceful in, Huence of thei common parent.( Whof.es not, 'hat lucb rendering to pieces muft reach the entrails, the Heart, the very life of the colonies f Should they have Ihe good ( fortune to efcape the fatal extremity of civil wars, would it be an ealy matter for tlieiji to .agreeoh a new form of government» Was every colony to become a diftria and feparate 'ftaite, whatendlels divifions amorigft them 1 .One may judge 6F the reciprocal enmities which would originate Tr»m fuch a leparation, by the fate of ail focieties bordering on each other.Should fuch a number of little common-wealths, where the diverfity p( laws, the inequality of riches, the variety of pduemons mlift fow in lecret, the feeds of an pppofition in int;erefl3, be dilpofed to form a confederated union, how adjuft the rank which each mould hold in it, and the influence which each (hould poflefs, iii proportion to their refpeftive rijks and importance t Jeilou.lyarid a hundred other paftionsL Which ( early divided the wife ftates of Greece, would hot thefe Iprcad difcord through a multitude of colonies, rather aflbciated by relent merit and indignation, R R A T-8.R t T AIN: enjbyi in her colonies 41 that authority which (he mould ttefire'.She hath a negative on all the laws which they enact.The whole of the _ executive power is! in the nands of tbofe to the delegates St.An appeal lies to her tribunal all civil caules!It is her lovereign vVill that decides lith refpeft to -all commercial intercourles which the >lonies are permitted to form and keep up.Ijo hang eights on the y«ke of a domination 16. wifely comr [ined would be to plunge again a new continent info i chaos, tronv which it hath with difficulty emerged, by Ae efforts of two age* of unremitting labour j it would be to compel the Ions of toil, who have cleared aridculhvated it, to arm themftlvei in dttence «f thole (acred Kehts wh'uh they hold equally by nature's charter, and Ly locial com,-acts.'1 n'e people of England that eople fo paffionately fofld ot liberty, as on foroe occa-POM> to have protected it i i regions remote from their Climate, and unknown to their interefts, fhall they abandon thole fentiments which their glory, their Virtue} Jieir inttina, their lately, render it their eternal fluty to icre to ?Can they 16 for betray thofe rights which fo dear to them, as to aim at reducing their brethren J their ch Idren to (lavery ?bhould tadiouj Ipirits, awever,.form fo deadly a Confpiracy, and in an hour of madnefs and.intox.cationprevail On the mother ntry 10 adopt it, what ought the nj'eluttom of the in to be to jave themfeUes from tailing into the : ablolute dependence ?... rrevious to their throwing their eyes forward to Itbii fubveruon Of the political lyftem, let them revolve in their thoughts all the bvufir ••>•--not ' guns, was forty.pnvatemen..theBorea« fjigate of tf guns Thompfbn, mehastfopptd at gUck-ttakes tq her powdef ,nd artillery, after which (be is to proceed direct'y on her voyage. .,-* same d«y tllo .theBriftoJ, ,a fifle uewmipof cd kunched from hii. majefty's doek-yard at flie is put , : into pbmmimon, bound, for America, and on boa^l of her commodore Sir Peter Parser u to b^tft hii br»*d 4>eti ;anr.J' .:.-A letter from Pembroke, dated the » 5th inftant mentions, that feveial pieces-'of wreck*, and a ^rrit T»any dead bodies jfrcr* continually, coming on i&ore Uiere, (bmc without legs ud othew witlrout aniij, &c.two more were feen floating without .hearts,. ...N.-«i ».Laft night's gazette oontnins .diefallowing addrefles fo bU majeft , relative to the proceedings, vf Americans, viz. of the, high Iheritf, jmttcts the Vemen, clergy, and free>p)der» .of. thtcounty of Carmarthen; ot th.e .corporatie-n and inhabitants .ofArundel in SufTex r .OFthe chanceljor,, matters., and fch.ilart of the univerfity qjf Oxford j otLthe^rovqft, raagilbratej, and town couaci} of the ity. of .Stirling, of.the bailiffs and citizens of ; uch'field t of the corporation and principal inhabitants of Bar ft-i.le $ of the corporation and inhabttaMt of ,'Jridgt water'} ofthenrovojt, magiftrates, and town council of Dund :e $ of the) corporation of -\bington, verks 5, and of the provofV, magiftrates, and council of Aberdeen.I J>..

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