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independence, shield surrounding nations from an iron sway, and 

 call down upon us the blessings of a grateful world. The thunder 

 of Kalisch may roll ; its lightnings gleam through affrighted Eu- 

 rope ; but Britain, as of yore, may divert the storm, and turn it 

 on the heads of those who raised it. 



Our remedy at home is easy. It requires but the simple opera- 

 tion of CLOSING OUR POCKETS. The sinews of war are in our gift ; 

 and we must, in reason, in justice, withhold them from those who 

 would fight against us. We have but to arm ourselves with the 

 resolution not to pay a government which is at variance with our 

 welfare. We love our legitimate sovereigns; we would honour and 

 obey them ; and when we find them choosing as their counsellors 

 men who sympathize with the nation, who identify themselves with 

 its prosperity, who feel for its wants, and are willing to relieve it 

 from burdens which the pride, ambition, and extravagance of a mad 

 aristocracy have entailed upon it, we would risk with cheerfulness 

 our lives and fortunes in their support : but if the intrigues of party 

 be suffered to taint the fountain of royalty, and poison the streams 

 which should fill the land with health and gladness, we must turn 

 away with sorrow, and invoke the Almighty Disposer of events to 

 avert the evil they may produce. We know that we have Generals 

 and Judges who would willingly enact the parts of a Jeffries and a 

 Kirk. We know that there are men who lie in wait to force them- 

 selves into power, and coerce the sovereign's sanction to all the 

 enormities which distinguished the reign of the fugitive James, and 

 that of the good, but too credulous, George the Third. We know that 

 imprisonment, confiscations, and violent measures, of the worst 

 description, have occupied the contemplations of our short-sighted 

 oligarchy. But we rely on the wisdom and firmness of William the 

 Fourth, to eschew their counsels, and put his trust in subjects, who 

 alone can protect him from the grasp of ambition a monster 

 already putting forth its " feelers'' to ascertain its force, for the 

 destruction of British independence and of the throne itself. Heaven 

 avert the calamity ! In the hearts of a free people, legitimate 

 sovereignty is safe : in their enmity it must fall. The present 

 ministry may steer the vessel of the state to a happy destination ; 

 they have the ability and the means of doing so ; but they must 

 throw off all fear of the Hydra which menaces them, and, supported 

 by the strength of the people, they must march with a firm step 



