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STATE OP APE B's. 
veligious description as such; and 
his principles of government. led 
him to cultivate the uvion which 
he plainly saw of itself commenc 
ing between them. It was his 
constant endeavour, by every means, 
to conibine the minds of every sort 
of men, churchmen, presbyterians, 
and catholics, of every the least pro- 
portion of education, talent, influ- 
ence, or property, in affection to 
bier comimon: sovereign ; to com- 
bine them in one bond of common 
interest, and inone common-effort 
against our common enemies, the 
known enemies of all religion, aul 
law, all order, and ali property. 
He has had the happiness of seeing 
ali this completely accomplished. 
An unexdmpled concord amongst 
the people, an unexampled zeal for 
the support of the crown had taken 
place; but he is not responsible 
for the effets of a system which 
proceeds in a contrary direétion 
to that which he pursued; he is 
not responsible for the effects of a 
system which 
whom the public has little confi- 
dence, contumeliously rejeéts the 
service of those who have ovrained 
the good opinicn of their country ; 
a system which endeavours to sup- 
ply a comparative defect ef ability 
by an unmeasured increase of influ- 
ence ; a system which rejects the 
Opinion and information of persons 
in high and responsible situations, 
and listens co the interested repre- 
sentations of subordinate’ office; 
asystem which, inverting the whole 
order of things, introduces anarchy 
into the very seat of government, 
by publicly and avowedly support- 
ing the instruments against the 
agent-; a system which, finding 
the body of the people disposed to 
look to the crown as their security 
supports men in, 
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against oppression from domestic 
factions, employs all its influence, 
power, and auvhority to support 
those very factions against the peo- 
ple, who Ay tor refuge to thecrown. 
For the opposite system he. has 
suffered the unparalleled mark of 
displeasure which has been shewn 
to him. He is willing to suffer 
more, rather than abandon it. He. 
will remember with a warm. and 
lasting gratitude,, and a cordial 
attachment, the weighty persons 
in parliament, and all the respec. 
table bodies and individuals by 
whom he was generously encou- 
raged and honourably supported 
in a diferent plan of government 
from that which derives its support 
from the corruption of one part 
of the people, and the depression 
of the other. 
FirzwILLiaM. 
Protest against the A@ fir transfere 
ring the Militia, May 28th. 
1st, ‘Because the honourable 
footing upon which the militia was 
established, and has hitherto sub- 
sisted, is, as far as relates to the 
augmenting the artillery, under- 
mined by this bill, inasmuch as it 
makes the militia a fund for. the 
supply, and a drill for the accommo. 
dation of auother corps, inasmuch 
as it reduces the constitutional force 
below the numbers covenanted by 
the country to be always kept com. 
plete, and inasmuch as it supplies 
the deficiencies it creates, not in 
the regular and creditable manner 
by which the militia is constitu. 
tionally to be supplied, and sup. 
plied to a certainty; but by the 
_means, uncertain. in their opera. 
tion, by which it is constitutionally 
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