•tyo political progrefs of Britain. Feb. IZ, 



ance of all consequences, the immortal Swift, like a- 

 nother Ajax, 



" Broke the dark phalanx, and let in the light." 



He taught his country to understand her impor- 

 tance. At last {he resolved to afsert her rights with 

 firmnefs. The fabric of tyranny fell without a blow ; 

 and a fhort time will extinguifh the last vestige of a 

 supremacy, dilhonourable and pernicious to both 

 kingdoms. 



In the East and West Indies, the conduct of Britain 

 may be fairly contrasted with the murder of Ataha- 

 liba, and will prove equally ruinous to the detested 

 conquerors. 



While our infatuated politicians exult in the cap- 

 ture of Bangalore, and the mafsacre of the subjects of 

 a prince, at the distance of six thousand leagues, I 

 am convinced from the bottom of my heart, and so 

 will the majority of my countrymen be long before 

 this century has elapsed, that it would be a 

 circumstance, the most auspicious both for Bengal 

 and for Britain, if Cornwallis and all his myrmidons 

 could be at once driven out of India. 



But what quarter of the globe has not been convul- 

 sed by our ambition, our avarice, and our basenefs ? 

 The tribes of the Pacific ocean are polluted by the 

 most loathsome of diseases ; our brandy has bruta 

 lized or extirpated the Indians of the western conti- 

 nent ; and wc have hired by thousands the wretched 

 survivors to the taflc of bloodfhed. On the fliores of 

 Africa, we bribe whole nations by drunkenncfs, to 

 robbery and murder j while in the face of earth and 



