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try in Europe. Was not this enough ? Was not this a rea- 

 fbn for being filent and (till? Why fubmit to a temporary 

 diftrefs, rather than by loud complaints, bring the ftate and 

 fituation of your country into queftion at all ? Why demand 

 ufelefs favours in order to pay folid returns ? During the 

 whole flow of your prolperity what have been the additional 

 burthens laid on you in taxation ? Every country in Europe 

 has added to thole burthens confiderably, England immenfe- 

 ly, but you not at all, or to Ib trifling an amount as to be the 

 fame thing. Could your mod fanguine hopes picture a more 

 happy fituation ? And yet ^o yourfelves are you indebted for 

 bounties on the carriage of corn, for premiums on com 

 (lands, for ideal navigations through bogs to convey turf to 

 Whitehaven, for collieries where there is no coal, for bridges 

 where there are no rivers, navigable cuts where there is no 

 water, harbours where there are no fhips, and churches where 

 there are no congregations f. Party may have dictated iuch 

 meafures, in order to render government poor and dependent ; 

 but rely on it, fuch a conduct was for their own, not your 

 advantage, as the abfolute neceffity of new taxes will moft 

 feelingly convince you. Thus have you been duped by one 

 fet into meafures, which have impoverifhed the public and 

 burthened you with a debt ; and becaufe another deicription. 

 of men fuffer a diftrefs, in its very nature temporary, you 

 join in their cry to buy that, which if any good arofe from it, 

 would be theirs , while you only are to pay the piper. Hence- 

 forward, therefore, execrate, lilence, confound, and abaih 

 ' the men, who raife clamours at diftrefles, whether real or 

 imaginary ; you know from the progreffive profperity of your 

 country, that fuch cannot be radical ; weighty experience 

 has told you alfo, that you may have to pay for relief that 

 goes but imaginarily to others, in giving up your folid gold 

 tor their ideal profits. Reflect that the great period of your 

 increaling wealth was a time oi quiet and filence, and that 

 O 2 you 



J The a/ertion is not founded on the following c&arge in the na- 

 tional accounts I779> though one might prefume fumething u$m it; 



To the board cj firjl fruits for building new churches, 

 and rebuilding old churches in fuch pariihes as no di- 

 vine public iervice has been performed for twenty 

 years part, 6000 



I am well aware of what may be here fai.i upon the advan- 

 tage of landlords being in proportion to the profperity of manufac- 

 tures and commerce : in general it certainly is fo, and al<wa\$ when 

 things are left to take their natural courfe, tut when they rife above 

 the lenour of that fmxth quiet current, the conclufio* may not be 

 juj} : all the meafuret condemned in the text are farced and artificial* 



