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AUP ee eB Ne Dt Thine! 
are bound to give you protection by the duties of humanity? 
by their duty as magiftrates. They are bound by their oaths 
“* to do equal juftice to the poor and to the'rich, after ther cunning 
“ wit and power, and after the laws and cuftcms of the realm, 
“ and the ftatutes thereof made.” You are bound to pay to 
them a manly refpect; for on their integrity, knowlece, and 
power, YOUR OWN SAFETY DEPENDS. Jn oir feveral ftations we 
dye ALL BOUND TO BE PROTECTIONS ove to the otber. Jf any of 
them, throuch heat, or forgetfulnefs of the law, fhould have injured 
you, apply for redrefs in a-private manner. I truft that there 
are in every Wel/h county fome worthy gentlemen who will 
undertake your caufe, and perform the bleffed office of peace- 
makers. Thofewho may have wronged you, need not be afhamed 
of making the pooreft of you amends. Reparation of an injury 
does honor to the offender, and wipes away the offence. The 
greateft man in Exgland may glory in the opportunity. 
In diftraéted times, fuch as the prefent, petty tyrants are apt 
to arife, who think they can act fecure in the rage of the ftorm. 
The watchman is not to be blamed who, in fufpicious feafons, 
gives the alarm on the fight of the rifing of a diftant duft. I 
hope, therefore, it will not be thought prefumptuous in me, 
unbidden, to take the office. Internal impulfes to prevent evils, 
ought not to be refifted. I am not a firft-rate man among 
you: but a pygmy armed by juftice goes forth a giant. Within 
the county in which I am deftined to act, I am in a particular 
manner bound to befriend you; to befriend you in a-good caufe: 
but if you are wrong, and obftinately wrong, my utmoft endea- - 
vours fhall be ufed to infliét on you every punifhment in the 
power of the law. 
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