" I have waited with great impatience, expecting " that some able hand would have undertaken the "benevolent task to warn you to beware of the con- " duct of some of the basest villains that ever dis- " graced any society, and draw the attention of the " inhabitants to its danger ; but finding that although "now some months are elapsed since the commence- "ment of the measures of these traitors, &c, yet none " has appeared to sound the friendly alarm to the " very indolent inhabitants, I have attempted what " I so ardently wished might have been done by some "more able hand. While we are straining every " nerve to baflle foreign attempts to enslave us, surely "it must be very criminal in the descendants of " Britons, who ought t > love life and liberty alike, to "be so assiduous in exerting themselves to enslave " their fellow-subjects.

"It may not be improper to inform you, Gentle- "men, of the springs and motives which induce these " principal movers to forget their duty to God, their "fellow-countrymen, and their posterity.

" They, anxious to secure to themselves and their " posterity power and authority, and to engross some " offices or pensions from or under the Crown, have " made a sacrifice of all public virtue on the altar of " self-interest. This desperate spirit it was that in- '' duced these traitors or mercenary hirelings to exert " thrir influence to bring about the detestable meas- " urcs proposed by a certain paper handed about here