Sihe publication of the first edition of this pamphlet, or rather, on the same day on which it came out, the Kings Speech made its appearan this city. Had the spirit of prophecy directed the birth of this produ, it could not have brought it forth, at a more seasonable juncture, or a more necessary time.
The bloody mindedness of the one, shew the y of pursuing the doe of the other. Men read by way of revenge.
And the Speech, instead of terrifying, prepared a way for the manly principles of Independance.
Ceremony, and even, silence, from whatever motive they may arise, have a hurtful tendency, when they give the least degree of teo base and wicked performances; wherefore, if this maxim be admitted, it naturally follows, that the Kings Speech, as being a piece of finished villany, deserved, and still deserves, a general execration both by the gress and the people. Yet, as the domestic tranquillity of a nation, depends greatly, on the CHASTITY of what may properly be called NATIONAL MANNERS, it is ofteer, to pass some things over in silent disdain, than to make use of suew methods of dislike, as might introduce the least innovation, on that guardian of our pead safety. And, perhaps, it is chiefly owing to this prudent delicacy, that the Kings Speech, hath not, before now, suffered a public execution.
The Speech if it may be called one, is nothier than a wilful audacious libel against the truth, the on good, and the existenankind; and is a formal and pompous method of up human sacrifices to the pride of tyrants.
But this general massaankind. is one of the privileges, and the certain sequence of Kings; for as nature knows them NOT, they know NOT HER, and although they are beings of our OWing, they know not US, and are bee the gods of their creators.
The Speech hath one good quality, which is, that it is not calculated to deceive, her we, even if we would, be deceived by it.
Brutality and tyranny appear on the face of it. It leaves us at no loss: And every line vinces, even in the moment of reading, that He, who hunts the woods for prey, the naked and untutored Indian, is less a Savage than the King of Britain.
Sir John Dalrymple, the putative father of a whiniical piece, fallaciously called, "THE ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF _ENGLAND_ TO THE INHABITANTS OF _AMERICA_," hath, perhaps, from a vain supposition, that the people here were to be frighte the pomp and description of a king, given, (though very unwisely on his part) the real character of the present one: "But" says this writer, "if you are ined to pay pliments to an administration, which we do not plain of," (meaning the Marquis of Roghams at the repeal of the Stamp Act) "it is very unfair in you to withhold them from that prince by WHOSE _NOD ALOHEY WERE PERMITTED TO DO ANY THING." This is toryism with a witness! Here is idolatry even without a mask: And he who calmly hear, and digest such doe, hath forfeited his claim to rationality an apostate from the order of manhood; and ought to be sidered as one, who hath not only given up the prnity of man, but sunk himself beh the rank of animals, and ptibly crawl through the world like a worm.
However, it matters very little now, what the king of Englaher says or does; he hath wickedly broken through every moral and human obligation, trampled nature and sce beh his feet; and by a steady and stitutional spirit of insolend cruelty, procured for himself an universal hatred. It is