Excerpt from An Humble Address to the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, Elected to Represent the Commons of Great Britain in the Ensuing Parliament Should This fail; lhould you be firm enough to maintain, againlt the F afliion of the Times, againfi: the Example of many ofyour Acquaintance, and againl't the. Weight of fuperior Authority, that there is fomething real in pablzek Spirit, Integrity and Freedom; you will be laugh'd at for bondhfim ple Fellows, and aquite different Language will be ufed to on. You will then hear of nothing but the Caulb] of W biggifm the Danger we are in from the Tories; the Necefhty of uniting, under the Standard of the prefent M r. You will be told that Liberty and Property, the Protefiant S Ilitf'dfbfl, the Peate of Europe, Religion, {lb/eration, Trade and publick Credit, are all feared and center'd in his Perfon; all fupported, and fuppbrtable alone, by the Continuance and Increafe of bis Poteer. Unhappy Nation! Where all thefe Bleflings depend Upon the tingle Thread of one Man's Life, fo near being fpun out. - If not cut off! Should you ask the Reafon of this wonderful Conneelion between a jingle Min and all tbefe Tbings; fliould you enquire why the Nation is reduced to an in tire Dependance upon one S'abjefi, and what Proofs of Ability, or Virtue, that Snbjefl hath given to deferve fuch aprodigious Degree of Trafi, fuch a Delegation of more than Royal Power; it will be anfwered that he was a Whig fo long ago as in Queen Anne's Reign, and hath never acted with the 75m but once, when he was out of Plate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.