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RNYG.780.180
4 Oct 1780:33 (419)
From a Late London Paper.
It has been a matter of dispute whether the American
rebellion is, or is not a counterpart of the great rebellion
which isolated England upwards of a century ago. I shall
not pretend to decide the controversy, but may be allowed to
say, that they who have been eye witnesses of the troubles
on that continent, almost universally agree in the
affirmative side of the question, while the advocates for
the negative are for the most part strangers to the state of
that country.
In confirmation of this, I send you for insertion, in your
paper the following lines, which I have just received from
an ingenious friend now residing in that part of the world,
they are the portrait of a factious demagogue, and very much
in the stile of the celebrated author of Hudibras.
I am, &c.
As for his religion he could mix,
And blend it well with politics,
For 'twas his favourite opinion,
In mobs was seated all dominion;
All pow'r and might be understood,
Rose from the sov'reign multitude.
. . . [50 more lines]
J-----B-----y Clericus,
Halifax, Nova-Scotia, May 13, 1780.
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