The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

From the PUBLIC ADVERTISER. Feb.17.
To the K-ING

WHILE your Majesty's Ears are soothed
with the highest Strains of Adulation
by the supposed Representatives of the
C-ty of the P-- of C--y, permit a
private Clergyman of the same Province, but
of different Sentiments from those courtly
Addressors to approach the Throne with the
Voice of Truth and Sincerity. Animated
with an honest Zeal for the Welfare of your
Majesty, and of my Fellow Subjects in every
Part of your extensive Dominions, give me
Leave to point to your M-- the Precipice
on which you stand, & to forewarn your M--m
of the dreadful Consequences of the violent
Measures adopted by the Servants of the
Crown. It is said that your Royal Grand-
father (Peace be to his gentle Manes!) never
signed a Warrant for the Execution of a single
Malefactor without a feeling Heart, and a
trembling Hand : and must not your Majesty's
Soul recoil back with Horror at the Thought
of signing the Death-Warrant of three Millions
of your innocent Subjects, which now waits for
the Royal Fiat.

As your M-- is a strict Professor of Re-
ligion, let me intreat & conjure your M--ts
to consider that the Time will come (and we
know not how near the Period may be) when
Kings and Peasants shall stand before the aw-
ful Tribunal of Christ, without Distinction,
to receive their final Doom, and that an im-
partial Sentence will then pass on all the Sons
of Adam. Will it then be a sufficient Plea.
O K-ing! for sending the destroying Sword
among your own Subjects, who wish for no-
thing more than the peaceable Enjoyment of
their chartered Rights, and the Privileges of
Englishmen, 'That they refused to submit to
the arbitrary Decisions of a corrupt Mini-
stry, who have misled your Majesty's Judge-
'ment by representing them as Rebels, and
Traitors

But even supposing them unhappily invol-
ved in a political Error, and in some Measure
culpable, though they appear in a very differ-
ent Light to eight-tenths of your Majesty's
independent Subjects who have neither Places
nor Pensions, is it consistent with Justice or
sound Policy to punish such supposed Delin-
quents with Fire and Sword? Will not the
Blood of Thousands who may fall in this fa-
tal Contest cry for Vengeance? Will not the
Thoughts of being involved in the Guilt of
evil Counsellors, by too easy an Acquiescence
in their destructive Measures, disturb your
M-'s Peace of Mind here, and endanger
your eternal Welfare hereafter? But it is yet
in your Majesty's Power to prevent the Effu-
sion of your Subject's Blood, by refusing your
Assent to the fatal Resolution. Your M--
now stands, as it were, on the Bank of the
Rubicon : if it is once crossed in an evil Hour,
the Die will be cast, and it may involve your,
M-- and Millions of your Subjects in the
general Ruin.

MICHAIAH*

See I Kings, xxii.