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LETTER.
- Dear SIR,
At this critical Conjuncture when the Rumour of a new Parliament ſounds like the laſt Trumpet, to awaken the Genius of Old England, and raiſe departed Liberty to Life, it would be a Crime to be ſilent.
My Retreat into this Country, which was meant only to be out of the way of beholding the Calamities of my own, and of hearing the Cries and Lamentations of my Fellow Citizens, to which I could neither ſee nor bring any Remedy, may expoſe me to the Reproach of having abandon’d my Friends in their Diſtreſs, if I ſhould reman indolent when the leaſt Glimmering of Redemption appeared.
In thoſe Times of Diſtraction, ſo like our own, when the will of a Triumvirate, ſupported by a Majority of bribed Senators,
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