Master's Avarice or Jealousy brings in, this unweildy dispirited Empire would almost sink, for want of vital Nourishment.
Under all this Oppression, there is not one found who dares even lament his own and Fellow-subjects Misery, or who will not pretend at least to Glory, in calling himself the Grand Seignior's Slave, and owning that he has no title either to his Life or Liberty, his Lands, House or Substance, but from the sole Will of his mighty Emperor. A Reflection which I cannot make, but with the honest Joy every Britton must feel, who sees himself secur'd by Laws of his own making, in his Liberty, Life and Property, above the Reach of the highest Power and the strongest Arm; and in Peace and Security under his own Vine and Fig-tree, enjoys from the best of Constitutions, and (the usual and natural Consequence thereof,) the best Princes, all the Blessings Men can ask for as Freemen and Christians.
I shall detain your Lordship no further, than with two or three Words, as to somecon-
