This disposition has been the great wheel and the main spring in the American machine of court politics.--We have been told, that "the word _Rights_ is an offensive expression." That "the King, his Ministry, and Parliament, will not endure to hear Americans talk of their _Rights_." That "Britain is the mother and we the children, that a filial duty and submission is due from us to her," and that "we ought to doubt our own judgment, and presume that she is right, even when she seems to us to shake the foundations of government." That "Britain is immensely rich, and great, and powerful, has fleets and armies at her command, which have been the dread and terror of the universe, and that the will force her own judgment into execution, right or wrong." But let me intreat you, Sir, to pause--Do you consider yourself as a missionary of loyalty or of rebellion? Are you not representing your K--, his Ministry and Parliament, as tyrants, imperious, unrelenting tyrants, by such reasoning as this?--Is not this representing your most gracious Sovereign, as endeavouring to destroy the foundations of his own throne?--Are you not representing every Member of Parliament as renouncing the transactions at _Runyn Mead_; [the meadow, near Windsor, where _Magna Charta_ was signed,] and as repealing in effect the bill of rights, when the Lords and Commons asserted and vindicated the rights of the people and their own rights, and insisted on the King's assent to that assertion and vindication? Do you not represent them, as forgetting that the Prince of Orange was created King William by the People, on purpose that their rights might be eternal and inviolable?--Is there not something extremely fallacious, in the common place images of mother country and children colonies? Are we the children of Great Britain, any more than the cities of London, Exeter and Bath? Are we not brethren and fellow-subjects, with those in Britain, only under a somewhat different method of legislation, and a totally different method of taxation? But admitting we are children, have not children a right to complain when their parents are attempting to break their limbs, to administer poison, or to sell them to enemies for slaves? Let me intreat you to consider, will the mother be pleased, when you represent her as deaf to the cries of her children? When you compare her to the infamous miscreant, who lately stood on the gallows for starving her child? When you resemble her to Lady Macbeth in Shakespear, (I cannot think of it without horror)