Wesley Corpus

will first despise and then abhor the King? What can we expect, but that by the repeated doses of this poison they will be perfectly intoxicated, and only wait for a con venient season to tear in pieces the royal monster, as they think him, and all his adherents? 25. At present there are hinderances in the way, so that they cannot use their teeth as they would. One is an untoward Parliament, who will not look upon the King with the same eyes that they do; but still think he has no more design or desire to enslave the nation, than to burn the city of London. A still greater hinderance is the army; even lions and bears do not choose to encounter them, so that these men of war do really at this time preserve the peace of ithe nation. What then can be done before the people cools, that this precious opportunity be not lost? What indeed, but to prevail upon the King to dissolve his Parliament and disband his army? Nay, let the Parliament stay as it is, it will suffice to disband the army. If these red-coats were but out of the way, the mob would soon deal with the Parliament. Probatum est: * Nothing is more easy than to keep malignant members from the House. Remember Lord North not long ago;t this was a taste, a specimen, of their activity. What then would they not do if they were masters of the field, if none were left to oppose them? Would not the * This has already been put to the proof-EDIT. + Rudely insulted by a turbulent mob, as he was going into the House. Titou GHTS UPON LIBERTY. 45. avenues of both Houses be so well guarded, that none but patriots would dare to approach? 26. But (as often as you have heard the contrary affirmed) King George has too much understanding, to throw himself into the hands of those men who have given full proof that they bear him no great good-will. Nor has he reason to believe that they are much more fond of his office than of his person. They are not vehemently fond of monarchy itself, whoever the Monarch be. Therefore neither their good nor ill words will induce him, in haste, to leap into the fire with his eyes open. 27.