I will follow the Quebec Bill to the
Throne, as I would the Framer of it
to a SCAFFOLD.

I have only then one question to ask
of the people; it is this: If ever they
should be so unhappy as to live under
a PERJURED PRINCE, whether
they would not sooner see ANOTHER
SCAFFOLD erected at WHITE-
HALL, than ANOTHER CORO-
NATION in Westminster Abbey? If
I know any thinganything of the Spirit of Eng-
lishmen, the Scaffold would be crowded
with Heroes, the Abbey with children,
for the sake of the raree-show; whilst
thus would run the general shout of the
people— OFF WITH THE HEAD
THAT PAYS NO REGARD TO
THE SACREDNESS OF AN
OATH!
A SCOTCHMAN.
LONDON.

This Day the CITIZENSCITIZENS’ Address,
Petition, &and Remonstrance, will be presented
to the King, to the no small Diversion of the
minikin Lords, &and BACK-SLIDING La-
dies, who infest a Court, as vermin a pantry,
to glut themselves with its contents. The
Petition will however be treated with
indignant Contempt, for it only prays,
“that our Constitution, civil &and religious,
“may not be violated; that the interest of
“our Merchants may be a little attended to;
“&and that the King, for his own sake, would not
break 2036 (2036) “break his Coronation Oath;” it also expres-
ses a desire, “that POPERY may not be esta-
“blished in any part of the British Domini-
“ons, as it is a Religion our Revolution
“Kings solemnly swear to reprobate.” To
expect, that in a reign of FAVOURI-
TISM, silly requests like these should
be granted, is the extreme of folly; the
only thing therefore the people have to
do whilst KING BUTE retains his
influence &and his head, the only thing they ^have to do,
is to be AS MERRY as a spoliation of
their liberties will let them; for they may
rest assured of this, that their complaints
but feast the ears of their oppressors; the
GROANS of the people contribute to the
MERRIMENT of Administration; &and
what forbids but we should laugh most
heartily? If FOLLY be an object of ridi-
cule, where reigneth folly so triumphant
as AT COURT? If FOOLS FURNISH
sport for jocund visibility, a Drawing-room
is littered with them; if scandalous Pro-
stitution be fit subject for contempt, (to borrow
an excellent Writer’s phrase) “between the LORDS
“OF THE COURT &and the LADIES OF THE
“TOWN, tell me ye that for your sins know
“both, which of the two have the LEAST honour?
“The one glory in a pearl-necklace, acquired at
“the expenceexpense of prostitution; the other exult
“in splendid equipages, purchased by the sale
“of THEMSELVES;” All-things then con-
sidered, the Citizens may draw some im-
provement from every visit they make to
St James’s, &and on this account a City Remon-
strance is an excellent thing, as it gives yethe
bearers an opportunity of Seeing, that there
is a species of folly, at which they have
not yet arrived, &and a consummate share of
TINSELED RASCALITY, of which they
are totally ignorant. As the Court will this 2037 (2037) day LAUGH at the City, the City should
return the compliment by LAUGHING AT
THE COURT; And if INTEGRITY be
a shield against ridicule, the CITIZENS
are compleatlycompletely armed, the COURTIERS-
DEFENCELESS. Besides, contempt and
ridicule are effectual weapons to be employ’demployed
against folly, ignorance, &and absurdity; the most
reptile, chicken-hearted Minister, one as bad
as the present may stand ABUSE, but no Mi-
nister, no System of Government, can long
bear up against RIDICULE &and CONTEMPT.

On THIS DAY the King will act over
again that, for which James was SENT A
GRAZING. He will dispense with those
laws he was SWORN to observe; he will
ESTABLISH that Religion in a part of the
English Dominions, which his family was
called to the Crown to protect us against; he
will, by assenting to the QUEBEC BILL,
ABOLISH TRIAL BY JURY &and the
HABEAS CORPUS ACT, (though they
make a part of THOSE VERY LAWS &and
Customs, which, at his Coronation, he called
God to witness, should be the rules of his
Government) he will sacrifice the PRO-
TESTANT to the POPISH interest,
the ENGLISH to the FRENCH LAWS,
Constitutional Liberty to Tyranny, the plea-
sure of governing a free people by a stand-
ard of Laws, to the whim of ruling like a
Despot by the standard of Caprice. What
are we to think of Ministers, who advise
a Man to precipitate his own destruction?
Are we to DESPISE the advisers, or PITY
the Party advised? Will no warnings divert,
no candid admonitions take effect? Will not
a Crown SEVERED from the head of its
wearer, a head SEVERED from the carcasecarcass
of the King, will these have no preventive
operation? View that WHITEHALL 2038 (2038) SPECTACLE! See that distorted Counte-
nance! it writhes under each STROKE OF
THE AXE, &and seems to ask the rabble to
commiserate its woes! Behold a ROYAL
WANDERER with his helpless infants!
behold him, in a dreary Winter’s Night,
trust himself rather to the mercy of the
waves, than to the FURY OF HIS
PEOPLE!— Oh, SIR, let not the evil
councilscounsels of evil men persuade you to pur-
sue THE VERY SAME PATH, which
brought others to destruction! By those conju-
gal ties which unite you to the partner of
your heart! By those tender sympathies qchwhich
dilate a Father’s breast, &and teach him to feel
the fulnessfullness of parental affection! By every
thing sacred to you as a Christian, dear as a
Man, &and estimable as a King, I conjure you,
Sir, to ALTER YOUR PURPOSES;
comply with your people’s prayer; own
yourself MISLED, (for though about to e-
stablish POPERY, you are not yet IN-
FALLIBLE) sacrifice your FAVOU-
RITES before they sacrifice YOU;
pay some respect to the Religion, some
to the Laws, of your country; &and remem-
ber, Sir, that as the people of England (at
whose bar Kings are ANSWERABLE for
their misdeeds) raised your ancestors to the
Throne to ^be PROTECTORS of their LAWS
&and DEFENDERS of their RELIGION,
they will hardly suffer the innovators of
the one, or destroyers of the other, to
proceed with impunity in defiance of justice.