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An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 19

Tongue of a Serpent; an attempt to destroy Government, an Essay to make Neighbours invitarate Enemies, in sine, to destroy all good Rules and Order. And you make believe if you will too, that our Letter Writer is the chief promoter of it all: Page 13. he begins with the Debates in Parliment, and tells us of one great Lord’s opinion, and then of anothers; about Tumults and Riots. I would have him to know, we have reason as well as he to believe, that there may be great Debates in the Parliment House, before a Matter comes to Determination. But if he will be pleased to look in one of his News Papers, he will find the parliments result on that; how Rioters are to be dealt with, in page 17. he begins with the Narrative, and tells us that a shock of Electricity would have had a much more sensible effect upon those people, than all the Arguments and Quotations he has produced; (I believe him) for that opperation of Electricity can effect no more than the Animal parts. And those people with their Advocates, have so much likeness to the Adamant Stone, that they seem determined to pay no regard to any Thing, though ever so well wrote, that may be likely to touch the Internal. Notwithstanding that worthy patriot has wrote in a good Stile; and has produced Quotations so paralell to support his opinion, and the just leneaments of that horrid act at Lancaster, that it makes his Works valuable to every good Man: But alas! what good Man either alive or dead, escapes this writers cruel censor. I think we read in the Bible that some Mens countenances are as hard as though they were seared with a hot Iron: I can’t think what he proposed to himslef by Annamadvertion on the Nar-

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