: An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland Who by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property Their Liberal Education Elevated Rank and Enlarged Views Are the Ablest to Judge and the Fittest

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AN HUMBLE ADDRESS AND EARNEST APPEAL TO THOSE RESPECTABLE PERSONAGES IN GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND, WHO, BY THEIR GREAT AND PERMANENT INTEREST IN LANDED PROPERTY, THEIR LIBERAL EDUCATION, ELEVATED RANK, AND ENLARGED VIEWS, ARE THE ABLEST TO JUDGE, AND THE FITTEST TO DECIDE, WHETHER A CONNECTION WITH, OR A SEPARATION FROM THE CONTINENTAL COLONIES OF AMERICA, BE MOST FOR THE NATIONAL ADVANTAGE, AND THE LASTING BENEFIT OF THESE KINGDOMS.

BY JOSIAH TUCKER, D. D. DEAN OF GLOCESTER.

AN HUMBLE ADDRESS, &c.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

Three Schemes have been proposed;--the Parliamentary,--Mr. BURKE's,--and my own.

In regard to the first, I wish for the present to be silent about it;--partly out of Respect to that august Body, which has given a Sanction to it;--partly because it is now upon Trial, whether it can be executed or not;--and partly likewise because this must fall of Course, if either Mr. BURKE's, or mine, should be judged to have the Preference. For these Reasons, I say, I wish to keep a respectful Silence on this Head.

But here the Smartness of Debate will be apt to say, "Who are those Persons against whom your Insinuations are levelled? Name them, if you are able: And as you ought to be furnished with the most positive Proofs, before you are entitled to throw out such Invectives, give them to the Public, in order that we may hold these Traitors to their Country in just Abhorrence."

To all which strong Words I would beg Leave to suggest the following Answers.

But without any Retrospect to Things past, let us look towards what is to come.

I say, one or other of these four Suppositions must necessarily be made, before Mr. BURKE's Plan can terminate in real Peace, and restore that Harmony, of which he makes such continual Boastings. Let him therefore, at his own Leisure, take his Choice of either of the four, or even adopt them all, if he pleases, and make the most of them.

Therefore, so far at least my System must have the Preference to Mr. BURKE's.

And here I would humbly beg Leave to observe, that if my Scheme had nothing else to recommend it to your Notice, it most infallibly cuts off all the present Causes of Dispute and Contention between the two Countries; so that they never can revive again. Whereas Mr. BURKE's is, at best, but a temporary Cessation from Hostilities; a mere Truce, 'till both Parties can be recruited, and better provided to begin the War again. Nay, his would be found in the Event,--not only to be no Manner of Cure or Palliation of the present Evils, but even greatly to foment them, and also to engender many new ones.

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