This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798. Excerpt: ... lion; I must consider this as a shocking and shameless pretence. Never did an ertvenomed scurrility against every thing sacred and civil, public and private, rage through the kingdom with such a surious and unbridled licence. All this while the peace of the nation must be shaken, to ruin one libeller, and to tear from the populace a single favourite. Nor is it that vide merely lkulks in an obscure and Contemptible impunity. Does not the public behold with indignation, persons not only generally scandalous in their lives, but the identical persons who, by their society, their instruction, their example, their encouragement, have drawn this man into the very faults which have surnished the cabal with a pretence for his persecution, loaded with every kind of favour, honour, and distinction, which a court can bestow? Add but the crime of servility (thef?dum crimenser vitutis) to every other crime, and the whole mass is immediately transmuted into virtue, and becomes the just subject of reward and honour. When therefore I reflect upon this method pursued by the cabal in distributing rewards and punishments, I must conclude that Mr. Wilkes is the object of persecution, not on account of what he has done in common with others who are the objects of reward, but for that in Which he dissers from many of them; that he is pursued for the spirited dispositions which are blended with his vices; for his unconquerable firmness, for his resolute, indefatigable, strenuous resistance against oppression.--Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents THE END. r Abuses---3s Accountants (public) observations on--l Acquisition (of property)- 37 Act of Grace, a dishonourable invention-' Action and motives---3 Addressers (character of) in the American war-3 Administratio...