Remarks Upon the Present Crisis

Excerpt from Remarks Upon the Present Crisis: Humbly Address'd to the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses to Serve in the Present Parliament Eyes round them, to fee into what Circum fiances they have reduced Her, and will look fowards, into a near Futurity, for thofe Confequences, which mull follow, un lefs timely prevented. Whoever {hall do this will admit, tho' perhaps, for different Reafons, that, in all the variety of Changes, which the Virtue and Spirit of our Coun trymen, have fo often produced, and which the Interefiednefs and Treachery of thofe, on whom they depended, have f0 often ren dered inefiefiual. The Hifiory of Britain can hardly infiance a Crifis of greater and more' general Importance, than the prefent Period of Time: A Period more dangerous to the very Being of this Nation, and at the fame Time, more productive of her Pre fervation and Profperity than any which ever preceded it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.