Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Rights of Free Subjects: In Which the Cases of the British Sailors and Common Soldiers Are Distinctly Consider'd and Compar'd T atime, when the Return of Peace raifes A a general Expectation of returning Plenty; Security of Commerce; Reduction of Taxes; and, every other national Advantage; it cannot but be regarded, by every good natur'd Man, as a Mat ter worthy fome Attention, that the very Men. By whofe Labour and Bravery, thefe invaluable Blef fings have been procured, are, themfelves, the only Sufferers in this general Profperity, the only Mourn ers amidi'c national Rejoicings; and, by a Misfor tune altogether fingular, are reduced to want and wretchednefs, by means of that very Peace, which they have reitored to their Country. 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.