Excerpt from Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War With America: To Which Is Added an Appendix, Containing, a State of the National Debt, an Estimate of the Money Drawn From the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure Since the Last War The principles on which I have argued form the foundation of every State as far as it is free, and are the fame with thofe taught by Mr. Locke, and all the writers on Civil Liberty who have been hitherto molt admired in this country. But I find, with concern, that they are nor approved by our Governours and that they chufe to decline trying by them their prefent meafures: For, in apam phlet 'which has been circulated by government with great indui'try thefe principles are pronounced to be unnatural and wild, in compatible with practice; and the ofi'spring of the dil'tempered imagination of a man bya - li'ed by'party, and Who writes rode ceive. 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.