?6 Terre-Filiu. o Ttfis �up?ofition cannot t?e thought unreafonab'.e Iv any party, becaufe it only fuppofes all parties.h0- ?fi and fi?cere in their different interells and pro. reidohs. All governors therefore, whether de jure, or leac7o, believing themfclves engaged in a juft caut?., ought to encourage, or at leaft to ptote& tho]? per- ions e�pecially who have tliftinguifl?'d themfelves in the time caulk. This cxpe&ation alone could ani. mate them under adverfity to risk their lives and fortunes in defence of it ? and if they'find thcm- felves dduded in this expeCtation, whenever there need-of thdr afiilhnce again, they will fit down tamely under their prefent .misfortunes, rather than run any hazard in. behalf-of a let of men, who, they know, will not eafe them of one burthen, but m?:art? lay heavier upon them? thould they attempt. I will {late the c? wider ttill, and fuppolk even jr?reign irroader$, or wio!ent ufurl?er$ in ?offeff?on the government, who cannot pofl?bly [:elieve them- �dves to be iufi or la?�ul governors; yet as there men, by lala?ble fpeeches, and artful difguifes, may lztf?e many well-meaning people, that they are promoting the publick good. and .thereby &aw them into their interefisi I maintain, that it i?, the duty even of' thofi: ufu pets or invaders to �upp0? thofe well-meaning, mirtaken men, who fupported them in their tmjut? poffettion,. and to prote& them from the infults o1' their enen?es, tho' .they hapFer. to be the friends of their.country. I need not have put the calk fo .fir, but that t was willing to l'hew how much &en. villaira a, 'oblig'd to defend thatk who are their friend?, no, knowing them to be rillfins. We have no w upon the throne a King, whom believe to be as jultly and lawfully our King, as th, eaufe o?' publick good, anti the conlent of the wh0I mti0z
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