Neutrality, I do assure you, will not protect you. For if you will still remain inactive at such a Crisis, what has happened before will happen again; and the *****'s and the *****'s who have but little to lose, but may have much to get in Times of general Confusion, will certainly become the great Men of this Nation." _Fas est et ab hoste doceri._ Indeed the Estates of the Church, we all know, will fall the first Sacrifice, should the Republican Party now prevail. But nevertheless, if you, my Lords and Gentlemen, should be so weak as to imagine, that Matters will stop there; and that your own large Possessions, your splendid Titles, your hereditary Honours, and ample Privileges will escape unhurt, amidst that general _Wreck_ of private Property, and _Crush_ of Subordination, which will necessarily ensue; you will be woefully mistaken:--And I must beg Leave to say, that you will have profited but very little, by what has been so well written in the Annals of this very Country, for your Instruction and Admonition. For depend upon it, the Use of _Committee-Men_, and the Business of _Sequestrators_ are not yet forgot; depend upon it, I say, that Ways and Means are still to be found out, for the lowest of the People to get at the Possession of the greatest of your Estates, as well in these, as in former Times. Their Appetites are equally keen:--And if these hungry Patriots should succeed, after such an Example is set before your Eyes, who are you to blame but yourselves?--In one Word, you know, or ought to know, that even the tender Mercies of a Republic are cruel. Or, if you are not yet convinced of the Truth of this Assertion, look abroad into the World; nay, look into what is now doing by the Republican Congresses in _America_; and then see how you would approve such Men as these for YOUR MASTERS. HERE THEREFORE I willingly close the whole Dispute between Mr. BURKE and me: And I most chearfully submit the Decision of this important Question to those (but to _those only_) who are the best qualified, the most able, and the most concerned to decide impartially. What therefore is to follow in this Treatise, is to be considered rather _ex abundanti_, than as strictly necessary for the Support of my Argument, and the Confutation of my Opponent. Yet, seeing that the following Points may serve to elucidate some of the former, and seeing that so much has been said, and such confident Boastings have been uttered, concerning the Advantages, and even the Immensity of the Colony-Trade; I will enter the more particularly into these Matters.