Britain

Sister of Spain, I have a Favour to ask of you. My

subjects in America are disobedient, and I am about to

chastize them. I beg you will not furnish them with

any Arms or Ammunition.

Spain

Have you forgotten, then, that when my Subjects in the

Low Countries rebelled against me, you not only

furnished them with military Stores, but join'd them

with an Army and a Fleet? I wonder how you can

have the Impudence to ask such a Favour of me, or the

Folly to expect it!

Britain

You my dear Sister of France will surely not refuse me

this Favour.

France

Did you not assist my Rebel Hugenots with a Fleet and

an Army at Rochelle? And have you not lately aided

privately and sneakingly my Rebel Subjects in Corsica?

And do you not at this Instant keep their Chief

pension'd, and ready to head a fresh Revolt there,

whenever you can find or make an Opportunity? Dear

Sister you must be a little silly!

Britain

Honest Holland! You see it is remembered that I was

once your Friend, You will therefore be mine on this

Occasion. I know indeed you are accustom'd to

smuggle with these Rebels of mine. I will wink at that,

Sell 'em as much Tea as you please to enervate the

Rascals; since they will not take it of me; but for Gods

sake dont supply them with any Arms.

Holland

'Tis true you assisted me against Philip, my Tyrant of

Spain but have I not since assisted you against one of

your Tyrants, and enabled you to expell him? Surely

that Accompt, as we Merchants say, is Ballanc'd, and I

am nothing in your Debt. I have indeed some Complaints

against you, for endeavouring to starve me by

your Navigation Acts: But being peaceably dispos'd

I do not quarrel with you for that. I shall only go on

quietly with my own Business. Trade is my Profession,

'tis all I have to subsist on. And let me tell you, I

should make no scruple, (on the prospect of a good

Market for that Commodity,) even to send my Ships to

Hell and supply the Devil with Brimstone. For you

must know I can insure in London against the Burning

of my Sails.

America

to

Britain.

Why you old blood thirsty Bully! you who have been

everywhere vaunting your own Prowess, and defaming

the Americans as Poltroons! you who have boasted of

being able to march over all their Bellies with a single

Regiment! You who by Fraud have possess'd yourself

of their strongest Fortress, and all the Arms they had

stor'd up in it! You who have a disciplin'd Army in

their Country intrench'd to the Teeth and provided

with every thing! Do you run about begging all

Europe not to supply those poor People with a little

Powder and Shot? Do you mean, then, to fall upon

them naked and unarm'd, and butcher them in cold

Blood? Is this your Courage? Is this your Magnanimity?

Britain.

O! you wicked-Whig-Presbyterian-Serpent! Have you

the Impudence to appear before me after all your

Disobedience? Surrender immediatly all your Liberties

and Properties into my Hands, or I will cut you to

Pieces. Was it for this that I planted your Country at

so great an Expence? that I protected you in your

Infancy, and defended you against all your Enemies?

America.

I shall not surrender my Liberty and Property but with

my Life. It is not true that my Country was planted at

your Expence. Your own Records refute that Falshood

to your Face. Nor did you ever afford me a

Man or a shilling to defend me against the Indians, the

only Enemies I had upon my own Account. But when

you have quarrell'd with all Europe, and drawn me

with you into all your Broils, then you value yourself

upon protecting me from the Enemies you have made

for me. I have no natural Cause of Difference with

Spain, France, or Holland; and yet by turns I have

join'd with you in Wars against them all. You would

not suffer me to make or keep a seperate Peace with

any of them, 'tho I might easily have done it, to great

Advantage. Does your protecting me in those Wars give

you a Right to fleece me? If so, as I fought for you, as

well as you for me, it gives me a proportionable Right to

fleece you. What think you of an American Law to

make a Monopoly of You and your Commerce, as you

have done by your Laws of me and mine? Content

yourself with that Monopoly if you are Wise, and

learn Justice if you would be respected!

Britain

You impudent B—h! am not I your Mother Country?

Is not that a sufficient Title to your Respect and

Obedience?

Saxony.

Mother Country! Hah, hah, he! What Respect have

you the front to claim as a Mother Country? You know

that I am your Mother Country, and yet you pay me

none. Nay, it is but the other Day, since you hired

Ruffians to rob me on the Highway, and burn my

House! For shame! Hide your Face and hold your

Tongue. If you continue this Conduct you will make

yourself the Contempt of all Europe!

Britain

O Lord! where are my Friends!

France

Spain

Holland

and Sax-

ony all

together

Friends! Believe us you have none, nor ever will have

any 'till you mend your Manners. How can we who are

your Neighbours have any Regard for You, or expect

any Equity from You, should your Power increase,

when we see how basely and unjustly you have us'd

both your own Mother and your own Children?