THE MONITOR: OR, British FREEHOLDER. FROM AUGUST 9, 1755, to JULY 31, 1756, Pro REGE et GREGE. NEW YORK LONDON: Printed for J. SCOTT, at the Black Swan in PATER-NOSTER-ROW. MD.CC.LVI. THE DEDICATION. To the NINETY-FOUR Honourable and Worthy Members of the Houfe of Commons, who voted in the last Seffions of Parliament against addreffing his Majefty to bring over the Hanoverian Forces into this Kingdom.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ HE intention of the MONITOR, or T BRITISH FREEHOLDER, as declared by that worthy Patriot *, who ori ginally plann'd it, is to commend good men and good measures, and to cenfure bad ones, without refpect of perfons; to awaken that spirit of LIBERTY and LOYALTY, for which the British nation was anciently diftinguished, but which was in a manner lulled afleep RICHARD BECKFORD, Efq; late Member for BRISTOL, and Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon without, in LONDON. |