as the Adjutant or Town-Major, to be in the Government pay. 7th. The men to exercise frequently, either in battalions, or by companies, on Sundays, and on Holidays, and alfo after their work is over in the evenings. 8th. Arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, to be furnished at the expence of Government, if required. 9th. Proper magazines, or storehouses, to be chofen or erected in each town, for keeping the faid arms, &c. 1oth. The arms and accoutrements to be delivered out at times of exercise only, and to be returned into the ftorehouses as foon as the exercife is finished. 11th. The Adjutant or Town-Major to be always prefent at exercife, and to fee that the men afterwards march regularly, and lodge their arms in the ftorehouses. 12th. Proper penalties to be inflicted on such as absent themselves from exercises, as alfo for difobedience of orders, infolence to their officers, and other disorderly behaviour, 13th. The above Corps not to be obliged, on any account, or by any authority whatever, to move from their refpective towns, except in times of actual invafion or rebellion. 20th. The companies called out as above to be discharged ipfo fatto, as foon as the invaders are repelled, or the particular fervice terminated. A Company of LOYAL ENGLISH ADVERTISEMENT. A SHORT defence hath been thought necessary, against a violent and groundless attack upon the FLINTSHIRE COMMITTEE, for having teftified their approbation of the following Dialogue, which hath been publickly branded with the most injurious epithets; and it is conceived, that the fure way, to vindicate this little Tract from fo unjuft a character, will be as publickly to produce it. The friends of the Revolution will inftantly see, that it contains no principle, which has not the support of the highest authority, as well as the cleareft reason. If the doctrines which it flightly touches, in a manner suited to the nature of the Dialogue, be "feditious, treasonable, and diabolical," Lord Somers was an incendiary, Locke a traitor, and the Convention-parliament a pandæmonium; but, if those names are the glory and boast of England, and if that convention fecured our liberty and happiness, then the doctrines in question are not only just and rational but conftitutional and falutary; and the reproachful epithets belong wholly to the fyftem of those, who fo grofsly mifapplied them. THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. F. WHY fhould humble men, like me, fign or fet marks to petitions of this nature? It is better for us Farmers to mind our husbandry, and leave what we cannot comprehend to the King and Parliament. G. You can comprehend more than you imagine; and, as a free member of a free ftate, have higher things to mind than you may conceive. F. If by free you mean out of prison, I hope to continue fo, as long as I can pay my rent to the 'fquire's bailiff; but what is meant by a free ftate? G. Tell me firft what is meant by a club in the village, of which I know you to be a member. F. It is an affembly of men, who meet after work every Saturday to be merry and happy for a few hours in the week. G. Have you no other object but mirth? F. Yes; we have a box, into which we con |