. The craftsman. apifts, if They had it infheir Power, Jhould extend the leafi Mercy, the leajiCompaJJion toivards -^. , I am, SIR, &c. !N®442. Saturday, December 21^ ^734 The DiJJertation on Parties concluded, 72; C A L E B DA N V E R S, Efq; Sir, F We had propofed nothing more toourfelves in writing this Differtation onParties than the Entertainment, fuch asit is, of your Readers, and our own Amufement, We fhould not have dwelt, erhaps, fo much on the Nature of the Britijh Con-itution, nor have recurd fo often to affert the necef-^ry Independency of Parliaments on the Crown. Bu
. The craftsman. apifts, if They had it infheir Power, Jhould extend the leafi Mercy, the leajiCompaJJion toivards -^. , I am, SIR, &c. !N®442. Saturday, December 21^ ^734 The DiJJertation on Parties concluded, 72; C A L E B DA N V E R S, Efq; Sir, F We had propofed nothing more toourfelves in writing this Differtation onParties than the Entertainment, fuch asit is, of your Readers, and our own Amufement, We fhould not have dwelt, erhaps, fo much on the Nature of the Britijh Con-itution, nor have recurd fo often to affert the necef-^ry Independency of Parliaments on the Crown. ButJt had another Motive, which We are neither afraid,or aftiamed to avow. This neceffary Independency of\arliaments. in which the Effence of our Conjiitution,id by Confequence of our Liberty confifts, feems to. in great, not to fay in imminent. Danger of be-g loft. They, who are alarmd at every Thing, thatlaid in Favour of our Conftitution, and of Britijh•berty, and who are prejudiced againft every Man, who. 1^2 Wj^ Craftsma N. N*»442, who writes or fpeaks in Defence of them, may afFedl to take, and try to give. Offence at this Expreflion. But We defiie to be underftood, as We hav<explainM our Meaning upon fome former OccafionWe underftand our Conjiitution to be in Danger, no:only when it is attacked, but as foon as a Breach i,made, by which it may be attaclid; and We underftand this Danger to be greater, or leis, in Proportiorto the Breach, that is made, and without any Regarcto the Probability, or Improbability of an AttackThis Explanation of our Meaning is the better founded, becaufe the Nation hath an undoubted Right tcpreferve the Conjiitution not only inviolate, but IecuRfrom Violations. Should Corruption prevail amon^the Members, which We truft will never happen, a:notorioufly as it does in the EleSiions of ParliamentWe all know how much the Magnanimity of oo:pre/ent King would fcom to take fo mean an Advantage over the Nation ; how much, on the contraryhis
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