. The craftsman. can hefitate how farHe is to obey, or doubt on what Occaiions to can battle no longer with the know that We are to defend the Cromon with ourLives and our Fortunes, as long as the Crorivn prote6lsus, and keeps ftridly to the Bounds, within whichWc have confined it. We likewife know that Weare to do it no longer. The Part We have all to aft,on every publickOccafion, is plainly laid down beforeus ; and as the Bleffings of Peace, Plenty, and Libertywill always fecure to his Majefty the Allegiance of hisSubjefts; fo, on the other Hand, the Danger
. The craftsman. can hefitate how farHe is to obey, or doubt on what Occaiions to can battle no longer with the know that We are to defend the Cromon with ourLives and our Fortunes, as long as the Crorivn prote6lsus, and keeps ftridly to the Bounds, within whichWc have confined it. We likewife know that Weare to do it no longer. The Part We have all to aft,on every publickOccafion, is plainly laid down beforeus ; and as the Bleffings of Peace, Plenty, and Libertywill always fecure to his Majefty the Allegiance of hisSubjefts; fo, on the other Hand, the Dangers, whichconftantly attend all Advances to arbitrary Ponver,will I hope preferve us from any fuch Attempts for thefuture.—In Ihort, as We have the Happinefs to liveunder an excellent Conjiitufion, fo it is very much inour own Power, by a proper Conduft, to fecure theEnjoyment of it to Ourfelves, and to tranfmit it to thelaieil Fofterity. O. SATURDAY. N° 43^ 51^^ Craftsman. 3^ N® 431. Saturday, 05foher ^^ ^734. ToCALEB D^ANVERS, E/f, Sir, H E Praftice of writing Letters from theDead, in order tojuitify the Liv[ng,is grown fo common amongft the politicalAuthors of this Age, that I believe YouVvill not be much furprized at the pre-Diogenes, Plato and Socrates amongft theGreeks, Cato, Brutus, and Atticus amongft the Romans,and Bacon, Sidney and Temple amongft your own Coun-trymen, have been in a Manner dragd out of theirGraves to father other Peoples Works, and fometimesdebafed fo far as to propagate Opinions diametricallyoppofite to Thofe, which They were known to profefsandefpoufe, whilft living. Thefe are the worft Kindoi pojikumous Works, that can poffibly be laid to anyMans Charge -, and I cannot help thinking it a veryextraordinary Liberty, which Tou abo^e Ground takewith Us beneath; for it tends to deftroy that After-Fame, which is commonly the only Reward, that Au-thors and Patriots receive for their Labours, and putsThem upon a Level with the rneaneji Tools, that everde
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