WILLIAM KING

Papists should be debarred from all public trust.

No Papists stir … The Papists being already five or six to one, you imagine in what condition we are like to be in.

Tis property that makes government necessary and the immediate end to government is to preserve property; where therefore a government, instead of preserving, entirely ruins the property of the subject. That government dissolves itself.

The arms of the 14th Regiment are in infamously bad order. They appear to be old muskets that have probably been bought up at reduced prices by the contractors ... and are now placed in the hands of men who are almost within gunshot of the enemy ... at least one-fifth of them are unfit for service; and ... were they to undergo a critical inspection, a much larger proportion of them would be condemned. The ammunition was very bad; some of the cartridges are said to have been made up in 1794.

Papists should be debarred from all public trust.

Tis property that makes government necessary and the immediate end to government is to preserve property; where therefore a government, instead of preserving, entirely ruins the property of the subject. That government dissolves itself.

The arms of the 14th Regiment are in infamously bad order. They appear to be old muskets that have probably been bought up at reduced prices by the contractors ... and are now placed in the hands of men who are almost within gunshot of the enemy ... at least one-fifth of them are unfit for service; and ... were they to undergo a critical inspection, a much larger proportion of them would be condemned. The ammunition was very bad; some of the cartridges are said to have been made up in 1794.

No Papists stir … The Papists being already five or six to one, you imagine in what condition we are like to be in.