Being a complete collection of the beft Letters (including those Printed for J. MURRAY, No. 32. Fleet-ftreet; J. BELL, MDCCLXXI. THE NEW YORK 166151 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1900. THE NEW YORKT ENOX AND THE TREASURY: O R, IMPARTIAL COMPENDIUM OF POLITICS and LITERATURE, FOR JUNE, 1770. Number I. Te the EDITORS of the TREASURY. Gentlemen, M EN renounce the rights they have from nature to live in fociety they give up a part of their natural freedom to fubmit to laws. They give authority to a ruler, and while he continues to govern according to the regulations they have agreed upon, it is not lawful for them, and they have no inclination, to fet him afide. They could enjoy no happiness or security while they were folitary and at war with each other, and to procure them, they form a community. These then are the ends of government; and the voice of the people must perpetually be attended to. If they feel grievances and complain of them, they ought immediately to receive redrefs. Their wounds Vol. II. B muft |