the Nation, whose Newspapers ring perpetually with the Clamour, whould itself be the very Pattern of Punctuality. Yet this same Nation has itself run in Debt to the Amount of Two Hundred and seventy five Millions Sterling, much of it to Foreigners, which they now confess they never expect or intend to pay, and might therefore one would think, have alittle Charity for their own Debtors and formerly best Customers, whom they themselves have foolishly ruin’d by a most unjust and destructive War. But this is the Nation which exclaims continually, These rascally Americans, why don’t they pay their Debts!!! Should they say to the Dutch, and Swiss, of whom they have borrowed Forty Millions, Forgive us our Debts, as we forgive our Debtors; They might safely be answer’d Ya, Ya, without finding themselves the better for the Concession. But if they say it in their Prayers, it is little better than an Imprecation. And this having themselves foolishly and wickedly ruin’d and disabled their Debtors by an unjust and destructive War now refuse to [deliver up the Frontier Posts] to fulfil a solemn Stipulation they in their Distress enter’d into for obtaining Peace; to deliver up the Frontier Posts because fuse to perform a solemn Covenant in their Power, and this for no better Reason than this because the Americans do not pay their Debts!!!