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SG(H.782.033
12 Sep 1782:22 (1/48)
Earl Shelburne declares for American independence--At the
beginning of the sessions his Lordship declared, that
whenever American was independent, the sun of England would
set.--His Lordship has been converted from his old political
system, as Copernicius was from the Ptolemac--He now sees
that the world goes round the sun, not that the sun goes
round the world; and tho' the sun of England may set with
American independence, yet he looks to see her rise again in
all her pristine glory from the West.---The excuse given for
his Lordship's change of opinion is not unlike that of the
Mock Doctor in the farce, who, being contradicted by his
patient for asserting, that the heart lay at the right, and
the liver on the left side, assured him, that the system of
the human body has been totally reversed by order of the
College of Physicians.
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