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Show [3] ever will be to, as long as the world endures. .Plain good intention, which is as eatily dilco- vered at the firlt View, as fraud is finely deteéttd magnificent Auétion of Finance, Where capti- vated provinces come to general ranfom by bidding againfi each other, until you knock down the at lad, is, let me lay, of no mean force in the hammer, Government of lylankind. ments, beyond all the powers of Algebra to equalize and fettle. Genuine Simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle. and determine a proportion of pay- My Plan, therefore, being formed upon the molt limple grounds imaginable, may dilappoint forne The plan, which I {hall prefume to fuggeft, people, when they hear it. it has nothing to recommend it to the prurieney of curious ears. There is nothing at all new and captivating in it. It has nothing of the Splendor of the Pro- derives, however, one great advantage from the jeé't, which has been lately laid upon your Table propolition and regif'try of that l\oble Lord's Project. The idea of conciliation is admiflible. Fir-ft, the Houfe, in accepting the refolution moved by the Noble Lord, has admitted, not- by the Noble Lord in the Blue Ribband'lt'. It does not propofe to fill your Lobby with {quabbling Colony Agents, who will require the interpolition ofyour Mace, at every inltant, to keep the peace amongft them. It does not inllitute a withl‘tanding the menacing front of our Addrels, * " That when ‘the Governor, Council, or Allembly, or General The Route has gone farther; it has declared conciliation admifiible, preview to any fubmif- iion on the part of America. It has even (bet Court, of any of his Majefty's Provinces or Colonies in America , {hall firm/aye to make proviiion, according to i/Jc (audition, circumflrmprs, and firmiz‘un, 0t fuch Province or Colony, for contribu ting thelrprnportimz to the Cwmnm Definer ({uch pru/mrn'o zz to be railed under the Authority of the General Court, or General Allianbly, or tech Prorintc or Colony, and dilpoliible by Parliame nt) and ( {hall engage to make Provilion allb for the fupport of the Civil ' (acfcrrnncnt, and the Adniinilirarion or lultice, in fuch Province or Colony, it will be proper, 571/2103 Pligpqflzl fl‘a/l he affirmed Z2); [:55 thing/ferrarxz' Mm 11w Ira/4A: qf Parliament, and for inch l'roulion {hall be made accordingly, to tbrbear, {0 1on0 as in?"(j21r2‘70f far/1'P/o'i'jzt'i‘ r-;~_C}21'.i,g;v, to levy any Duly, Tax, or Allefhnent, (Jr to impale any farther Duty, Tax, or Allellinent, except fuch Duties as 1". maybe expedient to continue to levy or inipole, for the hcgtnanon 0t Commerce; the tht l'rotlticc or. the Duties luft mentioned to be carried to the account of l'uch Province or Colony r'efi‘ectively." Refolution moved bv Lord North in the Committee; and agreed to by the Home, -7 Feb. 1775. magnificent notwithllanding our heavy Bill of Pains and Penalties-that we do not think ourlelves precluded from all ideas of free Grace and Bount . Y a good deal beyond that mark, and has admit- ted, that the complaints of our former mode of exerting the Right of Taxation were not wholly unfounded. That right thus exerted is allowed to have had lbmething reprehenlible in it; {ome- thing unwife, or lOmething grievous: lince, in the midll: of our heat and relentnient, we, of ourfclves, have propoled a capital alteration; and, in order to get rid of what themed {0 very exeeptionable, have inltituted a mode that is altogether new; one that is, indeed, wholly alien from |