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Show [ 53 ] [5.2] unfortunate events, iince that time, may make urged from the fame mouths, and on the fame fomething further necellary; and not more ne- dav. cefliiry for the fiatisfaé‘tion of the Colonies, than for the dignity and confillency of our own future proceedings. I have taken a very incorrect meafiire of the dilflpofition of the Houle, if this prepoiiil in itfelf would be received with dillike. have few American Financier-s. fortune is, we are too Mute; "Elllllll For inllance, when we allcdge, that it is againfi realon to tax a people under {0 many re- i think, Sir, we But our miswe are flraints in trade as the Americans, the* Noble Lord in the blue ribband {hall tell you, that the ref'traints on trade are futile and ulelefs; of no advantage to us, and of no burthen to thofe on whom they are impoled; that the trade to America is not {ccured by the tails of navigation, but too ex- quifite in our conjectures of the future, for men by the natural and irrcfii'tible advantage of a com- otiprelled with fuch great and preterit evils. mercial preference. The more moderate among the oppofers of Parliamentary Concellion freely confets, that they hope no good from 'l"axation; but they apprehend the Colonill‘s have further views; Such is the merit of the trade laws in this politure of the debate. But when {irong internal circumf'rances are urged againfi the taxes; when and if this point were conceded, they would inflantly at ack the Trade-laws. Thele Gentlemen are convinced, that this was the intention from the beginning; and the quarrel of the Americans with Taxation was no more than a cloke and cover to this deiign. Such has been the language even of a "4" Gentleman of real nit‘irI-t'ration: and the feheme is dill'eéted; when experience and the nature of things are brought to prove, and do prove, the utter impollibility of obtaining an cfi‘eétive revenue from the Colonies; when thefe things are prefibd, or rather preis tlieinlelves, f0 as to drive the advocates of Colony taxes to a clear admiflion of the futility of the fcheme; then, Sir, the fleeping trade laws revive from of a natural temper well adjulted to fair and equal Government. lam, however, Sir, not a little their trance; and this ufclefs taxation is to be kept furprrzed at this kind of dil'courfe, whenever I hear 1t; and I am the more fur-prized, on guard and fecurity of the laws oftrade. account of the arguments which I conf'rantly find in company with it, and which are often _ * Mr. Rice. . facred, not for its own fake, but as a counter- Then, Sir, you keep up revenue laws which ,are mifchievous, in order to preferve trade laws , * Lord North. urged E 3 that |
