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Show [53 '[ ~7 "J And the fame being read accordingly; He moved, " That this Houfe will, upon this day " fevennight, refolve itfelfinto a Committee of " the whole Houfe, to take into confideration judgement; but obftinacy is not yet conquered. The Hon. Gentleman has made one en. " the duty of 3 [1.11m pound weight upon tea, " payable in all his Majefiy's Dominions 1n " America, impofed by the {aid AC: ; and alfo deavour more to diverfify the form of this difguf'ting argument. He has thrown out a " the appropriation of the {aid duty." Challenges are ferious things; and as he is a man ofprudence as well as refolution, I dare fpeech compofed almofi entirely of challenges. fay he has very well weighed thofe challenges On this latter motion a warm and interciting debate arofe, in which Mr. Edmund before he delivered them. I had long the hap- Burke fpoke as follows : pinefs to fit at the fame fide of the Houfe, and to agree with the Hon. Gentleman on all the American quefiions. My fentiments, I S I R, am fure, IAgree with the Honourable Gentlemarfl" who fpoke lafi, that this fubjeé‘t is not new are well known to him; and I thought I had been perfectly acquainted With his. Though I find myfelf mifiaken, he will in this Houfe. Very difagreeably to this Houfe, flill permit me to ufe the privilege of an old very unfortunately to this Nation, and to the friendfhip; he will permit me to apply myfelf to the Iloufe under the {auction of his authority ; and, on the various grounds he has mean fured out, to fubmit to you the poor opinions: peace and profperity of this whole Empire, no topic has been more familiar to us. For nine . long years, fefliOn after fefiion, we have been Iafhed round and round this miferable circle of occafional arguments and temporary expedients. Iam iure our heads mufi turn, and our f'ro‘machs nauleate with them. We have had which I have formed, upon a matter of im-' portance enongh to demand the fullefi cone ., fideration I could bellow upon it. " He has Rated to the Houfe ttvo grounds of deliberation ; one narrow and fimple,and merely them in every fhape; we have looked at them in every point of View. Invention is exhaufled; reafon is fatigued; experience has given confined to the quefiion on your paper: the *i' Charles Wolfran Ccrnwall, E'iq; lately appointed one of the prehending the whole {cries of the parliamen-a tary proceedings with regard to America, their caufes, and their confequeuces. With regard. Lords of the Trcafury. V . ' . . 1 other more large and more complicated; come Jacgement 5 A 4, to |