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Show .. [36] L' 37 ] you have ten ‘ thoufand times more firong commercial reafons for givmg up this duty on tea, than for abandoning the five others that far, the Americans will go farther.--VVe do you have already renounced. not know that. But flill it {ticks in our throats, if we go f0 We ought, from experience, rather to prefume the contrary. The American confiimption of teas is an- Do we not nually, I believe, worth 300,0col. at the lead: know for certain, that the Americans are going on as faf'r as poflible, whilft we refufe to graa farthing. If you urge the American Violence as a ‘juflification of your perfeverance in enforcing this tax, you know that you-can never worfe, if we yield this point? I think this concefiion will rather fix a turnpike to prevent anfwer this plain quellion-VVhy (lld you re- their further progrefs. peal the others given in the fame act, whih't fwer for bodies of men. But I am fure the natural eflreét of fidelity, clemency, kindnefis in governors, is peace, good-will, order, and efleem, on the part of the governed. I would certainly, at leafl, give thefe fair principles a fair trial ; which, fince the making of this act the very fame violence fubfitled P-But you did not find the violence ceafe upon that conceflion.-Nol becaufe the conceflion was far fhort of {atisfying the principle which Lord Hillfborough had abjured; or even the pretence on which the repeal of the other taxes was announced: and becaufe, by enabling the Eai'c India Company to open_a ihop 'for defeating the American reiolution not to pay that fpecific tax, you manifeflly Ihewed a hankering after the princrple of the ail which you formerly had renounced. \Vhatever road you take leads to a compliance With this mo- tion. It opens to you at the end of every vifto. Your commerce, your policy, your promifes, your reafons, your pretences, your confifiency, your inconfiflency~all _}0111tly oblige you to- this repeal. But tify, them? can they do more, or can they do It is impoflible to an- to this hour, they never have had. Sir, the Hon. Gentleman having {poken what he thought Iieceffary upon the narrow part of the fubjeé'r, I have given him, I. hope, a fatisfiiétory aaner. He next prefiés me by a variety of direét challenges and oblique reflexions to fay fornething on the hiflorical part. I {hall therefore, Sir, open myfelf fully on that important and delicate fubjeét; not for the fake of telling you a long {lory (which, I know, Mr. Speaker, you are not particularly fond of), but for the fake of the weighty inflruétion that, I flatter myfelf, will necef1:11-in refult from it. It {hall not be longer, C3 if |