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Show [44] [45] ‘3 are no where better fupported than in this " Province; Ido not pretend that it is entirely this Honfe. At that period the neceflity was eltablifhed of keeping up no lefs than twenty " free from a breach of thefe laws; but that new regiments, with twenty colonels capable " fuch a breach, if difcovered, is jufily pu" nifhed." What more can you fay of the ad0pted with very general applaufe from all obedience to any laws in any Country? Ari obedience to thefe laws formed the acknow- ledgement, inflituted by yourfelves, for your fides, at the very time that, by your conquefts in America, your danger from foreign attempts in that part of the world was much fuperiority; and was the payment you origie nally impofed for your protection. of feats in this Houfe. This fcheme was leflérletl, or indeed rather quite over. When this huge encreafe of military eflablifhment was refolved on, a revenue was to be found Whether you were right or wrong in efiablifhing the_Colonies on the principles of com: to fupport f0 great a burthen. Country gentlemen, the great patrons of oeconomy, and mercial monopoly, rather than on that of re- the great refifiers of a {landing armed force, venue, is atthis day a problem of mere fpeculation. You cannot have both by the would not have entered with much alacrity into the vote for to large and fo expenfive an army, if they had been very fure that they fame authority. To join together the refiraints of an univerfal internal and external monopoly, with an univerfal internal and ex- were to continue to pay for it. ternal taxation, is an unnatural union; perfect particular, I well remember, that Mr. Town- uncompenfated flavery. You have long fince decided for yourfelfand them; and you and the have profpered exceedingly under that decifion. But hopes of another kind were held out to them; and in fhend, in a brilliant harangue on this {ubjeét, did dazzle them, by playing before their eyes the image of a revenue to be raifed in America. This nation, Sir, never thought of depart- ing . from that choice until the period immediately on the clofe of the laf't war. Then a fcheme of government new in many things feemed to have been adopted. I faw, or thought I faw, feveral fymptoms of a great change, whilfi I {at in your gallery, a good while before I had the honour of a feat in this Here began to dawn the firft glimmerings of this new Colony fyfiem. It appeared more diftinétly afterwards, when it was devolved upon a perfon to whom, on other accounts, this Country owes very great obligations. I do believe, that he had a very ferious defire to benefit the public. But with no final! ftudy of |