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Show Seét. XI. .284. ACTS RELATING TO THE COLONIES; 285 Part II. " vigation, and the whole corps of trade afloeiate, and afterwards fuccelTor to the noble marquis. This then was as favourable a moment as " laws, were drawn up in array againl‘c " him; he knew " in fubf'tance," that they were not directly againf‘t him. But could well be hoped for ; not merely to declare but to vindicate, and eftablilh on a permanent foundation, the rights of the he did not ehoofe to " determine ralhly," he chofe to know as much " formally and " officially." By way of form then the Britifli parliament. There are three points on which the attorney general's opinion was afleed ; that once obtained, " the noble marquis imme- \Americans pretended, that the minif'try diately difpatehed orders for the redrefs of had grolly mifunderflood, or wantonly fa- thefe grievances." Orders, it {hould feem, crificed the interefis of the colonies : their which, among other good effeé‘ts, pre- commercial regulations, the fuppreflion ventedthe total ruin which was threatene l of their paper money, and pafling the ' fiamp aét. Thefe then were the objefis of the Spanifh trade. Here then, one would think, was a vafi: which demanded the immediate attention fund of popularity acquired in America: of the marquis. an acquiiition, one would have hoped, As to the firfi: oftbem, a fcrupulous at- tention to treaties with foreign fiates, and a partial attachment to the letter of the navigation aéts, had, it {hould feem, milled his predecelfor. The noble marquis we are ' that might have done " knight's ferviee;" might have coneiliated the opinions and alfeétinns of men '75. As to the fecond of thefe objet‘ts, the regulation of the paper money of the co- told, " {aw his way clear before him : " though, on the one hand, treaties and f‘ public law; on the other, the at); of na- f‘ vigation, ~t Kb. 1). 6:. lorries, |