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Show 290 ACTS RELATING Part 115.. Sea. Xl. TO THE Commas. 29‘: been altered; the oppreflive provifions, heroifm. if any fuch there were, or even the whole act, might have been fafely repealed. yielding, the fcifliu‘s of a trembling fpinfiet' might have done the work as well. But the colonies now objeétcd to it on \Vas he to enforce the a8: by fire and very different principles: they denied the rights of the parliament to tax them. fword? I cannot perfuade myfelf that fire If the knot was to be cut by and [word would have been neceflhry. To repeal the bill abfolutely, totally, and But I would fuppofe the noble marquis unconditionally, was therefore to give up that right. To fay that fuch a repeal was grounded on commercial principles, was it not nugatory? To allert the right in parliament, without infifiing on a recognition of that right in the colonies; with-- out infifling even on the poor fatisfaé‘tion and his friends to have been actuated by greater views. I would fuppofe them to of a refcillion of the colonial rcfolves againl'c the right, was this the act " of fpirit " and fortitude" f0 much boafied of F What was he to do then 3 Give up the right? This would be "cutting indeed " the Gordian knot :"---though hardly " with a fword :" not much " in the he- "roic fier *4" To yield requires little ‘* See Mr. Burke's Speech, p. 60, 6:. have been anxious to follow the diciates of that " equity, by which we are bound " as much as potlible to extend the fpirit " and benefit of the Britifh confiitution to " every part of the Britifh dominions *." This indeed would have been an objeé‘t worthy of limb a man as the noble lord's panegyril't has defcribed him. He had ofiicial information, that there was no fixed idea of the relation between Great Britain and America. This relation fhould have been fixed. The fupreme authority of the Parliament had been openly a'mfaz' by the 7" See uurltejs Speech, p. 60, 61. U 2 Ame;- |