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Show 344. ACTS RELATING Part. III. Sect. III. TO THE COLONIES, 345 What conclufions would the colonifts draw from thence? either, they would fay, par- S E C T. liament in the next fellions will controul the minif'cer; and then no faith is to be III. Proceeding: of file t/zzrdflflwzr. given to the promifes held out in this letter: or the minifter will manage par- liament, and then we may laugh at its thunders; in vain it points them: the mi- at the (and of the lalt fec‘tion, appear to have been precifely fuch as might have nilter will not fuller them to be hurled. been expected. \Vhether of the two conclufions was drawn, the effects of the letter could not tributed, as well it might, to the fears of but be hurtful. ‘ On the one hand the mi- niflry, on the other the parliament, was brought into difgrace. HE efl'ecfts of the letter mentioned It feems to have been at- government. The authority of parliament was fiill more defpifed : the pretenfions of the colonies rofe {till higher. Nothing lefs would now ferve them, to judge from the difcourfe of one of their leaders in Bolton, than the total repeal of all the revenue acts from the fifteenth of Charles II. This leader muf'c, in comparifon ofthe refi, have been a man of fingular moderation, not to fay a falfe brother: fince if we may believe an oHicer of rank of that province, writing from New York *, it * See Hutchinfon and Oliver's Letters, p. 38, 39‘ was |