Political debates.

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( I4 7 titan Stamp-Act. With the enemy at their patch; { I5 -) with our bayonets at their breat'ts, 1n the day or" their my oflice: I {peak therefore, from knowledge. My dillrel‘s, perhaps the Americans would have lun- materials were good. I was at pains to collect, to digell, to confider them, and I will be bold to aflirm, that the profits to Great-Britain from the mitted to the impoiition; but it would have been taking an ungenerous, and unjuli advantage. The gentleman boalts of his bounties to Amerita l Are thole bounties intended finally for the benefit or trade of the colonies, through all its branches, is two millions a year. This is the fund that carried this kingdom? If they are, where is his peculiar you triumphantly through the lall war. merit to America? If they are not, he has mila applied the national trealures. lam no courticrof ellates that were rented at two thoufand pounds a year, threefcore years ago, are at three thouland America, Il‘tand up for this kingdom. pounds at prefent. Thole ellatcs fold then from fif- Imam- i‘ttin, that the parliament has a right to bind, to tellrain America. Our legillative 3ower over the colonies is fovereign and fupreme. When it ceales to be fovereign and fizpreme, I would advife every gentleman to tell his lands, if he can, and em: bark for that country. \Vhen two countries are «:onnef‘ted together, like England and her colo- The teen to eighteen years purchafe; the fame may he pow fold for thirty. You owe this to America. This is the price that America pays you for her pro~ tet‘lion. And {hall a miferable financier come with The greater mul't rule the a boal't that he can fetch a pepper-corn into the Exchequer, to the lofs of millions to the nation! I dare not lay, how much higher thefe profits mav be augmented. Omitting the immenfe increafe 0t people, by natural population, in the northern ce- leis; butfo rule it, as not to contradiet the fun- lonies, and the migration from every part of Eu- nies, without being incorporated, the one mull: necellarily govern. rope, I am convinced the whole commercial fyliettl damental principles that are common to both. of America may be altered to advantage. You have " Ifthe gentleman does not underltand the dif. s‘i-rence between internal and external taxes, Ican- not help it; but there is a plain .dil‘tintftion be" tween taxes levied for the purpoles of railing a revenue, and duties impoled for the regulation of trade, for the accommodation of the lubjeet; al- though in the confequences, fume revenue might incidentally arile from the latter. The gentleman alks, when were the colonies emancipated 9 But Idelire to know, when they were prohibited, where you ought to have encouraoed v, and you have encouraged, where you oucrht to have prohibited. Improper refiraints havebbeen laid on the continent, in favour of the illands. You have but two nations to trade with in AmeriCa. Would you had twenty! Let acts of parliament in confequence of treaties remain, but let not an Englilh miniller become a culiom-houle officer for Spain, or for any foreign power. Much is wrong, much may be amended for the general good of the whole. made llaves? Bur I dwell not upon words. WhenI had the honour of ferving his majelly, I availed myé‘e‘ifof the means of informationmhich I derived from Ely Does the gentleman complain he has been mil"- reprefented in the public prints? It is a com~ mon misfortune. In the Spanilh afi‘air in the lair war, I was muted in all the newspapers, for havin( u