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Show [98] We certainly were by inclination and the prineiyles o [99] ,1. i humanity, to enter rrpon a confertnce for the purpole o {heathintr the {word of civil war. But fince by that treaty the United States could not upon a certain contintrency make either peace or truce without the eonlt nt of her all y, it became neceflary to provide that any treaties to be made {hould not be irrconiifl'ent with treaties already lub- lifting. As to the conditions or terms offered by the Commit. fioners it mull be oblerved, that the full is " to extend " e.ery freedom to trade that our refpeetive irrtcrefts can " require.''A propolition which, from the very nature of things,19' impraéticable, or it practicable,19 on their part a realiin \1l1v reconciliationrs unneee flary , l01 certainly it 1115111 mm. erwards ufld for out certain deltr'uflion. But, 31" y. on this, as well as every other propofition they either did or could make, it is to be obfer'ved that in the hill inltance the parliament might 111111-111 immCdiately and take an op- por'tunity t0 crulh all oppolition, while we were at once diiarmed at home and dirbraced for our p11 lily abroad. And ,ly4.th . Should the HMOnent be {0 unlarorablt, or they {0 honelt 21.9 not to make the attempt, any future parliament woull be111 legal capacity to diiannul an agrctmcnt whole validity was d:rived trom the former {emotion of the fame leO'irlature, {0 that duringall the potlible events, which time might give birth to, we fhoul d have been ex- poihd to their attempts, whill't laboring under a weight of debt, and fore from the wounds of our obllinate corrtell. theie llrtCltliSE‘.lCCO!Dp£1tlblt‘,tIt" maybe rtgulatedbytieaty, THE third offer is, " to concur in meafures calculated navt hty vt' ould r'tpulzite the iritli/es individuals would corr111i: their private inter'eiis, and national inter'tltis nothing " to dit[charge the debts of America, and to raife the cre" dit and value of the paper circulation." On which it is 11101etl1an the aerreQ'ate 0f the par ticul11 advantan'es rclult- to be obferved, that as our debt corrfilled of this paper cir- culation, {0 any meafures to difcharge it, that is to fink a ing to the tub}0‘15 (11 21 {late from their private induilry and difeernment. But the intere.1 of Americancquirts that the {horrid trade freely to every part of the earth, while on the other hand it is the interelt ofGreat- Britain to confine our c011rnercc t0 the ports oilher own illand. Not}hintsr then could be more inlrdious than this offer, tor the independence of America being inen up, the Britiflr parliament mull ner- part, mvilt raile the value of the remainder.va for this purpoie taxation was alone neceflhr'y, and indeed the only itep which either they or we could take for that purpofe: Tneir' Generous ofl'er therefore was nothing more than to concur in taxinw us to pay our own debt9. In return to; this, however, we were to be united with them, and corr- ceflaril y have become lupreme, at leatt in matters which fequently become {ecurity for payment of their 1111,1119 were heretofore cornidered as external to America. Of corr- fequence they alone would have been judQes ol' our re- which are enormous. '1he following fhort calculation19 worthy of attention: 120, 000, 000 of dollars, at {even fpeétive interefls, 21nd in cafes where their: were oppofed, {hill ings and fix- pence per dollar, is [45,000, 000, and we may €211in determine theirJudgment. exchanQe beintr at 1000 per cent, which 15 the preterit rate, this turn is wo. th [4,500,000 flcrling only 1111 at "‘1 events the preterit d;bt of America ought not to be «r THE next offer is, that " no miliitary force flroul d be " kept up in America without the confcnt 0t Congrefs or " theparticular Allemblies." 10 which every objection lies: l*or,1ft.iuppofing them to abide literally by fuch avrecment, we 11y open to alll thearts<f feduclion, which efiimated at above 510,000,000 fierling. THEIR otter then f'tands thus, ifyou will {land {ccurity .or and eventually pay your part of [I50,000, 000 lterlinr- long and fircceh tul pr'a151m: could teachlthem to niake ufe 0taZainlt both the one and the other. 21lly. 0111any 0c- which we owe, we will content to your taxing yourfelws canon, which either the exili'ence or apprehenlionI of a foreign war might live rife to, this content would na- ment on an oher of this kind would be abiurd. turally flow from a regard to irninedi2te 1.fety, and‘me 211ter'wards to pay ,{ 10, 000, 000 fierling, which Vou owe. T0 corn- THE rourth offer13, " to pernetuate our union by 21 1c.. N 2 " ciproezl |