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Show 236 Calf/é; of tbc Amarilmz [A2 D.T.] of this fuppofed rebellion; that it was thought necelfary to enforce the (flattering Act by another ac‘t of parliament, taking away from the province of New York (which had been the molt explicit in its refufal) all the powers of legiflation, till it fliould have complied with that act. The news of which greatly alarmed the people every where in America, as (it had been faid) the language of fuch laws raife {hall an aét feemed to them to bC-obey implicitly made by the parliament of Great Britain to money on you without your confent, or you enjoy no rights or privileges at all. At the fame time a perfon lately in high of- fice'is projected the levying more money, from America, by new duties on various articles of our own manufacture, (as glafs, paper, painters co- lours, 86C.) appointing a new board of enfloms, and fending over a fet of commiflioners, with Df/rolzimtr before 1768, 23.7 that they are not like princes whofe pofierity have an inheritance in the governmentof a nation, and therefore an interefl in its profperity; they are generally firangers to the provinces they are fent to govern ; have no eflate, natural conneétion, or relation there, to give them an affection for the country; that they come only to make money as faf'c as they can; are fornetimes men of vicious characters and broken fortunes, fent by a minifler merely to get them out of the way; that as they intend {laying in the country no longer than their government continues, and purpofe to leave no family behind them; they are apt to be regardlefs of the good-will of the people, and care not what is faid or thought of them after they are gone. Their fituation at the fame time, gives them many opportunities of being vexatious; large falaries, to be eftablifhed at Boflon, who were to have the care of collecting thofe duties; and they are often {0, notwithftanding their dependence on the affemblies for all that part of their fupport, that does not arife from fees cita- which were by the aét exprefsly mentioned to be intended for the payment of the falaries of go- blifhed by law; but would probably be much more {0, if they were to be fupported by money vernors, judges, and other officers of the crown drawn from the people without their confent in America; it being a pretty general opinion or good will ; which is the profelfed defign of here, that thofe oflicers ought not to depend on this new act. That if by means of thefe forced duties government is to be fupported in America, the people there, for any part of their fupport. It is not my intention to combat this opinion. --But perhaps it may be fome {atisfaétion to your readers, to know what ideas the Americans have on the fubjeét. They fay then, as to gamma", 7 [ML C/mr/e: Town/End. E.) that without the intervention of the aflemblie55- their affemblies will foon be looked upon as ufelefs; and a governor will not call them, as having nothing to hope from their meeting, and perhaps fomething to fear from their inquiries into, and remonfltrances againft, his mal-adminiftration. That |