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Show 300 Examination ofDr. Franklin (Before 2‘1)? terwards, when tobacco bore a better price, they returned to the ufe of Britilh manufac- tures. So fulling-mills Were very much difufed in the laflc war in Penfylvania, becaufe bills were then plenty, and remittances could calily be [Az D.T.] Hazfi' ofCommom in 1766. 301 Q; When did you communicate that infirué‘cion to the minilter P ‘ A. Soon after my arrival,-while the damping of America was under confideration, and ég/bre the bill was brought in. made to Britain forEnglifh cloth and other goods. Q, Would it be molt for the interef‘c of Great Q; If the Stamp-Act fhould be repealed, would it induce the aflemblies of America to acknow- ledge the rights of parliament to tax them, and Britain, to employ the hands of Virginia in tobacco, or in manufactures P A. In tobacco, to be fure. would they erafe their refolutions ? A. No, never. , ' Q; Is there no means of obliging them to erafe Q; What ufed to be the pride of the Americans P thofe refolutibns P ‘ A. None that I know of; they will never do it, unlefs compelled by force of arms. of Great Britain. .2; What is now their pride P A. To wear their old clothes over again, till 2. Is there a power on earthqthat can force A. To indulge in the fafhions and manufactures they can make new ones. them to erafe them ? ' i3 ' , A. No power, how great foever, can force'men to change their opiniOns. W'itbdrew. Q. Do they confider the pof'c-oflice as a tax, or as a regulation ? . A. ‘Not, as a tax, but as a regulation and conveniency-; every qflmfly encouraged it, and {upported it in its infancy, by grants of money, whieh they would not otherwife have done ; and the people have always paid the pol'tage. . Q, When did you receive the infirué‘tions you me‘ntion‘ed'* E A. I brought them with me, when I came to England, about fifteen months fince. * [,See p. 294. E.] |