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Show [ 127 ] [ 126 l BUT, my good Friend, be affored, that thefe Mother Country always to prevent) To come viently as you can in Times of Peace; and are Rel'traints, which neither the prefent, nor any future Minil'try can exempt you from. therefore, there was no Need of watching you They are the {landing Laws of the Kingdom; f0 narrole, as far as that Branch of Trade was concerned. But immediately upon the Peace, the various Manufaftures of Europe, particularly thofe of Frame, which could not and God forbid, that we {hould allow that difpenfing Power to our Min-liters, which we f0 jul'tly deny to our Kings. ln fhort, while you are a Colony, you mull: be fubordinate to the find Vent before, were fpread, as it were, over all your Colonies, to the prodigious Detriment of your Mother Country, and therefore our late Set of Minil'ters aéted certainly right, in putting in Force the Laws of their Country, in order to check this growing Evil. Mother Country. Thefe are the Terms and Conditions, on which you were permitted to make your firft Settlements: They are the Terms and Conditions on which you alone can be entitled to the Alliftance and Protection of If in fo Great-Brimiiz-,---they are alfo the fundamental doing, they committed any Error; or, if the Perfons to whom the Execution of thefe Laws Laws of the Realm ;---and I will add further, were intruPted, that if we are obliged to pay many Bounties for the Importation of your Goods, and are excluded exceeded their Infiruétions; there is no Doubt to be made, but that all this will be reétified by the prefent Adminiflzration. And having done that, they will have done all that in Reafon you can expeét from them. But alas l the Expeé‘tations of an American carry him much further: For he will ever complain and fmuggle, and fmuggle and complain, 'till all Rel'traints are removed, and 'till he can both buy and fell, whenever, and wherefoever he :pleflfes. Any thing {hort of this, is run a Grievance, a Badge of Slavery, an Ufurpation on the natural Rights and Liberties of a free People, and I know not how many bad Things befides. . ‘ BUT, from purchafing fuch Goods, in other Countries (where we might purchafe them on much cheaper Terms) in order to promote year In; terel'tgn-by Parity of Reafon you ought to be fubjee‘t to the like Exelufions, in order to promote ourr. This then being the Cafe, do not expect, from the prefent Miniftry, that which is impoflible for any Set of Minifiers to grant. All that they can do, is to connive a while at your unlawful Proceedings. But this can be but of lhort Duration: For as foon as ever frelh Remonfiranees are made by the Briti/iz Manufaé‘turers, and Brit/fl Merchants, the 1}? n1 ry |