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Show 'h " Leaders of your Parties will then be fetting all .. "(m 1W0 on cheaper Terms. In fhort, you will do then, what you only do now; that is, you will trade with us, as far as your Interei't will lead you; and no farther. TAKE now a Piéture of your internal State. the Yoke of the Mother Country, will meet with nothing but fore Difappointments : Difappointments indeed l For ini'tead of an imaginary Yoke, they will be obliged to bear a real, 3 heavy, and a galling one: Infiead of being freed from the Payment of 100,000], (which is the utmofi that is now expected from them) they will find themfelves loaded with Taxes to the Amount of at leaf: 400,0001. : Infiead of an lncreafe of Trade, they will feel a palpable De~ creafe -, and inflead of having Troops to defend When the great Power, which combined the them, and .thofe Troops paid by Great-Britain, they mull defend themfelves, and pay themfelves. feattered Provinces together, and formed them Nay, the Number of the Troops to be paid, into one Empire, is once thrown off; and when there will be no common Head to g0vern and will be more than doubled; for fome mui‘t be protect, all your ill Humours will break forth like a Torrent: Colony will enter into Bicker- fogs and Difputes againi't Colony 5 Faction will ' intrigh‘? ‘ . I: "'48. A expeéled, and who were promifed Mountains of Treafures upon throwing off, what was called, i infeé‘t their own Colonies -, not to mention that the two latter will not care to have fuch a Nef't of profelfed Smugglers fo very near them. And after all, and in Spite of any thing you cando,we in Britain {hall fiill retain the greatefi Part of your European Trade; becaufe we fliall give a better Price for many of your Commodities than you can have any where elfe -, and we {hall fell to you feveral of our Manufaétures, efpea cially in the Woollen, Stuff, and Metal Way, their Engines to work, to make Fools become the Dupes of Knaves, to bring to Maturity their half-formed Schemes and lurking Deligns, and to give 2. Scope to that towering Ambition which was checked and refirained before. In the mean Time, the Mafs of your People, who i to affil't you : For affure yourfelf, that Holland, Frame, and Spain, will look upon you with an evil Eye -, and will be particularly on their Guard againi't you, left fuch an Example fl'lOUld The fiationed in the back Settlements to proteét them againf't the Indium, whom they have to Often injured and exaiperated, and Others alfo on each Frontier to prevent the Encroachments S 2 of - @777" [A moreover, in Cafe of Difference with other Powers, you will have none to complain to, none and Confufion will every where prevail. dimly." "33w: t? V Troops to proteé‘t you againf't the Incurfions of the much injured and exafperated Savages; $19!! LAM i 139 ] intrigue and cabal againfl: Faetion -, and Anarchy i")! I r38 ] |