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Show 126 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL all; you to contribute equally with ourfelves, we only demand, that you would contribute fame. thing. And what is this fomething? Why U‘uly it is, that when we raife about Eight Millions SUBJECTS. 127 County Taxes, Militia Taxes, Poor Taxes, Vagrant Taxes, Bridge Taxes, High Road and One Hundred Thoufand Pounds (for the Stamp Turnpike Taxes, ‘vVatch Taxes, Lamps and Scavenger Taxes, £55. {9%. {9°C.--all of them as numerous and burthenfome as any that you can mention. And yet with all this Burthen, yea, with an additional Weight of a National Duty upon the Continent alone, without com. Debt of 18]. Sterling per Head,---we requil.C of prehending the Iflands, cannot pofiibly amount to more) I fay, we expect, that you fliould con- each of you to contribute only One Shilling to every Twenty from each of us ;~yes; and thig tribute One Hundred Thoufand Pounds to be raifed on Two Millions: That is, when each of us pays, one with another, Twenty Shillings per Shilling to be {pent too in your own Country, for the Support of your own Civil and Military of Money annually upon Eight Millions of Perlbns, we expect, that you would C0ntributc Efiablifhments; together with many Shillings Head, we expect, that each of you fhould pay drawn from us for the fame Purpofe. the Sum of One Shilling! Blulhl blufh for had you been in our Situation, and we in yours, Shame at your perverfe and fcandalous Behaviour! WWords {till more fever-e, and perhaps more juf'r, are ready to break forth, through an honefi: Indignation :--But Ifupprefs them. PERHAPS you will fay, and I think it is the only Thing left for you to fay, in Excufe for would you have been content with our paying lb fmall, {o inconliderable a Share of the Public fuch Proceedings, that you have Other Public Taxes to pay, belides thofe which the Britiflz DOW l'Cqul‘CS. Undoubtedly you 113%, for your Provincial and other Taxes are llliC‘WllE to be paid: But here let me afk, is not Alas! Expences? And yet, {mall and inconfiderable as this Share is, you will not pay it. No, you will not! mand it. And be it at our Peril, if we de- Now, my Friend, were Reafon and Argu~ ment, were Jtiltice, Equity, or Candour to be Pill'lléll'llCIlE allowed by you to have any Concern in this Affair, I would then fay, that you flmcricmu are the mof't unfortunate People in the W'orld this our Cafe alto? And have not we many other in your Management of the prefent Controverfy. Taxes to difcharge befides thofe which belong to the PUbllCa and are to be accounted rota: Unfortunate you are, becaufe the very Attempts the EXChCQUCI‘ 9 Surely we have : Witnefs our you make towards fetting forth your Inability, PmVC to a Demonfl'ration, that you are abun~ County dantl‘,‘ |
