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Show 16.4r POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL. for accommodating thele [wriggling Colonifls to trade with the Subjeéts of Great-Brilain, in Dill obedience to the lnjunEtion of their MOtherCountries. ENOUGH furely has been faidon this Subject; and the Uplhot of the whole Matter is plainly this,«-That even the arbitrary and delpotic Governments of France and Spain (arbitraryl fay, both in Temporal: and in Spiri 115) main taintheirj'yuthority over their dmrz'am Colonies S U B J E C T S. 165 Ill, To fuller Things to .go onfora while as they have lately dam, in Hopes that :me favouraf‘dc Opportunity may olier for recoverino the Juril'diétion of the Britij/z Legiflature oveDr her COlODICS, and for maintaining the Auth ority of the Mother-~Country.-- Or if thele temp o- in as much as they can- rifing Meafures lhould be found to firenothe n and confirm the Evil, inl‘tead of remg vincr it;-.then_, D not refirain them from breaking through thole ‘2dly, To attempt to perfuade the Colonies to Rules and Regulations of excluli've Trade; for lend over a certain Number of Deputies , or Reprefentatives to fit and vote in the Briti/lr but very imperfefily; the Sake of which all Colonies {Eemed‘to have been originally founded; What then fh‘all‘ we lay in Regard to fuch Colonies as are the Offfpring of a free Conftitution 9 And alter what Manner, or according to what Rule, are our ownrin particular to be governed, withouc ufing any Force or Compullion, or purfuing any Meafure repugnant to their own ldcasofcivil or religious Liberty? In l‘nort, and to fun] up all, in one 'Word, How {hall we be able to ren‘ (le'r thele Colon.es more fublbrvient to the ln‘ terelts, and more obedient to the Laws and Go- vernment of the Mother Country, than they voluntarily rim/e to hr? After having pondered and revolved the Adair over and over, Iconfels, there feems to me to be but the live followx ixig Propofals, which can polfibly be made, viz}. ll, Parliament; in order to incorporate Amer ica and Great-Britain into one common Empire .‘Orif this Propofal lhould be found impr ac‘ti- table, whether on Account of the Difii cultks attending it on this Side of the fltlantz'c, or becaufe that the flmerimm themlblves woul d not concur in fuch a Meafu re 3~ then, 3dly, To declare open War againfl: them as Rebels and Revolters; and after having made a perfect Conquelt of the Country, then t0 govern it by military Force and defpotic Sway.‘0r if this Scheme fhould be judged (Mir nag/2t to 195) the molt dellrué‘tive, and the leafl eligible of any ; ~ then, 4thly, To propofe to confent that America lbould become the general Seat of Empire; and that Great-Britain and Ireland fhould be g0vcrned by Viec-Roys fent over from the L 3 Court |