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Show E 70 ] of Elegance ;' of the Spirit of Patriotifin, than the Oftentation of Opulence. Not only, " as a Friend to the Colonies," but as an Inhabitant having my All at Stake upon their Welfare +, Idefire an " Exemption from Taxes » a " impofed without my Confent, and" I have reflected longer than " a Moment upon the Confequences:" Ivalue it as one of the dearefi Privi- leges I enjoy: I acknowledge Dependance on Great Britain, but [can perceive a Degree of it without Slavery, and Idifown all other. I do not expect that the Interef'cs of the Colonies will» be' confidered by fome Men, but in Subferviency to other Regards. APPENDIX. Y the 12th Charles II, the Colonies are re- firained from fending the Products enumerated in the A€t to any foreign Ports.--By the 15th of the fame King, they are prohibited from importing Commodities of the Growth or Manufaé‘tureof Europe, except from GREAT-BRITAIN, faving a few Articles mentioned in this Aét. The Effects of Luxury, and Ve- nality, and Oppreflion, Polterity may perhaps ex- A Law, which ref'trains one Part of the So- perience, and SUFFICIENT FOR THE DAY WILL BE ciety, from exporting its Produéls to the mof‘t profitable Market, in favor/r of mot/oar; or obliges it to import the Manufarfitures of one Country that THE EVIL THEREOF. 1‘ See The Riga/orient, &c. Page 11!. are dear, inflead of thofe of another that are cheap, is efiecttiallyaTax. Forif the profitable Exportation, and the [7}7f.37‘l(11f072 of the cheaper Commodities were permitted, a Tax equal to fuch Gain in the former Cafe, and to the Saving in the latter, would leave that Part of the Society, in the fame State and Condition, as if under the Pro« hibition and Reilric‘tion above-mentioned. As for Suppofe a Inl'tance, in the Cafe ofInzportalz'on. Country which I will difiinguifli by the Name of A, can purchafe Commodities of the fame Kind, and equal Goodnefs, 20 per Cent cheaper of B, than {he can of C -,-then it is clear, if A is prohibited from taking thefe Commodities of B, and obliged to purchafe them of C, that A IS Juf't in the fame State and Condition, as if flue were allow- ed to purchafe the Commodities of B, on paying TIhis thereon a Duty of 20 per Cent to C. n- |