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Show ( IO ( ) an expence arifing from themfelves, they renouncel your authority, infult your-ohicers, and breant out, I might almolt fay, into open rebellion. The feditious fpirit of the colonies owes its birth to the factions in this home. Gentlemen are carelefs of the conihqueiices of what they fay, pro~ vided it anfwers the purpofes of oppolition. We were told, we trod'on tender ground; we were, bid to expect difobedience. What was this, but telling the Americans to {land out againlt the law, to encourage their obf'tmacy with the expectation of fupport from hence? Let us only hold out a little, they would fay, our friends will foon be in power. Ungrateful people of America! Bounties have been extended to them. \Vhen I had the honour to ferve the crown, while you yourfelves were loaded with an enormous debt, you have given bounties on their lumber, on their iron, their hemp, and many other articles. You have relaxed, in their favour, the aft of naviga- tion, that palladium of the Britilh commerce 5 and yet I have been abufed in all the public papers, as an enemy to the trade of America. II ) files, but in this place, it becomes one to wipe of? the afperfion. Here Mr. Grenville ceafed. Several members got up to fpeali, but Mr. Pitt feeming to rife, the houfe was to .clamorous for Mr. Pitt, Mr. Pitt, that the Speaker was obliged to call to order. After obtaining a little quiet, he laid, " Mr. Pitt was up," who began with informing the houfe, " That he did not mean to have gone any further upon the l‘ubjeét that day; that he had only defigned to have thrown out a few hints, which, gentlemen, who were fo confident of the right of this kingdom to lend taxes to America, might confider ,5 might perhaps reflect, in a cooler moment, that the right was at leaft equivocal. But lince the gentleman,who {poke lal'r, had not [topped on that ground, but had gone into the whole; into the juflice, the equity, the policy, the ex~ pediency of the Stamp-Act, as well as into the right, he would follow him through the whole field, and combat his arguments on every point." I have been particularly charged with giving orders and in»ftruc‘tions to prevent the Spanilh trade, and there- by {topping the channel, by which alone North A~ merica ufed to be fupplied with calla for remit~ tances to this country. [defy any man to pro- duce any fuch orders or infirtietions. I dilcouraged no trade but what was illicit, what was prohibited by act of parliament. I delire aW'el't-lndia merchant, well known in the city, (Mr. Long.) a gentleman of character, may be examined. He will tell you, that I ofi‘ered to do every thing in my power to advance the trade of America. I V1.15 above giving an anfwer to anonymous calmnmes ;, He was going on, when lord Strange got up, and called both the gentlemen, Mr. Pitt, and Mr. Grenville, to order. He faid, " they had borh departed from the matter before the houfe, which was the king's fpeech; and that Mr. Pitt was going to {peak twice on the fame debate, although the houfe was not in a committee." Mr. George Onflow anfwered, " That they were both in order, as nothing had been faid, but what was fairly deducible from the king's lpeech," and appealed to the Speaker. The Speaker decided in Mr, Onflow's favour. C a Mr. |