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Show ( 16 ) laws of naé ing advifcd his majefiy to violate the le was me tions with regard to Spain. The abu s. If adill duflrioufly circulated even in hand-b fe, ADMIminif'tration did not propagate the abu CTED IT. NISTRATION NEVER CONTRADI Iwill g. My not fay what advice I did give to the kin the pol, in advice is in writing, figned by myfelf what advice , lay l fefiion of the crown. But I wil m hi I did not give to the king : I did not advife to violate any of the laws of nations. " The gentleman mul't not wonder he was not rted a contradicted,- when as the minif‘ter, he afi'e not right of parliament to tax America. I know e houf this in how it is, but there is a modei'ty I 'ter. which does not chufe to contradi€t a minil wifh gentlemen would get the better of this mo- defiy. If they do not, perhaps, the collective body may begin to abate of its refpeét for the reLord Bacon had told me, that a great quei'tion would not fail of being agitated at one time or another. I was willing to agitate that at the proper feafon, the German war: my German war, they called it. gOOd caufe, on 9. found bottom, the force of this country can crufh America to atoms. I know the" valour of your troops. I know the {kill of your officers. There is not a company of foot that has ferved in America, out of which you may not pick a man of fulficient knowledge and experience to make a governor of a colony there. But on this ground, on the Stamp-13ft, when {0 many here ng " As to the report of the gentleman's preventi Spa: in fome way the trade for bullion with the I that ly, dent niards, it was fpoken of f0 confi . true be own I am one ofthofe who'did believe it to prefentative. ( 1'7 ) . , _ " A great deal has been faid without doors, of the power, of the llrength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautioufly meddled with. In a Every fellions I called out, has any body any objections to the German war? No body would object to it, one gentleman only excepted, lince removed to the upper houfe, by lucceflion to an ancient barony," (meaning lord le Defpencer, formerly fir Francis Daihwoodg) he told me, " he did not like my German war." I ho~ noured the man for it, and was forty when he was turned out of his poll. A great will think it a crying injufiice, I am one who will lift up my hands againlt it. . " In Inch 21 caufe, your fuccefs would he hazardous.--America, if {he fell, would fall like the firong man. She would embrace the pillars of the flare, and pull down the confiitution along with her. Is this your boal'ted peace? Not to {heath the flyord in its fcabbard, but to {heath it in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarrel With yourfelves, now the whole houfe of Bourbon is united againit you? While France dil'turba your fifheries in Newfoundland, embarralles your {lave trade to Africa, and with-holds from your fubjeéls in Canada, their property fiipulatcd by treaty; while the ranlom for Manillas is denied by Spain, and its gallant conqueror balely tra» duced into a mean plunderer, a gentleman, (colo d woul fpirit ous gener nel Draper) whole noble and do honour to the proudel't grandee of the country. The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper. They have been wronged. They have been driven to madnels by injullice. Will you punifh them for the madnefs you have oecalioned? Rather let prudence and temper come |