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Show But was every mailer and millrefs of a family refidenethere the immediate fon and daughter ofa father and mo: ther livmg now at this time in England; yet they be« mg gone from us andhaving efhiblilhed theml'elves, 3rd goigitnglies of their own, and having acquired a g y, We could by no means even as true and real parents, make out any claim havino fuch confeguences, 'as that which we advance. However the {aft isfvery different ; they left us in former times a part lovernors there, and with our miniflers at home. Hence their prefent military Governor and the armies and fleets now gone, or going againl't them. Hence the firange provifion, {aid to be in agitation, that their blood may not be liable to be anfwered for there. They would otherwife, in all appearance, be at this moment on thefe fuhjeéts in the fame fituation, as their neighbours of Conneé‘ticut and Rhode lfland, With‘whofe charters their own agreed, until they loft it by their i‘efi-{tance and oppofition to the-will of the no man hnows how far , . We might mount towards Adam or Noah «to fettle the real relation between us. Butwastheir hilltory told, as it deferves: Howthey have made thefe theirgreatel'ta- when the others faved theirs by blilhinents at their own charge, and with almoll no ex- I {hall leave my readers to judge, whe- pence of ours: How we have ever had the total command of the produce of that immenfe country, {o as to regulate the commerce and exportation of it merely according to our own advantage and convenienpe ; that this is grown to bean ohjeh of perhaps no lets than four millions flerling a year, all turned toWards our profit; could the extreme benefits be all fet two lal‘t Stuarts; giving way ther it was the good'or the evil contained in this poor piece of parchment, which‘thus united againft it, Smart Kings and rew/nz‘ion minillers. But this charter mull certainly have been granted under an evil planet, ifwhat fome people fay be true; that it is now again ‘ under difpleafure athome, and on the brink of being once more reve~rfed=and altered. But that event has not, at the writing of this, happened. Iain therefore perfeftly perfuaded, that {hould any thing of that kind take place, it When the contrary be the refloration of thole its former privileges and powers, which was {0 unreafonably and 'fo unjiiflly denied at the revolution. Bt‘it let any one confider this lii'llory of a charter, and then reflect, whether‘ mankind have not reafon to' blefsthem'felves, that they have fo'me rights of a higher nature than charters, {uperior to them and lndfi‘ pendent of them. , But are not we the parent country? That is- a very refpeélable word, but fo likewife is the relation of it mutual. It has always hitherto had its full Weight with our solonies of North. America, and will probably. continue to have, if we can content ourfeltes with 2,153i}‘351553233:lloistiihifi? they W hem" forth, which we have by thefe means received, from the firlt foundation of theft: coioiiies to this time, and the cheerfuhiefs, fidelity ahd loyalty wlierewith they have fuhmitted to this; and fincere and warm Friendfhip and afl‘eétion, which they have ever born us, while We kept ourlelves within thefe bounds; the affillance which we have received from them in war, as well as the profits in peace; could all thefe circumflances be, with very many others favourable to them, told and reprefented together, and in their full light, the ftory itfelf would bid Fair to make thefe harlh and unmerited 383 of Parliament drop out of our hands, if we held them atthe time. However at leall don't let us extend a figurative and metaphorical faying, to tliedivelting of fall their properties, near upon two millions of people, and ‘ 3511?: ' "Z all three chief officers has proved to them. no man at acquainted‘witli the name of Mallachufcus Bay can be {0 ignorant of their hiilory, as not to be informed and feiilible. Hence their differences with their own '19-? with any tolerably reafonable fenfe and me of‘it . (19) (137 |