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Show (SI) (5:) That {elves with getting hither the American money. . is our bufinefs. Vile know what to do Wllh it here This is the very land of taxes. It is now coming on §t_paEes imperceptibly, but neverthefs fiirely, and Without ceaiing. What are then the caufes which fupplyit ? I aniwer, thofe two great fources of Ireland and America. Thefe firil, Water and fruétify ven and as fail, as it can.. Don't let us move Hea With their molt benignant current, the whole ifland of Let us have Great Britain, and then finifli their courfe in the difcharge of our debt abroad. Their way is no more Earth, only to difinrb it in its paiiage. at home. theleai‘t patience, and fall to work upon it it Wlll 'We are certain, that it will be here, and that taxed upon taxed. vifible than that of the intereft itfelf, of our debt, The red is with all fubmiflion, to my fuperiors, no but it is alike certain and confiant. Stop, or dry up thefe, and you will as furely flop, or dry up the better at the bottom, than a childiih fancy, and impatience, and owing only to the want of a full reflec- funds of our debts, as withholding the rain, or the dew of Heaven would lefieii and lower the firearm of then be taxed, and, as it were, tion, and confideration on the fubjeét. _ ~ l'have yet fomething to add on this head ; which is, that'were the lriih and the Americans, both of them unanimoufly to cry out to us, to {pare their lives, and to take all they have 5' to beg of us to fend them fiich another army of taxvgatliere'rs, as our own, and with them acopy of our code of revenue-laws; Iwill be bold to fay, that it would neverthelefs be in us the Worii policy in the world, and totally contrary to our own interei‘i, to take them at their words, and to in the leaft degree any fuch thing. We fee Thames flowing confiantly into the ocean, and always full. It need nor be faid, that the rain and do the yet the dew are the carries of this, which fii‘ll fall and fertilize the earth, and then repleiiifii that noble riv r. Were thofe two {topped or dried up, it would not be long, before we ihonld pairs over, dry-flied, at London Bridge. Were they fo only in part, the fiream would thenlikewife lower in proportion. What our whole debt to foreigners amounts to, no one may probably know with exac'tnefs; but the more it has been en- quired into, the higher it has always appeared. How- the river Thames. Taxes will do this. They are the bane of commerce and of agriculture. They affeét the Merchant, the Manufat‘iurer, the Planter, the Farmer, and the Labourer. Our America is not of an age to fupport their operation. The things from above, keep their courfe in fpite of man, for his benefit and advantage. It is God's very great mercy, that the dew and the rain, do not depend on Adininim flrations, they would otherwife have undoubtedly been taxed and dried long ago. But it is not fo, with what is of our own fabrick or production. "7e have a great power over riches and treafure. Governments can efieé‘tually cut off the wells and the fprings of thefe. We have only to look abroad in the world, to be abundantly convinced of that truth. The example of Great Britain, will not prove the contrary. It was when, and while we were no: taxed, as we now are, that we profpered, grew great and rich. Thofe times gave us firength, to bear for a while, the bur- thens llDCC impofed upon us. It is from the Revolution, that our prodigious taxes have begun. They ever, the intereil of it is acurrent, which runs per- were laid by degrees, and f0 mui't their eifeéls be perceived. They don't operate like a fiorm, or a whirl- petually into the Continent. wind. We do not indeed, {66 it with our eyes, as we do the Thames; otherwife we love money, f0 much better than we do water, that we might perhaps be leis iiidiflerent about it, than we arit-1' . Let us give them a fair and full trial, before we declare, that We are not undone by them. It will then be time enough to make ourfelves amodel for Others, |