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Show (6) management of their own intereft. (7) The idea of taxing them never entered our heads. On the contrary they have experienced our liberality on many public occafions : we have given them bounties to encourage their iiidufiry, and have de- manded no return but what every {late ex~ acts from its colonies, the advantages of an exclufive commerce, and the regulations that are neceflary to fecure it. We made their zeal and their fervices; that in the precedlng war, they alone enabled us to make the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, by turmfhing us with the only equivalent for u tow,ns tnat L . e taken tne - s wer from our allie in Flanders; and that in times of peace, they alone have taken from us fix times as much of our woollen manufaétures, is the Whole kingdom of Ireland. Such a colony, my Lords, not only from the juflice, but requifitions to them on great occafions, in the fame manner as our princes former-e ly alked benevolences of their fubjeé‘ts; and as nothing was alked but what was from the gratitude we owe them, have a right to be heard in their defence,- and if their crimes are not of the molt inexpiable kind, I could almofl: fay, they have a right vifibly for the public good, it was always to be forgiven. granted; and they fometimes did more than we expeéted. The matter of right was neither difputed, nor even confidered. And But in the times we {peak of, our public intercourfe was carried in with eafe let us not forget that the people of New England were themfelves, during the laf'r and fatisfaétion. We regarded them as our friends and fellow-citizens, and relied war, the mod: forward of all in the national as much upon their fidelity as on the in- Caulk; that every year we voted them a habitants of our own country. confides'able turn, in acknowledgement of our power with pleafure; for they confi- their dered They {aw |