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Show 132 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL S'UBJECT‘S.133 neither the Hem/z nor Indians were in your Rear to frighten, nor the Eng/i 1 Fleets and'Armies on your Front to force you to :1 Compliance. Perhaps this was your real Meaning ~, and if it was, it muft be confeIIed, that in that Senfe, the late Act was not well-timed; and that a much properer Seafon might have been chofen. For had the Law been made five or fix Years their Trade :---I fay, a * Ravi-val; for the fame Rel'trié‘tion have been the {landing Rules of Government from the Beginning; though not enforced at all Times with equal Strietnels. During the late \Var, you flmcrimm could not import the Manufilétures of other Nations (which it is your conllant Aim to do, and the before, when you were moving Heaven and Earth with your Cries and Lamentations; not a Tongue would then have uttered a Word againlt it; all your Orators would have dil‘playcd their Eloquence on other Topics; and ever. flmerfcmz- Patriotifin itfelf would at that Seal‘on have made no Difficulty of acknowledging, that the Mother Country had a Right to the Obedience of- the Colonies in Return for her kind and generous Protection. UPON the Whole therefore, whntis the Cattle of Inch an amazing Outcry as you raife at prefent P-Not the Stamp Duty. itlelf; all the VVorld'are agreed on that Head; and noc -* Ever fince the Difcovery or" Aizzerz'm, it has been the Syl‘tem ofevcry European l'ow:r, Which had Colonies in that Part of the World, to confine (‘18 ztr as Laws can confine) the Trade of the Colonies to the Mother Country, and to exclude all others, under the Penalty of Confifcarion, {275. from partaking in it. Thus, the Trade ofthe Span/fl) Co- lonies is confined by Law to OlaV Spain,-the Trude of the Brazil! to Portugalruthe Trade of Martiniro and the other Franc/{z Colonies to OH Framm-and the Trade of‘Curacm and Surinam to Holland. But in one Infiance the Hal/and": make an Exception (perhaps a wife one) viz. in the Cafe OIEu/ian'a, which is open to all the World. Now, that the Euglz'fl; thought tliemlelves entitled to the fame Right over their Colonies, which other Nations claim over theirs, and that they cxcrciled the fame Right by making what Regulations they pleafed, may he l'een by the following Acts of Parliament, rw'z. r2 of Car. II. Chap. 18.-15 of Car. ll. Ch. 7. . 22 and 230170.". Ch. 26 , .25 of C. II. can be Io ignorant, or Io fiupid, as not to fee, Ch- 7.--7 and 8 of Will. III. Ch. 22.--Io :md 11 ofW. III. that this is a mere Sham and l'retence. Wht Ch. 21.-3 and 4 of Ann. Ch.5 and Io.~8 of Ann. Ch. 13.~-12 of Ann. Chasm-1 .cf G. I. Ch. 26.-3 of then are the redl Grievances, Ieeing that the Things which you alledge are only the pI‘C- G. I. Ch. 2L-8 of G. I. Ch. it EIHd.18.-H of G. I. Ch- 29.-12 of G I. Ch. 5.--~2 of G. ll. Ch. 28 and 35. ""3 0f G. H. Ch. 28.0-4 of G. II. Ch. 15.---5 of G. II. tended ones 3 Why, fome of you are exal‘pemt- Ch- 7- and9.---6 of G. 11. Ch. 1..---3 ore. 11'. Ch. 18,-- ed againft the Mother Country, on account II. of G. II. Ch. 29.--12 of G. II. Ch. 30.--13 of G. HCh. 4. and 7. --15 and 16 of G. II. Ch. 23.4-With many Others of a later Date. I might alfo mention the Laws made in the Reign of his prefent Majelly; but as thefe ,‘Laws are now the Point of Controverfy, I forbear. of the Revival of certain Refiriétions laid upon their I 3 Mother |