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Show 144 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 145 O'Bsmve again a Profpeé‘t on the other; eiz. 05/igei‘dy0u to payyour De/m, whether we are to have no further Connection with you, as a dependent State, or Colony. aVariety of little Colonies under a Variety of petty Governments, Rivals to, and jealous of Now, in order to judge properly of this Af- each other," never able to agree about any thing fair, we mull give a Delineation of two Political before,- and only now united by an Enthufiaf‘tic Fit offalfe Patriotifm ; ~~ a Fit which necellarily Parties contending with each other, and firuggling for Suoeriority:---And then we are to cools in Time, and cools {till the falter, in Pro- confider, which of thefe two, muft be firl‘t tired of the Contefi, and obliged to lub- mit. BEHOLD therefore a Political Portrait of the Mother Country ;~- a mighty Nation under one Government of a King and i‘arliament,---firmly relblved not to repeal the Act, but to give it portion, as the Object which firf't excited it is removed, or changed. So much as to the general Outlines ofyour [fmericafl Features -,-~ Time to execute itielf,---f'teatiy and temperate in the Ufe of Power,---n0t having Recourfe to but let us now take a nearer View of the Evils, which byvyour own mad Conduct you are bring; ing to fpeedily upon yourfelves. rEXTERNALLY, by being fevered from the Brit/fl; Empire, you will be excluded from cucting Logwood in the Bays of Campy/Mlle and fanguinary Methods,- -but enforcing the Law Honduran-from filhing on the Banks of New- by making the Difobedient feel the Want of it, fimnd/and, on the Coafi of Labrador, or in the Bay of St. Lawrence, -- from trading (except by Stealth) with the Sugar ‘lflands, or with the ---determined to proteet and cherifh thofe Co< lonies, which will return to their Allegiance within a limited Time (ilippofe twelve or eighteen Months)---and as determined to compel the obl'tinate Revolters to pay their Debts,--- Briti/lz Colonies in any Part of the Globe. You ever from the manifold Advantages and Profits of Trade, which they now enjoy by no other will alfo lofe all the Bounties upon the Importation of your Goods into Great Britain : You will not dare to {educe a'fingle 'lVIanufaeturer or Mechanic from us under Pain of Death; becaufe you will then be c'onlidered in the Eye of Title, but that of being a Part of the BMW/1 the Law as mere Foreigners, againfi whom Empire. thefe Laws were made. You will lole the Re- mittance of 300,000]. a Year to pay yOllI‘ Troops; and you will lofe the Benefit of thefe K Troops then to cai't them of, and to exclude ihemfl'i‘ Thus {lands the Cafe: and this is [ht View of Things on one Side. OBSERVE |