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Show xgs POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL " of Vlaces, better than we, who rehde on the -‘ Spot? No l 'i'hefe Aé‘ts or the Brim/11 l'arlia‘ men: are all bare-laced Encroachment: on our " " " " " Liberties, and open Violations of our Rights and Properties: They are the‘Chtuns which our pretended t'roteélors, but in Reality our figyptz'ruz'i'afkh'laf‘rers, have been long forging for us. Let therefore all unite, and man- ¢ fully refil'c them; let us pollpone the. paying " of Debts, and enter into a gener i1 Allocation ‘ to refute their Gootls, to tlii‘trel} their Trade, " at «l to harrals our cruel Enemies by every " to be made a {landing Order of both Houfcs " of Parliament, never to pafs any Law, whe" ther for impofing a Tax, or for regulating " Trade, or for any other Purpofe whatfoever " relating to any of the American Colonies, 'till " one whole Year after the firlt reading of the "Bill; unlefs it be to renew fome expiring " " " " " Laws of great Importance, and of immediate and urgent Necefiity, fuch as the A8: for Irz'lletirzg the King's Troops, and perhaps fome few others that might be fpecially excepted in the Order." " Method in our Power; and if we are thus Tins is the Rel'triétion in Point of Time, " united, they may} yield, as they did heforc." which our Author propofes to lay on the Farliament of Great-Britain. " They never mull " pals any Law for impoling a Tax 'till one " whole Year after the firf't reading of the Bill :" Why 9-" In order to give the feveral Colonies " an Opportunity of making proper Reprefiizm- In fhort it would he endlel‘s to recount all the T0pics which luch a Scheme as thisGentleman has propofed would certainly furniih to every p0pular Declainier in every popular AlTembly; and the more improbable, the more ahfurd and uniult his lrlarangues were in Point of lound Argument and jul‘r Real-mung; lo much, gene- rally ipealting, the more greedily would they be . ~ ' received. l'iO'.‘.'liViiR, there is one Point more which i cannot omit, becauie it will throw a further on this Matt-er, and dilclol‘e a new Scene :‘lli '1 t ' ) _ or~ patriOtic Manoeuvres, and the V. iles of lo liticians. At Page 13, this Author lays down nt »' -'-s ‘L the Conduct ‘ or‘ lailmme for :1 oer/cm] Rule (3 p ‘ inllt rw . . ~ wah Relpet‘t to flmtrzca, "017.. " That it 0Lf to " lions againft it, and to prevent the Parliament "from making injudicious Laws, not fuited "to the Condition of the Colonies." A fine Contrivance truly l and a moit elTeétual Expetlient to prevent the Parliament from ever making any Laws to oblige the [Imerimm t0 tlilEharge Country: their Duty towards the Motheru For this Gentleman might have l(flown, indeed it is hardly poffi le that the Fail could have efcaped his Notice, had he re- Colle€ted it, that this very Circumllance of 5 Tan" |