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Show 212 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL moa mitted to a me'z Government, becaule the- cation 15 kept Open between the two Countries; French, through Policy, would permit them l‘o while Correlpondences are carried on; Letters, Pamphlets and Newfpapers, pals and repafs; and in fluort, while the A'mrrimm are permitted to come into Frame, and Hem/2mm into slime- rim. So much therefore as to this Clafs of Oh- to do; then it remains to be confidered, whether any arbitrary Government can difpenfe with fuch Liberties as a republican Spirit wrll require. An ablblute Freedom of the Web! No Con- troul on the Liberty either of Speaking or Writing on Matters ofState l Newlpapers and Pamphlets filled with the bitterelt lnveftives jections. Indeed I might have infilled further, that Great-Britain alone could at any Time prevent l‘uch an Acquifition to be made by France, againlt the lVleal‘ures of Government! Alloci- as is here fuppoled, if [he {hould think it ne- ations formed in every Clutter to cry down cellary to interfere, and if fuch an Acquili- h'linifterial Hirelings, and their Dependents! The Votes and Rel‘olutions of the Provincial tion of Territory would really and truly be an Afil-mblies to :dfei‘t their own Authority and Independencel No landing of Troops from Old .Hmzre to quell lnliurrecfitions! No raifing of new Levies in Arizerz'm! No quartering of TrOOpsl No building of Ports, or erecting of and Scale of Power *. Garrilonsl And, to him up all, no raiflizg of .zRV'L'OFZty without the exprefs Confent and Approlution of the Provincial Amerirzm Parliaments iiri‘t obtained for each of thefe l'tll‘p()i~C3l-' Now I all; any realonable him whether thefe Things are compatible with any Idea of an ar- bitrary, del‘potic Governn‘zentP---Nay more, whether the F; (fife/1 King himfelf, or his Minillers, would wilh to have luch Notions as thele inl‘tilled into the Subjects of Oid Home. Yet inl‘tilled they mull: be, while a Communi-. cation Addition of Strength in the political Balance But finely I have faid O 3 enough; * The Phaznomenon of that prodigious Increafe ofTradc, which this Country has experienced fince the happy Revo- lution, is what few People can explain; and therefore the) cut the Matter Jhort, by a:eril‘ing_it all to the Growth of our Colonies : But the true Principles and real Caules 0f thatam-azing Increafc are the following: I. The Suppreflion of various Monopolies and exclufive Companies exil'ting before, for foreign 'I‘rade. 2. The Opening of Corporations, or the Undermining of exclufive Privileges and Companies 0? Trade at Home; or what comes to the fame. Thing, the liltrdins; of their bad Efl'eéts by Means oflegal Deeifions in our Courts of Law. of And N. B. The like Oblbrvation extends to the Cafe evading the Penalties of the At} 5th of anen E/izalvrt/J, have not agflinfl exercifing thofe Trades to which Perlens {crved regular Apprenticelhips. 3. The Nurfing up of new Trades and new Branches of Premiums. Commerce by Means ofBountics, and national 4. The: |