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Show [Az B.T.] War in Amer. notfirColonies alone. I 63 CANADA‘PAMPHLET. 162 denee of our colonies (a point I fliall hereafter confider) teem fearcely confident with themfelves, when they fuppofe we may rely on the Wifdom and vigour of an adminifiration for their fafety.--I fhould indeed think it lefs material whether Ca- nada were ceded to us or not, ifI had in View only the fecurity of pefleflz'm in our colonies. I entirely agree with the Remarker, that we are in and againf'r their evident intereft. Yet to unfor- tunate have they been, that their virtue has made ragainf'c them; for upon no better foundation than this, have they been fuppofed the authors of a war, carried on for their advantage only.---It is a great miftake to imagine that theAmerican country in queflion between Great Britain andFrance is claimed as the property of any individual: or 13215: NorthAmerica " a far greater continental as well lze early in America ; or that the pofTeflion of it by " as naval power ;" and that only cowardice or ignorance can fubjeét our colonies there to aFrench redound at all to the advantage of any perfon there conquef't. But for the fame reafon I difagree with Great Britain, is likely, in any lucrative View, to On the other hand, the bulk of the inhabitants 0% North America are [dnd~0wnerr ; whofe lands are him widely upon another point. 3. [The Hood and z‘rezyizre fleet 2'72 the Ameriean were, notfiem‘ in the meg/e (f the colonies alone] I do not think that our " blood and treafure " has been expended," as he intimates, " 2'71 the " Calf/é of the colonies," and that we are " mak" ing conquefts for t17em*:" yet I believe this is too common an error.--I do not fay they are altogether unconcerned in the event. The in.habitants of them are, in common with the other fubjeéts of Great Britain, anxious for the glory of inferior in value to thofe of Britain, only by the want of an equal number of people. It is true, the acceflion of the large territory claimed before the war began, (efpecially if that be fecured by the poffeflion of Canada,) will tend to the increafe of the Britiflifieéjefir fatter than if they had been confined Within the mountains: yet theincreafe within the mountains only, would evidently make the weezpqratzive population equal to that of Great Brltam much fooner than it can be expected when our people are fpread over a country fix times as merce, the welfare and future repofe of the whole large. .1 think this is the only point of light in which this queftion is to be viewed, and is the only one in which any of the colonies are con- Britith people. They could not therefore but take a large {bare in the afronts offered to Bri- cerned.---No colony, no poffeflbr of lands in any colony, therefore wifhes for conquefts, or can be her crown, the extent of her power and com- tain ; and have been animated with a truly Britifh benefited by them, otherwife than as they may be fpirit to exert themfelves beyond their firength: a means offieurzezg peace on t/Jez'r harden. No confiderable advantage has refulted to the colonies by Y 2 ? Remarks, p. 26. d an |