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Show 21+ Cast/"Lu of z‘fw A/fllt'l'll‘lili [A2 D.T.] Dyl'aizzth‘: before 1768. convinced of his error, even by that aft of parof the {everal provinces. liameut. The perfon then who firft projected to lay aflde the accui'tomed method of requilition, and to raife money on America byflampr, teems not to have 255 And this aft continued in force when the Stamp Act was repealed; though if obligatory on the aflemblies, it equally mili- tated againit the American principle above men- tioned-that money is not to be raifed on Englifli acted wifely, in deviating from that method (which the colonifls looked upon as conilitutional) and thwarting unneceflarily the fixed prejudices of f0 great a number of the King's fubjeéts.-It was not, however, for want of knowledge, that what he was about to do would give them offence; he appears to have been very fenfible of this, and apprehenlive-that it might occafion tome diforders; to prevent or fupprels which, he projefted another bill that was brought in the fame feflion with the Stamp Aé‘r, whereby it was to be made lawful for military officers in the colonies to quarter their foldiers in private houfes. This feemcd intended to awe the people into a compliance with the other aét. Great oppofition however being railed here againft the bill by the agents from the colonies, and the merchants trading thither, (the colonilts declaring, that under fuch a power in the army, no one could look on his houfe as his own, or think he had a home, when foldiers might be thrufl: into it and mixed with his family at the pleafure of an oflicer,) that part of the bill was dropt; but there fiill remained a claufe, when it pafled into a law, to oblige the feveral aITemblies to provide quarters for the foldiers, furnifhing them with firing, bedding, candles, fmall beer or rum, and fundry other articles, at the expence‘ fubjeéts without their content. The colonies neverthelefs being put into high good humour by the repeal of the Stamp Act, chofe to avoid a frefh difpute upon the other, it being temporary and foon to expire, never, as they hoped, to revive again; and in the mean time they, by various ways in different colonies, provided for the quartering of the troops; either by acts of their own a1lbx11b1ies, without taking notice of the Aé‘t of Parliament, or by {ome variety or finall diminution, as of {alt and Vinegar, in the fupplies required by the a€t; that What they did might appear a voluntary aft of their own, and not done in due obedience to an .467 quzlr/ftzmem‘, which, according to their ideas of their rights, they thought hard to obey. It might have been well if the matter had then paired without notice; but a governor having written home an angry and aggravating letter upon this condué‘t in the affembly of his province, the outed [Propofer '] of the Stamp Act and his adhe- rents (then in the oppofition) raifed fuch a clamour againi't America, as being in rebellion; and againft thofe who had been for the repeal of the Stamp Act, as having thereby been encouragers * [Mr. George Grenville. E.] 0t H h 2 of |