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Show [Az D.T.] sz/Ja Gratitude qumerz'ca. 24.6 247 How far rm Union proéaélt'. the whole.--Then the next [a]! thing feems to be, Lrlt'cr concur/ring f/Jc Gratitude ofl/lmsrrm, am" Mr froéaéi/fz‘y ill/(f qfll'fis qfan Umou (re/ll) Grain? Brim/'72 ; and concerning [lie Repeal or butpentton of tlic Sim/Jp-Af? ". S I R, jan. 6, I766. HAVE attentively perufed the paper you font me, and am of opinion, that the meafiare-rt propot‘es, of an z/m'ou with the colonies, IS a \VllC ll one: but I doubt it .vvill hardly be thought to here, till it is too late to attemptit. The timehas been when the colonies would have efleemed it a great Indium W l1 advantage, as well as honour to them, to be per- g) i ii! li : 1: l l The very fenfible and benevolent author of that paper, feems not to have known, that lllCl‘t a con- Ititutional eultom fubfilts, and has always hithe rto been practited in America,- or he would not have expreflEtl liirtitelf in this manner: "It is evident " beyond a doubt, to the intelligent and impartial, that after the very extraordinary efforts which were effectually made by Great Britain in the mitted to fend members to parliament; and would have sliced for that privilege, if they could have had the leaf't hopesof obtaining it. The timers now come, when they are iudilterent about it, i iii leavingr them in the quiet enjoyment of their re- {peétive conflitutions; and when money is wante d for any public fervice in which they ought to hear a part, calling upon them by requititoria l letters from the crown, (according to the long ell'ablilhcd cuflom) to grant fuch aids as their loyalty {hall dictate, and their abilities permit.--~ and will probably not afk it; thounh they might accept it it. oficered them ; And the time will come, when they will certainly refute it. But it tuch an union were now ellablifhed, (which methinlts it highly imports this country to elt:1blrth,) it would probably fubtitl as long as Britain thail continue a nation. This people, however, 13 too proud, and too much detpit‘es theAmerrcans, to bear the thought of admitting them to iuch an equitable participation in the government of ' [The name of the palm to whom this letter is :thlrefetl C1817: not he in; e out in the original mnv. 'l he letter, to ‘n-H | it i .t r '7‘ app? rs to have c iiit‘tlitlii: lctltr of tom? thiizl fell: 1\ ) \inlnmhu to the eman‘. i] tl'i . .,<~ " K a: late war to fave the colonifts from dellruétion, and attended ofnecelhty with an enormous load of debts in contbquence; that the fame colt)- iiil‘s, now firmly tceured from foreign enemies, {hould be tome-how induced to contribute tome proportion towards the exigencies oft/late in " future." This looks as it" be conceived the war had been carried on at the fol-s expence of" Great Britain,- and the colonies only reaped the bench t, without hitherto .tharing the burthen; and run: therefore new indebted tolilrirain on that account. And this is the lame kind of argument that is uted by thole, who would fix on theicolonies the heavy ch: rge of unz'eaIOnahlenetL and ingratitude, which I think your friend did not intend-Platte to acquaint him [lief], that the {act is not 12:..- That every |
