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Show Of Repealing br Sufpending 250 [A: D.T.] ps country will in the {truggle be totally loft, perha the all never to be recovered; and therewith commercial and political advantages that might have attended the continuance of this refpeét and this affection. In my own privatejudgment I think an imme- diate Repeal of the [lamp-act would be the bell: meafure for ibis country; but a Sufpenfion of it fion. we Stamp-At}. For as to executin th 2 51 ' ' madnefs, and will be wit? to fhzawliblgrce, It Is 'The reft of your friend's reafonings and pro 0fitions appear to me truly juft andjudiciousii I will therefore only add, that I am as defirougo his acquaintance and intimacy, as he was of f m opinion.-I am, with much efteem, )7 for three years, the belt fort/mt. The repeal would fill them with joy and gratitude, re-efiablifh their refpeét and veneration for parliament, ref'tore at once their ancient and natural love for this country, and their regard for every thing that comes from it ; hence the trade would be renewed in all Your obliged friend. its branches; they would again indulge in all the expenfive fuperfluities you {upply them with, and their own new afl‘umed home induilry would languifh. But the/ig/pwyion, though it might continue their fears and anxieties, would at the fame time keep up their refolutions of induftry and frugality; which in two or three years would grow into habits, to their lalling advantage-However, as the repeal will probably not be now agreed to "'99,. from what I think a miltaken opinion, that the, honour and dignity of government is better {up- ported by perfil'ting in a wrong meafure once en- tered into, than by rectifying an error as foon as it is difcovered; we mutt allow the next belt thing for the advantage of both countries is, the fufpen* [It was however agreed to in the fame year, viz. in 1766. E.] .2 lion Latte): |
