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Show 2 52 [A: D. T.~] . Governor Pownall': Latter aéom‘ an Union. 25 3 utter rum and deflrué‘tion ,- --and confe UCntI Letter from Governor Pownall to Dr. Frank/{72, concerning an cgzzai mmmummz‘zon qf 71gb", prior/agar, 86. t0 flmerim by Great Brilzzin 9*. Dear S I R, H E following aéjcfiion againft communicab- balance of the power of government, alghougliifttlilfi witbz'lz the realm will be lam/l transf Great Britain to the colonies. VVJhich conrfieziuihce? however it may fuit a citizen of the world mull: - e , 6 be folly and madnefs to a Briton-My , OE; and though weak, both from thefitgout is gone and a concomitant and very ugly fever, I am much better.--Would be glad to fee you. ing to the colonies the rights, privileges, and powers of the realm, as to parts of the realm, has been made. I have been endeavouring to Your friend, obviate it, and I communicate [it] to you, in hopes of your promifed afliftance. If, fay t/Je oly'efiorr, we communicate to the colonies the power of {ending reprefentatives, and in confequence expect them to participate in an egualflmre andproportion of all our taxes ; we mutt grant to them all the powers of trade and manufacturing, which any other parts of the realm within the ifle of GreatBritain enjoy :--If f0, per- chance the profits of the Atlantic commerce may converge to fome center in America; to Bofion, New York, Philadelphia, or to fome of the ifles : -If {0, then the natural and artificial produce of the colonies, and in courfe of confequences the landed intereft of the colonies, will be promoted; While the natural and artificial produce and landed interefi: of Great Britain will be depretfcd, to its "‘ [This letter bears no date. ‘It was written poflibly about the time that Governor Pownall was engaged in publiihing his book on the Adminf/z‘mtian of 1}]: colonies. E.] utter J. POWN AL L. |