OCR Text |
Show "2 54. Minute: in Reply, (By Dr. Franklin; [255] On t/iw [MC/C of tlwfirrgaizzg letter 0f Gov. Parana/l, are [vrjo/ owing minutes, éy Dr. 1* ranklin. HIS a/y'tfiirzz goes upon the fuppofition, that whatever the colonies gain, Britain muft bib; and that if the colonies can be kept from gaining an advantage, Britain 7017/ gm}; it :- If the colonies are fitter for a particular trade than Britain, they ihould have it; and Britain apply to what it is more ‘fit for. The whole empire is a gainer.--And if Britain is not {0 fit or {0 well lituated for a particular advantage, other countries will get it, gf the colonies do not. Thus Irelandwas forbid the woollen manufacture, and remains poor: But this has given to the Freya/5, the trade and wealth Ireland might have gained for the Britifh empire. The government cannot long be retained without the union.-Which is heft (fuppofing your cafe5) to have a total feparation, or a change of the feat of government P-It by no means follows, that promoting and advancing the landed interefl: in America, will deprefs that of Britain: The contrary has always been the faét. Advantageous fituations and circumf'tanees will always fecure and fix manufactures: Sheflield againit allEurope for thefe 300 years path-.‘ Impraéticability. Danger of innovation. ¥***flt****fle** T123 Examz'tmtgbn ofDr. Benjamin Franklin [éefore the Englilh Hozfi of Cammom, in February 1766] relative to the Repeal 9/"th American Stamp Aft *. 23 WHAT is your name, and place ofabode? .4. Franklin, of P/Jztcza'elpbicz. Q5 Do the American; pay any confiderable taxes among themfelves‘? fl. Certainly many, and very heavy taxes. .N 6). What are the prefent taxes in P m /vzmzzz ', laid by the laws of the colony? fl " [1766. PM. 3. Bmg'amz'zz Fran/Eli", Efq; and a number of other perfons were ‘ ordered to attend the committee of the whole houfe gofcommons] to whom it was referred to confider farther the ‘ everal papers [relative to x'lmerira] which were prefented to the ‘ houi'l‘ by Mix Secretary Cameo/iv, &C.' 1.:sz13. Benjamin Frau/ilizz, Efq; having paired through his examination, was excepted from further attendance. 1.1M. 24. The refolutiuns of the committee were reported by the [charm-an, Mr. Flt/[£7:;.Ih6ll'/;‘-U8nI/i7 and lail relblntion {etting forth ,r that it was their opinion that the houie be moved, that leave be given to bring in a bill to repeal the Stamp Aé‘t.'-A ' prepoliil for re-committing this refolution was negatived by 2+0 votes to i3". (See the journali- afitée Hon/é (IfCommeL) J This examination ot‘Dr. Fran/din was printed in the year 1767, under the form ofn lhilling pamphlet. It is prior in point of date to‘ fome ofthe foregoing pieces; hutl readily {ubmitred to this derangement, thinking by this means to provide thereader with a knowledge of the proceedings on which the examination was grounded. I have put/para; between the antwers, wheneve r the quel‘tion led' to a change ot‘fiibjeét; which frequently happened, in confequence nfrhede iultory and intermixed inquiries, made on the parrot'a body [0 variouily computed as the houfe ofeommons. n» E.] .4. There |