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Show 260 Exmlzz'mztimz ofDr. Franklin brfare {/24- [At D.T.] Q. How many white n on do you luppofe there ' are in Rio/'7‘!) fl/‘z/crm 3' F 1 f‘ 1]. About three hundred tnouianu, from llX‘ 0. "flint may be the amount of one year's . 1 iinF'ths into l'enl‘ylyania lI‘Om1Bf‘h'Il/IZ .3 A, I havelvccn informed that our meienants compute the imports lrom Brzlariz to be above :oo,ooo/. J 5°. \Vhat may be ti 3 amount of the produce (as Spain, l'ortugtl, and ital; pia ' \‘n: reesive pith r money, i tryof our merchants and mariners, ar circuitous voyegfg ,0 _ , and the freight; lllu their (hips; center finally in Britain to d l .- ,. "1340,, O the balance, and pay for Britii'h manufactures continually uted in the province, or fold to foreign.crs by our traders. ‘ /I. It mull be final], as we produce little that is wanted in Britain. by the {at is, carried to difcrent p15,! or conniiolitica that {nit for i'Cll]lft‘T';<_‘<: which, together with all the prob , ,9}:‘ . years oi7 age tecn to titty of y\<inr province exported to Brim/II 5' Aloe/flay" 0771177013,?!)wa 1 .l luppole it cannot exceed 40,0001. 9\, How then do you pay the balance? 11. The balance is paid by our produce carried to the VVcl‘tlndics (and {old in our own itlands, Q; Have you heard of anv difficulties latel V laid on the Spa/27]]; trade? ' 14. Yes, 1 have heard that it has been greatly obf'truéted by fornc new regulations; and by the Englifh men of war and cutters {lationed all along)r the coaft in America. or to the French, Spaniards, Danes, andDutchg) by the fame [produce] carried to other colonies 2., Do you think it right that America {houl d in North America, (as to New England, Nova be protected by this country, and pay no part of Scotia, Newfoundland, Carolina, and Georgia;) the expence P A. That is not the cafe. The colonies raifed, clothed, and paid, during the laft war, near twenty-five thoufand men, and {pent many millions. preventing their interference in the conduct of law bufinelsbtlll this change {hould be effefledi-lt fccnis however to link cert deemed too precipitate, immediatelyto extend this Claulc milieuly-conqucred countries. An exemption therefore was graph}, 1: this particular, with refpefl to Cami/{a and Grenada, for t it (3PM, of five years, to be reckoned from the commencement of the (See the Stamp Act.) E.] . uty. I!" * [Strangers excluded, {ome parts of the northern coloniesdonti‘c their numbers in fifteen or fixteen years; to the filutltward they arelonger: but taking one with anothir, they lluVC doubfeu 9y naturalugeneration only, once in twenty-five years: Pcniylv'lxlél, l believe, im/M/ing [Ira/132", has doubled in about hxtcen yt ‘. The calculation for February 1766, will not then {int 1779. L] , .25 Were you not reimburfed by parliament? A. We were only reimburfcd , What, in your opinion, we had advanced beyond our propor tion, or beyond What might realbnably be expected from us; and it was a Very {mall part oi‘lwh at we fpent. ch/y/awzzizz, in particular, difburfed about |