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Show [lie 261. Erratviimz‘[m ofDr. Franklin {Sr/"am [A2 D.T.] itteg‘ 1?. The heft in the worl;l.p Thevtuhm eiyoflvvn: an willinglv to the gorersxnefinnor me par- pliiii, in all their courts, ooxnence tones 011 e 0- littl are e psopi the as rous Nume nt. liame ‘d ‘rovinccs, :e r . 1i youiaotning in forts, nr ". ':, to keep them in tubP 'r., .~; s0‘ p... Vclfildels, futon. 1'13 were goxernetl l‘}: this country at papetl: "the exueneg nifty eta little pent" mg, and They here led tn 3 thread. they hail not 01%), or a relheft, hat 2:; .nibi‘rion for Great Li‘itam; a evenh d i;‘all ltti't its laws, its untoms and lllflli :1: t afed incre ly great that ons, fondnels for its l‘alhi tileate ys altva were in Brita of es Nativ . erce comm ‘Hflrlfizlg with particular regard ; to he anOZd bilg/L was, of itll‘lf, a charaéter of tome retpeét, an P gave a kind of rank among us. Q And what 18 their temper now . 11. 0, very much altered. . . . . defirousof making {time provnmn ..... .. ton .111 r Q. Dial you ever hear the authority of parlia ~ ment to make' laws for America qn-J‘tione d till lately P .4. The authoritv of parliament was be valid in all laws, except fuel) internal taxes. It was never difput: duties to regulate eom'W in» ‘rce. .Q In what propo‘tion hath population inereafed in America P A. I think the inhabitants of all the provinces together, taken at a medium, double in about twenty-five years. But their demand for Britifh manufaetures increafa: much falter; as the confumption is not merely 'in proportion to their of the lame numbers to pay for them. In 1723, the whole importation from Britain to Fentylvanij, hi he eltahlilhed to] "up" .mg ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ' "p a' necefl‘arv . f that . r .m: itw i.LS jufi‘ and iegulidno'm‘ ill"? and kiwi-(cm; 4 :12 c 1111'; PmVlfiOnb v 'n ‘ new pttolt‘LrLlltlxilg ‘ i'::reiitieflfl10{id be railed in America tor oefcndipgé ‘ 265 numbers, but grows with the growing abilities reignsfgizpifie Thirel; was renewed again in the year 1763. in the [UL L n {film that thCThird, and extended to albrrm‘lrda, upon 7:730 air 'V\11_: exp-er:- ‘ ‘ It was {tated in the preamble to I/yu ae‘t, ‘ that it o { rea- J. ‘ and teeming the fame;' ‘ and that the commons Hon/'3 omez/fiom 7'12 I766. ‘1" .g was but about 15.0001. Ruling; it is now 1139.: half a million. Q In what light did the people of America ute to eoni‘ider the parliament of Great D‘ in F A". They centitlereri the pariiament as the great huiwarl; anti ileurity ol'their liberties 3111i ' ' I-iiu t) ‘ i112 j...n' rmvmne in America, haverefolver} tO‘VISnJCUf legs, and always ipoke of it with the utn « hisMajcfiy the {everal rates and duties, EVE." :1".1 harp") £9110"; fpeét and reiteration. Arbitrary minillts‘s .g thought, might pollihly, at times, attemp- " J prtis than; but they reiierl on it, that the par-liament on Cpplit‘atim, ' ‘ i i The}; remt‘i 1p Riot" 11-9 {0' for Mafilichufett's Bay, tells us thathe was initruLLr inc terms to oppofe Mr. Grenvrlle s taxmg lyll;erav . -__- bt h; .1 re- Lavitiu‘rther ‘ ilemonftmte againlt thefe meafures, and Jr poll": .2 taro ‘anythqt vcu ‘ pcal of the Srrgm' Att, anti prevent the ixizpp‘fitton 011 ‘ duties or taxes on the colonies. Nlenturs‘s "ali‘he [uan A?) 3 t ‘ may bcjoined by all the other agents. , flag/My, fwd1!'+'Si1h--tji»‘ic" The queltion propofed to Dr. l‘ranlilm allntles to t‘lnsR figemicn nklin's anfwer appears to dclenc the at r in 176}. Dr. ofthereader. IL] 01 Did iiLitlt‘C of ‘tlriS' ,, nament, v.‘ ':<~‘i;t . into ,pirjal m", |