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Show 27o Examination ofDr. Franklin before Mn» [A: D.T.] cefiary fupplies, and the affembly {hould refufe to do it ; do you not think it would then be for Hazyé ofCommam 2'72 1766. 271 do not like it at that price, they refufeit; they the good of the people of the colony, as well as are not obliged to pay it. neeerlary to government, that the parliament not long remain in fuch a fituation; the difor- forced from the people without their confent, if not laid by their own reprefentatives. The flamp aft fays, we {hall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchale nor grant, nor recover debts; we {hall neither marry nor make our wills, unlefs we pay fuch and fuch form; and thus it is intended to ders and confufion occafioned by it mutt foon bring them to realbn. extort our money from us, or ruin us by the con~ fequences ofrefuling to pay it. Q If it lhould not, ought not the right to be Q. But fuppofing the internal tax or duty to be laid on the necellbries of life imported into your colony, will not that be the fame thing in its efiefis as an internal tax E A. I do not know a lingle article imported into the "art/19m colonies, but what they can either do without, or make themfelves. lliould tax them ? A. I do not thinkit would be neceflary. If an aflbrwibly could poflibly be f0 abfurd as to refufe raifing the fupplies requifite for the maintenance of government among them, they could in Great Britain of applying a remedy P A. A right, only to be ufed in fuch a cafe, I {hould have no objection to ; fuppofing it to be ufed merely for the good of the people gift/ac colony. Q. But who is to judge of that, Britain or the colony P But an internal tax is d. Thofe that feel can bell: judge. Q You fay the colonies have always fubmitted to external taxes, and object to the right of parliament only in laying internal taxes ; now can you thew that there is any kind of dgfil‘ercizce 5etweelz the two taxes to the colony on which they may be laid ? A. I think the difi'erence is very great. An external tax is a duty laid on commodities imported; that duty is added to the firft coil and other Charges on the commodity, and when it is offered to falc, makes a part of the price. If the peotge Q3 Don't you think cloth from England abfolutely neceflary to them P A. No, by no means abfolutely necefl'ary; with induf'try and good management, they may very well {upply themfelves with all they want. Q; Will it not take a long time to el'tahlifh that» manufaéture among them; and mutt they not in the mean while {utter greatly P A. I think not. They have made .1 furprifing progrefs already. And I am of opinion, that be- fore their old clothes are worn out, they will have new ones of their own making. o Q Can |