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Show 404 Qatari" from Mix S T R A n A N, [A: D.T.] wit/5 Dr. Franklin': Air/wen. 305 rights of the crown and of their fellow-fubjeé‘ts; mix you tugged, any other way of terminating thele ditbiths conlillent with the ideas ofjuflicc and propriety conceived by the King's fubjeéts on both tides of the Atlantic? 6th. And if this method was aétually followed, do you not think it would aetually encourage the violent and factions part of the colonifls to aim at {till farther conccllions from the mother-country? 7th. if they are relieved in part only, what do ‘f/Je Dear SIR, ANSWER. Craven Street, NW. 29, I769. BEING juft returned to town from a little excurfion, I find yours of the 21ft, containing a number of queries that would require a pam- phlet to anfwer them fully. You, however, de- you, as a rcafonable and dilpallionatc man, and an equal friend to both fides, imagine will be the fire only brief anfwers, whichI {hall endeavour to g1ve. probable contequences P The anfwers to theft: quellions, I humbly conceive, will include all the information I want; and I beg you will favour me with them as foon as may be. Every well-wither to the peace and Previous to your queries, you tell me, that ‘ you apprehend his Majefty's fervants have now ‘ in contemplation, 1ft. to relieve the colonifis ‘ from the taxes complained of; 2. to prefervc ‘ the honour, the dignity, and the fupremacy -profperity of the Britifh empire, and every friend ‘ of the Britith legiflature over all his Majef'ry's to our truly-happy conflitution, mutt be defirous of feeing even the mod trivial caut‘es of ditlen- lion among our felloxv-fubjcéts removed. Our domeftic lquabbles, in my mind, are nothing to whatI am {peaking of. This you know much better than I do, and therefore I need add no- thing farther to recommend this fubjeét to your ferious confideration. I am, with the molt cordial efteem and attachment, dear Sir, your faithful and affectionate humble Servant, ‘ dominions.' I hope your information is good : and that What you fuppofe to be in contemplation, will be carried into execution, by repealing all the laws that have been made for railing a revenue in America by authority of parliament Without the confent of the people there. The honour and dignity of the Britith legiflature will not be hurt by fuch an aét ofjul'rice and \vifdom. The wifei't councils are liable to he milled, cfpeeizilly in matters remote from their infpection. I: is the perfifling in an error, W. S.. not the eorreéting it, that leflens the honour of any man or body of men. The fupremacy of that legiflature, I believe, will be belt preferved by making a very {pilingR r 111:» |