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Show 4 06 Egg/cries from .Mz'. S T R A H A N, J uli: of it; never but for the evident good of the em- colonies tliCtIilElves, or of the whole Britifli n Britai of tage advan l partia the for pire; never I ct, condu nt prude {uch By ice. prejud their to imagine that fupremacy maybe gradually firength- ened, and in time fully ellablifhed; but other- wife, I apprehend it will be difputed, and loft in the difpute. At prefent the colonies confent (A: D.T.] tori/J Dr. Franklin'r dry-item. ~07 :lgeblprincipleTclzf' the aft exprefled in the pre 1 e;‘vrz. at thofe duties ' -' ‘ better lupport of government, gagili‘eu' idf'or‘ til? trat ion ofyuftice in the colonies 7*. Thi s tlnem‘ulonilts think unneceflary, unjuf't and d;1L C0ous to their molt important rirrlits. Umze fiflgerbecaufe 1n all the colonies (th 0 or threcei/r‘iny' and fubmit to it, for the regulations of general Zrisofixcsptedfi-f) government and the admintig commerce; but a fubmiflion to 21615 of parliament was no part of their original conf'titution. Our for-- yu ice were, and a] t well fupported without any chva irg: gachrilte'en: zz/g/zgfl, as it has made fuch colonies liable toaln . mer kings governed their colonies as they had governed their dominions in France, without the participation of Britifh parliaments. The par- liament of England never prefumed to interfere in that prerogative till the time of the great rebellion, when they ufurped the government of all the King's other dominions, Ireland, Scotland, See. The colonies that held for the King, they conquered by force of arms, and governed afterwards as conquered countries: but New Eng- land having not oppofed the parliament, was confidered and treated as a lifter-kingdom in amity with England (as appears by the Journals, Marc/J 10, 1642.) 1ft. ‘Will not a repeal of. all the duties ‘ (that on tea excepted, which was before paid ‘ here on exportation, and of courfe no new imm ‘ pofition) fully fatisfy the colonif‘ts F' Alszer, 1 think not. 2d. ‘ Your reafons for that opinion ?' fl. Becaufe it is not the film paid in that du- ty on tea that is complained of as a burden, but fuch chargefor others+ in which the had a dangemzu, as {ugh m 30 of railing moneyfor thofe purpofes tended to r0 C der thel concern or interef'c: r affembhes ufelefs ; for if a reve nue er11d be ralfed 1n the colonies for all the pur 0?ng f grcgvgrnpfitgngfy Iaét pf parliament, With oulzgrancts ope t]€l‘€, governors, who d generally love alTemblies would n 0 mm they would be laid afideCVCTCEIH their): {hould depend on the people':n§od}ili}-1:\:ill nt()thm g Vfirnment, their rights would be tram pled3 if:egz nyviufiil] liethtrelaitec}j with contempt-Ano therf _ ‘ in t e WO 1 " With luch a partial repgal, iidthrai ttlitfnfatigiced . r m t b yanaa h . Y 0e llttle Ppery . hvf :htriziees away robbed is man a When ‘ higliiililr {rengm' that makes the ca ~t°111 the x rage , ‘ Y: {2:718 not the two-pence loft have ruined Mr. Hgina dour. t fominep N fluid twenty fhillings at [x Men ma 1 f .11 \ , £1163: icotiasiateriigjgment I‘Zlfhhalf twenty . lhillings See , ‘ Principle , w Mr. Burke's {peeches in 1774 and0;1775.meEm]ade him a flave.' {T Nova Scotia, Georgia, the Floridas, and Canada. E.) R r 2 ments |