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Show Rule: fir reducing, 86c. 3 56 produced) he may take it into his head to fet up [A= D-T~] for himfelf? If he fliould, and you have care- Intended Vindication and Ofi‘er from 0017ng ,0, fully praétifed thefe few excellent rules of mine, Parliament, 7'22 177 5 4‘. take my word for it, all the provinces Wlll immediately join him ;--and you Will that day (if you have inot done it fooner) get rid of the trouble of governing them, and all the plagues attending their commerce and connection from [ 357 ] FORASMUCH as the enemies of Ameri ca in the parliament of Great Britain, to render us odious to the nation, and give an ill impreflion of us in the minds of other European powers, have reprefented us as unjuft and ungrateful in the thenceforth and for ever. highefi degree;-Aflerting on every occafi on, that the colonies were fettled at the cxpence of Britain 5 - that they were at the expence of the fame, protected in their infancy ;-that they now ungratefully and unjuftly ret‘ufe to contribute to their own protection, and the common defence of the nation;-that they aim at independen ce ; that they intend an abolition of the navigation acts ;-and that they are fraudulent in their com- mercial dealings, and purpofe to cheat their cre- ditors in Britain, by avoiding the payment of their jufl; debts :- [And] as by frequent repetition thefe groundlefs aflErtions and malicious calumnies may, ifnot con- tradiéted and refuted, obtain further credit, and be injurious throughout Europe to the reputation and interefl: of the confederate colonies ; it feems proper and iiecefTary to examine them in our own juf'c vindication. "" The following paper was drawn up in a committee of congrefs, June 25, 1775; but does not appear on their minutes ; :1 [were aft of parliament which arrived about that time having determine d Intended them not to give the {um propofed in it.---[It was firfl printed in the Pufilic ddwrtz‘fir for July 18, 1777, No. 13,346. E.] _ With |