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Show viii PREFACE. -if this part is tolerably well executed, I {hall be pardoned for lending it out alone ; ._if it be ill executed, the public lam fure will forgive me for not having trou- bled them with more. I had another reafon for not retaining this part till the whole was finilhed.---The fubjeét of thefe remarks is now before the legiflature. If ever therefore " my poor " opinion" '35 can be worth attending to, it is now. I have only to add, that the objects of the legillature in the ails here examined, were fome of the molt difficult that ever came before this, or indeed any parliament. --It was therefore natural, that the aels themfelves fliould be liable to the greatelt objeflions. In other infianees, I believe, it will be found, that we owe to it more beneficial afls than to any other parliament from the revolution to this hour. *‘ I believe this pbrnfe is borrowed from a fa- mous match-Bur I may venture to lay, that we H E object of the acts here confidered was to fecnrc the dependence of the colonies upon the mother-country: a more important one has feldom come before a parliament; few in which greater, or more complicated interelis were involved: " molt " certainly it called for the whole Wifdom of " the wifelt among them '3'" " A fubjeEt in which not only the gene ral interefts of the Rate, but the parti cular in- terelts of f0 many individuals are fo deeply concerned, mull have produced many appe als to the public. Every man thought himfelf at liberty, fome thought themfelves engaged to give their opinions 3 much novelty, therefore, will not be expected. My chief aim will be, to collect the varL ons arguments as they lie {tattered in different writers, to reduce tl‘em each to its pro- attach very different ideas to the fame figns. * Pv'lr. Burke's Speech to the Electors of Briflol. THE pcr |