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Show 244. ACTS RELATING art Ii. the colonies. It will not then be too much to prefume, that fingle acts of obfiinate Seét. X. To THE COLONIES. 245 it is {aid the Commons " give and grant " unto her majefiy the rates, duties, ex" cifes, impofitions," 85c. therein after refufal, may militate with form: little force againf'c them. In the year 1710, the adembly of New York refufed, on fome pretext or other, to make the ufual grants for the fupport of government. This was in a time of war, of the mof't expenfive war that England till then had ever waged. At that time the councils of this nation were guided by a Whig minif'try. \Vha‘t did the mini-{try do on this refufal ? They ordered a bill to be‘ drawn up for railing the fame taxes, and appropriating them to the fame purpofes ‘by authority of parliament, as it appeared to them ought to have been raifed and appropriated by the ailembly of New York. The title of the bill was " An net for " granting a revenue to her majef'ty, to " arife within the province of New York, " in America, for the fupport of that go" vernment." In the preamble of the bill‘ it mentioned *. This bill (which would have been brought in had the wing minii‘lry conti- nued) was deferred to another year by the tory minifiry, who fucceeded at that criti~ cal moment, It was deferred, as it feems, on the liberal promifes which the colonies made of promoting the expedition then fitting out againfl: Canada. An expedition which failed, as the author of The Controverfy reviewed, informs us, on the authority of Swift, " partly by the acci- " dents of a fiorm, and partly by the/lab ‘«‘ bormzrj/S‘ and treachery affirm 1): that -" colony, for w/zafi reliefmm' .»,‘ may in- ‘* See a copy of this bill (which was figned and approved by Sir Edward Northey, and Sir R0- bert Raymond) in The Controverfy p. i85. R 3 reviewed, treaty |