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Show 24.8 Acrs RELATING SECT. Part. II. S'eé't.X‘I. TO THE Commas. 249 difiinét fyf'tems of policy, which had pre‘; ceded, and which, by a natural progref- XI. hon, led to and prepared the way for the Of the co'na'ufi ofparliament wit/z reference to the colonies from [/25 beginning I] the fire/mt reign to Me commencement of {/25 [1]} parliament. H E grand manoeuvre in the hu- " iinefs of new regulating the coc" lonies (we are told) was the 15th 210; -" of the fourth of George Ill. which " opened a new principle; and here (it is " added) properly began the/{wand period f‘ of the policy of this country with re- " gard to the colonies, by which the f‘ fcheme of a regular parliamentary re- " venue, was adopted in theory, and feta ‘,‘ tied in praétice 9"." fyf‘texn el'tabliflied by the aft he cenfures. The objefi with him being to reprefent this aét as a fyf'tem oF as much innovation as poiiiwle ; the number of periods he makes is but two, To me it feems, that with full as much teafon four diltinguifhable periods may be marked out, at each of which the policy, on this behalt purfued, received a eonfiderable degree of alteration. The firl't period {would diliinguifh be- FINN." gins at the loundation of the colonies, and ends at the Commonwealth parliament. The {ole objeét of the fyfiem adopted and adhered to during this whole period, feerns to have been to fecure to the There is, I think, a capital mifiake in this reprefentation. Hurried on by the impetuofity of his genius, this writer did not flop to mark out the feveral periods of ‘3‘ See Burke's Speech, p. 50. difiinét colonies the monopoly of tobacco, and to prevent them from gaining that of the filliery. The fecond period began in the time of the long parliament; but was more fully developed after the RefiOratio'n. The fole obj e61: A |
