Remarks on the principal acts of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain : Volume I, containing remarks on the acts relating to the colonies, with a plan of reconciliation.

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252 ACTS RELATING Part II. Seé‘t.XL TO THE Commas. 253 modities, nor funds to fupply all their ther-country, but in the {lrength and litu- wants; and that the colonies were now ation of the colonies; they were effectual-s ly and finally delivered from their enca in a lituation to contribute by a revenue for the liberty of relaxing the monopoly in mics ; the fword, that from the firft hour of their birth had hung over their heads, thefe inflances. In thefe inllances, there~ fore, without afking the content of the colonies, the legiflature fubilituted tax~ ation, manifell direct taxation) in place of was broken ; they now made a vow of in-' dependence, the moment that maintaining it feemed praéticable, and that dependence the legiflature faw that the colonies‘fiill Was no longer neceffary. The technical terms of give and grant had been ufed before, in the an of increafed and flourilhed, that they were in George the fecond. a monopoly. fl At the beginning of the fourth period, a fituation to contribute more large- ly to the {hare of the public burthens, greatly increafed on their account. The "Willi 'l he fame terms are tried in this *; but there is this difference. ---In that a& the title was foreign, in this correfpondent, to the purview. This {ure- It legiflature therefore went on, by a natural ly can be no objection to the latter. and regular gradation, to afTefs the portion declares it expedient, that " new provi- of the public burthens, which they now " fions and regulations {hould be cila- {honld bear. In this change it is true, the " blilhed for improving the revenue of legillature did not alk the content of the " the kingdom, and fecuring the naviga- " tion and commerce between Great Bri- colonies. As far was it from aiking their content in the preceding changes. I am {peaking of a change, but the great change was not in the policy of the mother- " rain and America." It alligns the rea- fon why mw regulations were expedient; becaufe " the dominions in America had 4* 4 (3:20.111. c. 15. " been ~--, 1.