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Show 264 ACTS RELATING Part IL " ablez-that it was a tax which would " fall only on property, would be collet‘l- " ed by the fewefi officers, and would he " equally fpread over North America and " the Weft Indies, {0 that all would hear " their (bare of the public burthen. That Sect. XI. TO THE COLONIES. 265 ‘»c C. rel 7» ics as~ the)r may he dire ' c‘te d, parlia" ment will d o it for tli ein,"---The very .‘ t propoitt,3,i, w, 'Itll . , as we have teen befo re, i . . . tue \Vlllg minitl ry of (been Anne not only made, but effeélually enforced.-- The colonies diref‘tetl their agents to " he was not however/E: upon Unis tax; , '. » A ‘-‘ 7'17]?ny I."(A ' .tF abii " iml: thefe mealti me, and " if the Americans Lliiliketl it, and WC- u " ferred (my ot/zcr method of railing the " money tl'zmfllves, he fhould he cement." He diree‘ted the agents " to write to their " feveral colonies, and if they chofe (my " of/xvr moa'e- he fhould be finished. pro- " vided the money was railed." Nay he even went {0 far as " team/{y to recom- A; - J 1' to 1"-, it Lit/Z! the ini pofiti' on ofzinv fur ' the r , . . . " tiuties or imam in the colonies." Even yet however they didnot dire f'tly call in qticfhon the power of parliamen t to tax them. Thefe facts are advanced on the autho- rity of three of the then age nts of the Colonies "mend to them the making grant; by Yet " their arm qflémflz‘er, as the inoft rape; " dim! for themfelVes on feveral ae- 9‘9 l‘xIr. Munduit, Mr. lWonta gue, and the then agent for Georgia, I think it was Mr. Knox -- See a letter ligned by hlr, Mant luit, in the Guzt-teer " counts." The colonies were accordingly written to.---But the propofal was by molt of them rejected with {corn ---The offer they taid amounted to no more than this-- " That if the colonies will not tax them»- of February 22, 1775. See alto Review of the liontroverfy between Great Britain and her Colo- nies, p. 198'. This pamphlet was publiflie d in the year 1769. And hir. Burke's {peceh was made in 1774.. Dr. Franklyn, in his €§£IlP1i11£1~ tion before the Houfe ot‘Com mou s when the repeal ‘r * , . . o. the fiam p aét was in contemplatio n, Did, " that " {elves " he |
