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Show 352 Acrs RELATING Part III. Sect. Ill. To THE Commas. 353 appears to' have deferved: the rather as it did not even fiate that it was prefented by ' order of his confiituents*. A A . i . . taki‘ ng off tne duty upon tea was by "113 Another petition was prefented from the Britilh merchants trading to America, complaining of the great interruption of their trade, and attributing that interrup- tion to the act paired in the feventh of his majefiy's reign. This petition was read; and in compliance with it, a bill was ordered to be brought in for the repeal of f0 much of the aét as laid duties upon glafs, red lead, *‘ This curious petition may be {een at length, Com. Jour. vol. xxxii. p. 726. white lead, painters colours, paper, naileboards, mill-«boards, and feale~boards . The The following lines may l'erve as a fpecimen : " The errors and " improvidence of miniflers (he has all along been talking of the miniflers of the prefent reign, and it feems it was their errors and improvidence means all that was wanting to a full and eii‘eé‘tual compliance with the petition. A motion for that purpofe was accordingly made, but it palibtl in the negative. This partial repeal ofthe ail complained of, could not be coniidered as an oéz'zga z‘z'ozz conferred on the Americans. Nay a total repeal of it at this moment would not per-a haps have been confideer in that light. Lord Hilllborough's letter was {till before them. The motive for the repeal would have been fought in the fears ofthe mini- firy, not in thejuilice of parliament. They p did not vouchlare f0 much as to all; for the repeal ; no petition was pretented in that) " with the hol'cile deligns and proceedings of their 72mm; at lealt none by their exnrels " France." authority. The partial repeal was granted Did what? " Brought on the late " expenfive and dangerous war: and Britifh Ame" rica is now, in confequence of the errors and " improvidence of his majefty's minifiers, brought " into"-what?--guefs reader-" a {late of i7:- " vitatz'on zy" foreign wan? as a favour to Britilh merchants. A total repeal would have been a greater favour, but ilill the favour would have been to zilimz, and not to the colonil'ts. white A a 1 Ltd |