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Show [iV] Molt Readers will recollect the uncommon pains taken at the beginning of the lafi feflion of the lap: Parliament, and indeed during the whole courfe of it, to afperfe the characters, and decry the meafures, of thofe who were fuppofed to be friends to America; in order to weaken the eflreé‘t of their oppofition to the acts of rigour then preparing againi'c the C010- nies. This Speech contains a full refutation of the charges againft that party with which Mr. Burke has all along acted. EDMUND BURKE, Esq; In doing this, he has taken a review of the effects of all the {cherries which have been fucceflively adopted URlNG the laft Sefiion of the lalt in the government of the Plantations. The fubjec": is interefling ; the matters of informa- Parliament, on the 19th of April; 1 774, Mr. Rofe Fuller, Member for Rye, made rion various, and important; and the publi- the following Motion ; That an A& made in cation at this time, the Editor hopes, will not be thought unfeafonable. the feventh Year of the reign of his prefent Majefiy, intituled, " An Aé'c for granting " certain Duties in the Britifh Colonies and " Plantations in America; for allowing a " Drawback of the Duties of Cufloms upon 0‘ the Exportation from this Kingdom of " Coffee and Cocoa Nuts, of the Produce of 9‘ the faid Colonies or Plantations; for difcon- " 6‘ " " tinuing the Drawbacks payable on China Earthen Ware exported to America; and for more effeétually preventing the clandef- tine Running of Goods in the {aid Colonies " and Plantations ;" might be read». SPEECH A 3 I And |