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Show I 8 l [9] to the latter ground, he {tates it as ufelefs, of enquiry is, " not how we got into this dif- and thinks it may be even dangerous, to enter into {0 extenfive a field of enquiry. Yet, to " ficulty, but how we are to get out of it." my furprize, he had hardly laid'down this reflri€tive propofition, to which his authority would have given f0 much weight, when d1reé'tly, and with the fame authority, he con- demns it; and declares it abfolutely neceflary‘ to enter into the molt ample hiltorical detail. llis zeal has thrown him a little out of his In other words, we are, according to him, to confult our invention, and to reject our experience. The mode of deliberation he recom- mends is diametrically oppofite to every rule of reafon, and every principle of good fenfe efiablilhed amongfi mankind. FOr, that fenfe and that reafon, I have always uriderf'tood, abfo- In this perplexity what lhall lutely to prefcribe, whenever we are involved in difficulties from the meafures we have pur- we do, Sir, who are willing to fubmit t0 the law he gives us? He has reprobated in one part fued, that we {hould take a firiét review of thofe meafures, in order to correét our errors or" his fpeech the rule he had laid down for if they fhould be corrigible; or at leaf: to avoid ulhal accuracy. debate in the other; and, after narrowing the a dull uniformity in mifchief, and the unpi- ground for all thofe who are to {peak after tied calamity of being repeatedly caught in the him, he takes an excurfion himfelf, as un- fame fnare. bounded as the {ubjeél' and the extent of his great abilities. Sir, I will freely follow the Hon. Gentle- Sir, When I cannot obey all his laws, I man in his hifiorical difcuflion, without the leafl: management for men or meafures, further will do the hell I can. I will endeavour to obey fuch of them as have the fanétion of his than as they {hall feem to the to deferve it. example; and to {lick to that rule, which, though not confiflent with the other, is the, molt rational. He was certainly in the right when he took the matter largely. I cannot prevail on myfelf to agree with him in his cenfure of his own condué‘t. But before I go into that large confideration, becaufe I would omit nothing that can give the ‘ Houle latisfaélizon, I with to tread the narrow ground to which alone the Hon. Gentle- man, in one part of his ipeech, has fo firiétly confined us. It is not, he will give me leave to fay, either ufelefs or He defires to know, whether, if we were to dangerous. He afierts, that retrofpeé'c is not wife; and the pr0per, the only proper, fubjeél; of repeal this tax, agreeably to the propofition of the Hon. Gentleman who made the motion, the |