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Show l 12 l ties, and to leave (for reafons heft known to 13] thcmfelves) only the fixth (landing. Suppofe any perfon, at the time of that repeal, had thus addrelTed the Minil‘ter 3", " Condemning, " as you do, the repeal of the Stamp Act, " \Vhy do you venture to repeal the duties Molt men, efpecially great men, do not always know their wellwvifhers. I come to refcue that Noble Lord out of the hands of " upon glafs, paper, and palnters colours? Let thofe he calls his friends; and even out of his " your pretence for the repeal be what it Will, own. " are you not thoroughly convrnced, that your " conceflions will produce, not latisfaéhon, but at home. He has not been this wicked or imprudent man. He knew that a repeal had no " infolence in the Americans; and that the tendency to produce the mifchiefs which give " giving up thefe taxes will necefiitate the " giving up of all the reft? ThlS obleé‘tion work was not bad in its principle, but imper- was as palpable then as it is now; and it was as good for preferving the five duties as for re- fect in its execution; and the motion on your paper preffes him only to compleat a proper taining the fixth. plan, which, by fome unfortunate and unac- Befides, the Mnnl‘ter Wlll recollect, that the repeal of the Stamp Aét had but juft preceded his repeal; and. the illpohcy of that meafure (had it been {0 impolitlc as it has been reprefented), and the mifchiefs uproduced, were quite recent. Upon the prmc1ples I will do him the juftice, he is denied {0 much alarm to his Honourable friend. His Countable error, he had left unfinifhed. I hope, Sir, the Hon. Gentleman who {poke 1219:, is thoroughly fatisfied, and fatisfied out of the proceedings of Miniftry on their own fa- therefOte of the Hon. Gentleman, upon the principles of the Minifier himfelf, the Mmifier has nothing at all to anfwer. He {lands con- Noble Lord who {its by him, to fettle the mat- demned by himfelf, and by all his afl'ocrates ter, as well as they can, together; for if the old and new, as a def'rroyer, in the firfi‘ truf'c of finance, of the revenues; and in the firfi repeal of American taxes deflroys all our go» vernment in America-He is the man!--- rank of honour, as a betrayer of the dignity of his Country. caufe he is the laft. " Lord North, then Chancellor of‘the Exehcquer. Molt vourite Act, that his fears from a repeal are groundlefs. If he is not, I leave him, and the and he is the worfl of all the repealers, be: But I hear it rung continually in my ears, now and formerly, -- " the Preamble! what " will become of the Preamble, if you repeal " this Tax?"-I am ferry to be compelled fo 7 often |
