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Show [ 3'4 J [ 85 l to the other party, it was a duty of flair/54'. To were fixed on them, all ears open to hear them; each party gaped, and looked alternately for their gratify the co/iorzflr, it was lard on Britilh manu- facturcs ; to fatisfy the "lamb/27215 9/ HIV/£1112, the duty was trivial, and (except that on tea, which touched onlv the devoted lialt India Company) on none of the grand objefls of commerce. To counterwork the American contraband, the duty on tea was reduced from a {billing to three-pence. But to lecure the favour of thofe who would tax America, the iceiie of collection was changed, and, with the tell, it vas levied in the Colonies, What need I lay more? This fine-fpun fcheme had the ulual fate of all exquitite policy. But the original plan of the duties, and the mode of executing that plan, both arofe {ingly and {olely from a love of our applauie. He was truly the child of the houfe. He never thought, did, or {aid any thing but with a VlC\V‘ to you. He every day adapted himfelf to your difpofitioii; and adjufled himtelf before it, as at a looking-glats. He had obferved (indeed it could not cfcape him) that feveral perfons, infinitely his inferiors in all refpeé‘ts, had formerly rendered themfelves confiderable in this houfe by one method alone. They were a race of men (I hope in God the {pecies is extinct) who, when they rofe 111 their place, no man living could divane, . from any vote, almoll to the end of their fpeech ‘3. \Vhile the Ilonle hung in this uncertainty, now the Ilrzzr-X/fizzr role from this tide-now they rebellowed from the other; and that party to 'whom they fell at length from their tremulous and dancing balance, always received them in a tempell of applaufe. The fortune offuch me: was a temptation too great to be refilled by one, to whom, a fingle whiff of incenle withheld gave much greater pain, than he received delight, in the clouds of it, which daily rofe about him from the prodigal fuperflition of innumerable admirer". He was a candidate for contradie‘tory honours; and his great aim was to make thole agree in admiration of him who never agreed in any thing elfe. Hence arofe this unfortunate aét, the fuhject of this day's debate; from a dilpofition which, after making an American revenue to pleale one, repealed it to pleale others, and again revived it in hopes of pleating a third, and of catching fomething in the ideas of all. This revenue 218; of 1767, formed the fourth period of American policy. lince then-what woeful How we have fared variety of fehemes known adherence to parties, to opinions, or to have been adepted ; what enforcing, and what re- principles; from any order or lyltem in their po- pealing; litics; or from any fequel or connection in their ideas, what part they were going to take in any debate. It is aflouithing how much this uncertainty, efpecially at critical times, called the attention of all parties on fuch men. All eyes were ting; Whatdoing, and undoing ; what ftraining, and what relaxing; what atlemblies diliblvcd for what bullying, and what lithmit- not obeying, and called again without obedienee; what troops lent out to quell refiltance, and on meeting that refillance, recalled; what ll‘iittirigs, If 3 and |