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Show x' P R E F A c E. Secretary PITT'S circular Letter to the Governors of the Provinces, forbidding fuch an infamous Trafic, and traiterous Correfpondence. But ifl was obliged to the Old Gentleman in thefe Refpeéts, my Argument was a Sufferer by him in another : For tho' he admitted, that the COlOiIiCS were grown ungovernable; tho' P R E F A C E. allowed all thefe Premifes, he could not come at the Conciufion: For he ftartled as much at the Idea of a Sqazzmz‘zbfl, as if he had feen a Spectre I And the Notion of parting with the Colonies entirely, and then making Leagues of Friendi'hip with them, as with fo many independent States, was too enlarged an Idea for a i‘xr'iind wholly he himiEif deeiared, from his own EX- occupied within the narrow Circle of aat we gave a better Price for iron, Hemp, Flax-Seed, Skins, r .i‘L its, Lumber, and moit other Articles, i ., A 1:11:11 L1 12y could find in any other Part of and that thefe Colonilts took Trade, and a Stranger to the Revolutions of States and Empires, thoroughly to comprehend, much lets to digeit. In Cont‘equence of this, I was obliged, as ding liezrcely from us in Return, but what it was their Interel'c to buy, even lion, to give the Argument fuch 3. Turn, ., - them as independent of Greatsz'f/‘i-zf/z, as the States of Holland, or anyothtr People; and tho' he evidently faw, that the longer the Conneétion fubfif‘ted between the Colonies and the Mother- Country, the more heavy would the Burdens grow upon the latter, and the greater would he the Opportunities for the artful and defigning NIen of both Countries to the Reader will fee towards the Conelu~ as exprefied rather a cafual Threat to feparate, than afettled Projeet of doing it. No v, to fupply this Defeét, or ra- ther to make the Conclufion to cor- refpond with the Premifl‘es, I have added a fourth Trait, wherein I attempt to thew what is the true Interei't of Great-Britain in regard to the Colonies ; irritate and inflame the giddy, unthinking and to explain the only Means of living with them on Terms of mutual Populaee; tho' he admitted, I lay; and Satisfaction and Friendihip. allowed b :3 Referring th: refore |