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Show ‘ or rather not willing that we {hould confider, that while .a few Individuals were getting Thou» lands, the Public was {pending Millions. ONCE more :--~If by the Epithet anfoafomzole, juf't before this Event, you had not only been draining the Mother Country by the 1m- you would be underflood to mean, that there menfe Sums drawn from us to pay our Fleets and Armies", when acting in Defence of America; ' ' this Nortlz-flmarlmaz Trade -,---not confidering, To prove this, let it be obferved, that Tax. I' NHUCHHHU tr" Mailers of the Sea) your Advocates and Authors trumpeted aloud the prodigious Profits of ---and that your Jobbers and Contraétors had not only been fucking our Blood and Vitals by their extbrtionare Demands -,---but you had alfo been enriched by the Spoils, and by the Traffic of the numerous Colonies of Frame and Spain. For you were continually acting the double Part either of Trade, or War, of Smuggling, or Privateering, according to the Profpeét of greater Gain. And while we at Home welt ~exerting our utmolt to put a fpeedy End to the War by an honourable Peace,---you on the con- trary were endeavouring to prolong it as much as poffible; and Were fu-pplying our Enemies with all Manner of Provilions, and all Sorts of Warlike Stores for that Purpofe. Nay, be- caufe a Part of thefe ill-gotten Riches W35 laid out in Eaglzflz Manufactures (there being at was 720 need of taxing you at all at that Junfture; lecaufe tlzo Mot/tor Country was flill as able to carry tlzo additional Load, which you Izaa' drought upon h67,t15//}£ lzaa' loan to bear all t/ze my} : If this be - , I mull tell your Meamng you once for all, that you are egregioufly mifiaken. For we can bear no more -, we cannot fupport ourfelves under heavier Taxations, even were we ever {5 willing; we have drained every Nerve already, and have no Refources left for new Impofitions. Therefore let what will come of the prefent A'flairs, let the Stamp Duty be repealed, or not; Pull the Expences of flmerz‘oa muff be borne by the 4772677262725 in fome Form, or under fome De- nomination or other. BUT after all; perhaps you meant none of thefe Things -, perhaps you meant to infinuate (though it was Prudence in you not to {peak 0"") that the late Act was ill-coalrz'ved and illtimed 3 becaufe it was made at a Juné‘ture, when Q2 neither ‘4 ;"‘.'4V‘itin n ‘H were poorer, and leis able to bear it, than you were before -,---that isfalfe alfo. For you never were richer, and you never were more able to contribute your Quota towards the general Ex pences, than at the Junéture of laying on this at that Time hardly a Pofiibility of purc‘hafing any but Eagli/lz, when our Fleets were abfolure ".3, you to fay, that it was laid on, at a T ime, when =[ 1'23 ] ' Uhmlfli [ 122 ] .DLGAIN, as to the wrong-timing, or the U72. fi‘afiazalaloaafi of this Tax :---If bythis you mean |