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Show neither the Franc/z, nor Indians were in your Rear to frighten, nor the Engli/lz Fleets and Armies on your Front to force you to a Compliance. Perhaps this was your real Meaning; and if it was, it muft be confefl'ed, that in that Senfe, the late A& was not well-timed; and that a their Trade :w-l lay, a * Revival ~, for the fame Refiriétions have been the fianding Rules of Government from the Beginning ; though not enforced at all Times with equal Strictnels. During the late War, you A'mcrz'rnns could not import the l‘t/Ianufiiétures of other Nations much properer Seafon might have been chofen. (which it is your conl‘tant , rim to do, and the a Tongue would then have uttered a Word againf't it; all your Orators would have difplayed mgmuupu their Eloquence on other TOpics; and even A'merimn Patriotifm itfelf would at that Seafon have made no Difficulty in acknowledging, that the Mother Country had a Right to the Obe- dienee of the Colonies in Return for her kind and generous Protection. UPON the whole therefore, what is the Caufe of fuch an amazing Outcry as you raife'at prefent ?---Not the Stamp Duty itfelf; all the World are agreed on that Head; and none can be {0 ignorant, or [0 ftupid, as not to fee, that this is a mere Sham and Pretence. What . * Ever fince the Dil-Covcry of flanrrim, it has been the Syllcm ofevery Euro/man Power, which had Colonies in that Part of the World, to confine (as far as Laws can confine) the Trade of the Colonies to the Mother Country, and to exclude all others, under the Penalty of Con ilfcntion, E3}. from partaking in it. Thus, the Trade ofthe Span/fly C0- lonies is confined by Law to Old S;>ain,-the Tr..de of the Brazil: to Par‘lrgg~al,-~-thc Trade of JlIar/z'nz‘m and the other French Colonies to Old France,---and the Trade of Gamma and Surinam to Holland. But in one Inltance the Iblla/zder: make an Exception (perhaps a wife one) 1'53. in the Cafe ofEu/z‘atz'a, which is open to all the \Vorld. Now, that the Eng/2]]; thought themfelves entitled to the fame Right over their Colonies, which other Nations claim over theirs, and that they exercifed the fame Right by making what Regulations they pleafed, may be feen by the following Aéts of Parliament, viz. 12 of Car. H. Chap. 18.--1; of Car. II. Ch. 7,-22 and 23 of C. II. Ch. 26.- 25 ofC.II. Ch. 7.---7 and 8 of Will. Ill. Ch. 22.-ro and I I ofW. 1H. Ch. 21.--3' and 405 Ann. Ch. 5 and 10.8 of Ann. Ch. 13.-12 of Ann. Ch. 9,-1 ofG. I. Ch. 26.-3 of G. I. Ch. 21.---8 05G. I. Ch. 1; and 18.-11 of G. I. then are the real Grievances, feeing that the Things which you alledge are only the pre- tended ones ? Why, fome of you are exafperated againfi the Mother Country, on account Ch. 29.--12 ofG. I. Ch. 5.-2 of G. H. Ch. 28 and 35. *3 ofG. 11. Ch. 28.-4 of G. II. Ch. 15.-5 of G. IL 911- 7 and 9-6 of G. n. Ch. 13.45 em. 11. Ch. 18.- 11 of G. ll. Ch. 29.--12 of G. ll. Ch. 30.~-13 of G. U. Ch. 4. and 7.--15 and 16 of G. H. Ch. 23.---with many others of a later Date. 0f the. RCVival of certain Refiriétjons laid upon their I might alllo mention the Laws made in the Reign of his preterit Majelly; but as thefe Laws art: now the Point Controvcrfy, I forbear. Q3 MOthC!‘ ms. For had the Law been made five or fix Years before, when you were moving Heaven and Earth with your Cries and Lamentations; not mum‘s... .umnilr‘iii‘vuifillr Wings / 5 l I25 l v [ 124 "J |