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Show WWI-I'll? E [1‘- much exhauf'ted of their Inhabitants,emigrating _, Ufe he can put it to, feems to be the Jullifi~ cation of the Mother-Country in declaring War [ 189 ] before Great-Britain and Ireland had been too; to North-America,---the Forces of the. Mother- ("1! ll [ 188 ] Hopes of its Succefs: For, after all, the belt ngairifi the Colonies, in order to oblige them to fubmit to her Authority, and to return to their Country might prevail, and America, however Obedience. Victory alone is but a poor Compenfation for all the Blood and Treafure which mull be fpilt on But alas l So that this Scheme of Pacification is to end in a War at lal't. Therefore we are now come to confider the fuch an Occafion. THIRD SCHEME. THE Expediency of having Recourfe to Arms, in order to compel the Colonies to fubmit to the Authority and Jurifdic‘tion of the [Conqueft of their Country, the Americans would fupreme Council of the Britt/l; Empire, the Parliament of Great-Britain. ff? IN regard to which important Point, the Gentleman reafons after the following Manner: ~--" After fuch an Offer (of an Union, as above " deferibed) and the contemptuous Refufal of " it by the Colonies, we may well fuppofe, that " they (the Inhabitants of Great-Britain) Wil1 Not to mention, that after a certainly be lefs difpofed, even than they are at prefent, to become our good Cul'tomers, and to take our Manufaétures in return for thofe Injuries and Oppreflions which they had fufiered from us:---I fay, Injuries and Opprcjfliom; becaufe the Colonies would molt undoubtedly give no fofter an Appellation to this Conquefr, tho' perhaps it would be no other in itfelf, than a jull: Chafiifement for the manifold Ofi'ences they had committed. Moreover, as the Ameri. cans are endeavouring even at prefent to fet up " act as one Man, to i‘upport the juft and law- all Sorts of mechanic Trades in order to rival us, " fill, and necefiary Authority of the {upreme or at leaft to fuperfede the Ufe of our Manufactures in their Country,---can any Man fuppofe, that their Ardor for letting up Manufac- " Legiflatnre of the Brit/"'17; Nation over all the " Dominions of the Crown. The Jullice of their " Caufe will give Vigour to their Meafures; and " the Colonies that fliall have the Folly and PIC" fumption to refill them, will be quickly re" duced to Obolience." IT is pollible, nay indeed it is very probable, that if a War was to be fpeedily undertaken, before tures would be abated, by their being forced to deal at the 0726' only European Shop, which they molt detel'ted ? BUT what is [till worfe, if pollible,---though the Britzflz Tr00ps night over-run the great Continent of Nori/z-flmrrz'm at firl't, it doth by no Means ; '4‘HH‘HQLA ' unwilling, be forced to fubmit. |