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Show [ 205 ] cation is kept open between the two Countries; while Correfpondences are carried on; Letters, Pamphlets, and Newfpapers, pafs and re-pafs; and in fhort, while the Americans are permitted troul on the Liberty either of Speaking or Writing on Matters of State ! Newfpapers and Pamphlets filled with the bitteref't Inveétives againl't the Meafures of Government! Allociations formed in every Qiarter to cry down Minifte‘rial Hirelings, and their Dependents! ‘The Votes and Refolutions of the Provincial 'AflEmblies to alTert their own Authority and Independence! No landing of Troops from 0141 France to quell Infurreetions! No railing of new Levies in flmerim! No quartering of Troops l No building of Forts, or ereéting of Garrifonsl And, to fum up all, no miflizg of Money without the exprefs Confent and Approbation of the Provincial American Parliaments firf't obtained for each of thefe Purpofesl --Now I all; any reafonable Man whether thefc Things are compatible with any Idea of an 3fbitrary, defpotic Government P-Nay more, whether the French King himfelf, or his Minifters, would with to have fuch Notions as thefe infiilled into the Subjeéts of Old Frame? Yet infiilled they muft be, while a Communi- ' cation to come into Frame, and Franc/2mm into Ame- I An abfolute Freedom of the l'refs l No con- rica. So much therefore as to this Clafs of Obv any arbitrary Government can difpenle with fueh Liberties as a republican Spirit will require. jections. Indeed I might have infified'further, that Great-Britain alone could at any Time prevent fuch an Acquifition to be made by France, as is here fuppol‘ed, it {he fhould think it neneceflary to interfere, and if fuch an Acqur- fition of Territory would really and truly be an Addition of Strength in the political Balance and Scale of Power ‘. But furely I have faid i' enough ; * The thenomenon of that prodigious Inii'cife of Trade, which this Country has experienced fincelt ile app}; Revolution, is what few People can explain ; anth t Sim/0:}! they cut the Matter lhort, by afcribing it all ta) t e1 Caufcg of our Colonies : But the true Pnnuples an rea g. r‘ the fol lowintr: ' " ' ' (hf: Increafc, I of ' l that amazmg i. The Supprei'lion of various Monopolies and exclufive 'nin of Companies cxilling before, for foreign i rade. d 2, The opening of Corporations, or ‘the un (51ml ‘ . g0r Cxclufive Privileges and Com-panics of lrade at {(2112: baa what comes to the fame Thing, machining o t ofLaw r s Cafe of. i 1n opr otuhp by Means of legal Decifions "Feels ‘ And N.B. The like Obfervation cxtenfs to "131' 5 1,7, evading the Penalties of the Au 5th or Q5169" 1:36:02 againlt exercifing thofe Trades, to which ltrlons ‘ ferved re'ru‘lar Apprentieef'nips. 3. The‘Nurfing up of new Trades and new Branches of ‘ . ‘1 Commerce by Means of Bounties, and national PTCIZI'ums. The END! L." n to do; then it remains to be confidered, whether 4 Franc/z, through Policy, would permit them {0 y [ 204 'l mitted to a Freer/z Government, becaufe the |
