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Show $141 lira"? 1W1} imam ' T‘WiW‘ .7 V" r‘ 50 PLEAS AND ARGU'MEN'rs. 'Britz‘flz Government? And are all Foreigners and Aliens, and even Ham‘vm'am, to be excluded from fuch Polls of Honour, Profit, or extenfive Influence? Very right:---But our dear, independent Brethren of North-Aumim are neither Foreigners, nor Aliens, not yet Haxoveriam : They are the better Part of our own felves; and therefore-"Hwy have a Rig/2t to every ‘f/z/izg. Nay, they have a Right to be eholEri Members of the Britifl'. Parliament, and to lit and vote for any Sums they [hall pleafe. to be applied for the Independence of Ahmad PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. 5,, Quality, much greater in Quantity, and without any Bounties at all ;---nay, tho' thefe Countries {hould agree to take our own Engli/lz Manufactures in Return. THERE is therefore nothing more that can be oHered relative to this Subjeé‘t. For if we {hall {till perlill in carefling our Colonies for putting thefe Indignities daily upon us ;---if we fliall {till fubmit to be fleeced, taxed, and infulted by them, inl'tead of throwing them off, and declaring ourfelves to be unconneéled with, and inde- 'r" againfi the Interel‘t and Claims of Great-Britain. pendent of them, we {hall become (and indeed we are now becoming) a Mpnument of the H-mnqumL-g Once more; Do we wilh to encourage fomc QREATEST INFATUATION, Willllllllllll i: ,> >- advantageous Trade with a foreign Country; an 3 Country, which abounds with raw Materials, but is def'titute of Mantifaéttlres ?---VVe mult not do it; if {uch a Trade lhould be fuppofed to interfere with the Trade of the Colonies. Are we neverthelefs convinced, that we ought to be . at Liberty to buy all Sorts of raw Materials at the bell Markets, and the cheapeft? And that it is the Height of Abfurdity, to lay heavy Duties on their Importation into Great-Britain? l3 i 1i No Matter for that :---For if the Interelt of the Colonies {hould f0 require, that is every Thing; that alone lilences all Obieélions. And We ‘muft give thefe Colonil'ts great Bounties for railing fuch Commodities, as might be im- ported from other Countries much better in l l finality, |