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Show [83] ii'f, Upon aRcvicw of your Principles, they'l'halri flaall we fear For ourfelves and our Pof‘terity, appear to you to have been deluhve and erroneous, as 1 think they mufl, or if you lhall only be in Doubt of them, you Certainly will not draw greater rigour of Government for fevuity Years to comedian Wth we and our Predecellors hat/‘3 felt in the feventy Years pail. that Conclufion which otherwile you might do, and which I am glad you have hitherto avoided; evitable Dillrcfs and Milery of Independence upon our Mother Country. if {uch Independence You rnufl give me Leave, Gentlemen, in a few Words to vindicate myltlliiiom :1 Charge. in one Part of your Anlwer, of having. by my Speech, reduced you to the unhappv Alternative could be allowed or maintained, and the Probabin «of appearing by your Silence to acquiel'cc in my we are not. lity of much greater Diflrefs, which r‘v ,nit able to forelee. nt‘iments, or of freely dilcufling this Point of theSupremacy-of Parliament. 1 faw, as l have before o'bfcrvod, the Capital Town of the Pro- You all; me if we have not Reafon to Fear we > {hall foon be reduced to a worfe Situation than Vince, without being reduced to fuch an Alter» .native, voluntarily not only difculling but de- that of the Colonies of France, Spain or Holland. termining this Point, and inviting every other I may filely aflirm that we have not; that we Town and Dillriét in the Province to do the like. Evils from a Sub- I {aw that many of the principal 'l‘owns had fol» million to the Authority 0 Parliament, equal to what we mul't feel from its Authority being difputed, from an uncertain Rule of Law and GoVernment. For more than feventy Years toge~ lowed the Example, and that were was imminent efpeeially when you Confidet the obvious and in- have no Reafon to Fear an t-her the Supremacy of Parliament was acknow- ledged without Complaints of Grievance. The Effect of every Meafure cannot be forefeen by human Wildom. What can be expected more from anyAuthority than when theUnfitnefs ofil Mealure is difcovered, to make it void ? When upon theunitedReprelentations and Complaints ofthe American Colonies any acts have appeared to Parliament to be unlalutary, have there HOE been repeated lnflanccs of the Repeal of fiiCl1 Acts ? We cannot expect thefe Inflances fhould be carried {0 far as to be equivalent toaDifavowfll orRelinquifliment of the Right itfelf'. WWII}??? a Danger ofa Compliance in mail it‘ not all the Rell, inOrder to avoid being diliiniyiilhed. Was notI reduced to the Alternative of rendering myfelfjul-Hy obnoxious to the Dilplealure of my Sovereign by aetitiielcitigg in lhch irregularities, or of calling upon you to join with me in hip-Welling them ? Might I not rather have. expected from you an Exprelhon of your Concern [lint any Potions {hould project and proleeute a Plan ("i Mealiires which would lay me under a New cellity of' bringing [his Point before. you ? It was foiar from being my Inclination, t‘ at nothing;t fllort of :1 Score of' my tothe King, and the Obligations l am under to C(iilr‘dlf \ our true 1W Lerctl Could have compelled me to it. Cw:!.':wczr |