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Show [2} I great deliberation opprefled me. I found myfelf do confefs, I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen. I look upon it as a fort or providential favour; by which we are put once more in pofleliion of our deliberative capacity, upon a bufinefs {0 very queftionable in its na» ture, fo‘very uncertain in its ifihe. By the re- a partaker in a very high null; and havmg no fort of reafon to rely on the {lrength of my natural abilities for the prop-ea" execution of that turn ofthis Bill, which feemed to have taken its ncceliity of forming {ome fixed ideas, concerning flight for ever, we are at this very infiant nearly as free to chufe a plan for our American Government, as we were on the firll day of the Seflion. the general policy of the Britilh Empire. to be returned to us from the other Houfe '3‘. If, Sir, we incline to the fide of conciliation, we are not at all embarrafl'ed to make ourfelves {0) by any ture of coercion and refiraint. called upon, as it were by a (unlefs we pleafe incongruous mixWe are therefore fuperior warning voice, again to attend to America ; to attend to the whole of it together; and to review the {ub- jeét with an unufual degree of care and calmnefs. Surely it is an awful fubjeé‘c; or there is none In on this tide of the grave. W'hen I firlt had the honour of a feat in this Home, the affairs of that Continent prefled themfelves upon us, as the molt important and molt delicate objeét of parliamentary attention. My little (bare in this ‘ 7/): Ac"? to rzjflrzzz‘rz :1» Trade and Cammcn‘e of f/JE Province: 9/ llflvflézt-bit/L‘t'r 343) am! New Hanna/7217?, and Colonies of Conneflz'cut and Rbafle‘ Iflmm', and Providence Plantation, in Nort/J Xmerica, to Great {grit/21x1, Ireland, and 1/18 Britt-fl) [flamlr in {be 115/} Indies; and to prouimr fur/:7 Prmnmrr and Colonic; fram carrying on my Fffliefy a): 1/15 J‘smzl‘s of Neqty‘oundland, avd orbrr flat-e: {beret/2 mentioned under certain Lending": and Lim:'tariwz.~'. , great troll, I was obliged to take more than common pains, to inltruct nag/fell" in every thing which relates to our Colonies. I was not lefs under the Some- thing of this fort leemed to be indifpenfable; in order, amidlt fo vall a fluctuation of pallions and opinions, to concenter my thoughts; to ballafl: my conduét; to preferve me from being blown about by every wind of falhionable doctrine. I really did not think it fafe, or manly, to have frelh principles to feek upon every frelh mail which (hould arrive from America. At that period, I had the fortune to find my- felf in perfect concurrence with a large majority in this Houfe. Bowing under that high authority, and penetrated with the fharpnefs and firength of that early imprefiion, I have continued ever fince, without the leafl deviation, in my original fentiments. Whether this be owing to an obflinate perfeverance in error, or to a re- ligious adherence to what appears to me truth and reafon, it is in your equity to judge. Sir, Parliament having an enlarged view of objects, made, during this interval, more frequent changes in their lentiments and their conduct, B 2 than |