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Show l 12 1 [ 13 ] There is no occalion to exaggerate, where plain truth is of {0 much weight and importance. But race. You could at no time do fo without guilt; and be allured you will not be able to do it long whetherl put the pi'eleiit numbers too high or too low, is a matter of littie moment. Such is with impunity. the firength with which peptilation lhoots in that part of the world, that date th > numbers as high as we Wlil, whim", the difpute continues, the exaggeration ends. \Vhilfi' we are diltulling any given magnitude, they are grown to it. \‘v'hilli we lpend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing Two Millions, we {hall find we have Millions more to manage. Your children do not grow falter from infancy to manhood, than they {pi-end from families to communities, and from villages to nations. I put this confideration of the preterit and the growing numbers in the front of our deliberation ; But the population of this country, the great and growing population, though a very important conlideration, will lole much of its weight, if not combined with other circumftances. The commerce of your Colonies is out ofall proportion beyond the numbers of the people. This ground of their commerce indeed has been trod tome days ago, and with great ability, by a diftinguilhed 9* pcrlbn, at your bar. This gentleman, after Thirty-five years-it is fo long fince he firft appeared at the fame place to plead for the commerce of Great Britain-has come again before you to plead the fame caufe, without any other effeé'c ot‘time, than, that to the fire of ima- became, Sir, this conlidcration will make it evi- dent to a blunter dilcernment than yours, that no partial, narrow, contracted, pinched, occalional {yl'tem will be at all luitable to fuch an object. gination and extent of erudition, which even then marked him as one of the firft literary cha- It will lhew you, that it is not to be conlidered knowledge in the commercial interel't of his country, formed by a long courfe of enlightened and (incriminating experience. as one of thole Alumni which are out of the eye and confideration of the law; not a paltry excrefcence of the llate; not a mean dependant, who may be neglected with little damage, and provoked with little danger. It will prove, that racters of his age, he has added a confummate Sir, I fhould be inexcufable in coming after fuch a perfon with any detail; if a great part of fome degree of care and caution is required in the the members who now fill the Houfe had not handling fuch an objeét ; it will thew, that you the misfortune to be abfent, when he appeared at your bar. Befides, Sir, I propofe to take the ought not, in reafou, to trifle with lo large a mats of the interefis and feelings of' the human matter at periods of time lomewhat different * .Dlr. Glover. fflCC‘. 5 from |