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Show [75] thefe difputes, one thing continnnily dinned in \Vhere is itP-let us know the volume and the their ears, that reafon and jtifiice demanded, page?----what is the grols, what is the nett pro- that the Americans, who paid no Taxes, fhould duce P-to what fervice is it applied ?--how have be compelled to contribute. How iid that fact of their paying nothing, fiend, when the Taxing Syflem began P \Vhen Mr. Grenville began to you appropriated its fin‘plusi-W'hzit, can none of the many iltilful Indextmnkers, that we are form his fyf‘tem of American Revenue, he Rated in this Home, that the Colonies were then in debt two millions ii); hundred thouiiEHtl pound; iletling money; and was of opinion they would (lilbliat‘ge that debt in {our years. 3n this flute, thofe untaxed people were actually iiihjecl: to the now employing, find any trace of it?--- 'Vell, let them and that tell together.-But are the Journals, which lay nothing of the Revenue, as lilent on the may find it. difcontentR-Gh no! a child It is the melancholy burthen and blot of every page. payment of taxes to the amount of fix hundred and fifty thonliind a year. In fuel, however, fied in the lixth and lint I‘t‘folntion, which is- Mr. Grenville was mii'taken. The funds given " ‘f/Jm‘ it bar/.5 133672 jhmd éy experience, that #2: for linking the debt did not prove quite {o ample as both the Colonies and he expected. The caicnlation was too liinguine: the reduction was not " mmmer of granting the [aid flpfl/er and aids, complested till iome years after, and at diflrerent times in different Colonies. Hm 'ever, the Taxes- " 021/, and conducive 1‘0 H36 [Jud/22‘ fervice, #5472 I think then I 21.3, from thofe journals, jufii- " by the-[aid Omen?! 4/2777zék'55, both new more " agree/1M6 2‘0 the [-222] C‘s/vizier, and more benefi" f/Je mode of giving and granting aid; in Par/ia- after the war, continued too great to hear any " mem‘, fo [)6 I‘d/fin? and paid 272 1/56 faz'd Colonies." addition, with prudence or prepriety; and when This makes the whole of the fundamental part of the plan. The conciufion is irrefil'tible. You cannot fay, that you were driven by any ne- the burthens impoled in confequence of former requifitions were ditcharged, our tone became too high to refort again to requifition. No Colony, iince that time, ever has had any requilition what- foever made to it. ceility, to an exercife of the utmof't Rights of Legiflature. You cannot aflert, that you took on youi‘lelves the taikot‘ impoiing Colony Taxes, V from the want of another legal body, that is We fer; the fenfe of the Crown, and t"w AAV fenfe f‘ of Parliament, on the productive nature of a Re- wmze 0"} Grant. Now {catch the £11116 journals for the produce of the Revenue fy L'zxeqflfi'IOfi-e‘ . \t/ hen: competent to the purpofe of fupplying the Exi- gencies of the State without wounding the prep "indices of the people. Neither is it true that the body {0 qualified, and having that compo. tence, had neglefl'ed the duty. 2. The |