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Show [93] [ 92 l obedient, and already well-taxed Colony E Who two, five, ten years arrears. has laid one word on this labyrinth of detail, which bewilders you more and more as you enter a treafury extent againft the failing Colony. You mutt make new Bolton port bills, new refiraining laws, new Aets for dragging men to Eng- into it? Who has prefented, who can prefent Ell/man " youawnh a clue, to lead you out of it? Ithink, 311‘, it is impofiible, that you {hould not." recolleél: that the Colony bounds are {0 implicated in one another (you know it by your other experiments in the Bill for prohibiting the New-England filhery) that you can lay no pollible refiraints on almoft any of them which may not be prefently eluded, if you do not confound the innocent with the guilty, and burthen thofe whom upon every principle, you ought to exonerate. He mutt be grofly ignorant of America, who land for trial. You cannot iflue You mull fend out new fleets, new armies. All is to b‘egin again. From this day forward the Empire is never to know an hour's tranquillity. An intefline fire will be kept alive in thebowels of the Colonies, which one time or other mull confiime this whole empire. I allow indeed that the empire of Germany raifes her revenue and her troops by quotas and contingents; but the revenue of the em- pire, and the army of the empire, is the worl't revenue, and the worll army, in the world. thinks, that, without falling into this confufion of all rules of equity and policy, you can refirain any tingle Colony, efpecially Virginia and Marylrlrpd, the central, and molt important of them a . Ifet it alfo be confidered, that, either in the prelent confufion you fettle a permanent contin~ gent, whlch will and mutt be trifling; and then you have no effectual revenue: or you change the quota atevery exigency; and then on every new repartition you will have a new quarrel, Reflect befides, that when you have fixed a quota for every Colony, you have not provided tor prompt and punétual payment. Suppofe‘one, ‘ two, Inftead of a {landing revenue, you will therefore have a perpetual quarrel. Indeed the noble Lord, who prdpofed this project of a ranfom by auction, feemed himfelf to be of that opinion. His projeét was rather deligned for breaking the union ot‘the Colonies, than for ef'tablifliing a Revenue. He critifefled, he apprehended that his 'propofal would not be to t/ch'r kyle. I fay, this {theme of dilunion feems to be at the bottom of the proje€t; for I will not fuf‘peé'c that the noble Lord meant nothing but merely to delude the nation by an airy phantom which he never in..tended to realize. But whatever his views may be ; as I propofe the peace and union of the Co,lonies as the very foundation of my plan, it cannot ' accord |
