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Show 30 THE RIGHTS OF BRITAIN AND CLAIMS or AMERICA. 3t whether it is lefs arbitrary, than to demand an " The Declaratory Aét," as the American £nterrza/ tax from the Americans, for the {up- Congrefs affirms, " comprehends all the griev- ort of their own government, and even for the general fupport of the State, and as a {uit- " ances ofwhich they complain," able rerun tor the proteé'tion which they have ever derived from the Government of this kingdom P "l he Congrefs had {urely forgot: this flrange rhetorical figure of the great Orator, when they we'e tempted to date PUBLIC RUIN, from his rt-lignatizm in i761. They have all‘o forv. got, or they do no: cnufe to remember, that he auto etced in the DECLARATORY 13111,, brought in and psfild by the Marquiis of Rockingham's Party, who were in office, in the beginning ofthe year 1766,. This Bill ex- rrrflly d.elares, " that all his Mnjefly's Colo" mes and Plantations in America have been, " are and of right ought to he, fubordinate to " and dependant upon the. Imperial Crown and " PARLIAMENT err GREAT BRITAIN; " who have full power and authority to " make laws and flatutes of iuflieient validity " to bind the Colonies and People of Ame- Yet that, very Congrels, with peculiar efl'rontery, not only approve, but even praife the conducfl of the very party by whom the RH was introduced, and the MAN, by whefe CRIMINAL ACQUIESCENCE (to ute one of his own phralee) it p»1f:ri into a law. THAI‘ Pa'ty add THAI‘ MAN, being now in OPP';fi[lOIl to Government, the Americans endeavwr to {ecure their firpport, by flattering their vanity at the expence oftrutlxl They forget pal} demerits in the hopes of pre- fent {ervices. But when they expeét to dec-ive a whtle Party into their interefi, they themfelves are made the tools of that Pirty; and like the fifigure ofthe Negro, near Temple-bar, are turn- ed round by the machine, which they pretend to move. The Congrefs, in a (train of eloquent adul~ ation, {peaks with raptures of " that illufirious "Band of diflinguiihed Peers and Commoners," who now declaim, aroue, and protefl, in favour of their own Rebe'lion. It has ap- " rica, {uhjeéts of the Crown orGreat-Britain, ‘ peared that the Aét of which they molt corn- " IN ALL CASES WHATSOEVER." plain, Mr. Pitt, to preferve tome degree ofconfifleney, ohjeéted to the words " IN ALL cases , WHATSOEVER." But his oppofition was {0 ‘ languid, that he did not attend the Houle when the bill was traded; and only five Peers were found to follow his opinion, when it came under debate in the Houfe of Lords. A:‘ The was the manufacture of that very " illuflrious Band," encouraged by the nega- tive oppofition made by the Earl of Chatham, whofe advice the Band followed, as it foon after appeared, to their own political dePtruction. halides, was it not under the adminifira- tion of the Earl of Chatham, in the years 1767 and |