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Show , (34) But I have wandered a little from the point I intended prina cipaily to inlilt upon in this feé'tion, which is, " the folly, in " refpeét of policy, of the meafures which have brought on 4‘ this conteit; and its pernicious and fatal tendency." (35) Our governors, ever time] can remember, have been jealous that the Colonies, fome time or other, would throw oll' their dependence. This jealoufy was not founded on any of their acts or declarations. The; have always, m bile at peace The following obfervations will, I believe, abundantly with us, difclaimed any fuch defign; and they have continued prove this. 1/2. There are points which are likely always to quer by reafon, Indeed, to believe, that ind tpendcncy is, even at this difcuflion. Of this kind are rnol'r points of authorityand pre- rogative; and the bet} policy is to avoid, as much as potfible, giving any occrrfron for calling them into quef'tion. The Colonies were at the beginning of this reign in the habit of acknowleding our authority, and of allowing us as much po Ner over them as ourinterel'c required; and more, in fume iriilarrces, than we could reafonablyclaim. This habit they would have retained; and had we, inflead of impofing new burdens upon them, and encreaftng their reflraints, flu- drt-d to promote their commerce, and to grant them new indulgences, they would have been always growing more attached to us. Luxury, and, together with it, their dependance tipon us, and our influence |] in their Allemhlies, would have increafed, till in time perhaps they would beome as corrupt as our- felves; and we might have fucceeded to our wilhes in efiablilhing our authority over them.--But, happily for them, we have chofen a different courfe. By exertions of authority which have alarmed them, they have been put upon examining into the grounds of all our claims, and forced to give up their luxuries, and to feel: all their refources within themfelves : And the ilfue is likely to prove the lofs of all our authority over them, and of all the advantages connected with it. 30 little do men in power fornetimes know how to preferve power, and fo remarkably does the defire ofextending dominion {ometimes deftrov it. Mankind are naturally difpofed to con~ tinue in fubjeétion to that mode of government, be it what it will, under which they have been born and educated. No- thing roufes them into refillance but grofs abufes, or fome particular oppreflions out of the road to which they have been to difclaim rt lince they have been at war with us. moment, lhavc generally dreaded among them as ‘a calamity to which they are in danger of being driven, in order to avord a greater. The jealoul'v l have mentrontd was, however, natural; and betrayal a fecret opinion, that the {objection m which they were hold was more than we could expect them always to endure. In {uch circumliances, all por‘rible care fhould have been taken to give them no r‘ealorr for difcontcnt ,3 and to preferve them in fubjec'tion, bt keeping in that lineof conduct to which eultom had reconciled them, ( r at hunt never deviating from it, except with great‘caution; and particularly, by avoiding all direct attacks on their property and regulations. Had we done this, the different interef'ts of it) many flares {tattered over a vaft continent joined to our own pIUtlcncg and moderation, would have enabled us to maintain them in dependante for ages to come. have we acted ? But inttead of this, how It is in truth too evident, that OUFWl‘lolr: conduft, inl'tead of being directed by that found policy and forelight which in fuch circumftanccs were abfolutely neceffary, has been nothing (to fay the bett of it) but a feries of the blindellt rigour folloaved by retraétarion; ofviolence folio" 3,} by conceflion ; of mii'talte, weakrrefs and incontiflchy.-._A recital of a few facts, within every body's recollection, Will fully prove this. . ln the 6th of George the Second, anaét was paired for impcling certain duties on all foreign fpiri-ts, molatlts and fugars imported into the plantations. In this are}, the duties impoled are faicl to be GIVEN and GRANT") by the Parliament to the King 3 and this is the Brit xii/mica" act in-which thefe words have been ufed. But notwrthltantlrng this, as the a€t ui'ed‘. And he who will examine the hiflory of the world will find, there has generally been more reafon for complaining had the appearance of being only a regulation cf trade, the that they have been too patient, than that they have been turn bulerrt and rebellious. Our by it from them. ll This has been our policy with refpeé‘t to the people of Ireland; and c the confrquence is, that we now fee their Parliament as obedient at we ean wrth. Colonies fubmitted to it; and a {mall direct revenue was draw n In the'rtth of the prefent reign, many alterations were made in this aft, With the declared "Tole of making provifton for railing a revenue in America. 1 his alarmed the Colonies; and produced uifcontents and remort' E 2. itrances, |