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Show (41) (40) Such was the (fate of things. Our American Colonies, particularly the Northern one:4 What is it now T have been for tome time in the very happiei't {late of fociety-, Not contented with a degree of power, firilicient to fiitisi‘v any reafonshle ambition, we haveattempted to extend it. -----< Not contented with (1:diving 1min them :1 lriye revenue we a'i/‘z‘ffi‘, we have endeavoured to procure one dire/F247 by 1.111 authoritative feizuie; and, in order to gain a pepper corn in this wuv, hmc (31101111 to hazard millior1~1,aequirc.-‘1 by the or, in that middle flare of civilization, between its 11111 rude find its laft refined and corrupt Rate. Old countries confil'r, generally, of three clafies of people; a GEN'I‘RY, 2 YOU.MANRY, and a PEASANTRY. The Colonies confil'c only of a body of YOEMANRY 9"" fupported by agriculture, and all independent, and nearly upon a level, in confequencc of Vthit a. which, joined to a boundlefs extent of country, the means of icouige is grovCrnment to conducted. Had we never de{Cited our old ground: Had we nouriihed and favoured Amen ma, with 21 view to commerce, inltead ol- confiderinpr it as 21' {ubfiltence are procured without difficulty, and the temptations to wickencfs are foinconfiderablc, that executions 'r are feldom known among them. From hence arifes an encou- country to be governed: ragement to population {0 great, thatin fom‘e 0-. the Colonies they double their own numberin fifteen years, in others, in pearcable intercou 1; of madam-Vile polic.l Had we, like 21 liberal 21nd wile pro;ole, rejoiced to fee 71 multitude of free States, branch» ed {.‘nth 110m ouitelves, all enjoying independent legifi latures iirnildr to our ov.11:Had we aimed at bindinrr them. to us 0111.] hv toe ties of alleélion and ir1tereli, and Con tenttrl eighteen years; andin all, taken one with another, in twen~ ty-five years. Such an increafe was, I believe, never before known. It dcmonf'tratcs that they mull live at their cafe; and be free from thofe cares, opprcflions, and difeasz ourlClves vl'i'h a iriodCratC power rendered diiiLlab C by beini‘: lenient and 11 1C-1ulv an umpire in their dine1 enccs, an aid which depopulate and ravage luxurious flates. With the population of the Colonies has increafed theirtradc, to themin imoroving their 01vn free {rovernm C11ts,aand their common bulw wzirl; aquinltth eafiaults or {Oieign enemies : Had this, 1 fay, been on." policy and temper; there is nothing {(1 great or happy that we might not have expected. With their but much falter on account of the gradual introduflion of luxury among them. In 1723 the exports to Pcmz/v/vmzza were 16,0001.--In 1742 they were 75,2951.-In 1757 they Were increafed to 268,4261.--AndIn 1773 to half a million. increufe our {trenqth would have i:1creal‘ed.A growingr {urn pl us in the revenue mi‘ht have been gained, which, invari- ' I he exports of all the Coloniesin 174.1. were 64.0,! 141-- In 1758, they were incrcafed to 1 ,832,9481. andm 177 jtg, ably apnlied to the or2ulu 11 ditch 4"":'e of the national debt, three millions § And the probability is, that, hadit not been would have dC livertd us from the ruih with which it threa- for the difcontents among; the Colonies fincc‘ the year 176-., tens us.1heLibC1ty of Ali/1711.12 might have preferved our Liberty, and, un("121 the direction of 21 p‘triot Kine or wife I\liniiter, proved the means of reitoring to us our 211117011 1015; (,onilitution. Perhaps, in time, ve .‘night .711‘0 have been broncht to 117C t11e1.ece1'1ty o. caretully wntChim» and refliiciin r our p‘pe r- credit :And thus we 111‘.rht have retrained l:irety, 2.111, in union v 1tn our Cclonies, have 11.1311o more theme 11.1nth for every enemy, and .i1c11CC-1 a firuation (>1honor and. Lii"itv 11cm beforeKI'IOWI] among. t mankind But 1? 1111 gtttintr 111vfeli -Uur Colonle s we 1kelyto he loll for ever. rlJL‘ll' love is t11111C.1111: o h21trcl, 'Euiti1tir‘1eio:c lor om 110- VC'ZHlHClit into r:.:11t:r.tut uni abhorreneo ------‘\/c mull lee e diltinc‘tly win: 21 culzizt‘i' this is, and the obieivari ore. .‘WL‘ now oxide v.1illno (or ..u.er.i, by at ts: 11:11.th to the fol~ Our our trade with them would have been this year double to wlut it was in 1773; and that in a few years more it would not have been potfible for the whole kingdom, though cont:11111:; only 01 manufacturers, toiupply the American demand I" . .1 s ‘ Excepting the Negroe: in the Southern Colonies, who probahly "~11 now either foon become extinct, or have their condition Chan;e1 into that of Freemm. ---Itis not the flu t of the Colonies that ti my 13"! among them to many of thofe unhappy people. They have made 11m to prohioit the importation of them-, but theft- laws‘nave always 1111 a negative put upon them here becaufe of the ir ten13m)! to hri:tour Negro trade. 1 1‘ In the provinceof Mathclmfetts- Bay there has not been, I'm!~ informed, more than one execution their: 1 8 years. § Mr. BURKE (in‘his eycellent and almir blc Spec: h 'm m‘vinhis relolutions for conciliation witl‘ the ColoniPS, p 9, 5113 J his m * 1 that our trade to the Colonia, including that 111 xlfrzaz and°the W/J India, was i1 177: no: rly equal to the trade whitt we csrried on W73: in. '10 who"C wot‘d at the beginn n; of this century- |