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Show 18 A CUREfortheSPLEEN. aft goes on to lay duties on fugars, wines, Ball-India goods, the. imported from Great-Britain, 8:5. This act has'been, and {till is, fu'omitted to, without the lealt complaint. A CUREfortheSPLEEN. 19 Now 1 lhould be glad to know, what diflerence there is between not undertake, for one nippikin, to make you believe, 720/571; thefe two preambles, f0 far as refpeds the matter of railing rm/xzz;, that lurks may be catched by the lky"s falling, or, by putting {alt on their tails; or, that the Pope of Rome, or a revenue. Trim. Six of one, and half a dozen oft'other, that's all. S/Jarp. Nay, {0 long ago as the year 1670, in an aé‘tinade man of fin, is a real painted whore, of the lemiiiitic gender; or, that the moon is made of green cheefe,---why, for regulating the plantation trade, one reafon exprefly af- " You make me think you are that tool, " Which ltnaves do work with, call'd a fool." Pray, Mr. Sagacity, don't you believe there is an act of Parliament, layingr a duty ofhlty' pounds llerltng upon every figncd, is that otherwile " the trade of them would, in a great lil'lf'al‘lJl‘Cllm‘ diverted‘from England, and carried elle- where, and his Majei'ly's'cuil‘oins and rcven ues much lei'lened." In'lhort, every revenue aft lS,"ll1 the nature of it, an act for railing a'revenue, whether it 'beflvlexprelh‘d or not; and it is trilling',‘at thisltime ofday, tollai't an objection, which does not carry the force C‘ien'ofa guihble. ll it be laid, that the money railed by this act is milappliEtl, .lrecaule our civil officers are paid out of it ;' I .inliver, this is a dillinct matter: The monies railed by this, and all other revenue acts, are, and, for more than a century, have been, paid into his Ma- marriage; and another lify pounds upon every child born in lawful wedlock; and another, giving fifty pounds bounty upon every murder of a, baflard child, provided always, any thing in the {aid act to the contrary notwithltanding, that. {uch child be not above the age of two years; tell me honcflly, my boll, don't you, in your corilcietice firmly believe thele quaint improbabilities. jelly's Exchequer; and if, when there, inltead of being ap- F21". \Vhy you may laugh if you pleafe, becaufe as how you've got a glib tongue: butl am ready to take my corporal plied towards ealing Britilh fubjects in their taxes, as foiitier- oath, that the Bollon niiniller, jull alter he'd been to prayer ly, they are now applied for our cafe, by paying the falaries with my family, lolemnly declared, there was luch an act, of our Governor, Judges, the. which, otherwile, we mull actually pail, and that he had teen it, and read it too, more than that; but I never law it. pay by an internal tax on our polls and efiates, it leems as if we could lzave no reafbn to complain of this as a grievance: However, even though the money when railed vas never {0 Puff. \Vell, ill you havn't, Iliave; but howibmever, that grolly milhpplied. it wcu'd by no means afl'ect the legality and conllitutional right ol‘ railing it; thefe are matters quite lall part, about murder, {taggers me, for all. 11mm And well it may, friend l'ull‘; and, verily, thy underltanding mull be firm and lolid, 0r thou mull needs have dill‘inct and independent of each other. . ['1sz But pray, Sir, foril'l am wrong, I am willing to be let flunibled at the thrclhold; for l alhrm, lh-ouldan at: be pulled, containing only the hrll claule of this baliard act, llli-oulci be right, I would make bold toalk VOUllCli; whether you don't weak enough to renounce all my peaceable principles, and, believe the Parliament have made an act to tax ourlands live fliillings llerling an acre, or that they will \ery loon maheit? putting my tiufl in an arm of ficlh, lliould join. in trying the though and temper of carnal weapons; but friend Sharp ill/I. ludet-d, Sir, I do allure you, the Bolton minifler cle- flared it had actually pulled the Home of C(mii'nons, tho' the be called high trt'alon, and then General Gage was to take will lighten thy darltneCs, and, il' puflihle, line down the die 5 of l'rientl Fillpot's underflanding. 1 like. ll' he can, I'll be {worn he's an adept at refining; and .1 would advit'e neighbour Fillpot, after that, to let lbllie‘ of l: is liquors undergo the fame operation; for, as l'm a lini-ter. it is like boll, like wines; both cloudy, notto lay muddy. all our lands, and cut them into lordlhips, ahd divide them among the. new Counliellors. 'l'riui. .lxing had not ligated it; and more than all that, he told how it was a deep plot to get away all ourlanos; {or he laid they ltnew as how we Would never f'omit to it, and then it would Sam). That's the. barber, f:/:‘rz'-w;--here's t'ye, lioncfl'. 93%;». Slice the like alemon, landlord Fillpot, ifl would 1Y1}. V/liy your tonguc's no llander, Trim, and {o I fhan't not relent it; but every body knows my wine mull be good, for l have my Madeira of'ifiquire "M, and my lt‘yal ochacon "4' " "*"*'s {on-in-lau' chatty] forget :is name, and {o it can't be C 2 filth |