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Show ( 34 ) authorifcd Gazette, that the city of New York and the countries of Staten and Long Illand have fubmitted voluntarily and cheerfully, and that many in thefe places are full even of zeal to the caufe of Adminif'rration. Were they inflantly refiored to trade? Are they yet reflored to it? Is not the benignity of two commiflioners, naturally molt humane and generous men, fome way fet- tcred by inltruc‘tions, equally againft their dilpofitions and the fpirit of parliamentary faith, when Mr. Tryon, vaunting of the fidelity of the City in which he is Governor, is obliged to apply to minittry for leave to proteét the King's loyal fubjeé‘ts, and to grant to them (not the difputed rights and privileges of freedom) but the common rights of men, by the name of Graces? Why do not the commiflioners refiore them on the {pot 9 Were they not named as commiflioners for that expreie purpofe? But we fee well enough to what the whole leads. The trade of America is to be dealt out in private indulgence: and gracer; that is in jobbs to recompence the incendiaries of war. ‘17qu will be informed of the proper time in which to fend out their merchandife. From a national, the American trade is: to be turned into a perfonal monopoly: and one fet of Merchants are to be rewarded for the pretended zeal, of which another fet are the dupes; and thus between craft and credu- lity, the voice of reafon is fiifled; and all the miiconduct, all the calamities of the war are covered and continued. lf If I had not lived long enough to be little furprized at any thing, I {hould have been in fome degree aftonifhed at the continued rage of feveral Gentlemen, who, not fatisfied with carrying fire and {word into America, are ani. mated nearly with the fame fury againlt thofe neighbours of theirs, whofe only crime it. is, that they have charitably and humanely Wilh- ed them to entertain more reafonable fentiments, and not always to filer-ifice theirinterefl: to their pafiion. All this rage againft unren filling difleiit, convinces me, that at bottom they are far from fatisfied they are in the right. For what is it they would have? A war? They certainly have at this moment the blefiing of fomething that is very like one; and if the war they enjoy at prefent be not fuffieiently hot and extenfive, they may {horto ly have it as warm and as l‘preading as their hearts can defire. Is it me lore; of the King- dom they call for? They have it already ; and if they choole to fight their battles in their own perlon, no body prevents their letting fail to America in the next tranlports. Do they think, that the ferviee is {tinted for want of liberal fupplies? indeed they complain with« out reafon'. The table of the Home of Com- mons will glut them, let their appetite for exq- pence he never {0 keen. And laflixre them further, that thofe who think with them in the Houfe of Commons are full as my in the I) control, |