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Show ( 55 ) (54) What! are the Americans to enjoy all the Rights appertaining to this Government, and not contribute to its fupport? I anfwer, by no means: it is not fitting they fhould. The fun~ damental Rights of the Englifh Conflitution I 'W hen you {hall thefe unhappy deeds relate, then mutt you fpeak, Of one, whofe hand Like the oofe jaded}: * threw a pearl away Richer than all his Tribe. have fhewn to be, tbefecurity of Life, Lioerty, Property, mzd Freedom in Trade; and to thefe Rights all Britith Subjects wit/3i" the realm, are I have now done with the Thoughts, which the perufal of Mr. Burke's Letter had awaken- without exception, entitled, and fhould enjoy: ed in my mind; and find myfelf arrived at that but it is not fo with Britifh Subjeéts out of period where I had defigned to Prop: but as I am upon the important fubjeét of America, as the realm, for of t/aem fomething more is required, and of them fomething more has been received. They, (I mean the Colonills) fur- there are one or two matters more that ref'ting rendered from the firf'r, one of the fundamental Rights of the Conflitution, to wit, Freedom {hall not again trouble the public with any further fentiments of mine upon this occafion (for in Trade. This they gave up, and this they put into the monopolizing hands of their bre- truth being my only object herein, Ifhall as on my mind, I could with to remove, and as I thren here, as the gift of Contribution, for the readily look for it in others, as feek it in myfelf) {0, if I {hould advance one or two paces beyond price of Proteé'tion. my journ-ey's end, I hope I {hall be excufed. Excellent, and how va- luable the exchange! when the very gift of contribution did itfclf enhance the price of pro- Having attended my duty in the Houfe ofLords tection! ineilimable jewel! than which a no. bier did not grace the royal crown; and yet noble as it is, it was not enough to fatisfy the uponevery important debate refpeéting America, it was there that I derived much ufeful information to myfelf: but yet, however infl‘ruéted, as I With Freedom in Trade, Life, truly have been, by the wifdom of thofe who oppofed the meafure of a def'rruétive civil war, Lz‘oerty, and Property were to be parted with ; I muf't confefs, my mind has been more made or, in the alternative, the revenge of Herod was up on this fubjeét, by what has not been laid by to be taken in the blood of Innocents. Revenge has been purfued: but Herod-like, and Iwill the advocates for it, than by what has been appetite of defpotifm. was required. More mufl: be had. All ufe the language of the immortal Shakcfpear ; When advanced againft it. The flrfl, the eoief, and ‘ This was Herod, who flew his Wife Mariamnc. , D 4, the |