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Show ,.. P R E F A C E. PREFACE. the Aincrzicmzr, now taught to know their own Importance (a Doctrine, which til/3y were always ready to learn) and l'tjo‘llllg their own Strength in our VVeaknefs, rejected the Expedient with Diidiin. The only Ufe, to which they put it, was to fwell their Catalogue of [Mercer/27! Grievances with this additional one of an m- rflzwiflg declaratory Law. And to he rare, it ferved admirably well for that purpoie, but for no other. For as to any thing elfe,--To pretend to bind the Colonies 232 all Lilly?! w/'itzzybev67', after having given fuch a recent Proof, that we din-ta" wt bind them to pay even an Halfpenny Tax on a News-Paper, was fueh an lnitance of Gafconading Folly as is hardly to be pa~ rallelled. No wonder then, that the C0- lonills {hould firfl: treat it as a ridiculous Bravado; and then make ufc of it as a xiii. as long as he pleafes; yet as long as lean. crux-742], I will ever maintain, that the Roe/c- z'rzg/uz‘vz Ailmi niflration were the Canto, the exciting Cattle I mean, of the prefent War, and of all the Calamities derived from it.- 1104: fault: rin‘ivata dudes [21 [lat/"ml?" papuhwigzw flum't. M ore ver if the dil'c/araz‘ony Law, which en~ acts, that the Britf/z Legillature has aRight to bind the Colonies in all Caz/Er collar/0'31)"; is to very had, lb tyrannical, and dctella- ble, as Dr. PRICE, and theRebelAG/zcricam now reprefent it;--I do further allert that z/mt identical patriotic Adminiftration, and particularly lWr. BURKE, were the Authors of this very Law. Dr. PRICE knew, is well as any I‘v'lan living, that fuch was the State of the Cafe: But he had not the In- PRICE {tiles him) call me Court Vermin, genuity to acknowledge it.- i-On the con- trary by inlbrting this among Others, in his Recital of pretended Grievances, 1e ha‘ led the unwary Reader to inppofe, that the declaratory Aft, as well as the relt ot the fad Opprefiions under which the poor flzizcr/cxz/zs groaned, proceeded all from the fame hateiil Can-fa, from the as fame Weapon againft ourfelves, by putting it into their Lift of imaginary Wrongs. THEREFORE, let Mr. BURKE (or the ad'mzraéle and excel/€72: Mr. BURKE, as Dr. .. ._.n-‘&H§-‘~_ -4.‘ :xii ‘ 9-1- W'm'rém-Ffifi‘vm‘firmmmnmwfg vfi |