. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . om them : and they execrated it accordingly -, though it would certainly havebeen very generally approved, had it originated with one of their own faid it was infidious, bafe, and treacherous in the higheft degree -, and cal-culated to render incurable all thofe mifchiefs which it pretended to remedy;that the people are as efFedtually taxed without their ow
. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . om them : and they execrated it accordingly -, though it would certainly havebeen very generally approved, had it originated with one of their own faid it was infidious, bafe, and treacherous in the higheft degree -, and cal-culated to render incurable all thofe mifchiefs which it pretended to remedy;that the people are as efFedtually taxed without their own confent, by being com-pelled to the payment of a grofs fum, as by an aggregate of fmall duties to thelame amount, but with this odious difierence, that the former carries all the ap-pearance of a contribution, or ranfome, levied by an holtile army in a ftate of at the beginning of the prefent century, the parties engaged to each other, That no prince ofthe houfe cf Bourbon (bould fit on ihe throne of Spain : yet peace was made with a prince of thetioufe of Bourbon fitting on (hat throne. He cited many other inflanccs to the fame purpofe ;and diplajed great hirtorical knowledge, as well as judgment in applying it, avowed. 7 J. THE HISTORY OF AMERICA. 511 avowed warfare *, The motion was, however, carried on a divifion, by a ma- CHAP. of two hundred and feventy-four to eighty-eight. ^^ This conciliatory plan gave birth to two others: one by Mr. Burke, the otherby Mr. Hartley, both of which wore a very plaufible appearance. , whofe plan was fimilar to lord Chathams, endeavoured to prove, with-out inquiring whether it was to be yielded as a matter of right, or granted as amatter oi favour. That the only method of governing the colonies with fafetyand advantage v/as, by admitting them to an iniereft in our conjlilution. Withthis view, he went into an hilloncal detail ot the manner of admitting Ireland,Wales, and the counties palatine of Gliefler and Durham, into
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