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[&emsp;64&emsp;] therefore, the sum to be obtained by the late act, had been the sole object in forming it, there would not have been any occasion for “the of Great-Britain, to  and  to his Majesty  and  for raising a revenue  his Majesty’s dominions in America, for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charges of the administration of justice, the support of civil government, and the expence of defending the said dominions;”---nor would there have been any occasion for an expensive board of commissioners, and all the other new charges to which we are made liable.

the whole, for my part, I regard the late act as an experiment made of our disposition. It is a bird sent out over the waters, to discover, whether the waves, that lately agitated this part of the world with such violence, are yet subsided. If this adventurer gets footing here, we shall quickly find it to be of the kind described by the poet.--

R.