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 people, who having worked hard for bread in a wild country, and obtained by the low progreion of manual indutry the accommodations of life, are now invaded by unprecedented oppreion, and plundered of their properties by the harpies of taxation.

are told how their indutry is obtructed by unnatural retraints, and their trade confined by rigorous prohibitions; how they are forbidden to enjoy the products of their own oil, to manufacture the materials which Nature preads before them, or to carry their own goods to the nearet market: and urely the generoity of Englih virtue will never heap new weight upon thoe that are already overladen, will never delight in that dominion, which cannot be exercied but by cruelty and outrage.

while we are melting in ilent orrow, and in the tranports of delirious pity