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 the Americans have never openly denied. That it is their duty to pay the cot of their own afety they eem to admit; nor do they refue their contribution to the exigencies, whatever they may be, of the Britih empire; but they make this participation of the public burden a duty of very uncertain extent, and imperfect obligation, a duty temporary, occaional, and elective, of which they reerve to themelves the right of ettling the degree, the time, and the duration, of judging when it may be required, and when it has been performed.

allow to the upreme power nothing more than the liberty of notifying to them its demands or its neceities. Of this notification they profes to think for themelves, how far it hall influence their counels, and of the neceities alleged, how far they hall endeavour to relieve them. They aume the excluive power of ettling not only the mode, but the quantity