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 againt intentional depravations of Government as human widom can make us, and upon this ecurity the Americans may venture to repoe.

is aid by the Old Member who has written an Appeal againt the Tax, that ''as the produce of American labour is pent in Britih manufactures, the balance of trade is greatly againt them; whatever you take directly in Taxes, is in effect taken from your own commerce. If the miniter eizes the money with which the American hould pay his debts and come to market, the merchant cannot expect him as a cutomer, nor can the debts already contracted be paid.—Suppoe we obtain from America a million intead of one hundred thouand pounds, it would be upplying one peronal exigence by the future ruin of our commerce''.

of this is true; but the Old Member eems not to perceive, that if his brethren of the Legilature know this as well as