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 proportionate to their malice. When they talk of their pretended immunities guarrantied by the plighted faith of Government, and the mot olemn compacts with Englih Sovereigns, we think ourelves at liberty to inquire when the faith was plighted and the compact made; and when we can only find that King James and King Charles the Firt promied the ettlers in Maachuet’s Bay, now famous by the appellation of Botonians, exemption from taxes for even years, we infer with Mr. Mauduit, that by olemn compact, they were, after expiration of the tipulated term, liable to taxation.

they apply to our compaion, by telling us, that they are to be carried from their own country to be tried for certain offences, we are not o ready to pity them, as to advie them not to offend. While they are innocent they are afe.