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 Briton will tremble to find it o near as in America; but how it will be brought hither, the Congres mut inform us. The quetion might ditres a common undertanding; but the tatemen of the other hemiphere can eaily reolve it. Our miniters, they ay, are our enemies, and ''if they hould carry the point of taxation, may with the ame army enlave us. It may be aid, we will not pay them; but remember, ay the wetern ages, the taxes from America, and we may add the men, and particularly the Roman Catholics of this vat continent will then be in the power of your enemies. Nor have you any reaon to expect, that after making laves of us, many of us will refue to ait in reducing you to the ame abject tate''.

are dreadful menaces; but upecting that they have not much the ound of probability, the Congres proceeds: ''Do not treat this as chimerical. Know that in let than half a century the quit-rents'' reerved