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 other petition is, that the Crown, if this laudable oppoition hould not be uccesful, will have the power of taxing America at pleaure. Surely they think rather too meanly of our apprehenions, when they uppoe us not to know what they well know themelves, that they are taxed, like all other Britih ubjects, by Parliament; and that the Crown has not by the new impots, whether right or wrong, obtained any additional power over their poeions.

were a curious, but an idle peculation to inquire, what effect thee dictators of edition expect from the diperion of their letter among us. If they believe their own complaints of hardhip, and really dread the danger which they decribe, they will naturally hope to communicate the ame perceptions to their fellow-ubjects. But probably in America, as in other places, the chiefs are incendiaries, that hope