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 every port is hut againt us. We are cenured as tyrannical for hindering thoe from fihing, who have condemned our merchants to bankruptcy and our manufacturers to hunger.

peruade us to give them more liberty, to take off retraints, and relax authority; and tell us what happy conequences will arie from forbearance: How their affections will be conciliated, and into what diffuions of beneficence their gratitude will luxuriate. They will love their friends. They will reverence their protectors. They will throw themelves into our arms, and lay their property at our feet. They will buy from no other what we can ell them; they will fell to no other what we wih to buy.

any obligations hould overpower their attention to profit, we have known them long enough not to expect. It is not to be expected from a more liberal people. With