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 of the towns, the Colonits will retire into the inland regions, and the gain of victory will be only empty houes and a wide extent of wate and deolation. If we ubdue them for the preent, they will univerally revolt in the next war, and reign us without pity to ubjection and detruction.

all this it may be anwered, that between loing America and reigning it, there is no great difference; that it is not very reaonable to jump into the ea, becaue the hip is leaky. All thoe evils may befal us, but we need not haten them.

Dean of Glouceter has propoed, and eems to propoe it eriouly, that we hould at once releae our claims, declare them maters of themelves, and whittle them down the wind. His opinion is, that our gain from them will be the ame, and our expence les. What they can have mot