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 game, the chance is always in their favour. In the mean time, they are growing rich by victualing the troops that we have ent againt them, and perhaps gain more by the reidence of the army than they loe by the obtruction of their port.

charters being now, I uppoe, legally forfeited, may be modelled as hall appear mot commodious to the Mother-country. Thus the privileges, which are found by experience liable to miue, will be taken away, and thoe who now bellow as patriots, bluter as oldiers, and domineer as legilators, will ink into ober merchants and ilent planters, peaceably diligent, and ecurely rich.

there is one writer, and perhaps many who do not write, to whom the contraction of thee pernicious privileges appears very dangerous, and who tartle at the thoughts of England free and America in