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We have the Kings Speech to his Parliament, The Addresses, and the Lords Protest, we observe both Houses re-echoed the Speech with out Knowing the Kings information to be true if we may believe the protesting Lords, and by that complaisance of theirs, we see that like obedient Spaniels they were ready to leap over the Stack. The speech threatens, threats make no impression. By Letters we understand that all Trade will be prohibited, and all our Ports as effectually Stopped as Boston, Time will shew whether England or the Colonies will first complain of the measure if the Contest be of any duration; Manufactures will be solidly established among us, an Event of all others the most desireable for a Country groaning under the pressure of a heavy debt incurred by the importation of foreign manufactures and luxuries.

I most earnestly wish a re-establishment of that Harmony which formerly subsisted between these Colonies and the Mother Country, and without the restoration of which neither will prosper; for if we should be obliged to yield to superior force, which I think will not be the Case, what Benefits can Great Britain expect to derive from Colonies awed for the present into sullen silence, and watching the very first favourable occasion to throw off a forced Subjection.