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they are able to provide them among themselves:
and the last, which are much the greatest part, they
will strike off immediately. They are mere articles
of fashion, purchased and consumed because the
fashion in a respected country; but will now be detested
 and rejected. The people have already
struck off, by general agreement, the use of all goods
fashionable in mournings, and many thousand
pounds’ worth are sent back as unsalable.
Q. Is it their interest to make cloth at home?
A. 1 think they may at present get it cheaper
from Britain; I mean of the same fineness and
workmanship; but, when one considers other circumstances,
 the restraints on their trade, and the
difficulty of making remittances, it is their interest
to make every thing.
Q. Suppose an act of internal regulations connected
 with a tax; how would they receive it?
A. 1 think it would be objected to.
Q. Then no regulation with a tax would be submitted
 to?
A. Their opinion is, that, when aids to the crown
are wanted, they are to be asked of the several assemblies,
 according to the old established usage; who will,
as they always have done, grant them freely. And
that their money ought not to be given away, without
 their consent, by persons at a distance, unacquainted
 with their circumstances and abilities. The
granting aids to the crown is the only means they
have of recommending themselves to their sovereign;
and they think it extremely hard and unjust, that a
body of men, in which they have no representatives,

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