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The Tories on the other hand recognised the political im- A.D. 168% 
portance of these communities’, and regarded the measures of the 
which secured their economic dependence? with satisfaction, satel 
because they believed that this restriction would strengthen of the 
she political ties, Events proved that they were mistaken colonies 
in this forecast ; but it is not a little noticeable that Chatham, 
wfter his definite breach with the official Whigs in regard to 
she question of raising revenue from the colonies, gave 
vigorous expression to views which are in close accord with 
the traditional aim of the Tories’. He attached the highest 
i According to Davenant, “Colonies are a strength to their mother kingdom, 
while they are under good discipline, while they are strictly made to observe the 
‘undamental laws of their original country, and while they are kept dependent on 
t. * * * Our colonies, while they have English blood in their veins, and have 
-elations in England, and while they can get by trading with us, the stronger 
and greater they grow, the more this crown and kingdom will get by them; and 
aothing but such an arbitrary power as shall make them desperate, can bring 
hem to rebel.” Works, m. 10, 
2 “The principal care will always be to keep them dependent mpon their 
mother country and not to suffer those laws, upon any account, to be loosened, 
whereby they are tied to it, for otherwise they will become more profitable to our 
aseighbours than to us.” Ib. 11. 24. See also p. 476 n. 2, above. 
8 See the preamble of his Bill. “Whereas by an Act 6 Geo. IIL it is declared, 
that parliament has full power and authority to make laws and statutes to bind the 
people of the colonies in all cases whatsoever; and whereas reiterated complaints 
and most dangerous disorders have grown, touching the right of taxation claimed 
wnd exercised over America, to the disturbance of peace and good order there, and 
to the actual interruption of the due intercourse from Great Britain and Ireland 
io the colonies, deeply affecting the navigation, trade, and manufactures of this 
tingdom and of Ireland, and the British islands in America: now, for prevention 
+f these ruinous mischiefs, and in order to an equitable, honourable, and lasting 
settlement of claims not sufficiently ascertained and circumscribed, may it please 
your most excellent Majesty that it may be declared, and be it declared by the 
Ring's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords 
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and 
by the authority of the same, that the colonies of America have been, are, and of 
right ought to be, dependent upon the imperial crown of Great Britain, and 
mbordinate unto the British parliament, and that the King’s most excellent 
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, 
and Commons, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full 
nower and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to 
hind the people of the British colonies in America, in all matters touching the 
general weal of the whole dominion of the imperial crown of Great Britain, and 
beyond the competency of the local representative of a distant colony ; and most 
especially an indubitable and indispensable right to make and ordain laws for 
cegulating navigation and trade throughout the complicated system of British 
sommerce, the deep policy of such prudent acts upholding the guardian navy of 
he whole British empire; and that all subjects in the colonies are bound in duty 
md allegiance dnly to recognise and obey (and are hereby required so to do) the