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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 de- 
tested 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 cir- 
cumstances, 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 con- 
nected 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 sub- 
mitted to? 
A. Their opinion is, that, when aids to the crown 
are wanted, they are to be asked of the several assem- 
blies, 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, with- 
out their consent, by persons at a distance, unac- 
quainted 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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