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any justice from their judges. And, as the money 
thus misapplied in one province is extorted from all, 
probably all will resent the misapplication. 
14. If the Parliaments of your provinces should 
dare to claim rights, or complain of your administra- 
tion, order them to be harassed with repeated disso- 
lutions. If the same men are continually returned 
by new elections, adjourn their meetings to some 
country village, where they cannot be accommodated 
and there keep them during pleasure; for this, you 
know, is your prerogative; and an excellent one it 1s, 
as you may manage it to promote discontents among 
the people, diminish their respect, and increase their 
disaffection. 
15. Convert the brave, honest officers of your 
navy into pimping tide-waiters and colony officers of 
the customs. Let those who in time of war fought 
gallantly in defence of the commerce of their country- 
men, in peace be taught to prey upon it. Let them 
learn to be corrupted by great and real smugglers; 
but (to show their diligence) scour with armed boats 
every bay, harbor, river, creek, cove, or nook 
throughout the coast of your colonies; stop and 
detain every coaster, every wood-boat, every fisher- 
man; tumble their cargoes and even their ballast in- 
side out and upside down; and, if a pennyworth of 
pins is found unentered, let the whole be seized and 
confiscated. Thus shall the trade of your colonists 
suffer more from their friends in time of peace, than it 
did from their enemies in war. Then let these boats’ 
crews land upon every farm in their way, rob their 
orchards, steal their pigs and poultry, and insult the 
iol IC,