Burke has all along acted. In doing
this, he has taken a review of the effects of all the schemes which
have been successively adopted in the government of the plantations. The
subject is interesting; the matters of information various and
important; and the publication at this time, the editor hopes, will not
be thought unseasonable.
SPEECH.
During the last session of the last Parliament, on the 19th of
April, 1774, Mr. Rose Fuller, member for Rye, made the following
motion:--
"That an act made in the seventh year of the reign of his present
Majesty, intituled, 'An act for granting certain duties in the
British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a
drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this
kingdom of coffee and cocoa-nuts, of the produce of the said
colonies or plantations; for discontinuing the drawbacks payable on
china earthenware exported to America; and for more effectually
preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies
and plantations, might be read."
And the same being read accordingly, he moved,--
"That this House will, upon this day sevennight, resolve itself
into a committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the
duty of three-pence per pound weight upon tea, payable in all his
Majesty's dominions in America, imposed by the said act; and also
the appropriation of the said duty.
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