| Description | Offers his Lordship a pamphlet, has marked in the margin the parts that tend to make his reasoning more full and conclusive " I have endeavoured to overturn the doctrine about free gifts, and from the authentic documents of history, hitherto grossly overlooked by our historians, to establish the maxim that public supplies are necessary duties, I flatter myself I have put the case of Wales, of Chester and of the Netherlands, so often absurdly appealed to, in quite a different light, and also the case of Ireland, which has hitherto been the great stumbling block in the argument with the Colonies", the Colonies are vainly presumptuous of their own resources, remarks on the Declaratory Act and further refers his Lordship to his pamphlet (this pamphlet is not now with the letter)
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