"I WILL affirm, my lords, not only as a statesman, a politician, and a philosopher, but as a common lawyer, that you have no right to tax America. No man, agreeably to the principles of natural and civil liberty, can be divested of any part of his property, without his consent; and whenever oppression begins, resistance becomes lawful and right.”

IN the year 1777, lord Chatham moved an amendment to a proposed address, recommending measures of accommodation, and an immediate cessation of hostilities, as necessary for effectuating that purpose, which "he support. ed with all the energy and eloquence, which had formerly produced such mighty effects; and which must now have roused the nation from its death-like torpor, had this been within the compass of human virtue or human ability."

AFTER Some weighty observations respecting the conduct of ministers, he proceeded thus" you may swell every expence, and strain every effort, accumulate every assistance, and extend your traffic to the shambles of every

German despot, your attempts will be forever vain and impotent. But, my lords, where is the man, that in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalpingknife of the savage? To call into civilized alliance, the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods? To delegate to the merciless Indian, the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous warfare against our brethren? These enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.*

*The American secretary, in a letter to general Carlton, dated Whitehall, March 26th, 1777, fays: "As this plan cannot be advantageously executed without the assistance of Canadians and Indians, his majesty strongly recommends it to your care, to furnish both expeditions with good and sufficient bodies of these men: and I am happy in knowing, that your influence among them is so great, that there can be no room to apprehend you will find it difficult to fulfil his majesty's intentions.”

In the "Thoughts for conducting the war from the side of Canada," by general Burgoyne, that general desired " a thousand or more savages.”

Colonel Butler was desired to distribute the king's bounty-money among such of the savages as would join the army; and after the delivery of the pre sents, he asks for £. 4011, York currency, before he left Niagara. He adds, in a letter that was laid on the table, in the house of commons, "I flatter myself, that you will not think the expence, however high, to be useless, or given with too lavish a hand. I waited seven days to deliver them the presents, and GIVE THEM THE HATCHET, WHICH THEY ACCEPTED, and PROMISED TO MAKE USE OF IT. This letter is dated Ontario, July 28th, 1777.

"It is not, my lords, a wild and lawless banditti whom we oppose: the resistance of America, is the struggle of free and virtuous patriots.”

Ir is remarkable, that this great and good man, in the year 1775, not only lays the justice of American claims, on the same eternal and immutable foundations contended for in the following Essay on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America," published at Philadelphia in the preceding year, 1774, but makes the same comparison that was made in that Essay, between the opposition of America to British measures, and the opposition of Britain, to the measures of the Stuarts, respecting loans, benevolences, and ship.money; and also makes the same distinction between taxation and regulation of commerce, that is asserted in that Essay, and inforces that distinc

In another letter, colonel Butter says, "The Indians threw in a heavy fire on the rebels, and made a shocking slaughter with their spears and batchets. The success of this day, will plainly shew the utility of your excellency's constant support of my unwearied endeavours to conciliate to his majesty so serviceable a body of ALLIES." This letter is to sir Guy Carlton, and dated, camp before Fort Stanwix, August 15th, 1777. In another letter he says, “ many of the prisoners were, conformably to the Indian custom, AFTERWARDS KILLED." More on this subject may be seen in general Burgoyne's proclamation, proceedings in parliament, &c.

tion by the same arguments which in the Essay are employed on that subject. He likewise insists, as is urged in that Essay, that the admission of an authority to regulate commerce, does not imply the concession of an authority to legislate, for the purpose of taxation. He, also, called the public attention to the extraordinary case, which is stated in that Essay—that a period may arrive, when the parent will stand in need of the assistance of her offspring.

THUS has the justice of our cause been maintained by the best and wisest men in Britain, not only by those before-mentioned, but by multitudes of others.

Or what importance our successful opposition has been, and is now thought on the other side of the Atlantic, we may judge from the following declaration of that honest, benevolent, and enlightened statesman Charles Fox, in the house of commons-" THE RESISTANCE OF THE AMERICANS TO THE OPPRESSIONS OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY, HAS UNDOUBTEDLY PRESERVED THE LIBERTIES OF MANKIND."

WHAT political event, in the annals of the world, can be more worthy of being commended to the attention of nations!

We now behold the sun of liberty illumining Europe; and we have reason to believe, that its rays will reach to other quarters of the globe, beaming with a benign influence on the human race.

WITH Such knowlege of facts, and with such hopes of the future, every American who loves his country, must be pleased to trace our momentous controversy with Great-Britain, from its commencement in her injustice, to its termination in our independence; and every friend to mankind must rejoice, in contemplating the actual and probable consequences of our revolution to other nations.

If this intelligence should be conveyed in narratives, written in coolness and leisure, after the agitation of events had subsided, no doubt it would be agreeable: but, this collection offers to our fellow-citizens, in a series from the beginning of the year 1764, writings composed