This evinces the expediency of our stopping these grants now, while we are embroiled with the mother country, tliat so we may not, after the grand controversy is settled, have a new bone of contention about the billeting money ; which must be the case if we do not put an end to it at this time : for tlie colony, in its impoverished state, cannot support a charge which amounts to near as much per annum, as all the other expenses of the government besides.

Hence it follows that the assembly have not been attentive to the liberties of the continent, nor to the property of the good people of this colony in particular, we must therefore attribute this sacrifice of the public interest, to some corrupt source. This is very manifest in the guilt and confusion that covered tlie faces of the perfidious abettors of this measure, when the house was in debate on the subject. M"" Colden knows from the nature of things, that he cannot have the least prospect to be in administration again ; and therefore, that he may make hay wliile the sun shines, and get a full salary from the Assembly, flatters the ignorant members of it, with the consideration of the success of a bill to emit a paper currency ; when he and his artful coadjutors must know, that it is only a snare to impose on the simple ; for it will not obtain the royal assent. But while he is solicitous to obtain his salary, he must attend to his posterity, and as some