Yet they Trade is heariiy taieil and Ihis must know Well how to increasc the public burdens, » for in the instances in the be^paid byihepeo- Excmptlons, in which they promise not to exceed 5 per cent, they now exact 16. 'Tis an old saying, he scrapes a good deal who scrapes half, but it does not reach that far. The excuses and evasions they have recourse to, as regards merchandise, smuggling, &c., which time has taught them in order to give a coloring to their acts, are of no value nor consideration, for there is nothing in them to be refuted: but too much of this. Meanwhile, we shall be ready to do so, if necessity require. There are more of these and innumerable other impositions, which we cannot detail, though (45) tending to the damage, injury and ruin of the country. When

the inhabitants or we, go to the Director or other of the Company's officers, and represent the prosperity of our neighbors, and complain of our own desolate and ruinous condition, we get no other answer from them than that they effectually see and observe it, but cannot, nevertheless, redress it; for they obey Tho Directors jay if amj niust adhere to the Company's orders, and if we have anything J J ' we a to say, we want anTlhing tr j

their "High MiphT "^"st petition their masters, the Company, or your High Mightinesses, which we nesses or the Com- ^j^^ ^^^^ Considered, in truth and in deed to be necessary. It is now more than a year since the select men concluded and considered it proper to send a deputation to your High Mightinesses. The Director approved it, and not only assented to The resolution as to it, but stronglv Urged ° it also. It was well advanced in the mill, so that already ' drlegalion ap- ° -' _