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HE following Speech has been much the subject of conversation; and the defire of having it printed was last fummer very general. The means of gratifying the public curiofity were obligingly furnished from the notes of fome Gentlemen, Members of the laft Parliament.

This piece has been for fome months ready for the press. But a delicacy, poffibly over fcrupulous, has delayed the publication to this time. The friends of administration have been. ufed to attribute a great deal of the oppofition to their meafures in America to the writings published in England. The. Editor of this Speech kept it back, until all the measures of government have had their full operation, and can be no longer affected, if ever they could have been affected, by any publication.

Most Readers will recollect the uncommon pains taken at the beginning of the laft feffion of the laft Parliament, and indeed during the whole courfe of it, to afperfe the characters, and decry, the measures of those who were fuppofed to be friends

to America; in order to weaken the effect of their oppofition to the acts of rigour then preparing against the Colonies. This Speech contains a full refutation of the charges against that party with which Mr. Burke has all along acted. In doing this, he has taken a review of the effects of all the schemes which have been fucceffively 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.

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URING the laft Seffion of the last Parliament, on the 19th

of April, 1774, Mr. Rofe Fuller, Member for Rye, made the following motion; That an Act made in the feventh Year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, 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 faid Colonies or Plantations; for "difcontinuing the Drawbacks payable on China Earthen Ware "exported to America; and for more effectually preventing the "clandeftine running of Goods in the faid Colonies and Planta"tions;" might be read.

And the fame being read accordingly; He moved, "That this "Houfe will, upon this day fevennight, refolve itself into a Com"mittee of the whole Houfe, to take into confideration the duty "of 3 d. per pound weight upon tea, payable in all his Majesty's "Dominions in America, impofed by the faid Act; and alfo the appropriation of the faid duty."

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