Excerpt from Or, Taxation No Longer a Burthen IN laying before the public such opinions as the peculiar situation Of the times have elicited from me, I must Observe, I am actuated by party or political motive whatever, beyond the pure wish that they may lead to the adoption Of such measures as may cause any Govern ment that shall procure for us only half those blessings I w anticipate, long to remain, t only in their places, but in the grateful recol lection of all grades Of society from the highest to the lowest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.