analysis of the West India trade, that we have the advantage in every essential article of it; and that almost every restriction on our communication with our neighbours there, is a restriction unfavourable to ourselves. Such were the principles that guided, and the authority that sanctioned, these regulations. No man ever said, that, in the multiplicity of regulations made in the administration of their predecessors, none were useful: some certainly were so; and I defy the author to show a commercial regulation of that period, which he can prove, from any authority except his own, to have a tendency beneficial to commerce, that has been repealed. So far were that ministry from being guided by a spirit of contradiction or of innovation. INDEX Act, an, for the trial of treasons | Americans, 4, 5, 11, 14, 17, 20, (Henry VIII.), 127, 128 Act, Durham, 130 Act, First American Revenue, Act, Land Tax, 140 Act, the Molasses, (1733), 23, 30 Act, Stamp, 4, 5, 31, 33 ff., 52, | 22, 31 ff., 44, 56 ff., 65, 90, 99, American surveys, 250 Appalachian Mountains, Alle- Art of Sinking in Poetry, 103 Balmerino, Lord, 191 Bentincks, the, 229 Bernard, Governor, 23, 25, 33, Blackstone's Commentaries, 94 Commissioners of Customs, III Boston, 56, 95, 127, 214, 262, Boston, battle near, 151 Boston Port Bill, 127, 135 Brickdale, Mr., 71 Bristol before the Election, |