"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

~ "SAM:" OR, TIlE HISTORY OF IMYSTERY.
a provision for a Congress of the colonies to make the required acknowledgement, and to vote, at the same time, a
free grant to the king of a certain perpetual revenue, to be
placed at the disposal of Parliament. Chatham exerted himself, on this occasion, with renewed and remarkable vigor;
but, in spite of all his efforts, after a warm and very pointed
debate, his bill was refused the courtesy of lying on the
table, and, contrary to the usual course, was rejected by a
vote of two to one, at the first reading.
Agreeably to the scheme foreshadowed in his speech on the
address, Lord North, in the House of Commons, brought in
a bill for cutting off the trade of New England elsewhere
than to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indiesintended as an offset to the American Association-and
suspending the prosecution from those colonies of the Newfoundland fishery, a principal branch at that time of their
trade and industry. An address to the throne, proposed by
the ministers, and carried after great debates, declared that
a rebellion already existed in Massachusetts, countenanced
and fomented by unlawful combinations in other colonies.
Effectual measures were recommended for suppressing this
rebellion; and the support of Parliament was pledged to the
king, in the maintenance of the just authority of the crown
and the nation.
Burke, as representative of the Rockingham section of the
opposition, brought forward a series of resolutions proposing
the abandonment of all attempts at parliamentary taxation,
and a return to the old method of raising American supplies
by the free grant of the colonial Assemblies. He supported
these resolutions in an elaborate speech; but his motion was
voted down, as was a similar bne, introduced a few days after,
by David Hartley, on behalf of the Chatham section of the
opposition.
We give here the most important portions of this famous
speech of Burke, which, from the direct light it sheds upon
questions at issue, between Sam and the old country, is of
great importance.
The Speech of Edmund Burke, Eq., on moving his resolutions for conciliation with the colonies, March 22, 1775.
"I have in my hand two accounts; one a comparative statement of the export trade of England to its colonies, as it stood
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