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SPEECH

ON

AMERICAN TAXATION.


APRIL 19, 1774.




PREFACE.


The following speech has been much the subject of conversation, and the
desire of having it printed was last summer very general. The means of
gratifying the public curiosity were obligingly furnished from the notes
of some gentlemen, members of the last Parliament.

This piece has been for some months ready for the press. But a delicacy,