Appendix to the History of Great Britain, From the Revolution, 1688, to the Treaty of Amiens, 1802, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from Appendix to the History of Great Britain, From the Revolution, 1688, to the Treaty of Amiens, 1802, Vol. 2 of 2

The project of taxing America either internally or externally for the express purpose of raising a reve nue to be paid into the exchequer of Great Britain, was a novelty in politics and legislation in the highest degree bold, alarming, and dangerous; and the stamp act, of which the fatal effects were so clearly and accurately pre dicted to Mr. Grenville, produced, immediately on the attempt being made to carry it into execution, the most dreadful disturbances. But that minister had been dis missed from his oliice some months before the accounts of these commotions had reached England. From the vast variety of letters and papers containing those accounts.

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