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The American review, and literary journal
The American review and literary journal Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The fifth chapter presents a state of the province at the conclusion of the war which terminated in the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748. The exertions of the col... more »onists in the war had produced a public debt; and the amount of paper currency, its inconveniences, and the distress and clamour which it caused, are detailed at considerable length. The case of James Allen, a member of the Assembly for Boston, for words spoken in the house disrespectful of the Governor, gave rise to a question of freedom of speech, and the rights of election, in the discussion of which the nature and strength of the influence of the Governor was exhibited, and which, in its progress and termination, bears a resemblance to the celebrated caseot JVilkes, which occurred in England about twenty years afterwards. In the sixth and seventh chapters are related the controversies concerning territorial limits with Connecticut, and the disputes and affairs with the several tribes of Indians; a view of the respective claims of France and England to Acadia, of Nova-Scotia, and the consequent military operations of both parties; the successful measures taken to destroy the abuses of paper-money; the artful attempt of parliament to increase the prerogative and influence of the crown in the colony; the disputes between the West-Indian sugar planters and the northern colonists , the nature and extent of their trade; and the attempts made to restrain their manufactures. Trie progressive increase of the colonies may be seen in the following statement of the amount of goods imported, at two distinct periods, from the mother country.—From the year 1720 to 1730, the value of exports from England to the, northern colonies was, 'To Carolina, £ 394,314.. 7.. 5 New-England, 1,747,057.. 19..0 New-York, 657,998.. 7.....« less