ADMINISTRATION

OF THE

BRITISH COLONIES.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

WHEREIN THEIR

RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTION

Are difcuffed and stated.

BY THOMAS POWNALL,
Late Governor, Captain General, Commander in
Chief, and Vice Admiral of His Majesty's Pro-
vinces, Maffachusetts-Bay and South-Carolina;
and Lieutenant-Governor of New-Jerfey.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

Pulchrum eft benefacere Reipublicæ, etiam benedicere
baud abfurdum eft.

SALLUSTIUS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. WALTER,
AT HOMER'S HEAD, CHARING CROSS.

M.DCC.LXXIV,

63773,448 U.S.2707.6.5

THE

ADMINISTRATION

OF THE

BRITISH COLONIES.

PART THE SECOND.

WHEREIN

A LINE of GOVERNMENT between the fupreme Jurifdiction of Great Britain, and the Rights of the Colonies is drawn,

AND

A PLAN of PACIFICATION is fuggested.

To which is added,

A POST SCRIP T,

BEING

REMARKS on the Penfylvania Inftructions,

A N D

The New Effay on the Conftitutional Power of the Par "liament over the Colonies."

WITH

ΑΝ

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

PAPERS referred to in both the FIRST and SECOND PARTS.

Hæc Vis eft iftius & Juris & Verbi. UT FUNDI POPULI, beneficio noftro non fuo jure fiant. Cum aliquid Populus Romanus juffit, id fi eft ejufmodi, ut quibufdam Populis five foederatis, five liberis, permittendum effe videatur, ut ftatuant ipfi, non de noftris, fed de fuis rebus, quo jure uti velint: Tum utrum FUNDI facti fint an non, quærendum effe videatur. De noftrâ verò Republicâ, de noftro Imperio, de noftris Bellis, de Victoria, de Salute, Fundos Populos fieri noluerunt.

M. T. CICERO, Otat, pro Balbo, §. 8.