TAXATION NO TYRANNY.
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expence is neceſſary, and what government is lawful.
“Till our counſel is proclaimed independent and unaccountable, we will, after the tenth day of September, keep our Tin in our own hands: you can be ſupplied from no other place, and muſt therefore comply or be poiſoned with the copper of your own kitchens.
“If any Corniſhman ſhall refuſe his name to this juſt and laudable aſſociation, he ſhall be tumbled from St. Michael’s Mount, or buried alive in a tin-mine; and if any emiſſary ſhall be found ſeducing Corniſhmen to their former ſtate, he ſhall be ſmeared with tar, and rolled in feathers, and chaſed with dogs out of our dominions.
- “From the Corniſh Congreſs at Truro.”
Of this memorial what could be ſaid but that it was written in jeſt, or written
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