to be wholly exempt from a duty which they cannot be induced to reliſh, unleſs under their own proper government. Beſides, the impropriety of obliging ſuch perfons to bear arms for the defence of a country, where they look upon themſelves as only temporary reſidents, and liable to be ſeverely puniſhed, ſhould it fall into the hands of their nation, and they were to be found bearing the arms of oppoſition. And moreover, to force them to learn the uſe of arms, might be attended with dangerous conſequences if they joined with the enemy in time of invaſion, or withdrew themſelves, as they did before; at any rate they can be of no uſe whatever in defence of the place.
The ſubjecting them, therefore, to the payment of a certain yearly ſum, inſtead of obliging them to appear in the field, to which they are ſo greatly averſe, would be the means of a
