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sed. Even Lord Howe advocated it as the means of bringing the disobedient provinces to a sense of their duty, without involving the empire in a civil war. Now, replied Fox, as by this act all means of acquiring a livelihood, or of receiving provisions, is cut off, no alternative is left, but starving or rebellion. If the act should not produce universal acquiescence, I defy any body to defend the policy of it. Yet America will not submit. New York only differs in the modes. The act, said Dundas, the solicitor general of Scotland, is just, because provoked by the most criminal disobedience; is merciful, because that disobedience would have justified the severest military execution. As to the famine, which is so pathetically lamented, I am afraid it will not be produced by this act. When it is said, no alternative is left to them but to starve or rebel, this is not the fact, for there is another way, to submit. The king, on receiving an account of the languor of opposition during t