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ust prevail among them. Yet the fears of England will retard its coming, for she will shun whatever can unite them.—Let her but attempt to establish taxes in them, rejoined Choiseul, and those countries, greater than England in extent, and perhaps becom- Chap. XXX.} 1767. Aug. ing more populous, having fisheries, forests, shipping, corn, iron and the like, will easily and fearlessly separate themselves from the mother country. Do not calculate, replied Durand, Durand to Choiseul, 30 August, 1767. on a near revolution in the American Colonies. They aspire not to independence but to equality of rights with the mother country. A plan of union will always be a means in reserve by which England may shun the greater evil.—When the separation comes, the other Colonies of Europe will be the prey of those, whom excessive vigor may have detached from their parent stock. The loss of the Colonies of France and of Spain will be the consequence of the revolution in the Colonies of England