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mames they have industriously publish’d, shou’d be supposed to be 
united, and on any other they are likely to agitate this year, there 
would appear a great deduction. The Supply asked from Parliament 
for this year is about £30,000. Taxes remain as they did pretty near 
He proposes that for the future America shou’d pay their own extra- 
ordinary expenses, or as much of them as may be which arise to above 
£300,000, almost 1 sh. in the pound on land: he has thrown out 
certain Modes of Taxation, which he thinks they may easily bear, and 
are to be chiefly to be laid more equally on molasses and such things 
as are now run from the French Island and from France and Holland 
directly to America, without touching in England : he thinks likewise a 
Stamp Office in America, wou’d produce something, and the Tax be 
~easily and by few hands collected. Iknow not if this is at all intelligible. 
Tam at all times a bad Financier, and yesterday was more fatigued 
)by hearing, than Mr. Grenvil by the labour of speaking so long. Mr. 
Pitt was not at the house, he is still laid up, the house was full because 
great matters were expected, but nothing came of them. 
With my best Compts. to Mrs. Allen and my constant good wishes 
for both your Health I remain 
My dear Sir, 
Your most obliged & most 
faithfull Servt. 
J. SEBRIGHT, 
Bolton Street 
March 10th 1764. 
Allen died in June, 1764, and it is pleasant to remember, that 
-on the 29th June, 1763, within a week or two of the corres- 
pondence to which I have referred, he made a Codicil to his Will 
in these words: 
For the last instance of my friendly and grateful regard for the best 
-of friends, as well as the most upright and ablest of ministers, that has 
adorned our Country I give to the Right Hon. William Pitt the sum 
- of £1000 to be disposed of by him to any one of his children, that he 
may be pleased to appoint for it. 
Nor is this quite all. On the very day of his death he said to 
