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, I will add two; if two will not do, I will add three. Grenville, in Cavendish Debates, i. 404. He wished to act smoothly in the matter; but he was firmly resolved to establish as undoubted the authority of the British legislature in all cases whatsoever. The purpose found its warmest advocate in Charles Townshend. In the debates on the forces to be kept up in the navy and the army, he spoke for the largest numbers; for the colonies, said he, are not to be emancipated. Walpole to Hertford, 27 Jan. 1765. Walpole's Geo. III., II. 46, 47. Grenville was more obstinate and more cool, Feb. abounding in gentle words. The agents of the colonies had several meetings among themselves; and on Saturday, the second of February, Franklin, with Ingersoll, Jackson and Garth, as agents for Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and South Carolina, waited on the minister, to remonstrate in behalf of America, against taxation of the colonies by parliament, and to propose, that if they were to be ta