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The Cases of America & New S.W. are however in much wholly unlike each other. To the one imprudent & ill considered privileges had been granted in times less aware of remote consequences than our times are, to the other no privileges have yet been allowed yet to be ceded & conditions annexd which the wisdom of this Country will no doubt consider with care & word with much precision but the Principal difference between the two questions is that when the American settlers enterd upon their newly acquird [indecipherable] the sea was as open to them as the earth or the air but the new Colonists tho the earth & the air is as free to them as to the Americans one compleatly circumscribed on the sea by the chart, the only element in which they can become formidable by the East Indie Companies themselves or the [indecipherable] when Read by a [indecipherable] is by the Ring drawn by the magic sword round the mischievous spirit.
This most effectual anyone of Controll must never on any account be Legaly relaxd. The permission to navigate must never be ceded by Law. The power of enlarging or diminishing the area in which the Colonists are allowd to navigate should be clearly left in the hands of the King Privy Council who will if this is done [indecipherable] a compleat power of checking at any moment [indecipherable] merit of [indecipherable] in the Colony & this power of enlarging and if necessarily diminishing the extent of the navigation of the Colonists should accordingly be put in Practice in order to keep in their minds the nature of the Restraint they are under & the extreme frailty with which their whole Naval Progress may be enacted at any given time. Should they [indecipherable] to offend their mother country the present mode of Licencing the Building of Craft of every kind & of taking a Bond with [indecipherable] to the good the poorer of each ought also never be abandond.