text:  Here is the bantling bodily stripped of all the swaddling-clothes of surplus verbiage in which it was enveloped on entering the world of Westminster--resolved "That in the opinion of this house it is not expedient that in addition to the great expense to which the people of this country are subject for the civil military and naval establishments of the colonies they should be compelled to pay a higher price for the productions of those colonies than that at which similar commodities could be procured from other countries and that therefore all protective duties in favour of colonial produce ought to be abolished