[The resolution seems to have been intended to deceive the world into thinking] that there was no Matter in Dispute between us but the single Circumstance of the Mode of Levying Taxes, which Mode as they are so good as to give up to us; of course that the Colonies are unreasonable if they are not thereby perfectly satisfied: Whereas in truth our Adversaries not only still claim a Right of demanding ad libitum, and of taxing us themselves to the full Amount [in another hand: of their Demands] if we do not fulfill their Pleasure, which leaves us without any thing we can call Property; but what is of more Importance, and what they keep in this Proposal out of sight, as if no such Point was in Contest, they claim a Right of altering all our Charters and establish’d Laws, which leaves us without the least Security for our Lives or Liberty. The Proposition seems also calculated more particularly &c. [to lull the British public into a false sense of security.]