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Show 62 THE RIGHTS or BRITAIN AND CLAIMS OF AMERICA. 63? The minority in Parliament, who deem~ The Americans formerly declared thema ed nothing to fatal to their own views, as {elves willing to contribute to the exigencies an agreement with the Americans, upon terms, oppoted this Propofition as infi- and expences of the State, provided the demand {hould come by requifition from the King, and not by an immediate exertion of dious in its nature, and for that purpofe rendered obfcure and perplexed in its ian- jel'ry declined, with that patriotifm which has equitable, and confequently' permanent guage. The American Demagogues, whofe Parliamentary authority. This offer his Nia- influence can only exifl: in the midtt of uniformly marked his own meafures, during his reign. Anxious for the happinefs of all his anarchy and confufion, oppofed it with fubjeéts, he chofe to be the Monarch of one fimilar views. The latter, indeed, have ap- great and free Nation, rather than the Sove~ proved to much of the SENTIMENTS, or reign of a number of petty States, weakened rather PROFESSIONS of the former, that they have, in their Declaration, echoed back their very words in Parliament. The at: gument before went only to the claim of the Americans to be permitted, in their Afl'emblies, to fettle the mode of Taxation. They then demanded an exclufive privilege by their own difunion. Had his Majef'ry been aétuated by thofe motives of ambition, which are not uncommon among Princes, he would have eagerly clofed with the offers of the Americans. Inflead of mak« ing himfelf dependent, for the maintenance of his dignity, upon the grants of one of fixing the amount or quantum of the Afiem.bly, he might have extricated him- t‘upply, and now they will give no fup- felffrom even the fear of pecuniary difficult: ties, by a proper management of many Afl‘emblies. The repretentatives of one Province might be gratified into the views ply at all. But if neither the mode not the quantum is to be left in the power of Parliament, what power has Parliament left, with regard to the taxing of the Americans? Ought the Briti{h Legiflature to lay humbly of the Crown, from the revenue of another; the wants of the Public before the PETTY of corruption in America; and American Legiflatures of America, and requett their aid for the general fupport of Government? Reprefentarives be (cut for the price of their votes to this Kingdom.- What would this be, but the total emancipation of the Colonies from that {unremacy i The for which we contend P But Britifh Members might receive the wages |