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Show E 39 ] C 38 l there may be an Oppofition of Interefl; how puerile then is the Declamation, " what w1ll be" come of the Colonies Birthright, and the glo- " rious Securities which their Forefathers handed " down to Them, if the Authority of the Brinflr " Parliament to impafc Taxes upon Them lhould " be given up? To deny the Authority of the " Erin/l5 Legillature, is to furrender all Claim to " a Share in its Councils, and if this were the " Tenor or their Charters, a, Grant more inlidi- " ous or replete with Milcliief, could not be. " imagined, a Foruliture of their Rights would " he couched under the Appearance of Privi" lege, Gt." ¢‘ their Authority from the meet Grant of " Crown only, it might be urged that any the Tax " impofed by Them, is impoled by Authority of " the Prerogative of the Crown, and not by full Confent of Parliament. That if- this Right in the Crown is acknowledged to exempt the Sub- ject from the Jurifdié‘tion of Parliament in the Cale of Taxation, its Power to dilpenie with Acts of Parliament, or to deprive the fame Subject of the Benefit of the common Law, cannot be denied." One would be inclined to fufpec‘l‘ that it is {up- pofed, lbmething elle than Realbn may on this Occafion conduce to Perfuafion. The Eng/fl Subjects, who left their write \Ve claim an Exemption from all Parliamentary lmpofitions, that We may enjoy thofe Securities or our Rights and Properties, which We are en- Country to fettle in the Wildernefs of Amerim, titled to by the Conllitution. For thoie Securities an derived to the Subject from the Principle 112er knew their Value, and were delirous of having [r :15: [0 [re taxed rail/{tout 1325 own Corzfleizl, and an Inhzbitant in America can give his Confent in no aware that, as their Confent whilll They {hould Other Manner than in AllEmbly. Councils that exiit there, and there only, that he gularly given in the national Legillature, and that if They were to be bound by Laws without Re- hath a Share, and whilll He enjoys it, his Rights firiction, alTeé‘ting the Property they fliould earn and Privileges are as well lecured as any Elector's in England, who hath a Share in the national [Jflémbh are, in this R ei‘pet‘t, only difl'erent Terms to exprels the fame Thing. by the utmofi Hazard and Fatigue, They would lofe every other Privilege which they had enjoyed in their native Country, and become meer Tenants at Will dependant upon the Moderation of their Lords and Mailers, without any other Security-- But it is argued, that " if the Common Law the Protection of the Englifla Government, They " of Engmm' is to be brought, as jufiifying a " Claim of Exemption in any Subject of Great Britain from a. ';-';irli;7.;'sserimry Tax, it will plead knew, that in Confequence of their Relation to the Mother-Country, They and their l'ofi‘erity againil a 'l‘ax irrigated by a provincial Afiemv bly; for as all the Colony j'tllemblits derive Council, It is in the Councils there; for the Words Parliament and had the Privileges of other Eng/flimsy. Them perpetuated to their Poiterity. They They were relide in Almerim, could neither be aiked nor re- That as their Settlement was to be made under ‘* their would be fubordinate to the fupreme national |
