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Show f 60 J not unconfiitutional that there lhould be about two ‘ tight (let the terms natural and unalienable, with millions in America in the fame titration. It would be uncanciid not to admit that there is 3 ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' the other "mg/mfl' employed for taking in the rabble, he exploded) to all the privileges of Britilh fol)jec.s?' Secondly, ‘ Is it not a diftinguifhing privi~ Tee of Britilh fuhiefls, that they are not taxable int bf; their reprefentatives?' And thirdly, ‘If iris. he the cafe, can the Americans be regularly or jut'lly armed by a parliament in which they have no reprefentativcs i' In anfwer to the full: quellion, It is admitted they are entitled to all the privileges of Britiih fubjeéls. In anfwer to the fecond, lithe members of the .10qu of commons, are, as the objector finely means to lignity, the rcprefentatives only of thofe by whom they are elected, it is not the privilege 0F all llritilh fuizjefts, that they are not taxable but by their renrefenf tatrves. :Ihis is the privilege ofthofe only who are in a certain way qualified. it is not above one in twenty of the people of England, or above one in a hundre d,1" of;in theorpeople ‘ I of Scot P land., who have a voi ce m the el Wt r t, . it memoers or par lia men t. But ifth members rep refent nll‘o tl iofe wh o :2 'c not their eleé‘tors , and have no power, no 1n liuence Whatever, in eleé‘tino' then, it Will be impo b flible to allign a good re gi on gyrhzyyhl: Expiraot heXe nominated the reprefen tativcs This" I, Vii in metres, as well as 111 Britain. -atts \ treelry LO the antw er to the third quellion . -' _ I: been comput ed, there be at lealt between lif M,t and teven mill 10113 of people in Great Brittzin, 11c If as l), x ()3 \ , l: 5! 3 pertinently be sliced. Firll, i Whether, or not have ‘ the Britilh Americans .1 civil and conflitutional 0; tmed by a parliament 111 y'lneh they are not wit.) ‘0' .g. {CPY‘ALZILLCQ 1ca ‘J fome dilTerence in the cafes. from the difference of lituation, and is belides, more than counterbalanced by tome motives and difficulties; that will ever eilefltt;tlly prevent the legitlature from going the fame lengths in taxing the American lubje&s which it may lately go in taxing Britons But it is notorious, that the former have declared. againfl' every method that has yet been dcvifed tor rem moymg this capital objection, the only one of con- fequence in the caufe. The fimplei‘t method would tloubtlefs he, to allow them a certain number or rerefenmtives in the houfe of commons. Aguinil this propofnl they have always loudly and ve‘hflcn'r‘entlyfex- claimed. Do they favour, what hasonp been Lllg" {gelled in this controverfy, that a particular end mo~ aerate rate {hould be fixed, according to Which the fuhlitlics levied from them {honid uniformly host a. a i m "z .' ' 9 lowed lxom (1 wt Lillflllli certain proportion to thofe To this the' have given no bLiLux .cccpnon than . r r ' - h . n be deemed neither unreaibnahl: a Luv 1-) ) f. 1‘ I a The following, and perhaps fume more, mzy he regarded as exceptio s. The act eltabhtlnng the pml-tffice; from this tax the privilege of freaking exempts all.) lllfgllll‘tt'lls 4"? I The menhers of the loufe of commons, in almolt every tax (for there are tome exceptions") they la";r on their Britifn fellowfubjeéts, tax themfelves in proportion. The cafe is diti‘erent in regard to their felloxv-fubjeé'ts in America. But this is an inequality that ncccfierily refults "'5 Parliament. The aft irrit‘otn‘grh tax :thfen-intnmozmiti: . rapport of Greenwich hoiprtnl. The 361 it); .aymg . on ale and beer brewed for tale. . |