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Show t" 4 ) (5) found.--lt is my head, thatI was the firll miniller who looked for it,and lfound it in the mountains of the north. I called it forth, and drew it into your jccl: requires. A fubjefl: of greater importance than ever engaged the attention of this houlel that {object only excepted, when near a century fervice, an hardy and intrepid race of men ! men, ago, it was the quef'tion, whether you yourlelves who, when left by your jealouiy, became a prey were to be bond, or free. to the artifice-s of your enemies, and had gone: I cannot depend upon health for any future day, nigh to have overturned the llate, in the war bew fore the lull. Thefe men, in the lal't war, were brought to combat on your fide: they ferved with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and con- fuch is the nature of my inhrmities, [will beg to lay a few words at prefent, leaving the juf'tice, the equity, the policy, the expediency of the act, to anorher time. I will only lpeak to one pornt, a quered for you in every part of the world: de~ point which feems not to have been generally un- relied be the national reflections againll: them l-a derflood-I mean to the right. they are unjult, groundlefs, illiberal, unmanly. When l cealed to term his majetly as a miniller, (alluding to Mr. N-t) feem to have confidered it was not the COUNTRY of the nian by which I Was moved-~but THE M AN of that country wanted it in that light, they leave all meafures or right WISDOM, and held principles incompatible with ERREDOM- It is a long time, Mr. Speaker, fince I have attended in parliament. When the refolution was taken in the houfe to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, in great was the agitation of my mind for the coni‘equencesl I would have in- licited fome kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my teitimony againlt it. It is now an aft that has pulled-J would {peak with decency of every aft of this houfe, burl mull beg the indulgence of the houle to {peak of it with freedom. " I hope a day may be {hon appointed, to con- it as a point of HONOR. In the mean time, as Some gentlemen If gentlemen confidet and wrong, to follow a delufion that may lead to defiruétion. It is my Opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the fame time, I affert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies, to be fovereign and fupreme, in every circumilance of government and. legiflation whatfoever.--They are the lubieé‘ts ot of this kingdom, equally intitled with yourfelves to all the natural rights of mankind, and the peculiar privileges of Englifhmen. Equally bound by its laws, and equally participating of the conflitution of this free country. The Ame.- ricans are the fons, not the baftards of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legiflative power.-The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In legillation the three eflates of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the peers and the crown to a tax, is fider the {late of the nation with relpect to America.‘-l hope, gentlemen will come to this debate with all the temper and impartiality that his ma- only neceHary to clofe with the form of a law. jelly recommends, and the importance of the {ubo Clergy poITeITed the lands. ice-l: The gift and grant is of the commons alone. In ancient days, the crown, the barons, and the In thofe days, the bat. tons |