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Show ( 8 ) ments were entirely conformable to tho‘fe of the , y ( a 3- right honourable gentleman--That they are fa conformable, he laid, is a circumi‘rance that affefis me with molt fenfible pleafure, and does me the greatel't honour. But two things fell from firmed, i fear they will lofe that name to take": that of Revolution. The gov rrrment over them being diflblved, a revolution will take place in A- metica. I cannot undcrfiand the diG'crence be: that gentleman which give me pain ; as whatever falls from that gentleman, falls from fo Great 3 tween external and internal taxes. They are the fame in elieé‘t, and only difi'er in name". That height as to make a deep imprefi'ion.----I niuft en- this kingdom is the fovereign, the fiipreme legit.lative power over America, is granted. It cannot be denied; and taxation is a part of that an Vereign power. It is one branch of the lcgifla- deavour to remove it.---It was objected, that the notice given to parliament of the troubles in America was not early. I can allure the houfe, the firft' accounts were too vague and imper- fect to be worth the notice of parliament. It is only of late that they have been precife and full. An over-ruling influence has alfo been hinted at. I fee nothing of it-I feel nothing of it-I dif- tion. It is, it has been exer‘ciled, over thofe who are not, who were never reprel‘ented. It is exer~ cifed over the lndia company, the merchants of London, the proprietors of the bucks, and over many great manufacturing towns. it was exer- claim it for myfelf, and (as far as my difcern- Cifed over the palatinate of Chel'ter, and the ment can reach) for all the relt of his majefiy's miniflers. Mr. Pitt faid, in anliwer to Mr. C-y " The excufe is a valid one, if it is a jolt one: bifhoprick of Durham, before they lent any reprefentatives to parliament. I appeal for proof That mull appear from the papers now before the lioufe." In the interim, Mr. G-lle had recovered prefentatives : the one in the reign of Henry VIII. the other in that of Charles ll." [\Er. G-lle then. himfelf. He avoided meddling with the doctrine of taxation being confined to the houfe of commonc, and being founded on the free Gift of the quoted the STATUTES EXACTLY, and denied that they might be read; which being done, he re- to the preambles of the afis which gave them re- colleétive body, through the medium 0:1): their re- fumed his difcourlc: " ‘J‘Vlzcn l propoiei‘l to [11K America, I ailted the hour-e. it any gentleman prefentatives; neither did he attempt to defend the would object to the right -, i l‘C'?f.';lZCtli‘y' elite-d it, virtual reprefentation of America ; but began with ce/nfuring the prefent minifiry veryfeverely, for delaying to give earlier notice to parliament of the dilturbances in America. He faid, " They beoan in july, and now we are in the middle of Ianuatiy ' lately they were only occurrences, (the word ufed in the king's fpcech on the 17th of December) l and no man would attempt to may it. I'rotcititm and obedience are reciprocal. (ii-eat Britain . tef'ts America; America is bound to y- *id dienCe. If not, tell me where the Amer-is. en'iancipatedi' C c. Viihen they want the proreition of and if the doflrine I have heard this day be con: this kingdom, they are always very ready to edit it. That protection has always teen ailbrded them in the mod: full and ample manner. The ma ion has run iii-iii: into an immenie debt to give them their protcftion; and now they are called upon to con- firmed, tribute a {mail lhare toward; the purine experce, they are now grown to dillurbances, to tumults and riots. I doubt they border on open rebellion: C an |
