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Show 57 and declare, they were "induced to be ofthir; " judgment, as well from the nature of armies, " and the ineonlii‘tency of great military tower "-and martial law with civil authority, a". from " the known and zznrr'erfal experience of other " countries in Europe, which, by 1/25 i7y'71zcnrc and " power (gfi/Zznrdrng- armiw, in time rf pram, lure " fivm limiter! filo/rardrrur, [its 011m, [7138" (31nger info " (lb/Mule." '* The taxes necellary to maintain a finding army, drain and impoverifh the land. '1‘th exhaulted by tribute, the people gradually become lpiritlefs, and fall an eafy lirerilice to the reigning power. Spirits, like Britons, naturally fierce and irrdcpcn. (lent are not ealily awed or fuddcnly vampriflr. ed by the fword. Hence an augmentation ot‘forces hath been pulhcd, when there was no delign of bringing them into aetion againft lCnglifhnren in an 0/)ch field. New forces have oftener than once been raifed in England more for (irez'l than mz/ztary {ervice ; and as elefiions for a new parliament have approached, this door has been open- ed to introduce a large body of (ennui/fiend I'uflm 71""5-'{ What hath been the confequenee E' A eonfiant majority of placemen meeting under the name of a Parliament, to g/Zub/ifl) grievances inllead ofrca'rqfling thern-toapprove implicitly the mealures ofa court without information-to lupport and fcreen miniflers the ought to controul or punilh-w to grant money witllout right and expend it with» out drfcretion? Have thele been the baneliul eon.quuences ? Are thefe foltmn truths ? Alas.l we tremble to think z-hut we may venture to lay, that when this is true of that legillative autho . t , l' See 1 vol. Lord's Prot. 377,8 tity, which not only claims, (but cxcrriér) " full 4‘ power and authority to make laws and flatutes *‘ to bind the colonies and people of America " m A r. r. CAS r13 whatfoever" -, *--~the FORMS of our corrltitrrtirrn, creating afalal deltflon, will become our greatelt grievance. The FORMALITIES of a free and the ends ofa delpotic {late have often fubfified together. 'l‘hus deceived was the Republick of Rome :---Ollicers and Magiltrates retained their old narnes':--the r‘ormis of the antient government being kept up, the fundamental laws of the Common-wealth were violated with impunity, and it's once free conflitution utterly annihilated. f He who gave Augnltus (1am the advice " that to the oflicers of {late the " lame names,pomp and ornaments, lhould be con" tinned, wit/J qnaintance with mankind. The advice was followed, and (Irelar foon became Senate, magittraey and laws. Is not Britain to America, what Catlin was to Rome? It is curious to obferve the various acts of impolition, which are alternately practiced by the great * See the declarative aft oftlre Briliflr Parliament Anne {766. From that period (Sir Robert Walpole's day) to the prefer): time (r762)has proved a very remarkable one in the hillory of the llritith conflitulion:-~n0 one infancy can ta prim/mad I?» u'lu'c}! rm naval [mfimfr har'twn retarded, through the {erurmlousnefs of the people's reprefematives. Political ell‘ays concerning the prefent flute ofthe Hritifh Empire. From the revolution to this day (r76:)the mag/inn of Hz: crown have unrvxl- SALLY been the mmfurer of Parliament. lb. p. 46. U y _ f Sec 2 vol. Ld's I'rorefi. p. [(7. all the appearances of authority, " without firepower," I dileovered an intimate ae- 1‘ Sec hereafter. Eadem Magiftratum vocabula, fua confulibus, fua p-rztorib'rs fpeeics. |