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Show 348 [Az D.T.] tomers: all this, and the employment and {up- jury, and give it to arbitraryjudges ofyour own appointing, and of the loweft characters in the country, whofe falaries and emoluments are to arife'vut of the duties or condemnations, and Rule: fir reducing a great and f0 levying them from their confuming cufport of thoufands of your poor by the colonil'tS, you are entirely to forget-But remember to make your arbitrary tax more grievous .to your provinces, by public declarations importing that your power of taxing them has no lmzztr, f0 that when you take from them without their confent a flrillingin the pound, you have a clear right to the other nineteen, This. will probably weaken every idea of fecurity in their property, and conVince them, that under fuch a government they have nothing they can call their own; which can fcarce fail of producing thehappi'efi: confeuences ! X. Poflibly indeed fome of. them might flill a announaan comfort themfelves, and fay, ‘ Though we have Empire to a final] am. 349 whofe appointments are during pleafure.--Then let there be a formal declaration of both houfes, that oppofition to your edicts is treafon, and that perfons fufpeéted of treafon in the provinces may, according to fome obfolete law, be feized and fent to the metropolis of the empire for trial; and pafs an act, that thofe there charged with certain other offences, {hall be fent away in Chains from their friends and country to be tried in the fame manner for felony. Then erect a new court of inquifition among them, accompanied by an armed force, with inftrué‘tions to tranfport all fuch fufpeéted perfons; to be ruined no property, we have yet fomething left that is by the expence, if they bring over evidences we have conftitutional. Mart} fiat/J to prove their innocence; or be feund guilty and valuable; qf fer/on and qf varyfimcr. .This King, thefe Lords, and thefe, Commons, who. it feems are too remote from. us, to kndw us and. feelufmr us,,cannot take from us our habeas corpus right, or our right oftrialj by a jury of our neighbours : they cannot deprivte 711‘s of the Exercile of our religion. filter out ecclefiaitical,conflitutinn,rand compel us to be papiltS, if they, pleafeu or Ma- ‘r homqtans.'--To annihilate this comfort, begin by laws to ,pel‘plexr their commerce with infinite hanged if they cannot afford it.--And left the people {hould think you cannot poflibly go any fanther, pafs another folemnideclaratory‘aét, ‘that ‘ King, Lords, and Commons, had, have, and ‘ ofright ought to have, full power and authori- ‘ ty to make fiatutes of fufiicient force and vali- ‘ dity' to bind the unreprefented‘ provinces in tall ‘ czgfe: wbazjbever.' .Thist will: include Ipir-itnal with temporal, and taken together, mutt: operate wonderfully to your‘purpoferi, by. convincing them, that they are at prefent ,undera power regulations, impofiible to be remembered and ob- ferved: ordain teizures of their property. for every fomething like that fpoken of. in the forlptures, failure; rake awayythetritrlruf. .tucht pEOp€f1_y'- by which can not. only kill theirfbodies, but damn their . I '_ " it Jury: |