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Show call it; Houfe of Commons) have already proceeded to greater Lengths of Sovereignty and Independence than a Brizif/z Houle of Commons Part of the Sum which Great-Britain was to have railed on the time Account, and to have expended in the lhme Provinces :---So anxious was the antient indulgent Parent not to lay too heavy a Burden on her tavourite Children. But fl S! i‘ a murites of all Kinds feldom make thofc returns of (tinnitude and Obedience, WlllCh might be expefted. for even as to that boafted Loyalty, which the Colonies '..1ve hitherto profefiisd to maintain towards his Majefly King Geoiger-ihfi fiends, and mutt lland, according to their pl‘Ci-Ci'lt poiitical Syltern, on as precarious a Footing as any of the mi": of our Claims. For itw the Eris/{x75 Parliaments have no Right to 73%; r2 aH, .. ‘ duh-t make Laws to bind the Colonies, they cer- if" .-, 'grand Rebellion. For they have already arro- gated to thenifilves a Power of d/fpnfiug, as well as of mg'flng the public Monies, without the Conlen‘t of the otheriBranches of the Legiflature; which is, in faét, nothing leis than the Erection of f0 many {overeign and independent Democracies. Nay more, there is a generalCombination and Confederacy entered into among them all: For each Home of P‘H‘embly hath lately appointed a fianding Committee for correl‘ponding with the Handing Committees of other Provinces, in order the more effectually to oppole the Authority and Jtirildiétion of the Mother-Country. ' 1 tainly ought not to be allowed to prefcribe to WHAT- then is to be done in inch 3 Cai'e? Evident it is beyond a (lilptite, that timi . and them £72017}!le Zr: L'zez'r King -,---much leis ought temporifing h/Ieal'ijres {.rw: to no other Pet'poie they to pretend to a Right of enacting, That it {hall be a mod capital Offence, even HIGH bucthat of confirming the Colonies ~n their Oil 3701700", and ltrengthening them in their pre- TREASON itleif, in a Colonift to dare to con- fent Revolt. » :11 .4 ever piefumei'l to do eXeept in the Days of the trovt'rt X 2. SCHEME viii the Moiety, nor yet the third, nor the fourth Veg, ‘ of this very Scheme: For the Money to be railed by that Tax, was to be applied to the file Ufa of the Colonies, and to be expended no wave elfia but in the Col-:nies. hay it was not BESIDES, tome of thofe lower Houfes of Afiemblies (which each Province now ziEeEts to «m. ' v Nature is utterly impracticable. Indeed the late Stamp Act itfelf was no other than a Part \ . Juriidiétion; confequently any Scheme of this [ 153 l trovert the Title ofany Prince, or any Family, to the A'merz'mn Throne, whom the Britiflz Parliament {hall place thereon. WWI LA u of all. But the Misfortune is, that the Colonies will not coiilent to this i'artition ol‘ Power and .. 4 [ 162 ] |