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Show 'K-F‘Wliijifi: W -‘.' ‘35" 7 V‘Ju'. 4.6 PLEAS AND ARGUMENT". PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. Grievance, of UPWARDS or AN 47 HUNDREB YEARS STANDING, [fee particularly 22d. and 23d. of C. II. Cap. 26. § 12 and 13.---alfo, 25th of C. 11. Cap. 7.---and 7th and 8th of WM. III. Cap. 7. § 7.] Now, if the flmeriemzr were thus tardy in their Duty towards their Mother-Country, during their Infant-State, and before they had learnt even to lifp the high-founding W rds, immutable Latex of Niztilre,---am[ienab/e Rig/2N,---and felf~ "ardent Prepofltz'am,----what are we to expect at ing, or exporting them contrary to an Eizglz'flz Law ;---a Law, whofe Authority they difclaim, and whole Penalties they both deteft, and de{pile BUT why fliould we labour this Point any longer? Dr. FRANKLIN himfelf joins his Suf- frage to ours as far as this Point is concerned. Many [fays he, in his Advertifement to his Confiderations on the Nature, and the Extent of the Legiflative Authority of the Bring/Ii Par- liament, printed in RIVINGTON's New-Tori: prefent, when they have added all the Principle: of Relillance and Revolt to their former difobe- {Ill-UUIIIIIIIII III". mull‘llllll LB; 8 H 13‘ r dient Prozfiieetgn-and when they are become, even through Motives of Confeience, the determined Enemies of the Authority and Jurifdic- 4‘ tion of GreaflBritaz'n ?---I afk therefore, Can b J! any MOrtal be To f'tupid, as to believe, that an American Jury Will, for the future, be more fa~ vourable to the Engli z Plea of an exclufive Right to, and a Monopoly of their Commerce; than their Juries were in former Times ?--~And what a Farce would it be, to attempt to bring inch 9. Caufe as this before an zimerz'mn Judicature, according to the Sentiments and Notions they have now imbibed ?---In fuch a Cafe, it is much more probable, that they would find 3 Bill of Indictment againfi the Officer for feizing thefe Goods, than againf't the Culprit for importin , Gazetteer, Ofiober 30, 1774,] " Many will per", haps be furprized to fee the Legiflative Au- " thority of the Briti/lz Parliament over the Co" lonies, denied in every Iii/fame. Thofe the ‘4 Writer informs, that, when he began this " Piece, he would probably have been furprized " at fuch an Opinion himfelf. For it was the " Refult, not the Occafion of his Difquifitionso " He entered upon them with a View and Ex- " " 9‘ " peé‘tation of being able to trace fome eenflztu- tiamzl Line between thole Cafes in which we [the flmerieam] ought, and tliole in which we ought not, to acknowledge the Power of Far- In the PrOfCCUUOU Of his ". liarnent over us. t‘ Inquiries he became fully convinced, that " fuC/l a Line dot/z not em'fl; and that there can and " be 720 Medium between acknowledging, a . - 2' f‘ dernimg that Power in ALL Cases. 1 ' ' ' N ow |