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Show ( 4‘6 ) ( 47 ) , 1" the land," and " if any thing can be (up; be unlimited Power, the application of this " pofed out of the power of human legiflaf Power over the Colonies muf't confequently fall " ture, it is religion ;" if they are bound by no other rules than "the great principles of to the ground; and with it the occafion of any further reafoning upon the fubjeét. But as " reafon and equity, and the general fenfe of Mr. Burke has made fome allertions refpeéting " mankind," and not by the more determined principles of the Confiitution, nor fubjeét to this " unlimited legiflative Power over the " Colonies," that are not only new and dif- the controul of the People; if, by the influence ferent from every other Writer, but new and of corruption they are become " the Mailers, different from himfelf too, Ihope, I {hall be " inflead of the Servants," of their Conflituents, looking data": on the People, and up to excufed the trefpafs of a page or two more in the further confideration of this matter. the Court for honours and preferments, and granting money that they may receive it them- felves ; Itity, if thefe things be {0, and are they not {aid to be f0? where is the dillerence be- public trufi, Ifotmd your Parliament in pet'- twixt a fire and an arbitrary country? where the Colonies. the didbrence between, the defpotifm of the book without feeing the aétual exercife of King of France, and the defpotifm of the Parliament of England P And what is this but to ereé't an zfrzflacratlc tyranny in the State, a many-headed Leviathan, deplorable and to be it, more or lefs, in all cal/95 wlaazfoe'ver." deplored, dangerous and defirué'tive, in propor- tion to the numbers of which its confifis. Mr. Burke fays, " When I firl't came into a feflion of an unlimited [egg/laz‘z've Power over I could not open the Satute- Thefe then are What I have called aflertions without the {hadow of proof? or more properly afl'ertions with the molt convincing proofs of their being Without foundation ; for the proofs are taken from Mr. Burke himfelf. Here Mr. Burke fays, " I could not open the Statute" book without feeing the actual exercife of Hitherto I have confidered the Supremacy of Parliament, or its rig/3t 2‘0 unlimited Power in and over flair Kingdom; and if I have fltewn, that no fuch Power can exif't in Parliament " this unlimited Power over the Colonies in all " cafe": leaazjaewrf' but attend to what Mr. Burke lays in his fpeech on American Taxation, from the very nature of its inftitution, for it is April the 19th, 1774, p. 40, 3d edit. printed a {olecifm in politics, and an abfurdity in terms, for J. Dodfley, in Pallmall. to fay, that in a limited Government, there can " This is certainly true ; that no ACT avowed- There he fays, (t 1y be |