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Show 106 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL. 107 Nay, as the greatel't ot‘your Colonies, with Regard to many of your Colony Charters aflert quite the Property, and fuperior to many of them with contrary, by containing exprehs Refervations of refpeé‘t to Number: ;--this great City, I fay, the Parliamentary Rights, particularly that great Metropolis of the whole Britiflz Empire, hath long enjoyed, before the Colonies were ever thought of, the threefold Power of Jurifdiétion, for no fuch Charters were ever granted. one of levying Taxes. And thofe Charters which do not make fuch Proviloes in exprefs Terms, muft be fuppolEd virtually to imply Legiflation, and Taxation in certain Cafes: But them; becaufe the Law and Conflitution will no Man in his Senfes ever yet fuppofed, that the not allow, that the King can do more either at City of London either was, or could be exempted home or abroad, by the Prerogative Royal, than by thefe Charters from Parliamentary Jtirildiction, or Parliamentary Taxes; and if any Ci- the Law and Conf'titution authorize him to do. HOWEVER, ifyou are {'till doubtful, and ifyou would with to have a Confirmation of this Argument by fome plain Faét, fome f'triking Proof, tizen {hould plead the Charters in Bar to Parlia- and vilible Example, I will give you one; and on by an A& of the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, such an one too, as {hall convince you, if any thing can, of the Folly and Abl'urdity of your and Common-Council;--»I do not fay, indeed that the Judges would commit him to Newgate; l'olitions: The City of London, for Inltance,-- «vbutI do verily believe, that they would order a Body Politic as refpeetable, withour Offences him to another Place of Confinement, much mentary Authority, or refufe to pay his @ota v gllllllllllllfll' of the Land Tax, becaufe that Tax is not laid _ fitter for a Perlbn in his unhappy Situation. of Parliament. But upon fettling the Colonies, this fuppofed Right which colt Charles I. his Crown, and his Life, was morinfiled on in any of the Charters, and was exprcfsly given up in that which was granted to Lord Baltimore for Maryland. Now this Claufe, which is nothing more than the Renucizititu of‘ 011/0152? Prerogative, is quoted in OILr Newfpapers, as it it was a Renunciatiou of the Rights of Parliament to wife Taxes. Whereas the King in that AND now, my good Friend, what can you lay to thefe Things .P-"Tlie only Thing which you ought to fay is, that you did not fee the Affair in its true Light before; and that you are fincerely forry for having been [0 pofitive in a wrong aufe. Confuted molt undoubtedly Charter flipulated only for bins/cl, , ljii Heirs, and Surafir‘h you are beyond the Pollibility of a Reply, as not to wife Taxes by Virtue of the Prerogative Royal; which certainly he might do, and which was very Proper to be done for the Encouragement and Security of a new far as the Law and Conllitution of the Realm are concerned in this (lueflion. But indeed it Colony. But he could not fiipulate for the Parliament; and indeed he did not attempt to do it. feems to me by certain PaITages in your Letters, . v a as ‘ * that, |