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Show 184 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL a, after the Acceflion of thefe 80 Colony Com» Ereclion and Prefisrvation of which, the whole mi. ioners, {hall be content to retain only that which is axioms! and ge;zeml.-~~- But here, Bmif/z Empire is deeply interelled. And yet were the Brim/l; Parliament to frame Laws, and alas! the very fame Difficulties return which prefied in hard before: For who is to judge between the Br/z‘z'f/i Parliament and the Provin- to levy Taxes on the Amm'uzm for thefe Pm- cial Allemblies in their: Rel‘pecls? Who will venture to alhertain in every Cafe what is ex- Fortrefs, nay every Barrack, would be defcribed as an odious Badge of Slayrery; and every litde Magazine would be tamed a Monument of ternal and general; and what is merely internal and provincial? Nay indeed, may not the very fame Thingsiui'tly pais under bOth Denomina- tions, according as they are icon from dilierent Points of View? Surely they may; and to convince any Man of this, let him attend to the very Catalogue ofArticles, with which this Gentleman hath himfelf prefented us. For at Page 14, he obferves, " That whatever related " to the internal Government of any particular " Colony, fhould be left to the Governor and " Afi‘embly of that Colony to tranfac‘l: among " theml‘elvesf' among which Articles belonga ing to internal Government, he enumerates the building of li'm‘mtvtr, and of other PUBLIC Edilices; and yet both he and every Man muiiallow, tll.lttl1€ buildingol'B.1rrael«:s, forts, and 1*‘0i'ti‘elll‘s, the making ot‘King's Docks and Ca- pelts, what Outcries would immediately be railed againlt the Mother-Country l livery Tyranny and (leliiotie Power, and a Preparative for dellroying the few Liberties that were left. Again, at the Bottom of the fame Page, he declares, that the Authority of Parliament fliould be employed in fall/ling [/23 Manner of quorteri/zg the King's Troops 2'12 t/zofiwm/ Colonial. Iwill not object to the lnterpolition of Parlia~ ment in fuch a Cale: For I well know that if the Parliament did not interfere, the Troons would very often have no luarters at all; and yet this very Circuml'tance would afford an American All‘embly the melt inviting Opportw nity for Exclamation and Oppolition. " Whatl " The Brit/fl; Parliament to take upon them to " fettle the Manner of quartering the Troops in " our own Province, and on our own Inhabitants! " Who lb pl‘OpCl‘ Judges as ourlElvcs, when or rcening Places for the Navy, the laying out if military Roads, and the providing of Magazines for l'rovilions and military Stores, conlidered in " where, or a ter what Manner they lhould he another View, are of a general Nature; in the f‘ cumfianees of our People, and the Situation Erection cc Of " quartered? And how came the Gentlemen, met " at Wlflmiizfler, to be acquainted with the Cir- |