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Show (5} (7) tons and the clergy gave and granted to the crown. They gave and granted what was their own. At prefent, fince the difcovery of America, and other circumftances permitting, the commons are become the proprietors of the land. The crown has divefied itfclf of its great ellates. The church (God blefs it) has but a pittance. The property NUMBER! Or will you tell him that he is repeat fented by any reprefentative of a boroughT-ja borOugh, which perhaps no man ever {aw-This is ofthe lords, compared with that of the comu':cns, houfe, is the melt contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of a man-It does not defervc is as a drop of water in the ocean : and this houle reprefents thofe commons, the proprietors of r": what is called, the ROTTEN PART OF the consu- TUTION.--It cannot continue the century-If i: does not drop, it muf't be amputated-The idea of a virtUal reprefentation of America in this a ferious refutation. lands; and thofe proprietors virtually reprelT at: the tell of the inhabitants. When therefore in this houfe we give and grant, we give and gmnt their feveral affemblies, have ever been in poEef~ what is our own. " The commons of America, reprefented in But in an American tax, "'1th lion of the exercife of this, their confiitutional do we do? We, your majel'ty's commons of Great-Britain, give and giant to your :riajeiry, right, of giving and grantingtheir own money. They would have been 'flaves if they had not en- what P joyed it. Our own property E-No. We give and At the fame time, this kingdom, as the grant to your majel'ty the property of your mao, jefly's commons of America-It is an abfurriity In terms.-- - fupreme governing and legiflative power, has al~ " The difiinc'tion between legiflation and taxation is elTentially necelTary to liberty. The crown, the peers, are equally legiilative powers with the commons. If taxation be a part of iimple legiflation, the crown, the peers have rights in taxation as well as yourfelves: rights which they will claim, which they will exercife, whenever the principle can be fupported by POWER. taking their money out of their pockets without ways bound the colonies by her laws, byher re. gulations, and refirié‘tions in trade, In navrgation, in manufactures-in every thing, except that of their confent. ' _" Here I would draw the line, 21mm ultra citraque neqait ton/iflere reflum." He concluded with a familiar voice and tone, (hire, in any county in this kingdom P WOULD '10 Geo THAT RESPECTABLE REPRESEN. but f0 low, that it was not eafy to dil'tin-guith what he faid. A confiderable paufe enfued after Mr. Pitt had done {peaking-Mr. C--n--y then got up. He laid, " he had been waiting to fee whe~ ther any anfwer would be given, to what had been advanced by the right honourable gentleman, referving himfelf for the reply : but as none had been TATION was AUGMENTED TO A GREATER given, he had only to declare, that his own fend» NUMBER 1 ments " There is an idea in fome, that the colonies are virtually reprelented in this houfe. Iwould 1am know by whom an American is reprefented here? Is he reprefented by any knight of the |