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Show ( 13 ) t' :2 i hit. ‘itt raid, " i do not apprehend I am l'peale» , -- twi e: I did (.tz‘irc‘fsly reifierve a part of my irhieet, in order to fave the time of this horde, but i am compell'd to proceed in it. Ido not {peak twice; I only fini‘rhed what 1 deliguedly lift imperfeft. But if the ironic is oi' a dihercnt opinion, far be it from me to indulge a with of tranfgreiiion, againl‘t order. 1 am content, if it be your pie: lure, to be filent."--Here he FHUde'". The houie refounding with, " Go on, go on -," he proceeded : and allowed them reprefentatives. Why did the gentleman confine himfelf to Chei'ter and Durham? He might have taken a higher example in Wales ; Wales, that never was taxed by parliament, 'till it was incorporated. I would not debate a parti~ cular point of law with the gentleman : I know his abilities. I have been obliged to his diligent re- fearches. But, for the defence of liberty upon a general principle, upon a confiitutional principle, it is a ground on which I fiand firm; on which I dare meet any man. The gentleman tells us of many who are taxed, and are not reprefented. merchants, flock-holders, 6‘ Gentlemen, Sir, (to the Speaker) 1 have been charged with giving birth to {edition in America. The India company, The}: lzave ipoken their fentiments with freedom as freemen of boroughs. It is a misfortune that more are not aétually reprefented. Butthey are againit this unhappy act, become their crime. and that freedom has Sorry i am to hear the li- berty or. lpeech in this houfe imputed as a crime. manufacturers. Surely many of thefe are repre- {ented in other capacities, as owners of land, or all inhabitants, and as fuch are virtually reprefented. It is a liberty by which Many have it in their option to be aéhrally reprefentcd. They have connexions with tholi: that eleét, and they have influence over them. The the gentler; an who calumniates it might have pro~ fitt‘ti. E e ought to have profited. He night to does not reckon the debts of the nation as part of But the imputation {hall not dilicourage me. a ltbvim It is I mean to exei'cile. No gentleman ought to i afraid to exercife it. have deiiiitd from his projeft. The gentleman tells us, America. is obilinate; America is almoil' in open rebell en. 1 rejoice that America has refilled, Three millions of people, f0 dead to all the feeL ings of liberty, as voluntarily to fubmit to be flavss, would have been lit inl'truments to make flaves of the red. I come nor here arm'd at all points, with law cafes and at? s of parliament, with the fiat-tire book doubled down in dons-cars, to defend the crude of liberty : if] had, {vinyl-elf would have cited the two cafes or Chefier and Durham. 1 would have cited them to have thWD, that, even under arbitrary reigns, parliairtcnts were admitted of taxing a people without their content, and ‘ gentleman mentioned the. flock-holders : I hope he the national efiate. Since the accefiion of king William, many miniflers, fame of great, others of more moderate abilities, have taken the lead of government." ~ He then went through the lift of them, bring; ing it down "till he came to himfelf, giving a {hort {ketch of the characters of each of them. " None of thefe, he faid, thought, or ever dreamed, or" robbing the coloni:s of their confiitutional rights. That was referved to mark the zeta of the late adminiil‘ration: not that there were wanting fome, when I had the honour to fltrve his majef'ty, to propofe to me to burn my fingers with an Arnerican |