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Show ( I4 ) (15) " foever the Principal can be fupported with -" Right of giving and granting their own Moi "Power. There is an Idea in form, that the " ney, they would have been Slaves if they had " C-l-n-s are virtually reprefented in this " not enjoyed it; at the fame time this King" dom, as the fnpreme governing and legifla- " in this H-fe, I would fain know by whom " tive Power, has always bound the C-l-s by " an Am 72 is reprefented here? Is he re" prefented by any Kn-t of the Shire of any " County in the K---m, would to God that " refpec'table Reprefentation were augmented " to agreater Number! Or will you tell him "he is reprefented by a Reprefentative of a " B--gh; a B---h which, perhaps, was " was never feen by its Reprefentative ; a B-h "which, perhaps, no man ever faw; this has " been called the rotten Part of the C---ft---tion, " it will not probably endure for another Cen- " tury ; if it does not drop off of itfelf, it muff ' " be amputated: But the Idea ofa virtual Re- " prefentation of Am-a in this Houfe is the " molt contemptible Notion, that ever entered "into the Head of Man, it does not deferve ‘f a ferrous Repetition. "her Laws, by her Regulations, by her Re- " Ilriflions in Trade, in Navigation, Manufac" tures, in every Article whatfoever, except " that of taking the Money out of their Pockets, " without their Conf'ent. Here then I would " draw the Line flame ultra, 63'1qu m'qzwd mnflflere refittm. MR. P- {poke fome time after, but in a Voice f0 low that none but thofe who fat near ..him could diftinguiih what he faid. Aconfi‘ derable Paufe enfued -, Mr. C-izw-fy then got up, and {aid he waited to fee whether any An' fwer would be given to what was advanced by the R-t H ble Gentlemen, referving him~ felf, in expectation of a Reply; but as none " THE C----ns of Ant-«u, reprefented in their " feveral Al‘femblies, have ever been in the pol?- f‘ feflion of the exercife of their conflitutional " Right had been given, he had only to declare, that his Sentiments were entirely conformable to lthofe of that Gentleman, that they are fo con. formable (he faid) " is a Cireumi'tance that afB a " feéis |