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Show 182 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL " leveral Provinces; or to efl‘ablifh a general " Paper-Currency throughout xlmerim ; or for " any other general Purpofe that relates to le" veral Colonies :---In thele Cafes the Authority " of Parliament {hould be employed." HERE now is a Kind of Barrier fet up be- tween thele two contending Powers, the Brit/fl; thefe Colony Agents to do in our How: of Commons, when no Colony Bulinels happens to be tranfac‘led? Are they to remain as {0 many MUTES, without {peaking a Word, or giving a fingle Vote for Weeks, or Months, or perhaps for a whole Sellion together .9 Or are they to fit and vote in all Britt/fl Caufes, great Parliament, and the Provincial Aflemblies;~- or linall; notwithilanding that the Britifli Se- a Barrier, which mull be held fo facred by both nators are precluded from voting, excepting in Parties, as to limit their reipeétive l'retenfions, extraordinary Cafes, in reipeét to the Colonies? and to extinguilh all further Claims. Let us therefore fee how well this Scheme is calculated to aniwer lush good l'urpoles. AND {it'll it is (aid, that the Parliament ought to interfere but y'é/dom; and then only on Oc1cahons oligrmi New/fig. Now here permit me xro ai'it, Eli/ho are to be the fudge: of what is fri» dam or what is frequent ? Moreover, who is In either Cafe here feems to be fomtthing introduced into the Briti/Iz Continuum of a very heterogeneous Nature; fomething very repug- nant to that Unity of Government, which the Gentleman himl‘elf allows ought to be preferred to every other Conlideration: And I will add further, that if the Colony-Commifiioners are to determine between the Parliament and the to fit and vote in all our Caufes, tho' our Britt/f; Reprefentatives are reflrainecl from voting in Provincial Ali‘emblies, when there is a grail! Neccilitjx fer the Interference of the former, and theirs, perhaps ninety-nine Times in an Hundred, this will be the lettingr up of one of the when there is but a [r'tt/c' one, or mm at all f-.Obvious it is, to all the World, that thefejealous Rivals wil' never lettle lizch Points among-i; Pacification, that ever yet appeared in the themfelves, and it they will not lettle them, in- deed if they cannot, who is to be their common Umpire or Referee? Belities, granting even molt partial, unequal, and unjult Syliems of World. WE therefore proceed to another weighty Objection againlt the prefent Plan. ~ l'he Terms of this new Compact are declared to be, 'l‘hat thzit this Diihculty could be got over in ionic "legree, another formidable one immediately the Colony Alfemblies lhall be invel'ted with the fiarts up, like anOther Hydra; viz. Wth are Ltgiflation; while the Brit/fl; Parliament, even there Right of internal and provincial jurildic‘tion and M 4 after |