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Show 490 RECONCILIATION. PLANOF 491 fame time declared to be this, that the di~ had been made payable on the exporta- reé't objeet of the former clafs was to regulate trade, and that any revenue arifing tion of the commodities from England, therefrom was incidental; that the pro- rica, they declared it would be all one: feffed objeét of the other was to raife a re- venue, and the regulation of trade ferved only as the mode of getting at the revenue. The Americans admitted the dif'tinc- this mode they declared would be equally burthenforne on their purfes, and equally deflrué‘tive of their rights *9. In thefe arguments, allowing them their utmol't force, there was nothing from whence it could fairly be inferred that the Americans ought not to be taxed tion, and hence concluded, that port du- ties impofed for the railing of a revenue and not on their importation into Ame- were internal taxes: that port duties, the at all, nor even that parliament ought not produce of which was to be paid into the exchequer, were impofed for the purpofe of railing a revenue. The produce of all to have taxed them. Iport duties in America, they added, was ordered to be paid into the exchequer, therefore all port duties were internal All that could be inferred was, that, previoufly to their being taxed, they ought to be put on an equal footing in this refpeét with the other tubjeé‘ts of the empire, either by being permitted to fend relarelentatives, or it. that he not practicable, by fome other taxes 9*. Nay, they went farther; if inflcad of impofing port duties, another mode of taxation had been adopted; if the duties mode. Here then the propofed bill of rights ihoultl have refpeeted their opinions, and * See Farmer's Letters, p. 19._ ‘E See Bernard's Letters, p. 55, 56. had lhould |
