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Show RECONCILIATION. 492 PLAN 4.93 or 4‘ two thoufand feven hundred and nine- {hould have put them on the fame footing as tlm other {ubjee'ts of the empire. There were two modes of doing this: ~ the molt obvious and natural, and which i" ty;" an allembly whereof" the decency, " order, wifdom, and gravity," appeared lo tempting an objec‘t of ridicule to the worthy dean 35". to a man deeply learned in American af- lfthis plan, from local circumfianees, fairs '*', feems to have appeared preferable to any other that can be propofed, is that or from mutual dilinclination had been jut": mentioned. An objef‘rion indeed has other, which fubf‘tituted in the room of been made to it on account of the number the former, or combined with it, might which the houfe mul‘r then eonfill of, in have compaticd the end in View. order for that of the new members to bear a due proportion to that of the old. found inadmiflible, there feemed yet an- If the Americans could not, or would But not fend reprefentativcs to the Britifh par- that proportion need not have been large, liament, and yet if the good of the whole if the idea of a reprefeutative were taken from the defcription of his funelzion, given empire required in an ancient fiatutc, the Durham ait, in which he is deferibed as a " man lent to the public expence, fuch a mode might have been prefcribed to the exercile of " reprefent the condition of the country." this right, as would have leeured in the This function, a number con paratively article of taxes, all the beneficial pur- finall would have been fufiieient to dif~ pofes charge, nor need it mount by any means though it {hould be thought not to have that parliament lhould allele the portion they were to pay of of reprefentation. Parliament, to Dr. Tucker's " goodly number of 5* Set: his Four Traits, p. 107. * See Governor Bernard‘s Letters, pafiim. " two found, |
