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Show [35] leaft connexion with the author; but, on mode of government tolerably fuitable the contrary, that you and your friends in America may be aware of the uncon- fiitutional doctrines which are thereby to the cafe before him; becaufe, in this, propagated amongf't us. I have not, in- deed, had opportunity to perufe it regularly ; neither do I now think it neceflary to do fo; for I was lucky enough, when I firft took it up, to turn over a as in many other things, there is but one rig/32‘, though very many wrong methods of proceeding; and the doctor has unfortunately forgot to {late the only right proprfltz'on upon the fubjeét in qncftion, that can be admitted confiflently with the neceflary principles abovementioned of Law, Equity, and fizmd P; {tic/qr; few pages in the fourth part, containing ‘ 'lulcmmlr PM", «URL: five propofitions upon the point in queftion, whereby the author's fentiments viz. to do jig/lice to our brethren of America; that is, to govern them according to the efiablilhed Principles of the and intentions may be fufliciently known Englifh Confiitution, and known Laws without defcending to his arguments upon them ; for not one of them (not even the 5th and laf't, which he himfelf prefers) can pofiibly be reconciled either to Law, Equity, orfozmd Politic/es; f0 that of the Land, and candidly to acknow- ledge their unalienable right to the fame happy privileges by which the liberties of the mother-country have hitherto been maintained ; the moft efiential of if the doctor, with the fame izcglcfi 9f Law and ccig/Zz'tm‘z'wml Principles, had multiplied his propofitions to the number of (m hundred times five, he would not have been able to lay down a plan or mode which is the privilege of paying no other taxes than what are voluntarily granted by the people or their legal repay'm55212355 in general councils or parliaments. F 2 Dr. |