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Show Nay, many of your Colony Charters afi'ert quite the contrary, by containing exprefs Refervations of Parliamentary Rights, particularly that great one of levying Taxes. And thofe Charters which do not make fuch Provifoes in exprefs Terms, mutt be fuppofed virtually to imply them; becaufe the Law and Conilitution will "I'll/HID! 4m. .. "H . not allow, that the King can do more either at home or abroad, by the Prerogative Royal, than the Law and Confiitution authorize him to do. HOWEVER, ifyou are {till doubtful, and if you would wilh to have a Confirmation of this Argu4 ment by fome plain FaEt, fome firiking Proof, Jung. '1' as the greatelt of your Colonies with regard to Property, and fuperior to many of them with 'refpefi to Numéem 3~this great City, I fay, the Metropolis of the whole Err/Mt Empire, hath. long enjoyed, before the Colonies were ever thought of, the threefold Power of jurildié‘tion, Legiflation, and Taxation in certain Cafes : But no Man in his SeniEs ever yetfuppofed, that the City of London either was, or could be exempted. , for no fuch Charters were ever granted. by thefe Charters from Parliamentary Jurifdic~ tion, or Parliamentary Taxes; and if any Ci. tizen fhould plead the Charters in Bar to Parliamentary Authority, or refule to pay his Qiota of the Land-Tax, becaufe that Tax is not laid on by an Aét of the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and vilible Example, I will give you one -, and fuch an one too, as [hall convince you, if any thing can, of the Folly and Abl‘urdity of your Pofitions : 1 he City of London, for lnilance,~~i a Body Politic, as relpeEtable, without Ofi‘ence, and Commoh-Council,---I do .not lay, indeed, that the Judges would commit him to Newgate ; -¢-but I do verily believe, that they would order him to another Place of Confinement, much fitter for a Perfon in his unhappy Situation. , AND now, my good Friend, what can you of Parliament. Butiiptmfettliiig tl'eColonics, this fuppofed Right, which coll Charles I. his Crown, and his Lit-C, was not inlifled on in any of the Charters, and was exprel‘sly given up in that which was granted to Lord Baltimore for Iliaqlxad. Now this Claufe, which is nothing more than the Renunciation of DM/Cfé‘ Prerogative, is quoted in our Newfpapers, as if it was a Renunciation of the Rights of. Parliament to raife Taxes. \Vhereas the King in that Charter llipulated only for him/e! , lair ch'rr, mm' Sumffl‘l'fv not to raife Taxes by Virtue of the Prerogative Royal; which certainly he might do, and which was very proper to he done for the Encouragement and Security of a new Co- lony. But he could not ftipulate for the Parliament; and indeed he did not attempt to do it. 1 52:5, _‘. 5.4 "'|..A n ‘HILM Lu " 13-3." .455}! nV [ 99 l E 98 l fay to thefe Thing ?--~The only Thing which you ought to fay is, that you did not fee the Adair in its true Light before; and that you are fincerely forry for having been f0 politive in a wrong Caufe. Confined molt undoubtedly you are beyond the Pombility of a Reply, as far as the Law and Conditution of the Realm. are concerned in this Q‘ueltion. But indeed it feems to me by certain Pafl‘ages in your Letters, N 3 that, |