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Show [ I74 ] or fmall; notwithl'tanding that tne Emir/Z; :re- Parties, as toilimit their refpeétive Pretenfions, nators are precluded from voting, excepting XI: and to extinguifh all further Claims. Let us therefore fee how well this Scheme is calculated to anfwer fuch good Purpofes. AND firl‘t it is faid, that the Parliament ought to interfere but feldom; and then only on Occafions of great Nerd?! . Now here permit extrao:=:iinary Cafes, in refpeét to the Colonies . In either Cafe here feems to be lon'iething in- troduced into the Britzflz Conl'titution or a very heterogeneous Nature; fomething very repug- me to afk, Who are to be the judges of what is fila'om , or what is fregumz‘ .9 Moreov er, who is to determine between the Parlia ment and the Provincial Alfemblies, whe n there is a great Necellity for the Interference of the former, and when there is but a Mile one , or 720m at all ?--Obvious it is, to all the World, that théfe jealous Rivals will never fettle fuc h Points among themfelves; and if my will not fertle them, indeed if they cannot, who is to be their common Umpire or Referee? Befi des, granting even that this Difi'icu lty could be got over in fome Degree, anothe r for midable one immediately {tarts up, like another Hydra; ‘w'z. What are thefe nant to the: Unity of Government, which the Gentleman himfelf allows ought to be preferred to every other Confideration : And I Will add further, that if the Colony-Commiliioners'a're to fit and vote in all our Caufes, tho' our Putz/I; Reprefentatives are refitarnedfrom voting in theirs, perhaps ninety-nine Times in an Hug- dred, this will be the fetting up. of one of t : molt partial, unequal, and UDJUPC Syltems Io Pacifications, that ever yet appeared in t‘lC World. . WE therefore proceed to another welghtyr Objection againl't the prefent Flam-The Terms of this new Compact are declared to be, That the Colony AlTemblies fhall be invefted with the of internal and pro-vimia/ Jurifdietion and Right . - Parl' evenr. Legiflatl.on', whil. e the Brim. /7; iamen t , afte ' they to fit and vote in all Brzlrflz Panes," great a Barrier, which muft be held fo facred by both V Parliament, and the Provincial Alfemblies;--- Hill JL n tween thefe two contending Powers, the Briti/Iz many MUTES, without lpeaking a V‘ 7rd, or giving a fingle Vote for V-Jeiks, or P:l(>l‘l(Lh‘S,wOr perhaps for a whole Seffion together iii-"01 are HERE now is a Kind of Barrier fet up be. ""3 V thefe Colony-Agents to do in our Houfe of Commons, when no Colony Bufinefs-happens to be tranfafted? Are they to remain as fo #1We; [ 175 ] ‘0 v 9"" PaperCurrency throughout zlmerz'm; or for any other general Purpofe that relates to feveral Colonies :---In thefe Cafes the Authority of Parliament {hould be employed." may ' wee. v 1 " " " " my" my " feveral provinces; or to eftablilh a genera! |