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Show cial Affemblies in theie Rel-peels? \Vho will venture to afcertain in every Cafe what is exf texnal and general ; and what is merely internal and provincial P Nay indeed, may not the very fame Things jufily pals under both Denominations, according as they are teen from CillfCl'Cnt Points of View ?---Surely they may; and to convince any Man ol this, let him attend to the very Catalogue ofi‘irticles, with which this Gentleman hath l1i?'1'-.ii:lf prelEnted us. For at "age 24, he obli'rves, ‘- That whatever related " to the internal Government of any particular " Colony, lhould be left to the Governor and " Ailembly of that Colony to tranlizft among " themfelves ," among which Articles belong- to levy Taxes on the flmerz'cam for thefe Purpoles, what Outcries would immediately be railed againf'c the Mother-Country! Every Fortrefs, my every Barrack, would be defcribed as an odious Badge of Slavery -, and every little Magazine would be termed a Monument of Tyranny and defpotic Power, and a Prerogative for defiroying the few Liberties that were left. Again, at the Bottom of the fame Page, he declares, that the Authority of Parliament fhould be employed in fettlz'ng the Mmmer of quartering the King': Troops in the flmcml Colonies. Iwill not object to the Interpofition of Parliament in fuch a Cafe: For well I know, that if the Parliament did not interfere, the Troops would very often have no (batters at all; and yet this very Circumf'tance would afford an flmerz'mn Ali'embly the molt inviting Opportunity forExclamation and Oppofition. " What! " The Britiflz Parliament to take upon them the fices; and yet both he and every Man muf't al- " Manner of quartering Troops in our own low, that the building of Barracks, of Ports, and Fortrefles, the making of King's Docks and Ca- " Province, and on our own Inhabitants ! Who reening Places for the Navy, the laying out of " or after what Manner, they fhould be quar- " tered? And how came the Gentlemen, met for Provifions and military Stores, confidered in" another View, are of a general Nature; in the Erec‘tion It, were the Briiz'flz Parliament to frame Laws, and ing to internal Government, he enumerates the building of Barret/‘95, and of other PUBLIC Edi- military Roads, and the providing oft agazines ., between the Brit/fl; Parliu‘nent and the Provin- Britiflz Empire is deeply interelled. And yet 'v‘co . E.311"! LAM »"3313!"; " alas! the very fame Difficulties return which prelTed [0 hard before: For who is to judge [ :77 i Ereétion and Preferva‘tion of which, the whole v millioners, {hall be content to retiin only that which is external and Kg‘6;z:;1cz[.----But here 1, ; _ after the Accefiion of thefe 80 Colony Corn: ‘, Vg MU xi! l. I76 1 " f0 proper Judges as ourlelves, when or where, " at Wei/Winfrey", to be acquainted with the Lir- ‘-f Cumfiances of our People, and the Situation Z cc Of |