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Show " E, turns on, What will be the Suggef'tions of Conn )1 ) ) 3‘v ‘. fcience in the Breai't of an flnicrimn on fuch an Occafion ?---What would be his Ideas of Law, Juftice, or Equity, when England and A'merim flood in Competition P ----- Certainly, if ever the Inhabitants of that Country fhould come (and they are almoit come already) to be fully perfuaded, that the Brill/l; Parliament hath no Right to make Laws either to tax or to govern them [and the having once beaten them will not be taken as a convincing Proof that we always have either the Right or the Power to beat them] then every Attempt towards throwing off this odious Yoke, would appear in their Eye, as [0 many noble Struggles for the Caufe of Liberty : And therefore the bale Engli/li Hireling, who would dare to injure this in a Word, an erroneous Confcience, and a falie Zeal, would have jui‘t the fame bad EECBCS in the new World refpecting civil Government, I as they have formerly had in the old, in regard to‘ Religion : And therefore, either Way, whether I is a Cafe which would and mull frequently then happen in the natural Courfe of Things, accord ing to our legal Conflitution. PER HAPS it might be faid, that flmerimn 'Juries are as conlcientious as other Juries in bringing in their Verdiéts according to Law; and that it is very uncharitable even to fuppofe the contrary. Be it [0: But the Qiefiion here we {hould treat thefe flnzerimns as an enilaved People, or whether we fhould reitore to them, after a Conquefi, the fame Coni'titution which we enjoy ourfelves, the final Event would come to this,---That England would be the greateflr Sufferer; and that America is not to be governed againft its own Inclinations. now come to the Wherefore let us FOURTH SCHEME, Viz. To confent that zlnzerim fhould become the general Seat of Empire, and that Great»: Britain and Ireland, lhould be governed by Vice-Roys fent over from the Court Refidencies either at Philadelphia, or New-Yarn, or at lome Other flnzerimn Imperial City. Now, wild as fuch a Scheme may appear, there are certainly fome flnieriainr who ferioufly embrace it: And the late prodigious Swarms Of Emigrants encourage them to fuppofe, that a Time is approaching, when the Seat of Em- pire mull be changed. But whatever Events facred Caufe, deferved to die a thouiand Deaths, Such undoubtedly would be the Languagéa and inch the. Sentiments of the great Majority Of may be in the Womb of Time, or whatever Revolutions may happen in the Rife and Fall Of Empires, there is not the leai't Probability, .[ZYflFVlf/lm,' Bb that \ 3. iliizc'rimns, whenever fuch a Cafe fhould happen; Pitiable fure is fuch a Cafe; and yet it V 3 f: Men. L I93 ] , r. R3 £701 Il .1 f. '1‘ not able to fave the Lives of thefe poor innocent r. . 2 . 4 I<nglu m Lfluidly I!»'2/ [ W l |