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Show PLEAS AND ARGUiVIENTS. 23 to be exercifed, but in fuch extraordinary Cafes, became, z'pfo folio, King of Ireland, without my further Ceremony, Elefiion, or Coronation, This therefore was particularly the Cafe at the Revolution: At which Period the Difference between Ireland and Scotland was very remark- able; inafmuch as the Englz'flz Parliament did giflature, for the Good and Interelt of the whole, In all common Cafes, the local or provincial Parliament or Affembly ought to be allowed to judge for itfelf, and to provide Supplies for its not pretend to nominate a King and Queen for Manama" Scotland, though they did for Ireland in the Perfons of the Prince and Princefs of Orange. And the {anie Cafe occurred again at the Accellion of the prefent Royal Family; when the Irz'flz Parliament never prefumed to pals any mm Aft either of Settlement, or of Recognition of 0 PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. Englz' z Throne: For the Moment a Prince was acknowledged to be King of England," he the Title of the prefent reigning Houfe. And yet it would have been, nay, it aé‘tually was High-Treafon in a Native of Ireland to have refufed the Acknowledgment of the Title of the Houfe of Hanover -,-notwithfianding he might: 'have pleaded, according to lVlr. LOCK'S Princ1~ ples, that the Ir/flz Parliament had neither elected, nor recognized the Eleétion of that Houle. NEXT to the Appointment of a Sovereign t0 ' rule over a Country, is the Power of railing Taxes on its Inhabitants. And this alfo has been ex- ercifed (tho' very fparingly) by the Engll i'l'al" liament over Ireland-The Truth is, this itfclf is an extraordinary Power, which never (>11ngt t0 own Wants. Now, the particular Cafe here referred to, in which the general lnterelt of the Empire was concerned, was that of the Foliage of Letters; whereby Provifion was made for Opening Communications, and carrying on Correfpondencies with even] Part of the widely-ex- tended Brill/ll Dominions. And therefore an A8: was palTed in the Brith Parliament (after the Union with Scotland) for this moft important Purpofe. [See 9th of (lueen ANN Cap. 10.] Now, this general Adi: is the very Law, which ellablilhes and regulates all the Pof't Offices ereéted, or to be ereéted, as well in Ireland and America, as in Great Brl/aln :---VVhich afcertains to this very Day, the Rates due and payable for the Pofiage of all Letters; and fubjects every Contravenor or Oppofer both in Ireland and in dmerioa to the fame heavy Fines and Penalties, which are to be levied on Offenders in Great- Brilaz'n. LASTLY, as Mr. MOLINEUX'S Book, in Pavour of the Independence of Ireland, had unfettled People's Minds, and created much Dif- turbaiice,-- the Parliament of Great-Britain thought VA V" as require the lnterpolition of the fupreme Le- :4 a‘i'lBll , was always the Cafe in every Contel't about the A ‘1‘ "Ritchie???" - a:1 c: ga- ,. "gut, ~ 22 |