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Show '. "1 " ‘ i ' "'51-'M'1‘M I'Rmiam..A- [1,871, Ill-awulluumnr' "In I lull" «in: II 4 ‘I .1 .j 36 my. LANDED INTEREST. ADDRESS AND APPEAL To 37 Parts of the Empire by Means of a Court, and of a {landing Army ?--A large {landing Army to be kept up independently of the Britiflz Par; liament l - And that too for the exprefs Purpofe of enforcing the Decrees and Arbitrations of the Court! L‘ 1/16 Americans 7mm OfRECOMMENDING THEM- BUT this is not all; for even a {landing Ar. " Affemblies of their own, who {hould treat im- my would not be fo formidable (becaule it would foon moulder away) were no Means to be found out for its Support and Maintenance: And this Scheme of many independent Parlia~ ments points to the very Means of obtainingthe necellary Supplies -, for, as an ingenious F0" reigner has very judicioufly obferved *, "A 80" vereign who depends, with regard to Sup" plies, on feveral Affemblies, in Fact depends " upon none. An Agent for the flmerirnn Co" " lonies, [I fuppofe the Author meant Dr. " FRANKLIN] in his Examination before the " Houfe of Commons, (Anna 1766, P. 122') " has even fuggef'ted in three Words the whole " Subfiance of what I have endeavoured to " mediately with the King, and grant him Sub- " SELVES TO THEIR SOVEREIGN. Nothing " therefore could be more fatal to Englifl; Li- " berty (and to flmerican Liberty in the Ifl‘ue) " than the Adoption of the Idea, cherifhed by " the Americans, of having diftinét independent " fidies, to the utter Annihilation of the Power " of thofe antient, and hitherto fuccefsful Af- " fertors of general Liberty, the Britiflz Parlia" ment." To thefe Reflections in this and in other Parts of his Book, the judicious Author adds many ltriking Examples, particularly the prefent State of the Want of Liberty in France and Spain, by way of confirming and corroborating his Argument. But in my humble Opinion there is {till a more forcible Example to be drawn from the Cafe of the hereditary Domini- " prove on that Subject; when he laid, 7716 ons of the Houfe of flztflria. For it is well known, that the Princes of that Houfe rule in as abfolute a Manner over every Part of their " Granting Aid: to the Crown is the only Meat]; vaft Pollefiions as the Sovereigns either of France or Spain; and yet there are States (an- * See De LOLME's Conflitulz‘an qungland, the Note of Page 52. l. derflzand, and to fet a jufl Value on the diltinguifliing 15xcellencics of the Eng/1]}: Confiitution,-a Conltitution, 11‘; he jufily obferves,‘ the only one in its Kind, pant/grit?!" 11" 15mm firir. . l l l l \ The whole is a molt excellent Treatife, 5W- worthy the Perufal of all thofe Englzflzmen, who wilh to Lin- , cc mg fwering to our Parliaments) in almoft every Country belonging to the flnflrian Dominions; nay, thefi: States are frequently fummoned to, meet together -, which is not the Cafe with the genera! natiannl flflbmllz'es of France, or With the ‘ Cortes |