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Show ADDRESS AND APPEAL To THE 'LANDED INTEREST. hath refirained America in Favour of Great; BUT here I allow fol-lows a wide Difference, which I will endeavour to account for, viz. The 2dly, WITH refpeét to the other Head of mmmmmmn' Complaint, viz. That Ireland is exempted from Taxation, while Inch extraordinary Efforts are made for taxing zlmerim, I hope what follows will be as full an Anfwer to this Complaint, as what has been already given was to the former, FIRST therefore, I obferve, that with Refpeét I" I'i |‘l\ lll |\' "-s‘ a ' is J " l l to the Claim of the legiflative Authority, which the Parent State makes over Ireland as well as America, both Countries are exactly on the fame Now to account for this flaming Partiality, Ihave the following Points to offer; and l intreat my Readers to attend particularly to I them. I. IRELAND never plunged us into any Wars fince the Revolution -, whereas America hath in- volved us in two, the molt bloody and expen- live that ever this Nation experienced; the lalt .of which brought on a Debt of 70,000,000]. Sterling, the Interelt of which we are now pay" zdly. THE NIother-Country hath not only ‘ing. 4 2. IRELAND doth not drain us of any Sums of Money to fupport and maintain its civil and military Efiablifhments; whereas America drains us for thofe Purpofes of upwards 300,000]. an» 'nually. 3. IRELAND drains us of no Money, by Way of Bounty on the Importation of her Goods, or natural Produce into this Kingdom; whereas afferted, but maintained her Claims alike over ‘flmerim hath drained 'us of at lealt 1,000,0001. both Countries, in the Affair of laying a gen Sterling for Bounties on Pitch and Tar, on neral Poft~Tax on all Parts of the Britiflz Em» Lumber, Indigo, &c. 810. within a few Years. L 2 4. Footing: See the 7th and 8th of WM. III, C. 22, § 9. :--And alfo Lord ROCKINGHAM'S A8: itfelf, refpeé‘ting the Claims of the MotherCountry over flmcrlra :--See likewife the Declaratory AEt of 6. Geo. I. C. 5, refpeéting Ireland. pire; f0 that in this Refpet‘: likewife both Countries are on a Par. BUT . so" sir/7‘" Hum" M flmericcz. w ENvvl':V" whereas it is well known, that the Brill/l; Parliament did attempt to lay an internal Tax on ‘1 and to forget the red. internal Tax, except the Pod-Tax, on Ireland -, EV»? never been mentioned: And it is exceedingly unfair and dilingenuous to remember every. Thing which makes on one Side of a Queltion, firm/l1 Parliament never attempted to lay any Vi Britain. See more particularly my 3d Traét, Page 1 19,---12 I. Surely therefore thefe Things ought to have been taken into Confideration, and not to have been pulled over, as if they had 83 All; 32 |