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Show e21- .-¢.-...--.-_--_....._._._‘-.___.H~_~. ' _ ,. .. . r. .m ( 59 8 grit and Eighth: or" this world on their inborn! innate and lirnple-mimled brethren. Are a peo- ile five, 1w .1 «lipprellions are introduced or throuflit-Li tinder 0:1] Nil/2711‘! ;----are they in [Jaye/'2! [>971- ivg', and begin to grow thrbul‘ent‘; new ap1,»:;:rlatious mutt be adopted to dilgurle old burWild/IX. A notable inllance of this latter kind we find in the Parliament of Great Britain, (in 36 lidw : 3. ‘h: 2) upwards of four hundred years ago. The royal prerogative, called purity(lure, having been in vain regulated by many preceeding llatutes, {till continued fo intolerably greivous, that frelh murm'urs and complaints a remote Rate may legii'late for and bind us " in all *- eff/2'5" :' Towhat end doth an American houle of Repret'entatives go through t/Jeformy of granting away monies, if another power, full as familiar with our pockets, may annihilate all they do ; and afterwards, with a modern dexterity, take polleflion of our purfcs Without ceremony, and dilpofe of the contents without modefty ;---Wit hout controul, and without account ? ‘* It is curious and courfe infiruc'tivc to attend the of debate in the Britifli Commons for provilion. The Britilh legillature, for this Valua- keeping up the army. At firit even the higheft courtiers would argue -that a {landing ur. my, in time of peace, was never, attempted 5f ble purpofe, therefore patted this very remarka- Soon after the Court-fpeakers urged ble law; which by way of remedy, enacted as follc'iws, viz.---" That the bale/ill NAM}; ot' purveyor, llrall be changed into that officer/or. " Thus nuance of a numerous army for one year longer. At the end of ieveral years after, the Gentle‘ called for a more adequate or better adapted men throw afide the math, and for conti- boldly declare the nation were to be made to bMe', that the oppreflion ceafed, becaiile, t/‘e 72min ‘zt‘tlf altered-For the honour of government, as well as 1nankind,_it is devoutly to lze "mad, that our laws and hiltory contained no other record (it iiICh dilgracefull practices. -If any late acts of the Britilh parliament carry ltrong marks of a li- fueh a number of troops mufl always 123 £th up. In fliort, the army mull: be continued till it beH comes milar policy, it is lurely, not altogether unwdr.. abfolzue a monarch a: 1/]: {infant lting oanzncc or Spain." Dr. * If the king could at money pleafure levy the neceflary turns of (for the expences of government EKG.) he being {ole Judge of the necenity, both as to meafure and quantity, as Charles the tirlt claimed, in the cafe of {hip-money, the Rate of the {libietts would he precarious, and the king would be a; members of that Sullivan'slei‘lnres on the laws of England 189. What is it to America, whether the King or the Parliament of Great-Bri- auguft body g-how far, fuch difingenuous prac- tain, or any other body natural or political 1‘: afi/erztc mqflrr tices lic Ration. war lien-and where is the ditlerence between French, Spa- nilh, and Englifh Dragooning? -- In the reign of Charles the 2d. a YIIODLIC'fl/llflc, {uclizs the Peafants wear, in France, was laid near the chair of the Speaker of the Commons-houfe :--- The magic offounds and appellations hath not ceal'ed, and they work as much deception and France at the other, with thefe words in the interval, un'um lic- thy the confideration of the are confidant with the honour of their private characters, or the dignity of their pub- the arms of England drawn at one end of it, and thofc of rum mdvz': accr‘pe, 2 Grey's debates, 223.. abule as ever. \Vhat valuable purpole doesa cabal/y _/iz£‘0rcii71fllc legillative fei‘ve, (except to amute with the flmdcw, while the (firlg/fazzce i3 departed) it 5i f Se: Sir. Robert Carr's Hirang'x: in l'.:rli"+ment : 1673. Grey's debates, 2 vol 320. |