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Show (25) (27) a very rapid enercaz'i‘. The probability is, that they will pro on to encrea'k; and that, in 50 or ()0 years, they will be 2011M: our number; 5* and form a mighty empire, confifting of a variety of lines, all equal or fuperiot to ourfelves in all the arts and accompliihments which give dignity and liappiiiefs to hu- Can you give judge whether we govern equitably or not? the Colonies any fecurity that tuch a period will RALVCX'LUlliL? Once more, . If we have indeed that power which we claim met the le- mm Me. in that period, viii they be itill bound to acknowledge. that {uptet'nacy over them which we new claim ? Can gillations, and internal rights of the Crlonies, inuy he not, there he my per on who will l do not mean that this would be :1 dual- the Crown? \t'antageous changezv For l h..vc before obliervtd, that it a people are to be lllbjCCt to :in cxtcrrud power over which they t this; or Whole mind does not revolt at the idea of a writ Continent, holding all that is valuable to it, at the clil‘cretion ofa handful of people on the other lide the A't/amfc til-But if, at that period, this would whenever we pleat}, fuljml them to the arbitrary toner t-t' have no command, it is borer tl‘mt power ihould be lcd;_td in lint man, ptrilnis be unrcafonuhle, what makes it otherwife now?-Draw the the hands of one man than r-ti a multitude. line, if you cam-But there is {till a greater difl-iculty. think otherwile; and luch ought to conlidtr that, it this and its legillitture conlilts of a body of able and independeni. men, who govern with wifdom and jufl'ice. The time may would be a calamity, the condition of the Colullifs mull 'Lc deplorable-" A government by l-Ling, Lords, and Commons, (it has been (aid) is the ptrlbtxlioi‘i of porctnnlcnt ," and {o it is, when the Commons are ajull icpiclcntutior. of the peoplr‘y come when all will be reverted 5 When its excellent conflitu; and when alfo, it is not ex tridtti to any driiunt people, or tion ol'government will be liubverted: When, prelled by debts communities, not reprcfcntcd. and taxes, it will be greedy to draw to itfelf an‘ increafe of vernment by a King only mull be the wmfl, and user) claim revenue from every dil'rant province, in order to cafe its own bnrthens: \"v'hen the influence of the Crown, firengthened implying a right to Cilablit'lt inch 0. gort‘ranncm among Put it is {Elli-cvidtnt, that people mull be uniult and cruel. by claiming a right to alter the conflitutionsol the Colonies, 3,735,! is now, I will fuppol'c, the feat oF liberty and virtue by luxury and an univerfitl profiligacy of manners, will have But ifthis is the [3/3, a go- tainted every heart, broken down every fence of libertu and rendered us a nation of tame and contented vaflitls: When a general Ez'rszz'mz will be nothing but a general flufiim of BaMuglrt :. And when the PARLIAMENT, the Grand Council of the nxthn,.flntl once the faithful guardian of the flare, and a terror to €V]l mmrllers, will be degenerated into a body of S rip/5mm, dependent and venal, always ready to confirm air And it i.- ,a to our difcretion, we claim this lower: accordinrr D meafirres; and little more than a public court for regiflerinir in the province of A]r:,§h.‘/2ig"étr:-Bu; the {Line thing tt'y. has been attempted and begun. royal ediéls, Such, itis poi‘iible, may, form: time or otheris be the {late of Great Brimz'r'. What will, at that eriod, power that we have thought fit to t'xt'icile in cm ol‘our Colonies; and that we have attempted to exercilt in 1.7::rlu‘r.----- Canada, according to the late cxtenlion of its limits, l"? a country almoft as large as half limo/'1‘; and i; may pollihly come in time to be tilled with liruii‘h i'tilijt'eis. 'l‘hc Elijah: zté't makes the King, oliCrmt-Bi'i/ain a tlclptit over all that coun- he the duty of the Colonies? "'1" they be {till boundiio un: The aét for Biz'l‘Tb R regulating their Si?1't‘t'iilfiz.‘.'if pali'td at the fame time with the Quote ail, gives lilC limp, the right (.K conditional l‘ubmillion? hrlult they alwavs continue an 3 appointing, and removing at his pluraliurc, the nttnditts bl on: en- dage toour government, and follow it implicitly throurihiifii'eri r clungethat can happen to it i-- \Vretched condition bindeeo} nl millions of freemen as good as ourfelves, {Vill yo": fly that we now govern equitably; and that there is no danWould to God this: wet-P ger of anv luch revolution? trut'.--~---ilut will you not always lay the fame? Who {hall 9 part of the legillztture; alters the mode ol chilling juries, on purpofc to bring it more under the irilucncr: or the Rik g and takes. away from the province the power of calling Ll] t'onlnit. "‘ s ings of. the people uirhout the King's nt t n the King let depende inst-(it been have , likewile Judges, in (irliilCU.-'--il: lr-HL‘C L‘Oilillll and pay, and ion nominat their all this is no more than \‘yL‘ have a rich: Lido, run we no: LC on Co ‘ . f ' ' ...e Oblervatio ns on Revertiona ry Payments, ;' . 207 . , 8ch..Udac b D 2 * See page 15. re O |