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Show ( 43 ) '( "49 ') " ly for the purpofe of revenue, and With the " ordinary title and recital taken together, is " found in the Statute-[700k until the year " 1764. All before this period flood on com: " martial regulation and refitaintf' and to prove this, that is, that a " Parliamentary in-‘- the year 1764, was that of the Stamp-A6}; and this Act, as foon as it paffed, was refifted, and being refif'ted, it was repealed, and being " land Taxation" was not to be found in the Statute-nook before the year 1764., is the bu- repealed, it could afford no proof of the poffefiion of the Power. And yet Mr. Burke adds, " this poffefiion paffed with me for a " title." But, if, as has been faid, Parliament was not poffeffed of the Power of internal Tax- finefs of this entire page: but as the extract ation over the COIOnies before the year 1764, would be too tedious for this place, f0 whilft I refer the Reader to the page itfelf, I will take the liberty of recommending to his perufal alfo the whole Speech, as a molt excellent oration. no title to unlimited legiflative Power in all car/E's rwlaazfaet‘er, before this time, could be founded on poifeilion; for here is a manifefl: exception to this poffeffion in the cafe of an If then America was not " taxed internally for inland Taxation ; and from the year 1764, no " the purpofe of revenue before the year 1764, title can be derived from poffeflion, for the title has been always difputed, and pOHefiion never obtained. So far then Mr. Burke is new and different from himfelf. In what follows, he is new and different from others. 3‘ but all before this period flood on comment» " cial regulation," here is a cafe of Mr. Burke's own former fliewing, that contradifis the cafe he now puts, of an " actual exercife " of unlimited legiflative authority over the " Colonies in all cafl's «1/34er :" for if Mr. Burke could not find the exercife of this Power, that is, of internal Taxation over the Colonies for the purpofe of Revenue, in the Statute- boak, before the year 1764., no fuch Power having been ever exercifed, he could not find the exerciie of unlimited Power over the C010‘ nies in all raw: ‘wljalfoemr, before the year 1764.; and if he did not then find it, he could No one has ever before contended, as I know of, for the Right of Parliament to tax America, without the annexed idea of America being reprefented in Parliament. The idle phantom, the Cock-lane Ghol't, of virtual Repre- fentation, has been ever conjured up, as the not find it afler the year 1764.: for the firft ego jam illr, of this vile deception. But Mr. Burke has afferted, has maintained, and has proved, that America is not reprefented in Parliament, and yet infifi's for the unlimited Right iuf'tance of the exercife of this Power after the in Parliament to bind America in all cafes D whatfoever. |