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 of Parliament? How would he have advanced any eparate interet by it. Was it by an acceion of new power? Was it by an acquiition of new revenues? By one or other of thee, if by any way, mut he advance his own eparate interets.

are but two ways in which the King could acquire new power. Either he mut aume to his elf the exercie of thoe powers, which are now exercied by the other contituent branches of the overeignty; or he mut take off the retraints, under which he exercies the powers he already has. Far, I am ure, is it beyond the ken of my dicernment, to dicover how, by increaing the power of Parliament,—and by this uppotion the power of Parliament was to be increaed—his Majety was to be enabled, or hould have expected that he would be enabled, to eize into his own hands the powers which were exercied, or take off the retraints impoed, by that very Parliament.

it an acquiition of new revenues, which his Majety could propoe to his elf by the ucces of this contet? Surely not. Whether his Britih ubjects continued to bear—as hitherto they had borne—almot the whole of the common burdens of the tate: Or whether his American ubjects contributed a part,—and a mall part only was expected—of their proportion, would have made no alteration in the tate of his revenues. Were the Americans to pay what was demanded—uppoing always the Parliament alone to aes the proportion to be paid by the Britih and American ubjects—he would not receive more:—Were they not to pay, he would not receive les.