Suppoſe it true, that any ſuch exemption is contained in the Charter of Maryland, it can be pleaded only by the Marylanders. It is of no uſe for any other province, and with regard even to them, muſt have been conſidered as one of the grants in which the King has been deceived, and annulled as miſchievous to the Publick, by ſacrificing to one little ſettlement the general intereſt of the Empire; as infringing the ſyſtem of dominion, and violating the compact of Government. But Dr. Tucker has ſhewn that even this Charter promiſes no exemption from Parliamentary Taxes.
In the controverſy agitated about the beginning of this century, whether the Engliſh laws could bind Ireland, Davenant, who defended againſt Molyneux the claims of England, conſidered it as neceſſary to prove nothing more, than that the preſent Iriſh muſt be deemed a Colony.
