Now, my Lords and Gentlemen, this brings us to the last Point of Comparison between Mr. BURKE's, _and my System_, viz. Which will least endanger, or rather, which is best adapted to preserve our present happy Constitution? Mr. BURKE's you see (if consistent with itself) must invest the Prince with an amazing Degree of Power!--Even with such a Degree, as shall be sufficient to controul the refractory States of _America_, from one End of the Continent to the other. Nay, what is still more, this _supreme_, _controuling_ Power must be the only CENTER OF UNION throughout the Empire. Nothing besides is so much as proposed; and indeed nothing besides (when the parliamentary Connection is dissolved) can be sufficient to _tie_ all the Parts together;--Parts so widely distant, so totally disjointed from each other, as the _British_ Isles and the _American_ Continent. Now here again permit me to ask, Is not this a very alarming Circumstance even in Contemplation? And is all our boasted Zeal for Liberty to end at last only in that _Union_ and _Connection_ which can be procured to the several detached Parts of the Empire by Means of a Court, and of a standing Army?--A large standing Army to be kept up independently of the _British_ Parliament!--And that too for the express Purpose of enforcing the Decrees and Arbitrations of the Court! But this is not all; for even a standing Army would not be so formidable (because it would soon moulder away) were no Means to be found out for its Support and Maintenance: And this Scheme of many independent Parliaments points to the very Means of obtaining the necessary Supplies; for, as an ingenious Foreigner has very judiciously observed[7], "A Sovereign who depends, with regard to Supplies, on several Assemblies, in Fact depends upon none. An Agent for the _American_ Colonies, [I suppose the Author meant Dr. FRANKLIN] in his Examination before the House of Commons, (_Anno_ 1766, P. 122) has even suggested in three Words the whole Substance of what I have endeavoured to prove on that Subject; when he said, _The Granting Aids to the Crown is the only Means the Americans have of_ RECOMMENDING THEMSELVES TO THEIR SOVEREIGN. Nothing therefore could be more fatal to _English_ Liberty (and to _American_ Liberty in the Issue) than the Adoption of the Idea, cherished by the _Americans_, of having distinct independent Assemblies of their own, who should treat immediately with the King, and grant him Subsidies, to the utter Annihilation of the Power of those antient, and hitherto successful Assertors of general Liberty, the _British_ Parliament."