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Show ;.~6 Acrs RELATING Seét.lll. TO THE Commas. 77 Part1, rzg/ztr. If they are fuhjefls to one pur- pofe, they are fuhjeéts to all. Now it is the conflitutional right of a Britifh fuhjeét that the legiflature do not tax him, but by the mediation and authority ofa certain The reciprocality of interef'ts is as real between them and the Americans, as between them and the other fubjec‘ts of Great Britain. But though it be as real, it is not f0 immediate in its effects, nor {0 apparent body of men, who fiand to him in that particular relation we have above defcribed; and in which the commons do {land to every inhabitant of Great Britain. to thofe who are to pay the tax, perhaps not always to thofe who are to impofe it. l'oflihly therefore it might not produce the fame etl'eé‘ts on the minds of the taxers : Does that relation fublift F-ln firié'tnefs molt certainly it would not give the fame of fpeech I think it does.-The advocates ; > w Fulfill] fenle of fecurity to the faxed. for the colonies tell us that the acquifition ofAmerica has trebled our manufactures; has almol‘t doubled the value ofour lands". The ruin, or the oppreflion of America, would deprive us of thefe advantages; and would therefore he as feverely felt by the members of the houfe of commons, as the ruin or oppreflion of Great Britain. In firié‘cnefs of fpecch then, the commons cannot tax America without at the fame . time taxing theml‘elves. * See Mr. Pitt's l‘peech on. the repeal of the flamp aét. The To give the parliament therefore a right of taxing the Americans, without Violating; the fpirit of the conflitution, fomething farther perhaps may be required-The 216‘: of taxation itfelf muf't create the cir- cumilances which are wanting to render the reciprocality of interefls, not only as real, but as apparent, as well to thofe who are to impofe, as to thofe who are to pay, the tax. This it {hould feem is what might be done without much difficulty. 7 A [hort |
