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Show 112 S POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL U B J E C T S. fig fix Millions at leafl: of the Inhabitants of Great; ments, and which difpole of the Fate of Kings Britain, are Ptill unreprefented in the Britiflz and Kingdoms abroad, have not 1‘0 much as a Parliament, And this Omiflion arifes, not from fingle Member, or even a fingle Vote, gummy; the Neceflity of the Cafe, not from confulting a Company, to watch over their Interefls at Interefl‘. and Convenience as with you, but from home. original Ideas of Gothic Vall'alage,---fr0m va- the prodigious Number of Stock-holders in our rious Cafualties and Accidents,---from Changes public Funds? And may not their Property, in the Nature of Property,---from the Alteration perhaps little fhort of ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS Sterling, as much deferve to be reprefented in Parliament, as the fcattered Townfhips, or {haggling Houfes of forne of your Provinces of Times and Circuml'tances,---and from a thoufand other Caufes. Thus, for Example, in the great Metropolis, and in many other What likewife {hall w'e fay in regard to in America ? Yet we raile n0 Commotions; we Cities, landed Property itfelf hath no Reprefentative in Parliament; Copyholds and Leah:holds of various Kinds have none likewife, neither ring the Alarm-Bell, nor found the Trumpet; but fubmit to be taxed without being though of ever f0 great a Value. This you yourfelf very well know; becaufe when you reprefented, and taxed too, let me tell you, for your Sakes. Witnefs the additional Duties On were here laft, you knew, that I was poiTelTed our Lands, Windows, Houfes; alfo on our of confiderable landed Property in London, and of feveral Copyhold and beneficial Leafeholds, Malt, Beer, Ale, Cyder, Perry, Wines, Brandy, Rum, CofiEe, Chocolate, {996. {9%. 69°C. for de- in the Country, and yet that I never hadaVote. fraying the Expences of the late War,~ not for- getting the grievous Stamp-Duty itfelf. All Moreover, in fome Towns neither Freedom, nor Birth-Right, nor the ferving of an Apprentice-(hip, {hall entitle a Man to give his Vote, though they may enable him to fet up a Trade? In other Towns the molt numerous, the mollt populous and flourifhing of any, there are n0 Freedoms or Votes of any Sort; but all i5 this, Ifay, we fubmitted to, when you were, or at lead, when you pretended to be, in great Difirefs; fo that neither Men, almofi to the lalt Drop of Blood we could fpill,-»nor Money, to the lad Piece of Coin, were fpared: But all Was granted away, all was made a Sacrifice, when you cried out for Help. open; and none are reprefented. And befidCS all this, it is well known, that the great Eafl- And the Debt which we contraéted on this Occafion, is f0 extraordinary, as not to be parallelled in HifiorIy. India Company, which have fuch vaf't Settle- H mCIllsr t ' \llIl‘lll‘." . ll 7, E . |