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Show 116 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL your Ideas, and to confute your Folly in your own Way, I muft now tell you, that every Member of Parliament reprelents you and me, and our public Interells in all elfential Points, jul't as much as if we had voted for him. For though one Place, orone Set ofMen may elect, and fend him up to Parliament, yet, when once he becomes a Member, he then becomes the equal Guardian ofall. And he ought not by the Duty of his Otfice,to lhew a Preference tohis ownTown, City, or County, but in fuch Cafes only, where :1 Preference {hall not be found to interfere with the general Good. Nay, he ought in Confcience to give his Vote in Parliament (zgzzz'flfl the Scale, and againf‘t the lnlltruclions of his Electors, if he {hould think in his Confcience, that what they require, is wrong in itfelf, is illegal or injurious, and detrimental to the public Welfare. This then being the Cafe, it therefore follows, that our Blii‘ififilig/‘iflfilt‘, flfimc/zrflerr, Leedy, Hair/"(meg (it. and your Baflam, New-Tories, and Phi/a - dr/p/zizzr, are all as red/1y, though not {0 nominally reprehuted, as any Part whatfoever of the Bra/r]; Empire :---And that each of thele Place s have in fact, inl'tead of one or two, not lclS than Five Hundred and Fifty-eight Guardians in the Britiflz Senate. A Number abundantly fuflicient, as far as human Prudence can fuggefl, er the prelent imperfect State of Things will permit. VSUBJECTS .II7 permit, for the Security ofour Rig hts, and the Prefervation of our Liberties. BUT perhaps you will fay, That though it may be a Senator's Duty to regard the Whole rather than a Part, and to be the equal Protector of all ;--~yet he will, in fact, regard that mol't, which can belt promote his own Int erell, and fecure his Election another Time. It may be f0: For who can guard againlt all Pollil aility of Danger? And what Syl‘tem can the re be devilEd, but may be attended with Inconvenienc es and Imperfections in {ome Refpeé‘t or other ?--- Nev erthelefs, if your general Objection proves any thing, it proves a great deal too much: For it proves that no Man ought to' pay any Tax , but that only, to which the hiember of his ow n Town, City, and County, hath partic ularly afiented: Becaufe all other Member bei s ng cholen by Other Perlons, and not by him, and perhaps by Perlons in an oppolite Intere l't are therefore not My Reprelentt tives, and confe- quently not the true Guardians of My Proper ty. Being therefore wit/10:1! zl Keprqrem‘zzt/vc in fuc h a Parlian'ient, he is under no Obligation to obe y its Laws, or pay any of its Taxes. VVHERE now, my Friend, will you turn? And what can you do to endure yourle lfli‘om the Difficulties which arile on all Sides on this Occafion? You cannot turn about, and lay, that =th 0th€r Reprefentatives, whom this Man never H 3 (hole, , " \\\i\|ll\l\‘ W |