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Show [IO] [ H 1 give Eale to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain. It is indeed true, that the Interefis of England and the Colonies are allied, and an Injury to the C0lonies produced into all its Conlequences, will eventually affect the Mother Country, yet thefe Conieqtlences being generally remote, are not at once foreleen; they do not immediately alarm the Fears, and engage the Pafiions of the Eng/ff/J Electors, the Cunneclion between a Freeholder of Great-Britain, and a Britt/J A'merz'cmz being deducible only through a Train of Reafoning, which few will take the Trouble, or can have an Oppor- tunity, if they have Capacity, to invefiigate; wherefore the Relation between the Brill/I9 flmew'rmzs, and the Eng/Ma E16620", is a Knot too infirm to be relied on as a competent Security, efpecially againit the Force of aprelent, counter- acting Expectation of Relief. If it would have been a jui‘t Conclufion, that thelColomes being exaflly in the/tame Situ ation wrtii the Non-Elation or fiizglazzd, are t/sercfore reprelenttd 1n the fame Manner, it oug ht to be allowed, that the Reafomng is‘lblid, which, after havmg evmced a total Dzflmz/mzty of Situation, infers that their Reprefentation is dflerezzi . . It the Commons of Great-Britai n have no Richt by the Conflitution, to GIVE AND GRAISI'I Property not belonging to themfelve s but to others Without their Conlent aflually or virtually given; If the Claim of the Colonies not to be taxed wit/Jazz! their Con/mt, fignified by their Reprefentatrves, 15 well founded, if it app ears that the Co~ lomes are not actually reprefent ed by the Com- mons of Gre double or virtual Reprefentation, doth not with any'Propriety apply to the People of A'merim; then the Principle of the 81477212 flfi, mull be given up as indefenfible on the Point of Reprefentation, and the Validity of it refied upon the Power which they who framed it, have to carry it into Execution. " Should the Parliament deviie a Tax, to be " paid only by thofe of the People in Great-Bri" min, who are neither Members of either Houfe " of Parliament, nor their Eleétors, fuch an A8: " would be unjuft and partial," faith the Author of the Claim of the Colonies, &c. who yet allows that the " Non-Electors would have a Secu- " rity againf't the Weight of luch a Tax, {hould " it be impofed, which the Colonies have not, " 'viz. That the Members ofParliament and their " Electors, mui‘t be relatively afieé‘ted by it; but " the indultrious North-A'meritmz, and the opu~ " lent Weft-Indian may have their Properties tax" ed, and no Individual in Great-Britain partici" pate with them in the Burden: On the con" trary, the Members of Parliament would make " their Court to their Conftituents moft effectual- " ly, by multiplying Taxes upon the Subjetfis of " the Colonies." Is it not amazing that the above Author, wit/J tine/2' Sentiments, fhould undertake the Defence of the Stamp Duties, which, by his own Conceflion, appear to be more unjul'c, and more partial than the Tax he ftippoles, and upon which he bei'tows, very properly, the Epithets of zmjzrfl and partial. at-Brim", and that the Notion of a 1 double C 2 Di/uit |