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Show 68 ACTS RELATING Part I. Sect. III. TO THE Commas. 69 One gentleman* aiks himfelf " what " are the exaCt bounds and limits of " real reprefentation?" I was impatient aim be to convince himfelfor others I know not. But words furely he does multiply. to hear the quefiion anfwered by fo dale Others, rather than give up their favo- and acute a writer. But alas! " he excufed himfelf from "entering into the matter 1L." What a lofs to the world! Why did he not prove in his own (MIC/7:" and narrow Pryle, that the Americans {hould be " excepted and " exempted from the reafons and the " rules which obtain and take place in the rite pofition, tell us, that the [and is re- prefented *.--Be it fo-though it is true only offree/m/d land ; but whofe confent is it that is given then ? Is it that of the beafl; who grazes on the land, or the plant that grows on it, or only of the land it- felf ? But if neither authority nor argument " cafe: of other unreprefented fubjeé‘ts 2" will convince us, the letter of acts of par- But it is probable, to make ufe again of his own happy expreflion, " the matter feem- liament mul't do the bulinefs.---The cafes /" ed to him [0 clear, that whoever Ihould " multiply words on this fubjeét, would I" hardly do it for the fake of being con" vineed §." Whether this gentleman's * Author of the Confiderations on the Mea- fures carrying on with refpeé‘t to the Britilh Colonies in North America. f See p. 130. 3; See ib. p. 19. § See ib. p. 13. of Chefter and Durham are cited as con- clulive. I allow all the weight that is due to them ; and yet I might perhaps have been mifiaken enough to have cited them in de- fence of the oppolite opinion. So far from ‘ proving that reprefentation and taxation are infeparable, they prove the contrary. The Durham aft exprel‘sly fays, that before the i" This idea occurs in fcveral American writers. 13 3 inha- |