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 by Natural Equity, from the people of every part of the British Empire, than the right of granting or withholding Taxes; for, otherwise, the free subjects of one part of the empire would be liable to be most materially injured in their greatest and most valuable inheritance, the Law, by the hasty decisions of men on the other side of the empire, with whom probably they would be totally unacquainted, and whose interest might perhaps be as widely different from theirs (for any thing they could know to the contrary) as their situation upon the face of the globe is distant; that is, as widely different as the East is from the West! I Would this be equitable? could such notorious Injustice (21)