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 that when, by indulgence and favour, emigrants are become rich, they hall not contribute to their own defence, but at their own pleaure; and that they hall not be included, like millions of their fellow-ubjects, in the general ytem of repreentation; involves uch an accumulation of aburdity, as nothing but the hew of patriotim could palliate.

that accepts protection, tipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore ubject them to government.

les is included in the greater. That power which can take away life, may eize upon property. The parliament may enact for America a law of capital punihment; it may therefore etablih a mode and proportion of taxation.

there are ome who lament the tate of the poor Botonians, becaue they cannot