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 pain; and expoed, if incurably tainted, to amputation, by which the body likewie will be mutilated.

Mother-country always coniders the Colonies thus connected, as parts of itelf; the properity or unhappines of either is the properity or unhappines of both; not perhaps of both in the ame degree, for the body may ubit, though les commodiouly, without a limb, but the limb mut perih if it be parted from the body.

Colonies therefore, however ditant, have been hitherto treated as contituent parts of the Britih Empire. The inhabitants incorporated by Englih Charters, are entitled to all the rights of Englihmen. They are governed by Englih laws, entitled to Englih dignities, regulated by Englih counels, and protected by Englih arms; and it eems to follow by