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 Colonies, were, at the time of their emigration from the Mother-country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born ubjects within the realm of England.

likewie is true; but when this is granted, their boat of original rights is at an end; they are no longer in a State of Nature. Thee lords of themelves, thee kings of Me, thee demigods of independence, ink down to Colonits, governed by a Charter. If their ancetors were ubjects, they acknowledged a Sovereign; if they had a right to Englih privileges, they were accountable to Englih laws, and what mut grieve the Lover of Liberty to dicover, had ceded to the King and Parliament, whether the right or not, at lead the power of dipoing, without their conent, of their lives, liberties, and properties. It therefore is required of them to prove, that the Parliament ever ceded to them a dipenation from that obedience, which they owe