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 perhaps had a right to vote for a knight or burges; by croing the Atlantick he has not nullified his right; but he has made its exertion no longer poible. By his own choice he has left a country where he had a vote and little property, for another, where he has great property, but no vote. But as this preference was deliberate and uncontrained, he is till concerned in the government of himelf; he has reduced himelf from a voter to one of the innumerable multitude that have no vote. He has truly ceded his right, but he till is governed by his own conent; becaue he has conented to throw his atom of interet into the general mas of the community. Of the conequences of his own act he has no caue to complain; he has choen, or intended to chue, the greater good; he is repreented, as himelf deired, in the general repreentation.