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 this reaon many populous and opulent towns neither enjoy nor deire particular repreentatives: they are included in the general cheme of publick adminitration, and cannot uffer but with the ret of the Empire.

is urged that the Americans have not the ame ecurity, and that a Britih Legilator may wanton with their property; yet if it be true, that their wealth is our wealth, and that their ruin will be our ruin, the Parliament has the ame interet in attending to them, as to any other part of the nation. The reaon why we place any confidence in our repreentatives is, that they mut hare in the good or evil which their counels hall produce. Their hare is indeed commonly conequential and remote; but it is not often poible that any immediate advantage can be extended to fuch numbers as may prevail againt it. We are therefore as ecure againt