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 mut always be remembered that they are repreented by the ame virtual repreentation as the greater part of Englihmen; and that if by change of place they have les hare in the Legilature than is proportionate to their opulence, they by their removal gained that opulence, and had originally and have now their choice of a vote at home, or riches at a ditance.

are told, what appears to the Old Member and to others a poition that mut drive us into inextricable aburdity, that we have either no right, or the ole right of taxing the Colonies. The meaning is, that if we can tax them, they cannot tax themelves; and that if they can tax themelves, we cannot tax them. We anwer with very little heitation, that for the general ue of the Empire we have the ole right of taxing them. If they have contributed any thing in their own aemblies, what they contributed was not paid,