ence between him that is taxed by compulſion without repreſentation, and him that is repreſented by compulſion in order to be taxed?
For many reigns the Houſe of Commons was in a ſtate of fluctuation: new burgeſſes were added from time to time, without any reaſon now to be diſcovered; but the number has been fixed for more than a century and a half, and the king’s power of increaſing it has been queſtioned. It will hardly be thought fit to new-model the conſtitution in favour of the planters, who, as they grow rich, may buy eſtates in England, and without any innovation, effectually repreſent their native colonies.
The friends of the Americans indeed aſk for them what they do not aſk for themſelves. This ineſtimable right of repreſentation they have never ſolicited.
