tuation and Circumstances, it is impossible
they
should be ever truly and properly represented
there. The Inhabitants of this Country, in all
Probability, in a few Years, will be more nu-
merous, than those of
Great Britain and Ire-
land together: Yet is is absurdly expected, by
the Promoters of the present Measures, that
these, with their Posterity to all Generations,
should be easy, while their Property shall be
disposed by a House of Commons at Three
Thousand Miles distance from them; and
who cannot be supposed to have the least Care
or Concern for their real Interest: Who have
not only no natural Care for their Interest,
but must be in effect bribed against it; as every
Burden they lay on the Colonists is so much
saved or gain'd to themselves. Hitherto many
of
the Colonists have been free from Quit Rents;
but if the Breadth of a British House of Com-
mons, can originate an Act for taking away
all our Money, our Lands will go next; or be
subject to Rack Rents from haughty and re-
lentless Landlords who will ride at ease, while
we are trodden in the Dirt. The Colonists
have been branded with the odious Names of
Traitors and Rebels only for complaining
of their Grievances: How long such Treat-
ment will, or ought to be born, is submitted.