ſequence not eaſily avoided, that they are ſubject to Engliſh government, and chargeable by Engliſh taxation.
To him that conſiders the nature, the original, the progreſs, and the conſtitution of the Colonies, who remembers that the firſt diſcoverers had commiſſions from the Crown, that the firſt ſettlers owe to a Charter their civil forms and regular magiſtracy, and that all perſonal immunities and legal ſecurities, by which the condition of the ſubject has been from time to time improved, have been exended to the Coloniſts, it will not be doubted but the Parliament of England has a right to bind them by ſtatutes, and to bind them in all caſes whatſoever, and has therefore a natural and conſtitutional power of laying upon them any tax or impoſt, whether external or internal, upon the product of land, or the manufactures of induſtry, in the exigencies of war, or in the time
