perhaps had a right to vote for a knight or burgeſs; by croſſing the Atlantick he has not nullified his right; but he has made its exertion no longer poſſible.[1] By his own choice he has left a country where he had a vote and little property, for another, where he has great property, but no vote. But as this preference was deliberate and unconſtrained, he is ſtill concerned in the government of himſelf; he has reduced himſelf from a voter to one of the innumerable multitude that have no vote. He has truly ceded his right, but he ſtill is governed by his own conſent; becauſe he has conſented to throw his atom of intereſt into the general maſs of the community. Of the conſequences of his own act he has no cauſe to complain; he has choſen, or intended to chuſe, the greater good; he is repreſented, as himſelf deſired, in the general repreſentation.
- ↑ Of this reaſoning, I owe part to a converſation with Sir John Hawkins.
