for the freedom of the inhabitants of terri|tories that are so near, and comparatively so incon|siderable. How then can I think it sufficient for those which are infinitely greater, and infinitely more remote?YOU will now, sir, perhaps imagine, that I am on the point of proposing to you a scheme for a repre|sentation of the colonies in parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura—I cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing in that mode, I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely assert the impracticability of such a representation. But I do not see my way to it; and those who have been more confident, have not been more successful. However, the arm of public be|nevolence is not shortened; and there are often se|veral means to the same end. What nature has dis|joined in one way, wisdom may unite in another. When we cannot give the benefit as we would wish, let us not refuse it altogether. If we cannot give the principal, let us find a substitute. But how? Where? What substitute?FORTUNATELY I am not obliged for the ways and means of this substitute to tax my own unpro|ductive invention. I am not even obliged to go to the rich treasury of the fertile framers of imagin|ary commonwealths; not to the republic of Plato, not to the Utopia of More; not to the Oceana of Harrington. It is before me—It is at my feet, and the rude swain treads daily on it with his clouted shoon. I only wish you to recognize, for the theory, the ancient constitutional policy of this kingdom with regard to representation, as that policy has been de|clared in acts of parliament; and, as to the prac|tice, to return to that mode which an uniform ex|perience 0