Excerpt from A Letter to the Earl of Abingdon: Discussing a Position Relative to a Fundamental Right of the Constitution; Contained in His Lordship's Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. To the Sheriffs of Bristol Your lordfhip very properly aflts (p. 52. Whether the Americans are Bri tilh fubjee'ts or not i I am obliged to anfwer, that, for their being (0, we have no better authority than the-common li cence, of unguardedfpeech which is not underflood to.be decifive in ferions quefiions; but that, in firiflnefs of lan guage, they are not, or rather were not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.