ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a letter by William Bollan to a member of parliament, conveying his thoughts on the act of parliament which passed sessions concerning the colonies of North America. In the letter, Bollan affirms that every Englishman is taxed, and not one in twenty represented; that copyholders, leaseholders, and all men possessed of personal property only, chuse, or have no representatives; so that nineteen-twentieths of this nation are not represented, and have in course no rights in the laws, or protection from parliament. Bollen also noted that the duty imposed on foreign sugars imported in the colonies of North America, and none upon British sugars, will totally prevent consuming any foreign sugars.
