ABSTRACT
A Union will deprive them of the great political power they possess. The increased taxation, which must be a necessary consequence of it, will also take from them a very large part of their income. They will doubtless receive considerable pensions as a purchase for their boroughs, and a / recompence for the loss of their political influence; but although these may be some remuneration to them, will they be any to their posterity, to whom they are in some measure bound to hand down that political power which they derived from their ancestors? As all foreign markets are at present open to them, the only advantage they can gain by a Union is the British markets. The author explains their chance of succeeding in a commercial contest with the merchants of that country. Thus will a Union swell the number of the discontented, whilst the means of restraining, discovering, or defeating their conspiracies, will be infinitely lessened.
