ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a letter, from Canning to the Right Honourable Wills Earl of Hillsborough, on the connection between Great Britain and her American Colonies. In the letter Canning explains that the grand question respecting a parliamentary taxation of American Colonies has been aptly and generally divided into two parts; the one relative to the Right of the Legislature of Great Britain to impose taxes upon them at any time whatever, the other relative to the Expediency of exercising such Right in the present conjuncture. He emphasizes the necessity of enforcing the right of the supreme legislature to frame Money-bills, as well as other laws, for America, upon the primary grand principle, the cardinal law of Nature, Self-Preservation. Canning concludes that Great Britain can never be otherwise respectable, than as a centre of power, be the circumference of her dominion ever so widely extended.
