discountenance mutual
intermarriage and inheritance, things that bind countries more closely
together than any laws or constitutions whatsoever. Is it right that a
woman who marries into Ireland, and perhaps well purchases her jointure
or her dower there, should not after her husband's death have it in her
choice to return to her country and her friends without being taxed for
it? If an Irish heiress should marry into an English family, and that
great property in both countries should thereby come to be united in
this common issue, shall the descendant of that marriage abandon his
natural connection, his family interests, his public and his private
duties, and be compelled to take up his residence in Ireland? Is there
any sense or any justice in it, unless you affirm that there should be
no such intermarriage and no such mutual inheritance between the
natives? Is there a shadow of reason, that, because a Lord Rockingham, a
Duke of Devonshire, a Sir George Savile, possess property in Ireland,
which has descended to them without any act of theirs, they should
abandon their duty in Parliament, and spend the winters in Dublin? or,
having spent the session in Westminster, must they abandon their seats
and all their family interests in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and pass the
rest of the year in Wicklow, in Cork, or Tyrone?

See what the consequence must be from a municipal legislature
considering itself as an unconnected body, and attempting to enforce a
partial residence. A man may have property in more parts than two of
this empire. He may have property in Jamaica and in North America, as
well as in England and Ireland. I know some that have property in all of
them. What shall we say to this case? After the poor distracted citizen
of the whole empire has, in compliance with your partial law, removed
his family, bid adieu to his connections, and settled himself quietly
and snug in a pretty box by the Liffey, he hears that the Parliament of
Great Britain is of opinion that all English estates ought to be spent
in England, and that they will tax him double, if he does not return.
Suppose him then (if the nature of the two laws will permit it)
providing a flying camp, and dividing his year as well as he can
between England and Ireland, and at the charge of two town houses and
two country-houses in both kingdoms; in this situation he receives an
account, that a law is transmitted from Jamaica, and another from
Pennsylvania, to ta