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Show '50 THE RIGHTS or BRITAIN. inhabitants of that place had it in their owt't power to remove the grievance. The de- firué‘tion of the Ball India Company's tea, at Boflon, is well known to have been the deliberate ail ofa very great majoritv of the inhabitants. To obtain reparation; by the common courfe of law was impoflible, where the number of the offenders lcreened themefiftélually from jufiice. It was a public crime, and the punilhment ought to have been general. In purfuance of that plan of tendernels, which has been fatally lol't on the Americans, the Bill for fufpending the trade ot Bolton was rendered conditional A door was: left open for an immediate re-I concrhation, {hould the Afiembly of Mafiachutetts Bay make a public grant, for repairing the damage fultained, by a compani of Merchants, through a public outrai c] Yet the Congrels fligmatiZC with the naihe of anuf'tice, a coercive flatute rendered ab- folutely necelTary by the {hamelefs deprecia- tions of the inhabitants of Bolton- and which fiatute, they themfelves had it iii their power to terminate, in an inflant, by doin an aft of common juitice. g With equal efirontery, and with {lill leis reafon, the Congrels exclaim againft the alteration made in the form of the trovernment- of Bolton. With their ufual kill" , nay "i in ' arc garment,- AND CLAIMS or AMERICA. 52 gument, the Americans with to eitablilh it as a maxim in polity, That Charters grant- ed by the CROWN, can neither be reverted or altered by the LEGISLATURE. They might as Well go at once to the whole inpremacy; and {ave themfelves the trouble of thus fupporting a caule untenable on any other grounds. The three branches of the Legiilature united make daily alterations in the Confiitution of Great Britain; and, if their fupremacy extends over the whole em~ pire, they have the fame right to alter the Conllitut‘ivn of the American Colonies. If the Americans deny this petition, all argument is at an end ;, and they avow an indeendance, which, in THEIR circumftances, this marks them out for enemies. After all, to afl‘eéi: alteration of which the Congrefs complain, is no more than putting the inhabitar ts of Malflchufetts- Bay on the lame footing with the other Colonies. They have received in miniature the countervpart of the conflitution of the Mother-King- THEY dom; and have THEY a right, or can nation with to b: more free than the freel't in the world? of The ad? for regulating the government uebec, furniihes the Congrefs with an ample field for declamation. To inveigh n againtt Popery and Arbitrary Power has bee ever |