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Show '52 THE RIGHTS or BRITAIN ever a favourite topic with men, who with AND CLAIMS or AME R ICA. p,.1 to profit by the prejudices of the people, Had the Congrels attended to the general religion, to all which they had an undouhtw ed right, by the terms of their capitulation and the articles of the {uhlequent treaty of principles of the Britilli conl'titution, they peace P might have informed themfelves, that His Nlajefly, without the interpofit-ion of the two other branches of the Legiflature, might The Oppofltion at Home, as well as the. Patriots ABROAD, have found an cxtenfve {object for pathetic eloquence, in the form have permitted the inhabitants of Canada of Government now etiablii'hed by Law jn to remain for ever under French laws. There is no maxim in the law of England Canada. The FORMER have either very treacherous memories, or they change more generally known or lets controverted without any ceremony their opinions with than, That in conquered or ceded countries, their fituation. Under the adminit'tmtion of the EARL of CHATHAM, Mr. Morgan, which have already laws of their own, fuch laws remain in full force, till they are alter- Lord SHELBURNE'S Secretary, was: tent pria cd and changed by the Sovereign. Had His Majelty, therefore, entertained fuch vately to America, as Conimitlioner, to tet~ tlc and regulate anew code for the Covema defigns, as the Congvefs obliquely lay to his ment of (kebec. charge, why thould he call in the aid of the chief Juflice of that Province, if I am not mif'taken, were joined with Morgan Legillature to execute what was already done by the common law? The Congrels will not, forely, afiirm, that the {yfl'em of governmcntellablilhed by the Legiflaiure in Chalice, is to arbitrary in itlelt, or to fit for the purpofes of defpotifm, as the conflitu~ riot) which {ublifl‘ed in that Province under The Governor at rl in this SECRET, but important commiflion. The mealtre, it is (aid, was confidercd by the Board of Trade; it was certainly de- bated, if not adopted by the Cabinet, as far back as the year 1767, during the plenitude of the Earl of Chatham's power. Lord the French. Ought they not to conlider, ~that" no other form of government could Camden was Chancellor, and gaVe his lanc- have been eflablifhed, to tuitable to the difpolition cf the inhabitants, the tenures of DESPOTISM than thofe he reprobates at their property, and the toleration of rhci: ‘ religion, tion to regulations M o R E A P P L I E D TO preterit. The Duke of Grafton, the Earl of Shelburne, General Conway, and leveral ' others |