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Show 34 AcTs RELATING Part I. Sea. II. TO THE Coronrrs. 35 Another article of the treaty is, that the mode of government, which obtained éf/bre the conqueft in the conquered coun- its own ac‘t, for it is the act of its own a~ try, fliall {till obtain q/i‘er the conqueft. vowed confiitutional agent. this article? Certainly it is. This too is In confequence of this agreement all alter- Let us fee how far this reafoning is apa ations in the old laws, all additions to plicable to acquired countries. A Number of men, fubjec‘is of the realm of Great Britain, afl‘ociate, with them, are to be made by the chief executive magil‘trate, with the advice of his council 4 Is the parliament bound by this *4 This I apprehend to have been the cafe of Berwick upon Tweed before its incorporation into the kingdom of England. This I apprehend to be fiill the cafe with Minorca and Gibraltar. Upon no other principle can I conceive that an order of the king in council fhould be binding in Minorca or Gibraltar, any more than a proclamation of the king, unauthorifed by parliament, {hould be bind~ the defign of peopling and cultivating a derelict country: or of purchaling attrout the natives, or acquiring by fomc other means, a trait of land thinly inhabited, and ill cultivated. They apply to the king for a charter. The king grants it. Now in what capacity can the king be confidercd as acting when he grants this charter P ing in London or Middlefex. Upon the fame principle the different regulations made by i‘ucceflive kings in Ireland may be juflified. They were all acts necefIary to give full efliea: to this one original grant, " that the " fubjeé'cs of the Englifh paIc. in Ireland {hould " enjoy the Englifh conflitution there in Ireland." To this purpofc thefe regulations were made by the {ole authority of the king, in his {ubordinate legiflative capacity, till the cflablifhment ofan Iriih. 7 parlia~ parliament. From that time the regulations era?» ed. The king governed his Irit'h tub} 5.7:; by an .Iriih parliament. The illimited power which I attribute to the king in his procuratorial capacity may he thought to be pregnant of danger. It may be to. Let it then be limited. Let the legillature draw the line, beyond which its agents {hall not go. But till that line be drawn, the power exii‘ts, and has been uniformly cxercili‘d, I) :1 , Plainly, Q |