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Show 232 ACTS RELATING Part IL from the emphatic mention of individud/r. VVhat truth there is in this reprefentation the Journals of the Houle of Com- mons will inform us. From them we learn* that {0 early as the year 1701, impediments were thrown in the way of the king's officers; combinations were formed againf't thofe who had the courage to execute the trulls rcpofed in them with fidelity; that the adininifh'ation of jultice was delayed, and the greateft unwillingnefs exprelled to fubmit to any ex- ercife of the fupremacy of the mother.country, and in particular to the ails of trade and navigation. At that early period a commiflion for enquiring into great irregularities and mifdcmeanors in Rhode Illand was ren~ tiered ineffectual. Lord Bellamont was {cut out on this commiflion, " but found 8.28:. X. To THE COLONIES. 23; ‘-‘ " ‘F " " " (fays the commiffioners in their report to the houfe) {uch an oppofition to his majeliy's authority, and the aéts of trade and navigation, that no good efa fefits could be obtained from that commillion: they (the people of Rhode " Ifland) pretending by their charter to be " independent on t/ze government of Eng- " land." The province of Connecticut was, in its corporate capacity, equally refractory. " The governor and fuperior court pe‘.‘ remptorily and publicly declared they "would admit of no appeals from them "to his majefiy in council." This was neither more nor lefs than laying, that they would admit no appeals at all to England: for however unconfiitutional, as well asineflicacious this mode of‘appeal may be, compared to others that might be eltablilhcd, to declare they would not ad- mit this, at a time when no other was ef- '* Vol. xiii. p. 502, 503, 504, 505. The par- ticulars are minutely Rated; they were too long to infert here, i (f ays tablilhed, was to declare that they would admit none. \Vhat chance in fuch cafe 6 the |