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Show [ 4-5 l [44] cefl‘orswany Matter, Caufe'or Thing whatf'oever to the contrary notwithflantling." It is one of 'the Liberties of free and natural Subjeé‘ts, born and abiding within the Realm. to be governed as your tuxcellency obferves, " by Laws made by Perlons in whole Elections they from Time to Time have a Voice." This is an ellEntial Right. For nothing is more evident man that any PCOs ple who are fubjee't to the unlimited Power of a- ColOny is and fhould be confidercd as not with. in the Realm -, and declared by the very Prince who granted it, to be not within thcjurifdié‘tionof Parliament, fhould yet pranirlr, that the Laws which the fame Parliament lhonld make exprefly to refer to that Colony, fhould be in Force therein. Your Excellency is pleafed to alk, " Does it follow that the Government by their (our An. was eafily and plainly foreleen that the Right of cellors) Removal lionione Part of the Dominions to another, lofes its Authority over that Part to which they remove : ,'\nd that they were freed Reprefentation in the Englilh Parliament could from the Subjet‘tion they were under before .9" not be exercifed by the People of this Colony. We anfwer, it that Part of the King's Dominions It would be impracticable. if confiflent with the to which they removed was not then a Part of Englilh Conflitution. And for this Reafon, that this Colony might have and enjoy all the Liberties and Immunities of free and natural Subjects the Realm, and was never annexed to it, the Par- nother, mutt be in a State of abjeé‘l Slavery. It t within t ,e Realm, as flipulated in the Charter, it liament loll no Authority over it, having never had {itch Authority; and the Emigrants were confeqnently freed from the Subjeétion they were lhe Power and was neceflary, and a Legillative was accordingly Under beFore their Removal : Conflituted within the Colony ; one Branch of which'confifls of Reprefentaiives chofen by the Authority of' Parliament being vconllitutiona-lly confined within the Limits of the Realm and the People, to make all Laws, Statutes, Ordinances, Nation collectively, of which alone it is ,lhc 8x. for the well ordering and governing the fame, not repugnant to the Laws of England, or, as nearly as conveniently might be, agreeable to the fundamental Laws of the Englilh Conflituq Retirerentirig and Legillative P~llémbly. Excellency further alks, " Will it not rather be fluid, that by this their Voluntary Removal, they have relinr uilhcd for a Time at leathone oF‘tho tion‘. We are therefore llill at a Lois to conceive where your Excellency finds it "praeidcdin the lour fame Charter, that {rich Aé‘ts, "‘ viz. Acts ol‘Pars Rights of an Englill‘t Subjeft, which they 01}ng if they pleafed have continued to enjoy, and)mayi again enjoy, whenever they return to, the llaee l-iatnent made cxprefsly to. refer to us, " fhall be where it can be exerciled 1‘" in Force" in this Province. There is nothing to this Purpol‘e exprefled in the Charter, or in our anflvcr ; They never did relin'inilh t‘ne‘Right to be governed by Laws made by l'erlons in whole Elt‘et‘ion they had a Voice The Kingl‘ipulated Opinion even implied in it. find fiirely it would be very ahfiird, that a Charter, which is evidently 10tmcd upon a Suppofition and lntention, t‘r-ar a Colony To which we with them that they {hould have and enjoy all fit-3 Liberties of Free and natural Su‘jréts burn Within |
