OCR Text |
Show [:20] [121] but, by comparifon, may make him thankful for the noble (Io/flirtation to neeefihry mzzfzm/ficzzrz‘z‘y can only be infu- red by a jree Repre/szmtz'aiz of the People docian" (fays he) " may indeed re- in the Legiflature; and therefore the learned Author. of this excellent remark fufe, from cuftom and long ufage, to will readily allow, (I trufl,) when he exchange a defpotic for a more free comes to confider thefe arguments, that Government; but I can never be per- he himfelf was not fufiiciently upon his guard, in another part of his ufeful which be is happily 50m. A Cappa« " fuaded" (fays this benevolent Gentle- man) " but that there is a wee/dry can" next-0n detween Slavery and Mi/ery, and ‘ between Freedom and flapping/5‘. Se- " neca" (fays he) " nobly inforces the " communication of Liéerz‘y to the Suh" jeé'z', from the Safety it procures to the " King: (32) Errat f1 quis exiflimat tu- " tum efle ibi Regen], ubi nihil a Rege " tutum ell; feeuritas fecuritate mutuz'l " pacifeenda ef't." p. x79. Now, this work, (p. 141,) where he had occafixm to mention the 127% Laws; having there unfortunately adopted the miilaken doe- trine of Lord Coke, about binding the Subjefls of Ireland by Eng/[fl Statutes, " szrelezzzd is mentioned." But it is cer- tainly very natural for a gentleman regularly bred to the profefllon of the Law to be lefs circumfpeft when he follows {0 great an authority as Sir Edward Coke, who is generals), and for the molt necellary part j/dlzlfl', cl‘reemed the Oracle of the (32) This was the uniform Doctrine of all the an‘ tient conllitutional Lawyers of England, and chat?cially of the great Chancellor Fortefcue, whofe Opi‘ nion 1 have exprefsly quoted, and added fomc farther obfervations upon the fame point, in a Note on page 7 of this Der/mum", Part I. Englilh Law. |