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102‘ Part 11'; Acrs RELATING pacity, no doubt, he might give powers, and grant exemptions to the colonifis, which they had not by law. But he could not, therefore, deprive his other fubjeé'ts of the protec‘tion they enjoyed by law, or tub- Sect. I. To THE COLONIES. 103 Among the mifdemeanors recited, one is, "fpreadzhg offlmyderou: report: of the county of Virginia." \Vho can doubt jeét them to burthens, to which they were but merchants, interef'ted in the fuecefs of the plantation, would have confirued a. true and fair account of the hardfhips to Yet the king afihmes be undergone, and the difficulties to be fur- He conveys to mounted, by the firf't fettlers, into flan(femur report; .? not liable by law. the power of doing this. the council a right of exercifing that power in a manner more wanton and cruel, than was ever praé‘tifed by the Star-chamber. Any two of the council might fend any But, belides that fuch a clanfe is enough to vitiate the Whole of the third charter, man, aceufed of certain mifdemeanors, to we may remark upon the general YiCVV of them all, that they certainly had not any America *; there to be puny/Jed as the go- fuch ftate of America as the preterit in vernor and council t/zere-at once judges contemplation; and parties-{hould think meet. fcarce any provilion (replica/213 to it. * The Americans are vehemently offended at the aéls of parliament made for {ending to Eng.land, perfohs charged with trcalonablc violations cf the laws, or with homicide or mayhem, coup mined in the execution of them. The fame pcr- fons feruplc not to afiert their right to all the and that they contain The pretext {ct forth for ef'tabliihing thefe colonies, was the old {tale one of " proxxraf/zzg Meg/my of God." A pretext which no man, Who has turned over a fingle page of hifl‘ory, can hear of without ihuddering. The rail motive on the. part benefit of a charter, which {ends Englifhmen over U 4. to America to be tried for ilander. A {no :1 :3: of |
