OCR Text |
Show 238 ACTS RELATING Part II. Seet. IX. TO THE Commas. 239 agent for Mafiixehufet's Bay, prefented a laws in particular, and in thort that the petition to the Horne. In this petition tymptoms of difafi‘eé'tion to the fupremacy indeed Mr. Bollan ventures to give a gentle intimation of a certain lomething, of the mother-country in general, were not unconneé‘ted aéts of private individuals, a certain natural and lawful right, deriv- but were aéts of the people at large; that ed, we are to conclude, from a certain law than the commons had been ufed to, yet as he {poke for his own province only; as no leagues, no allociations, no congrefs inl'read ofbeing punil'hed as often as found out, they were in many inftances proteéted by their courts ofjullice, and fanétified by their legiflature. Many more inf'tances to this purpofe might, I fay, have been mentioned: but as they are already mentioned by Dr. Tucker *9, I may content myfelf with referring to his book. What Ihave here confined myfelf to, are fuch as feem to have efeaped the notice ofthat gentleman. The other point to be enquired into, is was formed; as no threats were thrown the deference paid by the colonies to the out, the ftyle was overlooked. Many more inflances might have been requilitions of the crown. Thele requifitions have for their objeét the c0ntribu- mentioned,to thew that the obl‘racles thrown tions demanded of the colonies, either for extraordinary fervices in time of war, or of nature, which is to be a controul on Parliament in the exercife of the aéts of authority he complains of. He appre- hends, " that the province has a natural " and lawful right to make ufe of its cre- " dit for its defence and prefervation 9"." Though the language here holden by Mr. Bolan is in a {train rather more lofty in the way of the operation of the trade 3* Commons Journals, p. 206, 207. * See the beginning of his Fourth Trafli |