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Show 376 Acts RELATING Part IIIj Serf}. V. To THE Commas. 377 owners of the fhips, from the confignees tion from the burthen of thofe impol'ts, of h at the factory, and is moreover confirmed which the officers had the charge, it re. to him by the papers regularly publifhed warded where it meant to punifh? His under the authority and infpeétion of the majef'cy's Britiih fubjeéts (to lay nothing of Spaniards. the tlef'truétion of the fuhjeét matter of their trade) had been deharred, by the A- Will any man fay this is not fufiicieut evidence, fuflicient notoriety, to proceed upon? Upon one half ofthat evi- dence, Mr. Pitt's advice would have been mericans, the common liberty of trading. What could be more confonant to all the reafonably be required, is more than I can ordinary notions of juitice current among mankind, than to puniflt the authors of this oppreflion, by giving the oppreliors themfelves a tafie of it ? perceive; and unlefs parliament meant to Care is taken, in the mean time, to pre- give up its rights entirely, I fee not how it could have proceeded in a milder firain. vent the punifhment from running into to fit out a fleet, and demand {atisfaétion atthe cannon's mouth. ( . I \Vhat farther evidence therefore could ' The oilicers of the cufioms had been forcibly debarred from the exercife of their duty. 'What could the a& do lefs than excels, and beyond what feemed necellary, for the purpofe of prevention, as to the mm are, the object, or the cont/nuance of it. T he means are alfo given of felec‘hng recal thofe Vofiicers from a Ration, in which from amongfl: the croud of delinquents the violence of the people had rendered their prefence ufelefs.P Having done thus thore whom a pre-eminenee in delinquency much, how could it do otherwife than put a total Prop to the commerce of the place, unlefs by giving to it a total exemptiOI'l might render tit objects fora pre-eminence in punifhment, whofe flronger bias required a {tronger balance to corre-ft it. Care |