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Show 396 AeTs RELATING Part III. Seét.VI. TO THE COLONIES. 397 them, one {hould think, had together with all temper put away all fliame. In their petition t0 the king the American Congrefs exprefs tlieiiilelves perfectly fatisfied that the efl'eéts of it will be " that offenders vey a general fecurity to the oflicers of " will efcape legal punilhment." In their age. addrels to the " good people of England" they go {0 far as to call it, " an act to " protect, indemnify, and fcreen from " punifhment, fuch as might be guilty an advantage, as it may happen. " even of murther, in endeavouring to words of an antient fiatute, {hall be " moll; " carry the oppreflive edicts of parliament " fuflieient, " into execution *."--In their addrefs to ‘rVere an officer of the revenue to be ac- the inhabitants of the colonies they rife if pofiible {till higher in their extravagance, and {1er it " an act for indemnifying the " murderers of the inhabitants of Malta- " chufet's Bay T.' cufed of murder in the difeharge of his the executive power? It does not alter the mode of trial; the trial is Hill to be by a jury. In this cafe indeed, the jury cannot be of the vicin- But that circumflanee is, or is not It may, or may not, be right that they be " next " neighbours." It is, and mutt always be right that they be fueh, as to ufe the and leali: fufpicious *."--~ duty here in England-would it be right to have ajury from a town inhabited only by linuglers, merely on account of their" In the aét we have feen, what can there being of the vieinage P In difputes between individual and in- be to deferve thefe frantic appellations 3-- dividual, though the fubjetft matter be of \Vhat is it that it does, more than con- no higher importance than fome trifling * See Votes and Proceedings of the American elaim of property, or a demand of fatise Continental Congrefs, p. 37. .r See ib. p. 59. * 28 Ed. I. c. 9, faction |