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Show 454. Acrs RELATING Fartlll. Sect. VIII. To THE Commas. 455 " free excreife of the Roman religion {hall necclhiry closure, {0 as to annul the tenor " fublilt intire, " the dates and people, of the towns and and purport of the whole, might be received as a legitimate mode of interpreta- " countries, places, and dil‘tant polls, {hall tion in the {chools of Berlin or Vienna; " continue to afl‘emble in the churches, " and to frequent the facraments as here- but I hope it is a mode that will never be adopted in England. By the terms of " toforc, without being moleiled in any eapitulation, by the plain meaning of the " manner, direfi‘ly or indirectly." In the treaty, the Canadians had a right to an fccond article of the definitive treaty of Paris, "his Britannic majefly agrees to cilablilhmcnt.»-The Roman Catholics in ,Qpebec are, as to this point, in the lame " grant to the inhabitants of Canada the " liberty of the Catholic religion ;" and lituation as the Protellant dilliznters in in fuch manner, that all engages " to give the mod exact and molt " cllectual orders, that his new Roman England. The capitulation, and the trea- ty, operate with refpefl‘ to the one, jul'c as (the toleration a€t operates with refpect to " Catholic fubjec‘ts may profefs the wor" fhip of their religion, according to the the other. In truth, it was they that rendered 1 that which " in Britilh fubjeéls would have " rites of the Romifh church, as far as the " been illegal without them, thenceforth lei "laws of Great Britain permit."-»-Now " gal ; by them this way of worflaip was furely the laws of Great Britain permit _" permitted and allowed : it was not only him, with the advice and confcnt of his "‘ exempted from punilhment, hut rendered parliament, to fecure to his Canadian {ub- *" innocent and lawful." jects every thing that the capitulation had lord Mansfield nobly declared of the way granted them. of worfl'iip of the dillcnters,- " It was " cilaG g 4. To interpret the lall tin-necellin‘y In a word, as |