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Show 482 ACTS RELATING, See. Part 1112» majority is a competent number) ; a new mode of procedure, a new form of trial will be appointed, by way of " alteration. " and amendment ;' ' N OF and the culprit will» RECONCILIATION. hear no more of the certainty, and lenity, of the criminal law of England. Such then is the tenure by which the Canadians hold the blefling conveyed to them by this act. If the whole province does but furnifh nine men of bad principles-and Where is the province that will notE-the governor has only to recom- mend them to the croWn as fit perfons to be of the legiflative council, and the Canadians may be legally {tript of every right, every blefling they enjoy. Ten men would have faved the city with the odious name: nine only are enough to damn (Hebee. REAT outcries have been raifed againl't the tyranny and violence with which the lad parliament is alledged to have proceeded againfl the Americans. The very reverie appears to have been the cafe; for fix whole feflions they flept over the bulinefs; it was not till the 121?: fellions that they awoke. If, when rouf- ed at lafi: from that long lethargy, they did lefs, or acquitted themfelves wnrfe than they might have done, no finall {hare of blame perhaps is due to that party which exerted all its force in obfirufling what was propofed, Without offering any thing of its own. The truth feems to he, that parliament is more to be blamed for what it left undone, than for what it did,- for having PL AN left things at the end of near feven years Ii 2 1n |