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Show [ x 18 ] [ II9 ] the Nature and Tendency of that Law which has to lately received the {olemn Sanction even of our own Legiflature,( go) ‘ as (30) The late Aft for efiablifhing the Laws of Frame in the molt extenfive Province of the Bria/l; Empire muft indeed {com very flrange and unnatural to the genius of Eng/1771mm in general ; efpecially when we confider that even the Fremb Inhabitants of that Province themfclves are zealous for the " Priwilegu fling/{fl} Saéjtfi: ;" which plainly ap. pears by fome Expreiiions in their late Addrefs to the Governor on that occafion: and we may, therefore, relt afl‘nred that they are not, in general, f0 ignorant, as being proper to be renewed and enforced in a certain Province of the Britifh Empire I And the Hon. Mr. Jufu tice Barrington, in his Obfervations on the ancient Statutes, has alfo, in jufl: abhorrence of the French Law, cited feveral " Fundamental Maxims" (3:) of it, " upon which the King's Prero" gative is founded, which" (as he juflly remarks) " may not only be mat" ter of forne curiofity to an Euglifliman, and void of common-fenfe, as really to prefer the " but, Laws of France to the equitable Conflitution of Eng- E- land, howfoever they may have been mifreprefented. legal Right to collect Tythes, 63%.) 5} nit/[anal (ml/ari- W'e mull, neverthelefs, except a few French Seigneurs, a. This was the more unjufl: and inexcufable, becaufe the Romanills had no reafon to complain of that Tole- who, having already been allowed greater exclufz-vc Pri- wilege: than are confiftent with the fafety and freedom of their poor neighbours and fellowJubjeéts, would rather with to promote the Frem/J Laws and Culloms (which permit fuch an unjult Vafl'alagc) than the equitable Laws of England: and we may likewife except the Prielts, and fome other abfolute Bigots to the R0mifh Religion, who, being entangled in (be 3/511}!ij 0f muicbriflimzprimip/u and " 1/19 Doflrilze; of Devi/1," are ready to fubmit to any temporal conditions whatfoever for the fake of that fpz'ritual, or rather Satanim/. Bribe, which was wickedly thrown out to them on this oecafion : I mean the fetting up their aria/termed Re- ligion as the Willi/{772M Clmrcb qf tlra/ Pravime (with .1 legal ration which they {0 freely enjoyed before. In a note on p. 125, where I have occafion to mention the de- fefts of fome/pro/ét/ Statutes, I have added lome ex- amples (which naturally occurred thereupon) concerning the abominable Tyranny and Wickednefs ofthe (Ida/257014; Church of Rome; and there, ltrull, will {ufiiciently jullily the {evcrity of my expreliii ns againfl: that antidzrifliau Church. See allo my " Remarks on " feveral very important Prophecies," part 2, p. 18, and part 4, p. 34. (31) " Si veut 1:; Roy. fi veut le Loi." The King's. Will is Law! Some of the pernicious effeéts of this detellable maxim l have already fhewn in my Prefac e. |