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Show (( [ 220 ] and z‘rue ground" (lays he)' " 9)" [/27'5 " Superiority, in the [fire/mt cajé, is what I‘ " natur." we The Laws leave no room to {uppofe that there is " an Oélzgdtz'on ta rmform to [/13 WILL or LAW" (if the latter has no other foundation than the Will) " If " t/mt fitptrz'ar Pagflm." " Nam hampers/2' Rex Anglo: AD " LIBITUM SUUM Lige: mutare Regni fia‘. Princip e!!! " namgue 71:de REGALI," Efl'c. as above. (Forte fcue de Laud. Leg. Angliae, c. 9. p. 25 b.) And, if even the King'r Power is not regal, but palm: and limiled , (which the fame learned W'riter, l 6- ‘ i. is ‘Wil'l'lfl/lfl/Mm- .. [ 221 ] " we ufimlly call, though jamerwlmt 1M: " PROPERLY," (very " IMPROPERLY‘ indeed,) " THE RIGHT or CONQIEST :" €56. Now, I 11103 heartilyjoin with him in his application of the adverb " IMPRO" PERLY" to the words which follow, 'vz'z. " THE RIGHT on CONCLUEST," whenever it is mentioned as a rmfon to jufl'i-fy this claim or imaginary right of Chancellor Fortefcue, has clearly proved in a difliné‘t Traét, expref sly on that fubjeé‘t, intitled, " The Difference between aéfalute " and limitedMonarchy,") much lefs can the Kz‘ng'r Sub/'25: be faid to exercife a " Saverez'gn': ligg'fali‘ve " Power" (1. Com. p. 10!) over any Nation or Peo~ pie whatfocver, that have no (hare in the {aid Power binding the people of Irv/mil, either by being " fibecially named or included under " general words;" for i hope 1' {ball conVince that learned gentleman hszelf, as well as the reft of my readers, before I by a due Rrpreyémmion of their own colleétive body for the fowrrzgn lilajf/l} of 1175 People ought never to be. conclude, that " THE RIGHT OF CON; the natural Rig/5t: and quilted/e Privil ege": of Mankind, againlt Tyrants and Oppreflors, for the " QUEST" is not " the angina] and free " ground" of any fuch "(fr/Jibri'z'ority, m {be exerted, except in their own neceflhry defence, or to maintain good of Socrety In general, through that difinterefied evangelical Principle, " Good-wil l town-I‘d: men." But when, on the contrary, any particul ar Nation or Peeple exerts that " fl‘vereiglz legal/tr im Power" to deprive another different Nation of their na/zr ral Rig/m and Lilmrtier, they no longer deferve to enjoy their mm; and, indeed, dim'ne JUSTICE will inevitably overtake them fooner or later; for, as the crim es of individuals will furely be punifhed with peg/Mal condemnation, '{0 7m- rr‘aualflm mull fuel the additional Weig ht of temporal National " prcfi'm‘ cafi," as he fuppofes; but, on the contrary, that it feems rather to have been A national thi-iéutiou; which, Itruit, I-have denilonflpap;ted in a little Traét, intended forneume or ot er Publication, mined. « 7%: Law extent-antimyai, " {11 pm‘timlflr, of Gsd': tim‘fioralVe/zgrsmr 07: will"" [vs/den." |