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Show 60) r '0s Cufll L t) 1")art i (61 of the confiitution, and in have l i l later ventured to 1 " covers the exercife of that power to be contrary "‘ to law, 01' (1t legal)refl:rains it for the future." ‘* (l'lTLd to lilp a few years before. fl‘he,\1vfifevforelatw ne‘copii this, and the honelt foretold It. . ‘C nuc the army but a little whilexlongci tana celebrated member upwards of forty yeaisja‘" (40,) it may be in the power of ionic Gene ‘-‘ tlemen to talk in this honle * m terms that " " " " will be no way agreahle to! the confiitution or liberties of our country. lo tell us, that the fame number of forces mull be always kept up, is a pi'opofition full-fraught with ‘ innumerable evils, and more particularly \Vlth " this, I/Jat it may mate flirted wing/Zoo more "‘ allC/t'lCI-OHJ [ban ot/Jerwi/é [boy would [m :21 pro. " feeling am! propagatinggfl'benzes w/JIo/J {any be 3:. " (on/yield wit/J HM lzlzcrz‘zcs, daflrm‘ll-ue of )6 " trade, am! [)urf/Jeo/ome on the people if {/sz m:" tion. In countries governed by {landing ai- " mics, the inclinations of the people are but ht" tle minded, the minifiers place their [candy in " the army, the humours of the army they nly " confult, with them they dwide the lpotls, and ‘5 t/Jc wretched people are plundered [2y boil). ---¥\ ho that now reconfiders this prophetic language, in conjunftion with the events of his own time, but will cry out-~thc {peaker felt the nnpulfe 0t infpiration l " Whoever (fays the juftly celebrated Dr. Black‘"- ltone) will attentively c‘onfider the Enghfh Inflory -- may obferve, that the flagrant abufe of (my pow" of, by the crown or it's mnnlters, has always " been produétive of a firuggle, which either (ill-- The ingenious commentator feems here to have particular reference to periods prior to the revolu- tion . But. will the learned judge fay, that, linc e that {era there have been uo/z'ugnmt 1212/1/55 r/pou'er 1va [/Je (row): or in mingflom t' "are not repe ated {truggles aroli: in eonlcqnence ofluch abufes, which did not terminate in the happy illue f0 characterdtie ot‘Englilhmen ? Lct anyone pcrufe the journals of parliament, efpccially (hole of the houfe of peers ‘: let him carefully review the Britilh and American annals, of the prefent cent ury, and anlwer truly to thofe quellions.--'l'he nati ual en- quiry will be-whcnce then is it-that luch abuf cs have become to numerous and flagrant, and the llruggles of Britons lb unfuccelsnll 3 Will not the lizieltiou receive an ample lolution in the words of the lame great lawyer ?--" There is a new ly ac- ‘1 quircd branch of (royal) power; and that not ‘* the influence only, but TuE roxc: or DISCI- " people, but i/Il/Im/idlu/y by [/Jo (7020/1; myth ! by "‘ [:56 crown, off/"awed [I'y {/xa'rmitu‘l, rommmu'nl b} [/10 " (row/1. "] We are told, by the bone learned author, that " whenever the unconllitutional oppretlions, even " of the soveaumu rouge, advance with gigan" tic {trides and threaten delolation to u tiate, " mankind will not be rod/Luca! out of thefi'o/iogJ " of humanity, nor will lacrilice their liberty by " a fcrupulous adherence to thofe political maxims, " which " COVE" ' Ctmmons of Grt'fler‘i'lIal‘l A " i'LINED ARMY, paid indeed ultimately by the ‘ 3 Bla. Com. 133‘. l 1m" Cilm' 3561‘." |