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Show [62] [63] more mature Deliberation and in Order to a more take it, a conflitutional Right to difpof‘e of and contitlent Plan of Government, you will chute rather to doubt of the Expediency o'r‘ Parlia- alienate any Part of his Territories not annexed meut's Exercil‘ing its Authority in Cafes that may happen, than to limit the Authority itf If, efpe- cialiy as you agree with me in the proper Method of obtaining a Redrefs of Grievances by conflitnuonal Reprelhntations. which cannot well confill with a Denial of the Authority to which the Reprcrentations are made, and, from the bell Into: «nation I have been able to obtain, the Denial of tire Authority of Parliament, exprelly or by Implication in thole Petitions to which you refer was the {ante ot‘ their not being admitted, to the Realin~-tltat0\t_tcen E/izaéctb accordingly conveyed the Property, ‘7)ominiort and Savereignty of Virginia to ‘iir [Va/[er .Rzlle'lgl? to be held of the Crownliy Hmagc am! a err/air: Rm. tier, without refervinft any Share in the ,iitt'gifiavtive and Executive Authority-that the iiibleuent Grants of America were fimilar in this Refpcét, that they were without any Retert'ation- for fecuring the Sn jcciiwn of the ('uloniits to the Parliament and future Laws of England," that this was the Senie of the Engliflt Crown, the Nation and our Predeeelliirs when they firit a.;ti not any Advice given by the Nliuilier to the took l'ot'ieliion of this Country-*that if the Co- Ageing or the Colonies. lonies were not then annexed to theReal'n they "I "III cannot have been annexed fine: that Time-that l mutt enlarge and be m teh more particular in my Reply to you, if they are not now ann xed to the Realm they are not Part of the King/aw, antliconi'equently not fubjeét to the Legitiarive Authority of the Garth/flax of 1/}: Hall/2 of Keprrfmttztizw, Kingdom ; for no Country. by the CommonLaw, was fubjeét to the Laws or to the Parliament but I {hall take no Notice of that Part of your the Realm of Englaud. Antwer which attributes the Diforders of the i'rovince to an undue Exercife of the Power of Parliament, btcaule you take for granted, what can by no Means be‘ admitted, that Parliament Now if this your Foundation {hall fail you in every Part of it, as 1 think it Will, the Fabrie‘t: .which you have raifed upon it mui't certainly fall. had exercifed its Power without iuilt Authority. The Sum of your Anitver f0 far as it is perlim‘flt to my Speech, is this. Let me then obferve to you that, as Eitjlifli Subjects, and agreeable to the Doctrine of Feudal Tenure, all our Lands and Tenements are. held You alledge that the Colonies were an JCt‘LUl" mediately or immediately of the Crown, and tfition of Foreitin 'I‘erritorv not annexed to the 3 mi, _‘ tr 4» _ ‘ ,v,r,, . khanp!oi t.ir;lantl, and therefore at the (:51!th k.» N -. . .r. although the l'oili‘llinu and Ufeor Profits be m the Subieft, there {lill retuztim a Dominion in‘the Crown: When any new Countries are diieovercd wild: 05th:, Lrown ; the king having. a» W" ?.ti'tC |