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Show [no] [121] Edie} granted to one Hundred Allociatcs the and upon what you hope I do not mean to intro- Country of Canada, with Powers of‘Government duce, Viz. theFeudal Sylletn in its Perfection. If and all the Privileges of natural born Subjects of France to all who lhould go and Inhabit Or this Support fails, there isbnt little Occafion For me to remark upon the other Parts of your Mel:fagc, and I {hall pais them over, except fuch as be Born there, with other very great Powers and Privileges. This, em, appears It, be the different State of the People of the two Colonies. .Louis, being an aide-firte Monarch, the Regal and Legiflatire Power were united in him. The ‘I‘nhahitants of Canada thrrefore were ltthjeft 3 im and to cverv ‘ Me" ' i their Supreme ltjordhighoulgi/iit‘ii:31:23:22: vtrot‘xia'hle Fewer, might at any Time revoke the Royal Edict a: Pleafitre, or dillhlve any Charter whatlnever even though like the famous Edifl' of Nantes it had been declared irrevocable. Charles, having in him the regal Power only, could Grant n more than was in him, and the Legtflative Power which was in the Parliament that! i'hil remain there, and confequently theSub- lofts of ‘England Continued when in the Colony intl tntgeft to the renal conflitutional Power of Charms and tr: fupreme Legiflative Power 0* Parliament, And I think, nothing is more certain than that the conflitutional Refiraint of the regal Power is: Charles prevented the Charter £2011} hing revoked and annulled in lefS than 1 en '1‘ cars; rift-ct the Date of it. may tend to make wrong Imprellions upon any unwary Readers. You cannot conceive " why the King has not the fame Right to alienate and dilpoie of Countries acquired bythe Difcovery of his Subjects as he has to rellore upon a Treaty of Peace Conntries acquired in War carried on at the Charge of the Nation, or to fell and deliver up any Partof his Dominions againl'c the general Settle of the Nation." I will venture to conjeélure a Realon. By the Englifl't Conflitntion the fole Power of making War and Peace is in the King. It often happens that the refioring and cedingAcquifitions made in War is ablolutely necelléry to the Re- ellablifhment of Peace, and if the King was reflrained from fuch Reflorations or Ceflions an un- fuccelsful War might be perpetuated to the De- firuétion of the Kingdom. This Power therc~ fore feems neccflitrily to rerult from this Prero- gative ofthe Crown. And For felling any Part of the Dominions againf't the general Senfe of the Nation I never fitppoled it to be a Part of the t?» martAtt M ountol FendalTen I.p in: ' ure,as 'ttts 1i i., it 4‘17." think i: nq-v' liihnllltutionbejug}, Ilhall nave better Authority as than any it; yet veer; to'the contrary,theFahrick which ithl'vC‘, 7;]: en wnl fllll Fall of Support. for it he", nepenes upon very different PrinClPlC‘é an Prerogative, but have called it an Act of Power, by which I thought no candid Reader would noderfland any Thing but meer Paw". Your Attempt to {haw that new difcovercd Countries do not become Part of the State, from the Authority of Putiendorfl", 85c. will fail, be- Q. ca ufe |