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Show [6°] [ 6‘ ] frontier of England in perpetual alarm. Benefits from it to the flare, there were none. Wales likewife to thefe precedents, that all the while. Wales rid this kingdom like an incubus; that it was only known to England, by incuriion and in. was an unprofitable and oppretiive burthen; and ration. that an Englithman travelling in that country, could not go fix yards from the high road without Sir, during that {late of things, Parliament was being murdered. not idle. 'l'hey attempted to {ubdue the fierce Ipirit of the Welr'h by all forts of rigorous laws. They prohibited by flatute the fending all forts of arms into Wales, as you prohibit by proclamation (with fumething more of doubt on the legality) the fending arms to America. They difarmed the VVth by fiatute, as you attempted (bu [till with more quefiion on the legality) to difarm New England by an infiruélion. They made an aé't to drag offenders from Wales into England for trial, as you have done (but with more hardthip) with regard to America. By another aé‘t, Where one of the parties was an Eng, lifhman, they ordained, that his trial fhould be always by Euglilh.‘ They made ails to retlrain trade, as you do; and they prevented the VVelfh from the tale of fairs and markets, as you do the Americans from filheries and foreign ports, In fhort, when the Itatute-book was not quite f0 much fwelled as it is now, you find no let's than fifteen 21615 of penal regulation on the fubjeét of Wales. The march of the human mind is flow. Sir, it was not, until after Two Hundred years, dill covered, that by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence; and poverty to rapine. Your ancef'tors did however at length open their eyes to the ill hufbandry of injufiice. They found that the tyranny of a free people could of all tyrannies the leatt be endured; and that laws made againfi an whole nation were not the mofi effectual methods for fecuring its obedience. Accordingly, in the Twenty-leventh year of Henry VIII. the courte was entirely altered. With a preamble Rating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the VVellh all the rights and privileges of Englifh fubjeéts. A political order was ellablithed; the military power gave way to the civil ; the marches wereturned into counties. But that a nation thould have a right to Englifh liberties, and yet no {hare at all in the fundamental fecurity of thefe liberties, the grant of their own property, feemed a thing to incongruous; that Eight years Here we rub our hands-A fine body of precedents for the authority of Parliament and the Life of itl-I admit it fully; and pray add likewit'e after, that is, in the Thirty-fifth of that reign, a complete and not ill proportioned reprefentation by counties and boroughs was bellowed upon I . Wales, |
