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Show 48 The RIGHTS or BRITAIN Arid CLAmts OF A M E R I C A. 73-9 " {cameo belonging to American (hips, whe-Q " of the Courts of Admiralty and Vice-é: " ther employed upon the high feas,orin any "port, harbour, hay or creek,- within ANY " Admiralty beyond their former limits 5'" " of the Colonies." It appears from this detail of fafts, that the right of parliament to bind the colonies, by which, they alledge, " the {object is " deprived of his inherent right of a trial by " Jury." The Congrefs {urely forget, or it is not confident with their tlelign to remem. her, that the alterations of which they in all calls whatloever, is not a claim founded on mere. theory; on the contrary, that the ccntrouling power ofthe Legiflature is warranted by conflant ufage, and uninter- requelt were, that the Courts of Admiralty That the Declaratory Ail, ef'tablithed formerly in the various Pro- of which the Americans complain, cun- rains no new, no aliumtd powers over thelantations; and that there is fcarce any channel of chiflation, through which the Britilh Parliament has NOT exerted its fun vinces, pofl‘efi‘ed {0 little dignity, on ate- rupted practice. Complain were made at the requel‘t of their conflituents. The reafons afligned for this count of the dependance and poverty of the judges, that juttice was either {acrificed to connexions, or biaffed by avarice. Belides premacy, in as full and ample a manner as that, appeals to Great~Britain could be fel- dom made, on account of the expence and it has been exerted over the inhabitants of Great Britain ; and all this prior to the pre-lent reign, in which the Congrefs place the commencement of " Public Ruin." The American Congrcfs, with a partia- tlillance. To remedy this evil, the prefent et'tablilhment of Courts of Admiralty in America was formed. Four great Courts The of Vice Admiralty were erected. ample Judges were rendered independent by lity for theml‘elves fcarcely confident with talaries, their deflgn of gaining others, in the next paragraph of their Declaration, call the eaty, and obvious; and as to trial by Jury, of the whole world knows that the Court Admiralty in England never admitted that; Acts, which were the CONSEQJENCE of the relil‘tance of their confiituents, the The line of appeal became (hon, mode of trial in czer cafes. to particulars, their tirl‘t complaint is fiateii The complaint of the Congreis, with re»: Bof~ gard to the Bill for {butting the Port of againll " the. cxteniion ofthe Jurildiétion , as the ton, is ridiculous as well as unjuft CAUSE of their rebellion. in deiccndint‘r " of I" inhabitanta |